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 U.S. Embassy in Sri Lanka commemorated America’s semiquincentennial—250 years of independence—with Chief Guest Minister of Health and Mass Media Nalinda Jayatissa and hundreds of Sri Lankan partners, government officials, business leaders, diplomats and friends of the United States at
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Elon Musk’s position at the summit of global wealth has widened into unprecedented territory following SpaceX’s public offering on June 12, which pushed the founder and chief executive into what the reporting
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Russia authorized covert military training involving Chinese forces at the highest levels of its defense establishment, with multiple senior generals participating in exercises that included chemical, biological, and radiological warfare instruction, according
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These are difficult times for anyone who has consistently criticised NATO. From the era of ‘defending the Free World’ against communism, through the age of ‘humanitarian intervention’ and the ‘Global War on
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Taiwan’s main opposition party has proposed a NT$240 billion (US$7.5 billion) plan to expand the island’s drone industry, just days after delaying consideration of a similar initiative put forward by President Lai
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Since the early 1990s, the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk, located on the Amur River, has steadily reemerged as one of Russia’s most important “border trade hubs.” Sitting directly across from the Chinese city of Heihe,
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Sri Lanka must strengthen its National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) and take concrete action to address continuing risks of torture and ill-treatment faced by people deprived of their liberty, the United Nations Subcommittee
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French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met on the French Riviera on Thursday for a bilateral summit aimed at strengthening cooperation between two of Europe’s largest economies, following
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As South Africa braces for a self-declared June 30 deadline promoted by anti-migrant groups demanding that undocumented foreigners leave the country, authorities are confronting growing fears that a familiar pattern of xenophobic
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Few developments since the Taliban’s return to power have been as surprising as India’s gradual re-emergence in Afghanistan. In 2021, most observers assumed Islamabad would be the principal beneficiary of the new
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The global order is entering a harder-edged phase of realism, in which power increasingly rests on the ability to compel rather than the authority to persuade. Across regions, calculations of immediate advantage
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Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has announced a new strategy to restart oil trade with Cuba through private companies, creating a commercial framework designed to allow fuel exchanges while avoiding exposure of state
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The concept, rooted in philosophical traditions dating back to ancient Greece more than 2,500 years ago, is at the center of a recent discussion published by El País, which examines how ordinary
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The United States has delivered an advanced satellite communications system to the Sri Lanka Navy, providing Fleet Broadband technology designed to improve secure maritime communication across the country’s offshore patrol fleet, the
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs S. Paul Kapur arrived in Colombo on Sunday for a three-day visit focused on strengthening trade,
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