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
Three US F-15E fighter jets were shot down over Kuwait on December 1st by Kuwaiti air defense systems. While an accidental shootdown can happen at any time in a complex warfighting environment,
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In the charged political climate of Sri Lanka’s 1965 general election, few could have imagined that a spontaneous sound uttered in a courtroom would become part of the island’s political folklore. Yet
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India’s fertilizer subsidy bill is poised to climb in the current and upcoming fiscal years as tensions in the Gulf region threaten to drive up natural gas prices and freight costs, industry
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India’s lucrative basmati rice exports, valued at nearly $6 billion for FY25, are facing an unprecedented threat as escalating tensions in West Asia disrupt shipping and raise logistics costs. Exporters are meeting
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For decades, Palestinians have recounted the story of 1948—the Nakba, or “catastrophe”—when hundreds of thousands were expelled from their homes and villages during the creation of Israel. Now, thousands of newly discovered
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has denounced a devastating attack on a primary school in Minab, where graves are being prepared for more than 160 young girls killed in what Tehran calls
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by Our Correspondent in Doha According to the information provided, Mansoureh Khojaste Bagherzadeh, the wife of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, died after sustaining injuries in the same strike that reportedly killed her husband.
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Within 24 hours, Iran suffered a severe blow, with its Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, and the top leadership of the IRCG killed. This is perhaps the deadliest US-Israeli strike on Iran in
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Ayatollah Alireza Arafi, a towering figure in Iran’s religious establishment, has been appointed as the jurist member of the temporary leadership council responsible for carrying out the Supreme Leader’s duties during the
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‘Shock and awe’ was the term used to describe the US operation against Iraq in spring 2003. In hindsight, it marked a turning point. The rapid defeat of the Ba’athist regime and
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In Sri Lanka, the distance between the protest stage and the government stage is very short. Sometimes it is so short that the same people appear in both scenes — only the
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“Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water.” – Albert Einstein Contrarian Views The temporal dissonance that surrounded Epic Fury—the ferocious and decapitating strikes reportedly directed at the apex of
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The death of Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei marks one of the most consequential turning points in modern Middle Eastern history. For more than three decades, he stood at the center of
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Iran is now under the direction of a temporary leadership council following the assassination of Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution. The council, convened to oversee war affairs,
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The dramatic removal of two of China’s most senior generals at the start of 2026 marked the culmination of a years-long shakeup inside the People’s Liberation Army, a campaign that analysts say
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