Nato’s senior military commanders say the alliance possesses overwhelming conventional military superiority over Russia and is developing detailed plans to defeat any attack on its territory, as Russian sabotage, drone incursions and
Newly uncovered documents released by the National Security Archive expose how a little-known set of secret legal opinions authored in 1989 quietly rewrote the limits of U.S. presidential power. At the center
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History, when read without illusion, reveals a grim and recurring pattern: wherever the American deep state intrudes, devastation follows. Regime change is marketed as “democracy promotion,” intervention is wrapped in the language
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Editorial That was not the first time the world witnessed something that should symbolise humanity’s finest ideals being warped into political theatre, and yet what we saw yesterday — in another term
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They starch their spines with borrowed daylight and call it dignity,tongues varnished, knees rehearsed for velvet floors.Gravitas for hire, they auction grief in clipped syllables,while famine learns their signatures by heart.The microphone
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Northern Ireland’s chief constable, Jon Boutcher, has revealed he is reviewing the security classification of a long-suppressed MI5 file from 1973, raising the prospect that one of the most contentious documents of
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When U.S. immigration agents detained Rabbiatu Kuyateh in Maryland last July, the 58-year-old Sierra Leonean believed the law would protect her. An immigration judge agreed, granting her protection from deportation after she
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On 14 January, a few hours before the historic meeting in Washington between representatives from Greenland and Denmark and their U.S. counterparts, J. D. Vance and Marco Rubio, Denmark and several of
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In a pointed reference to the Chinese leadership by name, the Russian state news agency Tass took note of Beijing’s criticism of the US aggression against Venezuela. Unsurprisingly, Tass quoted a third
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In a factory in China’s Yiwu, widely known as the “world’s supermarket,” a mistake unexpectedly sparked a toy sensation in early 2026: a horse’s mouth stitched in the wrong direction. Recently, a
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We all keep neighborhood trophies, from back when we won a little contest at the end-of-year party or our children received a swimming badge. They are intimate treasures gathering dust in drawers
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by Our foreign Affairs Editor Dr. Alireza Delkhosh is the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Sri Lanka, with concurrent accreditation to the Maldives. He has served in Iran’s Ministry
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The contemporary dynamics of digital architecture have altered the prospects of insurgency, which is no longer recognised solely by guns and territory. Digital architecture, defined by algorithms and grievance narratives, provides a
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Once again, Pakistan finds itself at a defining point in its national trajectory, wherein the challenges of internal security and the challenges of diplomacy in the global arena intersect with the challenges
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I am told that if I don’t like what “my government” is doing, I should write “my representative.” So I dropped Senator Adam Schiff a note about the US war on Venezuela.
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The US attack on Venezuela on 3 January 2026 came on the same day as French and UK jets bombed an underground facility in the mountains near Palmyra (Syria) and just a few weeks
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