US President Donald Trump is taking a less combative approach towards China ahead of his meeting with President Xi Jinping this week, reflecting what China experts say is Beijing’s growing leverage through
Volodymyr Zelenskyy departed the White House on Friday without securing an agreement for the supply of Tomahawk long-range missiles to Ukraine. The meeting with US President Donald Trump followed weeks of signals
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Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution has been in the vanguard of the Global South. In contrast, President Javiar Milei’s government in Argentina represents the logical, though absurd, consequence of extreme neoliberalism, which he calls
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The global trading system stands at an inflection point. Within a single week, China expanded its export controls on rare earth elements, materials essential to everything from electric vehicles to missile guidance
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The ongoing U.S. federal government shutdown is beginning to take a toll on the nation’s economy, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned on Monday, as the closure entered its 13th day with no
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The world economy has so far weathered the heaviest barrage of U.S. tariffs since the 1930s, buoyed by resilient consumer spending, corporate absorption of higher costs, and a surge in artificial intelligence-driven
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Hamas has released all 20 of the remaining Israeli hostages held in Gaza, bringing an emotional end to a two-year ordeal and triggering jubilant celebrations across Israel. The announcement came only hours
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I still miss the inimitable tag line, Tukde Tukde Gang, literally meaning ‘fragments’, after all these eleven tumultuous years of Indian politics. It was the political catchphrase invented by India’s ruling party, Bharatiya Janata
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Spoiler alert – it already has. This is not a glib answer but a comment on the nature of the conflict. The US mission to wrench Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution out from its
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Decades from now, our current moment will appear as a moment of great change: seismic shifts are parting the way to a multipolar world. In response, the Trump administration is waging global
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The United Nations announced Wednesday that it will cut a quarter of its global peacekeeping force in the coming months, forcing thousands of troops to return home from missions worldwide. The decision
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Concerns are reportedly growing within the White House about President Donald Trump’s cognitive abilities, according to investigative journalist Seymour Hersh. In a recent blog post, Hersh cited unnamed sources close to the
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The shutdown of the American government is not about healthcare. Democrats have seized on healthcare as a popular hook, betting that people will see them as fighting for affordable healthcare while Republicans
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India United States relations are in a trough, that is a “Known” yet unacknowledged fact now. The engagement between New Delhi and Washington is today based on overcoming differences on contentious issues
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Movie star George Clooney criticized U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to impose a 100% tariff on all films produced overseas, calling it the wrong fix for a real industry problem. Clooney made
More The Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov came out of a meeting in New York in the weekend with the US S secretary of State Marco Rubio showing a thumbs-up sign as he
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