Diplomatic efforts to end an acute and bloody armed conflict should always be welcomed and the persistence of Donald Trump’s administration, which has pursued this goal for more than a year and
In North Korea, where politics is staged through symbols as much as decrees, the repeated appearance of Kim Jong-Un’s daughter Ju-ae at high-profile state events is being read as a deliberate message.
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Subheading: President Lee Jae Myung urges Xi Jinping to mediate on the Korean Peninsula amid efforts to restore trust and ease regional tensions. South Korean President Lee Jae Myung announced on Wednesday
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India’s Chief of the Army Staff, General Upendra Dwivedi, arrived in Sri Lanka this week on a two-day official visit, highlighting New Delhi’s growing defence engagement in the Indian Ocean region at
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Botswana plans to open an embassy in Moscow in the near future and has invited Russian companies to invest in its rare earth minerals and diamond sector, signalling a strengthening of ties
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The Saudi-Emirati partnership that once anchored the war effort in Yemen is fracturing after a deadly attack on Emirati-linked ships at the port of Mukalla in Hadramaut province. Riyadh has accused Abu
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Ambassador Satish Chandra, a 1965-batch Indian Foreign Service officer and current Vice Chairman of the Vivekananda International Foundation in New Delhi, belongs to a generation of diplomats whose professional lives unfolded alongside
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At the start of the 20th century, the British Empire was, like our own, in terminal decline. Sixty percent of Englishmen were physically unfit for military service, as are 77 percent of American
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The Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses occupies a discreet position within Delhi’s top security institutions. Winter light lay flat and pale across the office passages, lending the space a
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Editor’s Note: This essay is based on a podcast discussion featuring former CIA analyst Sarah Adams and an agency operative, who examine the circumstances surrounding the December 24 jet crash in Turkey
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Turkey’s energy minister announced that Russia has provided $9 billion in new financing for the Akkuyu nuclear power plant, which is being built by Moscow’s state nuclear energy company, Rosatom. The funding
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