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
By publicly documenting her decision to freeze her eggs, the US congresswoman has transformed an intensely private medical choice into a wider debate over reproductive autonomy, women’s careers and the political struggle
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As tens of thousands of people crossed from Morocco towards Spain’s enclave of Ceuta in a single day, the question of what borders are actually for returned with renewed force. For philosopher
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North Korea may be preparing to send another large contingent of troops to support Russia in its war against Ukraine, raising concerns not only about the immediate battlefield consequences but also about
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The United States is intensifying its campaign against the Cuban government, with the Central Intelligence Agency establishing a targeted task force to gather intelligence, monitor financial activity linked to the Cuban political
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For decades, resource-rich African nations operated within a familiar economic model: foreign companies extracted minerals, loaded raw ore onto ships and exported it overseas, leaving producer countries with relatively limited gains from
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Zhu Rongji, the former Chinese premier who helped engineer one of the most consequential periods of economic reform in modern China, died of an illness in Beijing on Wednesday, aged 97. Premier
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Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri arrived in Sri Lanka on August 5, a historic day in India-Sri Lanka relations. August 5, 1987, is historically significant because it was the day on which,
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As Der Spiegel has examined in its reporting on “Hitler’s Fangirls”, Adolf Hitler’s appeal to women remains one of the more disturbing paradoxes of the Nazi era. The man who could appear
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A liberal Taiwanese industry is exploiting a vast Chinese demand for pornography that Beijing bans, using Mandarin, Chinese settings and increasingly artificial intelligence to make audiences believe what they are watching comes
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Europe is confronting several crises at once, each distinct in origin but increasingly interconnected in its consequences. Devastating wildfires and extreme heat have strained emergency-response systems across the continent, a sudden migrant
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The day after Li Chen-hsiu was sworn in as a member of Taiwan’s Legislature, she faced questions not only about her nationality, but about her identity and ultimately her loyalty to Taiwan.
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Libya’s eastern-based army said Tuesday that its military intelligence chief, Fawzi al-Mansouri, was killed in a car bombing in Benghazi, raising fresh questions about security in an area controlled by military commander
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Five years after returning to power in Afghanistan, the Taliban have expanded diplomatic and economic relations with a growing number of countries despite continuing international concerns over human rights and the absence
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It happened on 25 May 2020, in Minneapolis, USA. George Floyd (a Black man) was arrested on suspicion of attempting to pay for a pack of cigarettes with a counterfeit $20 bill.
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Sri Lanka Parliament has never been short of external help. The House began receiving substantial assistance by way of various projects, mostly sponsored by the USAID, after the 2015 change of government.
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