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
The Indian government has banned the bandhgala, a jacket introduced during British rule for senior railway staff, in a move that reflects Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ongoing campaign to eliminate colonial influences
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A new study led by researchers at Imperial College London has found that same-sex sexual behaviour is a recurring feature of primate life, challenging the long-held notion that sex among animals is
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As tensions rise across South America, Peru is emerging as a focal point in the strategic competition between the United States and China, with its vast mineral wealth and key infrastructure projects
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz departed for India on Sunday in a high-profile visit aimed at strengthening economic and security partnerships between Europe’s largest economy and the world’s most populous democracy. Merz’s trip,
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The scene inside the White House’s East Room on Friday had the air of a modern court, with President Donald Trump at its center, buoyant after a daring U.S. military operation that
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Francis Fukuyama, the renowned political scientist and Stanford fellow, cautions that the Trump administration’s approach to Venezuela risks becoming another failed foreign intervention. In a recent column for Persuasion, Fukuyama argues that
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Israel and Hamas are bracing for renewed fighting in Gaza as the Palestinian militant group refuses to fully disarm, a key requirement delaying progress on President Trump’s peace plan, the Wall Street
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China, Russia and Iran on Saturday began a week of joint naval exercises in South Africa’s territorial waters, an operation the host nation described as a BRICS Plus initiative aimed at safeguarding
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Ethiopia has launched construction of a $12.5 billion airport that officials say will be the largest aviation infrastructure project in Africa, marking a major expansion of the country’s ambitions as a continental
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Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has described the current global landscape as “some of the most dangerous times in living memory,” while simultaneously highlighting its transformative potential, in his regular column
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Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is reportedly considering calling a snap parliamentary election in the first half of February, the Yomiuri newspaper reported on Friday, citing government sources. The early election would
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Hundreds of thousands of Filipino devotees flooded the streets of Manila on Friday to participate in the annual procession of the Black Nazarene, one of the world’s largest displays of Catholic faith.
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Spanish judicial authorities have secured the arrest in Qatar of Said Aurelio Cabrera Abraham, a former Venezuelan military counterintelligence officer accused of orchestrating complex money-laundering schemes linked to Venezuela’s state oil company
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South Korea’s special prosecutor is expected to make a sentencing request for former President Yoon Suk Yeol on charges of insurrection, Reuters reports, following a brief but controversial attempt to impose martial
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German President Frank‑Walter Steinmeier has issued unusually strong criticism of U.S. foreign policy under President Donald Trump, warning that the international rules-based order risks disintegrating into a “den of robbers” where powerful
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