The Houthi movement’s ability to sustain its military campaign against commercial shipping in the Red Sea increasingly depends on access to smuggled weapons, components and manufacturing equipment, according to the Danish Institute
The Chairman of the State Bank of India recently stated that the corporate sector in India now holds significant cash balances. He further noted that internal estimates of the State Bank of
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Editor’s note: The following excerpts are taken from a longer article originally published on the author’s official LinkedIn page. Since 7 October 2023, a brutal war between Israel and Hamas, initiated by
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Trump’s bid to derail BRICS through tariffs is backfiring badly. Instead of pressuring India, China, and Brazil to distance themselves from Russia and crawl back to Washington to “kiss Trump’s ass,” his
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Editor’s Note: This article, by nature of the topic, may include language that is considered sensitive and/or vulgar to some readers. Night after night, the buses pull up on the tarmac outside
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As China prepares to commemorate the 80th anniversary of victory over fascism on September 3, 2025, global attention turns to Beijing’s military parade. Speculation swirls about which world leaders will join President Xi Jinping—Putin’s presence
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Global political history is punctuated by state entities that, after vanishing from the international stage, have reemerged in new forms—sometimes radically transformed, sometimes strikingly faithful to their origins. These revived states—polities that
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On a crisp April morning in Beijing, what should have been a ceremonial display of unity within China’s armed forces turned into a glaring signal of turmoil at the top of the
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India’s Chief of Air Staff A.P. Singh has urged caution over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious plan to restructure the armed forces into theater commands, warning that such a drastic overhaul may
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In the early 1980s, former US President Jimmy Carter visited Stockholm. At a reception he approached Stig Ramel, the long-serving executive director of the Nobel Foundation, and asked with some bitterness why
More The Trump Administration is moving ahead with plans to sharply increase tariffs on Indian imports, signaling further strain in U.S.-India trade ties as Washington seeks to pressure Russia into ending its war
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Editor’s Note: The following insight was originally published in the Beijing-based monthly, Beijing Review. Can the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) emerge as a pivotal forum to mitigate the escalating fracturing of Eurasian
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At least 76 people, including women and children, have been freed by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) following a targeted air strike on the hideout of a notorious bandit leader in Katsina
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Europe calls itself the cradle of democracy and freedom. And yet it is also the continent that still preserves monarchies as if they were part of the natural landscape, unquestioned relics of
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo The Prime Minister’s Office has officially announced that the news published by Hiru Media Network under the title “Prime Minister Harini came to see Ranil with Maithri
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The arrest and remand of former President Ranil Wickremesinghe has triggered a social media feeding frenzy. The propaganda brigades of the government and the Opposition are red in tooth and claw; their
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