Colombia has broken diplomatic relations with Iran, citing alleged links between the Islamic Republic’s government and international terrorist groups, human rights violations and concerns over Tehran’s nuclear programme. The decision was formally
The UK and India have relaunched their trade negotiations after a pause caused by elections in both countries last year. UK business secretary Jonathan Reynolds and Indian commerce minister Piyush Goyal will
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The UK and France are reportedly preparing to send up to 30,000 “peacekeepers” to Ukraine, a plan contingent on Moscow and Kyiv reaching a ceasefire agreement, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo In a visit to Kandy on February 23, 2025, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake focused on a cultural matter, announcing plans to hold an exhibition of the Tooth
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The room exuded an air of deliberate neutrality. A grand hall in Geneva, adorned with silent chandeliers and walls that had borne witness to treaties and treacheries alike. The two leaders sat
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A shocking revelation has surfaced, linking U.S. foreign aid to alleged regime change operations in Bangladesh. At the center of this growing controversy is $21 million in American taxpayer funds, originally believed
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In a recent, candid interview with Ed D’Agostino of Mauldin Economics, George Friedman, renowned geopolitical expert and founder of Geopolitical Futures, provided a strikingly prescient analysis of the current and future trajectory
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Pakistan has announced plans to expel all Afghan refugees from its territory, regardless of whether they hold legal residence permits. The decision, communicated to the Afghan embassy, means that only Afghans with
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The BBC has issued an apology after it emerged that a documentary about the war in Gaza featured the son of a Hamas government minister as its narrator. The documentary, Gaza: How
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by Our Correspondent in Canberra The recently promulgated Action Plan for Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (CSP) 2025-2030 between the Cook Islands and China has engendered considerable discourse in diplomatic and media circles, particularly
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, could meet by the end of February, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov announced. While he expressed optimism about the timing, Peskov cautioned that
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Next week, UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer will hold crucial talks with US President Donald Trump regarding a controversial agreement over the Chagos Islands. The deal, which involves the UK ceding
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Since the successful conclusion of the war in mid-May 2009, despite all the naysayers, and even the likes of the then British Foreign Secretary David Milliband and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner,
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Tibet remains one of the most heavily monitored regions in the world, with a near-total restriction on foreign access and even tighter control over the movement of Tibetans themselves. Since China’s annexation
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by Our Correspondent in Muscat, Oman Former President of Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremesinghe, delivered a bold statement at the 8th Indian Ocean Conference, asserting that the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South
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The Deputy Representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Centre in India, Robert Hsieh Bor-Huei, issued a strong rebuttal to China’s ‘One China Policy’ during his address at The Siang Dialogue 2.0
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