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 Luxman Aravind Last weekend’s separate political rallies exposed something far more significant than the spectacle of an opposition attempting to rediscover its political voice. The so-called collective opposition organised its own
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For an entire generation of Americans, the sight of the Soviet Sputnik satellite passing overhead became a symbol of technological vulnerability. The first artificial satellite launched a space race that ultimately saw
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China’s new exit and entry rules are tightening Beijing’s control over international travel, with citizens involved in politics, technology and strategically sensitive industries facing greater scrutiny and restrictions in the name of
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Alexander Dugin argues that Iran and Yemen’s Ansar Allah became the banner of the BRICS summit, and that one more step from Modi will tilt the balance against a fractured West.
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The 2026 BRICS Summit in New Delhi highlighted both India’s growing diplomatic influence and the limits of summit diplomacy built around carefully managed symbolism. While India secured a consensus declaration and projected
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Japan and China are cautiously restoring dialogue after tensions over Taiwan, but deep strategic differences remain. Japanese lawmakers are seeking engagement, while Beijing continues to demand changes to Tokyo’s Taiwan position. Experts
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India’s growing influence within BRICS and the Global South gives it an opportunity to challenge the dominance of the Western-led international order. With the BRICS presidency, New Delhi can push for greater
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The article argues that Latin America and the Caribbean are facing a new form of US colonialism, driven by political pressure, military power and economic interests. It warns that interference in Venezuela,
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Islamic State Pakistan Province (ISPP) remains a relatively small but persistent militant threat in Pakistan, using sectarian violence, targeted assassinations and occasional suicide attacks to exploit deep communal and political fault lines,
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For Vivian Jenna Wilson, rebellion has become both personal and public. The 22-year-old transgender model and one of Elon Musk’s 14 children has emerged as a prominent critic of her father, and
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The passage argues that Britain is gradually erasing its historical identity by replacing recognition of figures such as Churchill, Austen, Turner and Turing with symbols of a more multicultural and politically correct
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There are moments in politics when it becomes clear that something is slipping. Or perhaps that someone is deliberately making it slip. In Berlin, the distinction has become increasingly difficult to make.
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For Elaine Vilar Madruga, writing begins with a small group of obsessions: desire, violence, memory, land and motherhood. These “fundamental roots”, as the Cuban writer calls them, follow her from one page
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Mohamed Kassen, an Egyptian entrepreneur, believes Africa could become the new promised land of the global textile industry. For decades, he has pursued that idea with what can sometimes appear to be
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At the end of the A21, a few kilometres from Hénin-Beaumont, several terrils rise into the landscape: mountains as high as 132 metres, formed from the waste of the Pas-de-Calais coal mines.
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