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by Our Foreign Affairs Editor “We need today to stop asking the victims to do more because the victims, the Palestinian victims, have offered and have done everything required by them in
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Mike Huckabee, the United States ambassador to Israel and former Arkansas governor, told podcaster Tucker Carlson that Israel would have a biblical right to occupy the entire Middle East, or at least
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In a refined café inside the Imperial Hotel Tokyo, where diplomats, executives, and elegantly dressed patrons move with ritual precision, 57-year-old Miki Yamagishi appears indistinguishable from any other middle-class customer enjoying an
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On February 17, 2026, a fact-finding report released by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) concluded that Punjab’s Crime Control Department (CCD) had adopted a deliberate policy of staged encounters that
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At the heart of Sri Lanka’s evolving political landscape lies a crucial question: what insights did Mr.Tilvin Silva, General Secretary of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), gain from his first official visit
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The kidnapping of a sitting head of state marks a grave escalation in US-Venezuela relations. By seizing Venezuela’s constitutional president, Washington signaled both its disregard for international law and its confidence that
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