Nepal’s UN speech was powerful in its portrayal of climate vulnerability but far less complete in explaining the forces behind it. Its strongest arguments about climate justice, broken supply chains and unequal
Global arms transfers reached their highest growth rate since 2011–15, largely driven by soaring demand in Europe. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Europe accounted for 33 percent of
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Iran’s clerical establishment has formally appointed Mojtaba Khamenei as the new Supreme Leader of Iran following the reported death of his father, Ali Khamenei. The decision was announced by the powerful Assembly
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Chilean President Gabriel Boric bid farewell to supporters on Saturday, just four days before the official end of his term on March 11, addressing a crowd of more than 4,000 in Plaza
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A thick blanket of black smoke hung over Tehran as explosions from recent airstrikes ignited oil storage facilities, raising alarms about toxic fallout and the possibility of acid rain in the Iranian
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In 2016, a rare photograph captured a moment of exceptional diplomatic intimacy: President Xi Jinping of China, the paramount leader of the world’s most populous and officially atheist nation, stood beaming alongside
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A storm is brewing behind the gilded façade of Monaco’s royal palace, where accusations of betrayal, secret dossiers and a dramatic fallout between Prince Albert II and some of his closest confidants
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by Nil Tom Wells’s The Kissinger Tapes arrives with the aura of a historical revelation, yet its deeper significance lies less in the novelty of the documents than in the unsettling portrait
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by Durga Velayudham Adam Smith was not who the world thinks he was. The man whose name is synonymous with free-market capitalism — the “invisible hand” evangelist invoked by CEOs, politicians, and
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Madrid woke on the morning of December 11, 2025, to a flurry of police activity that would reverberate far beyond the capital. Agents from the National Police’s Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit
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US President Donald Trump hosted Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado at the White House on Friday for a second private meeting, signaling an unusual and highly
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Chinese leader Xi Jinping has embarked on one of the most extensive overhauls of his military leadership in decades, ousting dozens of senior generals in a sweeping crackdown on corruption and disloyalty.
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A well-honed tool in the United States’ diplomatic box is to rub the nose of its vassal states in the dust occasionally to remind them they are a lower form of life,
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Venezuela and Iran hold the largest and third-largest petroleum reserves in the world, respectively. Both have been targeted for regime change by Washington. The world’s hegemon naturally seeks access to such resources.
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A national daily commented editorially yesterday that apropos of the United States’ war on Iran, the Modi government should “take a more emphatic stand against the war and work with other powers to de-escalate
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The situation in Ecuador under Daniel Noboa’s government is one of authoritarianism advancing on several fronts simultaneously to consolidate neoliberalism and total submission to the US international agenda. These are not isolated measures, but
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