When an earthquake struck northern Venezuela on 24 June, several 12-storey apartment blocks in OPP Caribe, a state-backed housing settlement on the coast near La Guaira, swayed before collapsing into piles of
The European Union is facing a new wave of controversy after inviting representatives of the Taliban to Brussels for discussions focused on increasing deportations of Afghan nationals, a move that critics say
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The United States and Cuba have entered a new and unexpected phase of diplomatic engagement, marked by an extraordinary meeting in Havana between the director of the CIA and Cuba’s top internal
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The life of Golshifteh Farahani has long unfolded at the intersection of cinema, politics and controversy, but recent claims linking her indirectly to a diplomatic incident involving France’s first couple have pushed
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor The second day of a closely watched summit in Beijing saw Donald Trump attempting to downplay political friction with Xi Jinping after comments attributed to the Chinese
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The tragedy that unfolded at Denver International Airport on the night of 9 May 2026 presents not merely an isolated operational failure but a profound juridical and philosophical challenge to contemporary civil
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Recently, through close coordination between China and Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan police repatriated 125 suspects involved in telecom and online fraud to China after they were arrested in earlier crackdown operations. On
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America’s newest quagmire in the Middle East is like its old quagmires in the Middle East. It is based, as were the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, on a gross misreading of
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In 2022, the roughly 10,500 citizens of the Pacific Island state of Tuvalu began to migrate not from one country to another but from their physical islands to the digital world. Faced
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In modern conflicts, wars are no longer fought only on battlefields. They are increasingly fought through narratives, international reporting, digital information campaigns and competing claims over legitimacy. Civilian casualty reporting has become
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Guatemala has acknowledged that long-standing external pressure from the United States has surrounded its cooperation with Cuban medical brigades, as the country moves forward with plans to gradually end a healthcare partnership
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Senior Indian Police Service officer Asra Garg has been appointed as the new Inspector General of Police (Intelligence) in Chennai, marking one of the most significant administrative moves in Tamil Nadu’s evolving
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India is preparing for a major transformation in its ballistic missile programme by opening the door to deeper private sector participation in the development and production of advanced missile systems. The move
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For nearly a decade, Dmitry Senin has lived as a ghost, slipping through borders, changing identities and hiding from the same security apparatus he once proudly served. The former Russian Federal Security
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One of Ukraine’s leading arms manufacturers, Fire Point, says it has entered the satellite sector after successfully launching two satellites this year and is preparing to deploy dozens more in 2027. According
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Fresh controversy has erupted around French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron after a French journalist claimed that a widely publicized altercation between the couple was sparked by messages sent
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