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
No tankers have loaded at Kharg Island, Iran’s main oil export terminal, for at least a week, according to shipping and satellite data providers, indicating that the renewed US naval blockade has
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According to Der Spiegel, the extraordinary rise of Jason Arday, until recently a professor at the University of Cambridge, has become the centre of a scandal extending far beyond one academic career.
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The race to become the next secretary general of the United Nations has entered its decisive phase at a moment when the organisation faces some of the most difficult challenges in its
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Cyberattacks targeting water systems in dozens of municipalities across at least seven US states have highlighted a growing vulnerability in American critical infrastructure and the expanding use of cyber operations by Iran
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The annual appearance of a senior Chinese Communist Party official at the seaside resort of Beidaihe has once again drawn attention to the inner workings of China’s leadership, but this year’s timing
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Two Sikh activists. Two assassination plots. Two democratic allies. Yet three years after the events that shook relations between India, Canada and the United States, the legal record points in opposite directions.
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History occasionally produces leaders whose influence transcends the confines of political office and becomes inseparable from the national consciousness itself. Such figures are remembered not merely for the authority they wielded, but
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For more than three decades, the United States has treated Middle Eastern diplomacy as an exercise in writing the terms for others. Iran’s emerging regional strategy is challenging that privilege. The immediate
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The Russian President Vladimir Putin fired the political equivalent of Oroshnik hypersonic missile Wednesday to scatter the recent pot shots by hawkish factions at the Russian ‘power vertical’, never a unified construct
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When the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021, Saeedullah Wafa knew that remaining in his homeland was no longer an option. Music was swiftly outlawed under the movement’s austere interpretation
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China has shifted from being Africa’s largest financier of major infrastructure projects to becoming a net collector of debt repayments, marking a significant transformation in its financial relationship with the continent as
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Unconfirmed reports regarding the health of Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei have intensified after two sources described as being close to President Masoud Pezeshkian’s administration claimed he is in an extremely critical
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The United States has intensified both its economic and intelligence campaign against Cuba, expanding covert operations while tightening sanctions in what officials describe as an effort to accelerate political change on the
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As India marks the eightieth anniversary of its independence this month, it is worth returning to the opening words of Jawaharlal Nehru’s historic “Tryst with Destiny” speech. Few passages in modern political
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For Mahabir Pun, the challenge of connecting Nepal’s remote mountain communities is deeply personal. Long before he entered government as Nepal’s first minister for science, technology and innovation, he was a teacher
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