US President Donald Trump is preparing to welcome Chinese President Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington on Wednesday, in a break with six decades of protocol that signals the importance
Editorial There are political jokes that need no comedian. Sri Lanka has just produced one with a red carpet, distinguished guests and a ceremonial title: “President of the Happiest Era”. Former President
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“Strategic autonomy is a fairly, I think it’s not of much use from my view,” says C. Raja Mohan. “All countries, some more Indians think they’re the only ones who do strategic
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More than 3.6 million people pass through room number 12 of Madrid’s Prado Museum each year to admire Diego Velázquez’s La familia de Felipe IV, better known since the 19th century as
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The Pentagon is facing a striking dual pressure: an increasingly political battle over who speaks for the US military, and growing concern among senior commanders about the resources being consumed by the
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Nicolás Maduro has released the first known images of himself from inside a New York prison, eight months after he was detained by US forces and transferred to the Metropolitan Detention Center
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It never rains but it pours. While taking a huge political gamble by trying to amend the Constitution to raise the retirement ages of the judges of the Superior Courts and grappling
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After months of exhausting all options and with limited impact from Operation Economic Fury on Iran, the US now appears to be launching a full-scale economic offensive against Iran to up the
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Less than a month after Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan created the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement (MJDA), the pact is already confronting a question that could prove more important than its founding
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The arrival of the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) for a ‘leisure trip’ in Thailand before returning to its campaign of destruction against the people of West Asia demands immediate interrogation and opposition. For
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For Adam Lee Heimerman, an alleged vandal, the reaction to his arrest has been extraordinary. After the 37-year-old congressional candidate from Lenoir City, Tennessee, was arrested at the end of July, internet
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has called on Muslim countries, particularly those in the Gulf, to unite against what he described as their “real enemy”, arguing that divisions among Muslims serve the
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The CID was once widely known as the “secret police”, and the very mention of the CID’s infamous “Fourth Floor” was enough to send chills down the spine—not only of rogues and
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Last week, in the crowded ports of Qingdao in China and Busan in South Korea, two medium-sized cargo ships largely unknown outside the maritime industry slipped their moorings and headed towards Europe.
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For 22-year-old Vaishnavi Kadam, politics is not supposed to be a defining part of her identity. An MBBS student in Pune, she describes herself as “an apolitical person”. Yet on August 22,
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Ethiopian rebel fighters have joined into a united front against the UAE proxy Abiy Ahmed regime hanging on to power in Ethiopia. The three largest, most powerful rebel armies, from the Amhara
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