After being massively repudiated in Tuesday’s midterm election, Donald Trump has become a lame-duck president with significantly curtailed authority. What is likely to happen in the remaining two years until a new
Germany’s response to the July 2026 attack in Berlin illustrates a gap between identifying a terrorism threat and taking effective preventive action, according to an analysis published in the latest issue of
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Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, one of al-Qa`ida’s most durable assets may be a name rather than a commander, training camp or headquarters. Usama bin Ladin has been dead since
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The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) has built an ideological case for suicide attacks that differs sharply from the religious justifications used by many militant organisations in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Rather than promising
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On Sunday, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado returned home after ten months in exile. In the time since she last set foot on Venezuelan soil, the United States arrested authoritarian leader
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For decades, the label “Made in China” was associated with inexpensive clothing, plastic toys, furniture and basic electronics. That association is becoming increasingly outdated. Chinese factories are now exporting electric vehicles, industrial
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The abduction and sexual abuse of Alawite women and girls in Syria have become a growing concern for human rights investigators, with a comparative assessment by the International Institute for Religious Freedom
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Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert has endorsed opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot and his Yashar Party ahead of Israel’s 2026 elections, arguing that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is losing political support and
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Flávio Bolsonaro, the defeated Brazilian presidential candidate facing investigations over suspected corruption and money laundering, arrived in Miami on Wednesday after leaving Brazil despite an order by the country’s Supreme Court barring
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Israel’s parliamentary election has strengthened the political position of Arab parties while leaving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing bloc facing the prospect of losing its parliamentary majority. The emerging results could force
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Malian government forces, supported by Russia’s Africa Corps, retook the northern desert town of Kidal on October 6, more than five months after anti-junta forces drove them out. The operation, conducted without
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Donald Trump Jr travelled to a remote region of western Mongolia in August for a hunting trip that included two days with Umar Kremlev, a Russian businessman who helped pay for his
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India’s debates over caste have increasingly focused on the caste census and the sub-classification of quotas, but Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd’s autobiography, A Shudra Life, directs attention to a less examined dimension of
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Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition has lost its parliamentary majority in Israel’s election, but neither the prime minister’s right-wing bloc nor the opposition led by former military chief Gadi Eisenkot appears likely to
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From threatened colonial institutions and mass police deployment in New Delhi to student protests against alleged electoral disenfranchisement, India’s democratic contradictions are becoming increasingly visible. As constitutional rights collide with excessive state
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Nearly eight decades after the events of 1947, Kashmir remains one of South Asia’s most enduring territorial and political disputes. Competing claims of sovereignty, unresolved questions of political consent, and recurring India–Pakistan
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