The offer was blunt: $25,000 to track and kill a person in the Lithuanian capital who, according to U.S. prosecutors, was “telling lies about Russia”. The alleged approach came last year from
The 6th Pakistan–Sri Lanka Armed Forces Defence Dialogue concluded successfully on 03 July at the Navy Headquarters within the Defence Headquarters Complex in Sri Jayawardanepura, Kotte, according to officials involved in the
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Neoliberalism, better understood by its less sanitized term cutthroat capitalism, is the poison that destroyed our democracy. It gave the billionaire class and corporations theideological cover to impoverish the working class, impose
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On 24 June, Venezuela was celebrating two important holidays: the 205th anniversary of the Battle of Carabobo, the battle that sealed the country’s independence, and the feast of St. John the Baptist,
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In 1965, Herman Kahn drew his famous escalation ladder, a 44-rung scale ranging from ostensible crisis to spasm war. It accounted for surgical strikes, nuclear signaling and targeting of cities. It did
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Yulia Shapovalova, Moscow correspondent for Al Jazeera, reports that Pusillinamous Putin’s ever-widening war has, as I said it would, expanded deep into Russia far from the Donbas battlefield. Shapovalova reports “The crisis is deep,” as civilian
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On 24 June 2026, a set of back-to-back earthquakes rocked Venezuela, just months after the United States bombed the capital city and kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro and National Assembly member Cilia Flores. The year
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For much of the period following the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021, European engagement with Afghanistan was shaped primarily by humanitarian assistance, migration management and limited diplomatic engagement. Counterterrorism remained
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The Government of the Netherlands has formally apologized to mothers who were forced to give up their children for adoption between 1956 and 1984, acknowledging what it described as a painful historical
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In a narrative of resistance and uncertainty, Harvard University has emerged from a tense confrontation with the administration of President Donald Trump with a partial legal victory, but without clarity on what
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The Court of Justice of the European Union has upheld a €4.125 billion fine imposed on Google, confirming a major antitrust penalty over allegations of abuse of dominance linked to its Android
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A new diplomatic architecture has emerged in the Middle East following the signing of a Trilateral Framework Agreement between Israel, Lebanon, and the United States, a pact designed to reshape security arrangements
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A sweeping crackdown by Egyptian authorities along the country’s border with Sudan has exposed the expanding reach of Sudan’s wartime gold economy, underscoring how the ongoing conflict is reshaping illicit trade networks
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A new memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran could have far-reaching consequences for global maritime law and the principle of freedom of navigation, according to analysis by an expert
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The Vatican has formally declared that the Society of Saint Pius X, commonly known as the Lefebvrists, has entered into schism with the Catholic Church after the group’s leadership proceeded with the
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A growing number of wealthy Taiwanese are relocating their offshore assets to Singapore as geopolitical tensions across the Taiwan Strait intensify, according to interviews with high-net-worth individuals and advisers cited in the
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