Moktar is 21, a university student from a modest Tunisian family, and one of thousands of young people who feel that France has closed the door on their future. He lives with
Governments across the Asia-Pacific region have adopted a major new framework aimed at reshaping social development policies to address inequality, demographic change, and economic resilience. The agreement, known as the Baku-Bangkok Declaration,
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Italy’s leading trade union and top business association have issued a stark warning about the future of the country’s industrial system, calling for urgent intervention at both national and European levels. The
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I just woke up in Islamabad in the middle of the night, around 2 AM, and could not go back to sleep. I picked up my phone, started scrolling through the news,
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A U.S. special forces soldier involved in a covert operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been arrested and indicted after allegedly using classified information to place profitable bets on the
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In today’s strategic landscape, influence isn’t shaped only by military strength or economic weight. Increasingly, it is built through narratives-formed, circulated, and contested across digital spaces that don’t recognize borders. In that
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Editorial With due respect to the monks from Vietnam and their puppy named “Aloka”, one is nevertheless compelled to interrogate the spectacle presented to the public under the banner of a so-called
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Every April 24, the Armenian world pauses in collective remembrance of a catastrophe that still defines its identity and politics. The date marks the beginning of the genocide carried out by the
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Ukraine is entering 2026 with its survival increasingly tied to external financing, as war, demographic collapse, and the withdrawal of key international support converge into a deepening economic emergency. This week, the
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Although we humans have developed our knowledge and sciences even to go to the moon, we have terribly failed to develop methods and practices to resolve our conflicts and wars amicably, without
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Iran’s leadership has retreated into the shadows, with its newly installed supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, reportedly governing through a clandestine web of couriers while recovering from devastating injuries. As the war
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The United States’ ability to defend Taiwan in the event of a near-term conflict with China is being quietly reassessed inside the administration, as extensive weapons use in the ongoing Iran war
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A growing push to regulate artificial intelligence in military applications is running into a fundamental problem: no one can agree on who exactly represents the “AI industry.” A new analysis by the
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Chinese state-linked hackers are increasingly weaponizing everyday consumer devices such as home internet routers and even smart refrigerators to conduct sophisticated cyber attacks against Western nations, according to a joint warning from
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The White House has accused China of orchestrating a sweeping campaign to steal advanced artificial intelligence technology from American companies, describing the effort as “industrial-scale” and vowing stronger countermeasures. In a memo,
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With the United States and Iran escalating confrontations along the Strait of Hormuz—including seizure of ships—the waterway has become “pivotal to negotiations” between the two countries. Washington escalated to direct interdiction of Iranian-linked shipping
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