European Union leaders are preparing for a difficult battle over the bloc’s next long-term budget, with disagreements over spending priorities and fears of electoral gains by eurosceptic parties threatening efforts to reach
Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent declaration that Israel must eventually free itself from dependence on American military aid sounded, at first glance, like an assertion of national self-confidence. Nations, after all, prefer autonomy to
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Politics is often shaped not merely by institutions or elections, but by the indomitable will of individuals who refuse to surrender to the verdict of adversity. Throughout history, certain leaders have transformed
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India and Pakistan relations have been strained following the Pahalgam terror attack since 2025. The incident brought the two South Asian nations to the brink of large-scale war and resulted in a
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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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