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
Across the globe, the tools of conflict are evolving. In South Asia, the erosion of the Indus Waters Treaty is transforming rivers into instruments of strategic leverage between India and Pakistan. Half
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The ambitious and promising-looking talks between the US and Iran, especially those in Pakistan, were billed as the “Islamabad talks” or an “accord” that had not even lasted for twenty-four hours, leading
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The War of the World It is spring 2026. Since February 28, Iran has faced what Washington calls Operation Epic Fury and Tel Aviv Operation Roaring Lion. An American-Israeli military coalition
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by Eric There are moments in the life of an institution when an appointment is not simply recorded, but quietly alters the grammar of how authority is imagined within it. The elevation
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The unprecedented exchange began after Donald Trump launched a personal attack on Pope Leo XIV, the first American-born pontiff in history, accusing him publicly of political bias and weakness. According to reporting
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As the United States farcically walks away from the negotiations with Iran in Pakistan, it was always a matter of concern whether Israel would abide by any such agreement. This was particularly
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On March 30, 2026, Andhra Pradesh Director General of Police (DGP) Harish Kumar Gupta declared that the state was free of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), a day before the Centre’s
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Tripura sustained its status as a “zero-insurgency” State through 2025 and into 2026, with no reported insurgency-related fatalities and no active militant violence. The gains achieved through the September 4, 2024, Memorandum
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Iranian authorities carried out at least 1,639 executions in 2025, marking the highest annual figure recorded since 1989, according to a joint report by Norway-based Iran Human Rights and Paris-based Together Against
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The two-week ceasefire between the United States, Iran and Israel, announced by Donald Trump just hours before a self-imposed escalation deadline, has paused a 39-day conflict that had moved with unusual speed
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Four days after Israel launched an intense aerial assault on Lebanon, Beirut remains a city defined by rubble, grief, and unanswered questions. In a matter of minutes on Wednesday, more than 160
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There is growing expectation in Tehran that the Islamabad talks with the US may open the door leading into the rose-garden. But footfalls still echo in the memory, as the US has
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In the ruined silence of Al-Fashir, a city in western Sudan that once housed more than a million people, a fragile paper map becomes the only remaining guide to a place that
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A new claim from the US AI company Anthropic has triggered alarm, skepticism, and fascination across the technology world. The firm says its latest artificial intelligence model, “Claude Mythos Preview,” is so
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At the end of Hannah Arendt’s 1970 interview with Adelbert Reif, she offers some of her most direct thoughts on our political predicaments today. Across the political spectrum, she writes, there is
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