White House press secretary Katie Zacharia has acknowledged that she failed the California bar exam after previously telling reporters she had passed one when she moved to China, prompting renewed scrutiny of
NATO’s perennial cycle of eastward expansion has been disastrous for European security, and “spells the beginning of the end of NATO as we know it,” Michael Maloof, senior former Pentagon analyst previously
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The BRICS bloc, originally comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, has officially expanded to include Indonesia as its 10th full member, while also welcoming new partner states from around the
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by Our Correspondent in Doha U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steven Witkoff, has reportedly forced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept a Gaza plan that he had previously rejected.
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Two Supreme Court justices have been assassinated by an unidentified assailant, according to IRNA News. The incident occurred on Saturday, with the perpetrator taking his own life after an attempt to arrest
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In an interview with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, outgoing US President Joe Biden disclosed that he feared being assassinated by Ukrainian radicals during his unannounced trip to Kiev in February 2023. The visit,
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US President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he will make a decision on whether to enforce a ban on TikTok in the country “in the not too distant future,” following a Supreme
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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey, now entering his third decade in power, continues to demonstrate a remarkable appetite for influence. With his 71st birthday approaching, Erdoğan declared 2025 as “the year
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As billions in taxpayer funds are funneled into foreign aid for Ukraine and Israel, the healthcare systems in both the United Kingdom and the United States are showing alarming signs of collapse.
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Russian President Vladimir Putin convened in Moscow to sign a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement, laying the groundwork for enhanced cooperation across trade, energy, education, and transport sectors.
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Israel’s security cabinet has formally endorsed a ceasefire agreement with Hamas, signaling a significant step toward ending the 15-month conflict. The agreement, which includes provisions for the release of 98 hostages held
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Scott Bessent, nominated by Donald Trump to be the next U.S. Treasury Secretary, told U.S. senators in a heated confirmation hearing on Thursday that failing to extend the tax cuts introduced during
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Brussels has escalated its scrutiny of X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, by demanding full disclosure of recent changes to its recommendation algorithm. This move comes as part of
More A senior Iranian official Mohammad Javad Zarif has confirmed that Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency was behind a series of sabotage operations targeting Iran’s nuclear enrichment program. This admission sheds new light on
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President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), John Ratcliffe, pledged Wednesday to uphold the agency’s apolitical nature and ensure its intelligence work remains free from political influence. The
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The following editorial, adapted from The Washington Post, discusses the ongoing struggles to close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility as President Joe Biden’s term comes to a close. Despite efforts to reduce
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