Millions of people were unable to follow basic COVID-19 protections because they lacked adequate housing, social protection or access to public services, according to a new international study published by The Lancet.
Colombia is entering a politically charged election season in which a new force on the radical right is rapidly gaining momentum. Abelardo de la Espriella, a lawyer turned political outsider, has emerged
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Warnings about artificial intelligence wiping out large segments of the workforce have become a familiar feature of public debate. Layoffs at major technology firms and rapid advances in generative AI systems have
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The global race for technological supremacy is increasingly being fought through artificial intelligence, robotics, and scientific innovation. But according to a growing body of analysis emerging from China’s education and research sectors,
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The artificial-intelligence industry may be entering a new and more secretive phase, one in which the most advanced systems are deemed too dangerous for public release. That shift became dramatically visible in
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The Supreme Leader of Iran has issued a forceful political message calling for the creation of a new regional order led by Muslim-majority nations, declaring that the era of Western dominance is
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How do we understand the process taking place in a context where Sri Lankan media has produced the widest gap between the middle class and reality? What is the global geopolitical crisis
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After months of stalemate and escalating tension around the Strait of Hormuz, negotiations aimed at ending the war involving Iran and restoring maritime flows through the strategic waterway appear to be gaining
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In the evening of May 24, 2026, an assault on Taliban logistics vehicles was launched in the Afghan district of Surobi, Kabul. One Taliban fighter died, and three others sustained injuries. An organization
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On May 14, 2026, a Rohingya man, Hasan Ahmed (45), a member of the Zakir Bahini, was shot dead by a Rohingya armed group, Saddam Bahini, at the Nayapara registered Rohingya refugee
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Jharkhand remained one of the principal theatres of Left Wing Extremism (LWE) in India through the first half of 2026, despite the Government of India’s stated objective of substantially ending the Communist
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The United Nations Organization for Human Rights (OHCHR) has expressed grave concerns over the alleged Amendment to the recent transgender law. Indian President Droupadi Murmu made the decision, and the bill was subsequently
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The recent moves toward Bangladesh’s signing of GSOMIA and ACSA with the United States have ignited profound concern among patriotic citizens, strategic observers, and defenders of national sovereignty alike. These agreements shall
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Editor’s note: The following excerpts are based on remarks by Lei, a commentator who says she was born in communist China, studied in the United States during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests,
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On Thursday, the European Parliament delivered its most forceful condemnation of the Taliban to date. Lawmakers voted 480 to five, with 83 abstentions, to demand expanded international sanctions against Taliban leaders, enforce International Criminal Court arrest
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Myanmar’s military rulers have opened a new phase in the country’s brutal civil war, launching coordinated offensives across several strategically vital border regions in an effort to regain territory lost to rebel
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