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 International Maritime Organization (IMO) has unveiled its agenda for 2025, focusing on significant challenges facing the global maritime sector. Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez, speaking at a news conference on January 14, stressed
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Jimmy Carter’s lifelong commitment to improving U.S.-Cuba relations has come into sharp focus with the recent publication of a 2004 interview by the National Security Archive. In the interview, released alongside declassified
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Mark Rutte, the current secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), is not a poet. He, like other secretary generals of NATO, is a mediocre European politician who has been
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Israel, going back decades, has played a duplicitous game. It signs a deal with the Palestinians that is to be implemented in phases. The first phase gives Israel what it wants — in this
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The Plan During the State visit of Sri Lanka’s President Anura Kumara Disanayake to The Peoples’ Republic of China in mid-January 2025, the two leaders of the countries agreed on a Belt
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“Fear should not arise from the possible harm itself, but from the likelihood of that harm, for reason allows us to assess risks logically.” ~ Rene Descartes The Threat As citizens of
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The joint communiqué following President Anura Kumara Disanayaka’s state visit to China in January 2025 underscores the burgeoning strategic alliance between China and Sri Lanka, marked by an unwavering commitment to mutual
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Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan, 54, is recovering well after being attacked at his Bandra home last night. The actor sustained several serious injuries, including a deep wound to his spine, neck,
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Kim Jong Un has been using North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme as a critical “insurance policy” to ensure his hold on power, according to Marco Rubio, who is Donald Trump’s nominee for
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In early January, most of the major military forces of Iran participated in a large military exercise called Payambar-e Azam (Great Prophet), which started as an annual exercise 19 years ago. These forces included
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In a G-Zero world, where no one country or group of countries is willing and able to provide global leadership, the law of the jungle prevails. And the law of the jungle says the
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Nathan Anderson, the activist short seller who rattled global markets with explosive reports on companies like India’s Adani Group, Nikola, and Super Micro, has announced the closure of his firm, Hindenburg Research.
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After the Suez Crisis of 1956, when US President Dwight Eisenhower asked France and Britain to park and leave the African continent and grant independence to the colonially controlled states, Africa saw
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Predicting the future has become increasingly difficult. The pace of global change is so rapid that events which once unfolded over decades now take place within a single year. While the equidistance
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