The United States’ admission marks more than a disclosure of previously opaque capabilities. It places the reality of orbital weapons more openly at the centre of the strategic competition among the world’s
Two Sikh activists. Two assassination plots. Two democratic allies. Yet three years after the events that shook relations between India, Canada and the United States, the legal record points in opposite directions.
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History occasionally produces leaders whose influence transcends the confines of political office and becomes inseparable from the national consciousness itself. Such figures are remembered not merely for the authority they wielded, but
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For more than three decades, the United States has treated Middle Eastern diplomacy as an exercise in writing the terms for others. Iran’s emerging regional strategy is challenging that privilege. The immediate
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The Russian President Vladimir Putin fired the political equivalent of Oroshnik hypersonic missile Wednesday to scatter the recent pot shots by hawkish factions at the Russian ‘power vertical’, never a unified construct
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When the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021, Saeedullah Wafa knew that remaining in his homeland was no longer an option. Music was swiftly outlawed under the movement’s austere interpretation
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China has shifted from being Africa’s largest financier of major infrastructure projects to becoming a net collector of debt repayments, marking a significant transformation in its financial relationship with the continent as
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Unconfirmed reports regarding the health of Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei have intensified after two sources described as being close to President Masoud Pezeshkian’s administration claimed he is in an extremely critical
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The United States has intensified both its economic and intelligence campaign against Cuba, expanding covert operations while tightening sanctions in what officials describe as an effort to accelerate political change on the
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As India marks the eightieth anniversary of its independence this month, it is worth returning to the opening words of Jawaharlal Nehru’s historic “Tryst with Destiny” speech. Few passages in modern political
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For Mahabir Pun, the challenge of connecting Nepal’s remote mountain communities is deeply personal. Long before he entered government as Nepal’s first minister for science, technology and innovation, he was a teacher
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An extensive investigation by the Lebanese human rights organisation Legal Agenda, conducted alongside international monitors Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, argues that the killing of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was not
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Iran’s strategy in its confrontation with the United States has evolved beyond conventional military deterrence into a broader effort to reshape the regional balance of power by imposing economic and strategic costs
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo India has called on Sri Lanka to release all detained Indian fishermen and fishing boats at the earliest, urging that humanitarian considerations should take precedence as both
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Scottish historian Iain MacGregor revisits the first atomic bombing of Hiroshima through the lives of five men whose decisions, experiences and sacrifices shaped one of history’s darkest moments. As the world marks
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The European Union is preparing to introduce landmark legislation that would give preference to European-made products and services in public procurement, marking a significant shift in the bloc’s industrial policy as governments
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