Friedrich Merz is facing renewed pressure within Germany’s governing Christian Democratic Union (CDU) after a series of poor regional election results, with senior figures in the party calling for changes to its
Spanish Socialist leader María Jesús Montero has launched a forceful defense of public healthcare and social welfare as she fights to regain political ground in Andalucía, framing the regional election as a
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The “Colombo Maritime Dialogue” convened yesterday (13 May) in Peliyagoda, bringing together diplomats, policy experts, and maritime scholars from across Asia to discuss evolving security and development dynamics in the Indian Ocean
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Summary: The administration of El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has given rise to a proposal we might call the ‘Bukele Model,’ in which, on the surface, has managed to politically seduce large majorities
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From Beijing this week, the first US state visit to China in nine years is being staged for the world to see. The Great Hall of the People is open to Donald Trump, who
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President Donald Trump stepped off Air Force One after landing in Beijing today, and the Chinese rolled out the red carpet: military honor guard, three hundred students waving American and Chinese flags,
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The recent diplomacy between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan is a timely reminder that dialogue remains the best means of achieving peace at a time when the Middle East is teetering on the
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In every civilized democracy, the judiciary stands as the supreme sanctuary of impartiality — a sacred institution where justice must remain blind to political identity, ideology, and power. Once citizens begin to
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Colombian President Gustavo Petro accused Ecuador on Tuesday of becoming the world’s largest cocaine exporter, alleging that massive shipments of narcotics produced in both Colombia and Peru are now flowing through Ecuadorian
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Last March, China’s Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Qi Zhenhong, proposed a China–India–Sri Lanka trilateral cooperation framework in Sri Lanka. He stated that such cooperation would be important for the region’s progress. He
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The chief executive of Palantir Technologies, Alex Karp, has claimed he is on a Kremlin hitlist because of his company’s support for Ukraine’s military operations, marking a striking escalation in the controversy
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Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez has sharply rejected claims by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Washington offered $100 million in humanitarian aid to the island, describing the allegation as a
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A political and diplomatic storm has erupted between the United States and Mexico after reports claimed the Central Intelligence Agency facilitated the assassination of a mid-level Sinaloa Cartel operative in Mexico through
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The long-awaited summit between Xi Jinping and Donald Trump is set to unfold in Beijing this week amid mounting geopolitical instability, deepening economic rivalry and growing fears that relations between the world’s
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Spain’s handling of the HV Hondius cruise ship crisis has ignited both international praise and fierce domestic political backlash after the vessel carrying passengers exposed to a hantavirus outbreak was allowed to
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Sri Lanka celebrates, next week, the eradication of the bloodthirsty separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a conventional threat to the survival of this nation, at least in our hearts,
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