Cosmetic surgery clinics are thriving in Afghanistan’s capital, a striking contrast to the austere and restrictive Taliban rule, AFP reports. Velvet sofas, fake crystal chandeliers, and state-of-the-art equipment imported from Asia and
More
MOST RECENT
In a modest workshop filled with the scent of seasoned wood, 78-year-old Ghulam Mohammad Zaz continues a craft his family has preserved for eight generations: handcrafting the Kashmiri santoor, a hundred-stringed zither
More
India’s high-altitude desert region of Ladakh has been thrown into turmoil after violent protests over political autonomy left four people dead, AFP reports. Demonstrators took to the streets of Leh on Wednesday,
More
The Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 was a wake-up call for President John F. Kennedy and his Soviet counterpart, Nikita Khrushchev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Both
More
China’s new LY-1 laser platform is poised to become a gamechanger in naval warfare, according to recent analyses of its deployment and capabilities. A new animation highlights potential uses by the People’s
More
Native American leaders are condemning the Pentagon after it allowed the families of soldiers who participated in the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre to retain their military medals, calling the decision a distortion
More
by Our Correspondent in Washington DC United States has thrown the traps, after making all internal interventions to rise the NPP/JVP government to ascend to power. The Investment Climate Statement for Sri
More
by Our Foreign Affairs Editor The United States has unveiled a 21-point proposal to end the war in Gaza that aspires to do far more than halt hostilities. It is a plan
More
In her final public interview with Roger Errera in 1973, Hannah Arendt issued one of her most quoted warnings. “If everybody always lies to you,” she said, “the consequence is not that
More
The UK recorded its largest-ever single migrant boat crossing this weekend, underscoring the growing scale of the Channel crisis despite Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s vow to “smash” the criminal networks behind the
More
Sanae Takaichi, a leading contender in Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leadership race, suggested Sunday that Japan may seek to renegotiate elements of a major trade agreement with the United States
More
by Our Correspondent in Washington DC President Donald Trump is preparing to formally declare a military intervention in Venezuela under the pretext of targeting drug cartels, according to multiple senior officials in
More
The United Nations is set to reimpose sanctions on Iran after the Islamic Republic failed to convince Western powers that it would address their concerns over its nuclear program. The move escalates
More
Europe’s private equity sector is bracing for a potential shake-out as the largest buyout firms aim to raise unprecedented amounts of capital next year, according to market sources and reporting by the
More
Ukraine has defied expectations and is effectively winning its war against Russia, according to historian, philosopher, and author Yuval Noah Harari writing in the Financial Times. Harari’s analysis highlights how Ukraine’s resilience,
More