Egypt is considering deploying troops and military equipment to support Saudi Arabia against Yemen’s Houthi-led Ansarallah movement, marking a possible expansion of Cairo’s regional military role as the United States seeks to
Following a dramatic purge of top generals, Xi is now overseeing the five-yearly reshuffle of party and state positions, affecting hundreds of thousands of jobs across China. The process begins at the
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As the United States enters the fifth week of military operations in Iran, President Donald Trump faces mounting political pressure, with his approval rating dropping to 36% amid rising fuel prices and
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Taiwan’s main opposition leader, Cheng Li-Wun, is scheduled to visit mainland China from April 7 to 12 in a high-profile diplomatic move that comes amid escalating regional tensions and ahead of U.S.
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by Durga Velayudham Diplomacy is not courtesy dressed in fine language; it is power performed with a smile. As Niccolò Machiavelli made brutally clear in The Prince, rulers who depend on affection
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Sri Lanka is staring at a potential electricity crisis as critically low water levels in key reservoirs threaten to disrupt hydropower generation, even as the government faces mounting political turmoil over a
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Teachers’ trade unions are protesting against what they describe as a political witch-hunt against some of their members who did not attend a meeting chaired by Prime Minister and Minister of Education
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The China–Taiwan dispute has entered a phase where history still matters, but numbers matter more. What began in 1949 as the unfinished business of a civil war is today measured in aircraft
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We are witnessing a turning point in history. We are experiencing a crisis that goes beyond an economic crisis. We are facing a true crisis of civilization. The U.S., as an imperial
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The street market in the Afghan border town of Torkham in Nangarhar province has “gone silent.” Anxiety about the future is rising as trade halts and incomes dry up, a local shopkeeper
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External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio have been persistently working to put the US-Indian relationship back on track. Their conversation on Friday on the sidelines
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Larry Fink, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager with $14 trillion under management, delivered a stark warning about the global economy amid the ongoing conflict in Iran in
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Editor’s Note: This column was originally published in the Colombo-based Sunday Island. As I have pointed out since the first term of the Trump administration, Donald Trump was never merely a leader
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In the first fourteen months of Donald’s second term, over 50 percent of Project 2025, the Heritage Foundations fascist playbook has been implemented. The number of reasons to protest the Trump regime
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Islamabad is shining as a beacon of hope this weekend. On 29 and 30 March 2026, the Foreign Ministers of Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Egypt are arriving in Pakistan for high-level talks.
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The Middle East is witnessing a dramatic escalation in conflict that shows little sign of abating, nearly a month after the United States and Israel launched coordinated strikes against Iran. According to
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