China and North Korea will officially open the New Yalu River Bridge on Thursday, ending a 12-year delay that left the major cross-border infrastructure project unused despite its completion in 2014. The
Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave a speech at the Pnyx in Athens on October 7, a place just below the Parthenon that I spoke at a few years ago. It sounds
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Infrastructure that carries a nation’s data, finance and emergency communications is strategic infrastructure. We would not hand over a port, a power grid or a strategic petroleum reserve on the strength of
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Governments and seafood companies have promoted fish farming as a more sustainable way to feed a growing global population, arguing that raising fish reduces pressure on wild stocks. But a five-year investigation
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The Houthi movement’s territorial advances along Yemen’s Red Sea coast and its missile attacks on Saudi Arabia are prompting a reassessment of military involvement by several countries previously reluctant to join the
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A series of arrests across Manipur has renewed attention on the recruitment, financing and logistical activities of PREPAK and PREPAK-Pro. Police allegations link suspects to recruitment drives, extortion and attacks on political
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From October 8 to 9, 2026, Police detained 252 people in a single night during an operation against teenage gangs in Comilla District. The drive was conducted by Police from all 18
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by Luxman Aravind Rajapaksas are in trouble. As our columnist Durga Velayudham noted in yesterday’s column, a confrontation is unfolding between politically motivated Buddhist monk groups and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP),
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Since 2012, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has made the full and rigorous management of the Party and the promotion of “self-revolution” central to its long-term organisational strategy. The concept addresses
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Iran’s proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for the lifting of the US naval blockade, relief from oil sanctions, the release of frozen Iranian funds and an end to
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Greg Steinmetz’s The President and the Oligarch revisits the struggle between Andrew Mellon and the political forces challenging his economic vision, revealing how the language of prosperity and fiscal responsibility can conceal
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Donald Trump’s latest moves over Russia’s war against Ukraine have increased pressure on Kyiv while offering Russian President Vladimir Putin potential economic and diplomatic advantages, according to an analysis published by the
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Morocco’s efforts to secure international backing for its proposed autonomy plan for Western Sahara face a renewed obstacle at the United Nations, where Secretary-General António Guterres has insisted that any future arrangement
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North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles off its east coast on Monday, South Korea’s military said, adding to tensions between the two countries following a series of military tests and a dispute
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The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, has warned that ageing oil tankers used to transport Russian petroleum could cause a major environmental disaster along European coastlines, describing the vessels as
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Brazil’s position is decisive. As Latin America’s largest economy, a founding BRICS member, and a leading participant in Mercosur, it possesses industrial, scientific, and political capacities that could strengthen independent development across
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