United Nations human rights experts have condemned the arrest, alleged enforced disappearance and detention of six Egyptian journalists who make up the entire newsroom of the independent investigative media platform Matsadaash, warning
U.S. President Donald Trump announced Thursday that Washington will allow South Korea to build nuclear-powered submarines in the United States, a move with potential implications for Japan’s own naval strategy. The submarines
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U.S. President Donald Trump has directed the Pentagon to resume nuclear weapons testing, citing rising strategic competition with Moscow and Beijing. The announcement came ahead of Trump’s scheduled meeting with Chinese President
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Washington has revoked the U.S. visa of Nigeria’s Wole Soyinka, Africa’s first Nobel laureate, effectively barring him from entering the country, the author announced at a press conference in Lagos on Tuesday.
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Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is demanding a $1 million ransom for the release of six healthcare workers abducted in the city of Al-Fashir, according to the Sudan Doctors’ Network (SDN).
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Russia’s President Putin should read The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli and ponder the famous statement that “it is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.” Putin’s problem is that he is
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U.S. President Donald Trump began the final leg of his Asia trip in South Korea on Wednesday, expressing optimism about advancing an unresolved tariff deal with President Lee Jae Myung and reaching
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by Our Foreign Affairs Editor The declaration of the Republic of Turkey on 29 October 1923 was far more than a political formality; it was a profound reimagining of a nation emerging
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China is accelerating its quest to become a global biotechnology powerhouse, using genetically modified animals in groundbreaking experiments that would face multiple ethical hurdles in the United States or Europe, Bloomberg reports.
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China, the world’s largest consumer of coal, has subtly revised its energy policy language, giving itself flexibility to continue increasing coal consumption through the end of the decade, Bloomberg reports. In a
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NASA’s X-59 “quiet supersonic” jet took to the skies on Tuesday from Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California, for its inaugural test flight, according to a press release from Lockheed
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Catherine Connolly (born 1957) only became involved in active politics in 1999. Michael D. Higgins, the outgoing president of Ireland (2011-2025), encouraged Connolly to join the Labour Party and stand for election.
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China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have taken a major step toward deeper regional integration with the signing of the upgraded China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (FTA) 3.0 Upgrade Protocol,
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France’s First Lady Brigitte Macron has once again found herself at the centre of a wave of online rumours questioning her gender – a conspiracy theory that began circulating shortly after Emmanuel
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Meta Platforms Inc., Snap Inc., and ByteDance’s TikTok have announced they will comply with Australia’s upcoming social-media ban for users under 16, setting aside prior objections just weeks before the law comes
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Legislators from multiple parties in Taiwan have submitted proposed amendments to the National Security Act aimed at preventing potential Chinese infiltration and safeguarding the nation’s democratic institutions, according to the Taipei Times.
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