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
China has accused the United States government of orchestrating a massive cyberattack that allegedly led to the theft of more than $13 billion worth of bitcoin, in a move that could further
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China has cultivated its monopolistic grip on rare earth minerals and permanent magnets over many decades. In 2010, when China first restricted the flow of rare earths to Japan as an act
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The UK government has rejected a European Commission request for up to €6.75 billion ($7.8 billion) to participate in its flagship defense initiative, a decision that could strain post-Brexit relations under Prime
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More than two decades into his rule, President Vladimir Putin has reportedly built an extensive network of family influence across Russia’s political and economic elite. According to The Times UK, citing an
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Occultism and spy craft have often intersected, shaping espionage in surprising ways. Far from being mere pseudoscience, this alliance extends from antiquity—citing examples from the time of Moses—to the present. A recent
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On October 25, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested Danish Merchant aka Danish Chikna, a close associate of Dawood Ibrahim, along with his wife, Henna Shah, from a resort in Anjuna in the North
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On November 4, 2025, at least four Kuki militants associated with the United Kuki National Army (UKNA) were killed and another one was injured in an encounter with the Indian Army at
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Pakistan appears to be in the process of creating another Frankensteinian monster for itself. Elements within the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), long a protégé of the military establishment, and mobilized from time to
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Editor’s Note: This column is based on excerpts from a speech by Chase Hughes, a behavioral science expert, author, and former U.S. Navy officer. Hughes has spent over two decades studying human
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In a small corner of the third page of the Divaina newspaper in 1992, a photograph appeared that went largely unnoticed. The headline read, “Chandrika on a Tour to India.” The accompanying
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Donald Trump’s return to power has transformed South Asian politics. The United States has long regarded India as a strategic ally because it joined the QUAD alliance to pursue specific goals in
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On November 2, 2025, the US President Donald J. Trump announced that he instructed the US Department of War to prepare for attacks in Nigeria – “if the Nigerian government continues to
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A group of former British spy chiefs, including Sir Jeremy Fleming, former head of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), has launched a company aimed at protecting corporate secrets from being inadvertently exposed
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J.N. Dixit, India’s former National Security Adviser and one of the country’s most seasoned diplomats, once wrote that the establishment of relations “with South Africa and then with Israel” was the most
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A year has passed since November 2024, when Donald Trump won the US presidential election for the second time. And it makes more sense to start the clock there, rather than on
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