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
Editor’s Note: The following article is based on excerpts from the paper published by the author, examining how elite brokers reshape sovereignty and territorial governance in the Indian Ocean region through mega-infrastructure
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Mon dieu! La France has run out of politicians. The Republic of this great democracy has hundreds of professional politicians. In fact, 577 in its National Assembly. Yet it can’t seem to
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The Galápagos Islands harbor some of the most unique ecosystems on the planet. Their isolated location in the middle of the Pacific Ocean has allowed species to evolve independently from their relatives
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The latest US-Indian fracas over Russian oil has been rather odd with Trump attributing to PM Modi explicitly that India has terminated its imports of Russian oil. Why would Trump bluff? One possibility that
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by Luxman Aravind Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya’s two recent official visits became something of a media event: a cascade of carefully choreographed images, from the cockpit-window shots to slow-motion footage of diplomatic
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On Friday, 10 October 2025, Venezuela’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Samuel Moncada, delivered a serious and urgent warning during an emergency session of the Security Council, asserting that Venezuela’s peace and
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The surrender of Mallojula Venugopal aka Abhay aka Bhupati aka Master aka Sonu (69), a ‘Politburo’, ‘Central Committee (CC)’, and ‘Central Military Commission (CMC)’ member who served as official ‘spokesperson’ of the
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The mood in the Caribbean grows increasingly tense, as the United States intensifies its military threats. Beneath the deceptive shroud of the “war on drugs,” the United States is actively executing a
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Slowly, a full picture of the devastation of Gaza by Israel is becoming clear. The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) released a report around the time of the ceasefire that began to lay
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Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Harini Amarasuriya, has made her first official visit to New Delhi. She previously remarked that Sri Lanka lacks a coherent foreign policy: “We do not seem to have a
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In January 1968, the frozen silence of Greenland’s North Star Bay was shattered by the crash of a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber carrying nuclear weapons, scattering plutonium across the ice and
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by Our Correspondent in Washington DC Fresh evidence has emerged suggesting that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former chief medical adviser to the White House, was secretly escorted into CIA headquarters without being
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US President Donald Trump announced that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has agreed to end India’s purchases of oil from Russia, a move that could ease tensions between Washington and New Delhi
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After its partial victory against Pakistan in Operation Sindoor 1.0, India’s political and military leadership has been emboldened to the brink of bravado — a stance that is both risky and dangerous.
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China’s Victory Day parade in September offered a striking message to Washington: a sleek, uncrewed submarine roughly the size of a semi-truck rolled through Tiananmen Square, symbolizing Beijing’s ambitions to dominate the
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