South Korea’s alliance with the United States is facing one of its most difficult periods in years, with disputes over intelligence sharing, investment commitments and military cooperation increasingly affecting the security relationship
Eighty years after Adolf Hitler’s death, scientists have sequenced his DNA, uncovering startling insights into the dictator’s biology and challenging long-held assumptions about his life. The groundbreaking research, highlighted in the Channel
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by Our Correspondent in Dhaka The International Crimes Tribunal-1 of Bangladesh will deliver its verdict on November 17 in the case against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and three other officials accused
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It is with profound sorrow that we mark the passing of our dear friend, Mr. Kathir Ravichandra (Ravi), who left us on the morning of November 11 in Sydney, Australia, after a
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As Prime Minister Modi has completed two full terms of five years each and has now crossed the eleventh year in his third term, a section of people has expressed the view
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor Ron Dermer has tendered his resignation as Israel’s Minister of Strategic Affairs, and in doing so, he declared that his mission is complete. But what, exactly, was
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For more than a decade, the CIA secretly waged an unconventional war on Afghanistan’s opium trade, using a highly classified program to airdrop billions of specially bred poppy seeds over fields in
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China has accused the United States government of orchestrating a massive cyberattack that allegedly led to the theft of more than $13 billion worth of bitcoin, in a move that could further
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China has cultivated its monopolistic grip on rare earth minerals and permanent magnets over many decades. In 2010, when China first restricted the flow of rare earths to Japan as an act
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The UK government has rejected a European Commission request for up to €6.75 billion ($7.8 billion) to participate in its flagship defense initiative, a decision that could strain post-Brexit relations under Prime
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More than two decades into his rule, President Vladimir Putin has reportedly built an extensive network of family influence across Russia’s political and economic elite. According to The Times UK, citing an
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Occultism and spy craft have often intersected, shaping espionage in surprising ways. Far from being mere pseudoscience, this alliance extends from antiquity—citing examples from the time of Moses—to the present. A recent
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On October 25, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested Danish Merchant aka Danish Chikna, a close associate of Dawood Ibrahim, along with his wife, Henna Shah, from a resort in Anjuna in the North
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On November 4, 2025, at least four Kuki militants associated with the United Kuki National Army (UKNA) were killed and another one was injured in an encounter with the Indian Army at
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Pakistan appears to be in the process of creating another Frankensteinian monster for itself. Elements within the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), long a protégé of the military establishment, and mobilized from time to
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Editor’s Note: This column is based on excerpts from a speech by Chase Hughes, a behavioral science expert, author, and former U.S. Navy officer. Hughes has spent over two decades studying human
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