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
On October 20, 2025, at least five suspected militants of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang-Yung Aung faction (NSCN-K-YA) were killed in a drone strike, allegedly by the Indian Army, targeting NSCN-K-YA
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by Our Foreign Affairs Editor In a wide-ranging conversation with our foreign affairs editor, Irina Alksnis, managing editor of the RIA.ru opinion column department and winner of the Golden Pen of Russia
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On October 17, 2025, as many as 210 Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres, including 110 women cadres, laid down arms at the Reserve Police Line in Jagdalpur in Bastar District. The surrendered cadres,
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The flood of angry —and justified— reactions to this year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate, María Corina Machado, reveals less about the committee’s decision than about the public’s sense of shock. How can anyone still
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Over the last several weeks, Washington has escalated threats and hostilities against Venezuela, and US President Donald Trump openly confirmed that he authorized the CIA to carry out covert action against the country. These
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Adding to his score of destroying three Narco fast boats, the US military has destroyed what appears to be a semi-submersible, probably striking it with two Hellfire missiles. What options does the
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Pak Army Chief Munir’s misreading of the contemporary nuclear theory and praxis in the Subcontinent is disastrous for his country. Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Field Marshal Asim Munir completely misconstrues
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“No child should be resilient to slaughter, genocide, and massacre. Being resilient is used to justify what is happening before our eyes and later we will call them survivors.”Pradeep Samanjeeva, Project Medical
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(The Nobel Prize for Peace this year went to a person – María Corina Machado – who has called upon the US government to bomb her own country, Venezuela, and has supported
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Editor’s Note: The following article is based on excerpts from the paper published by the author, examining how elite brokers reshape sovereignty and territorial governance in the Indian Ocean region through mega-infrastructure
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Mon dieu! La France has run out of politicians. The Republic of this great democracy has hundreds of professional politicians. In fact, 577 in its National Assembly. Yet it can’t seem to
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The Galápagos Islands harbor some of the most unique ecosystems on the planet. Their isolated location in the middle of the Pacific Ocean has allowed species to evolve independently from their relatives
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The latest US-Indian fracas over Russian oil has been rather odd with Trump attributing to PM Modi explicitly that India has terminated its imports of Russian oil. Why would Trump bluff? One possibility that
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by Luxman Aravind Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya’s two recent official visits became something of a media event: a cascade of carefully choreographed images, from the cockpit-window shots to slow-motion footage of diplomatic
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On Friday, 10 October 2025, Venezuela’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Samuel Moncada, delivered a serious and urgent warning during an emergency session of the Security Council, asserting that Venezuela’s peace and
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