A shirtless, masked young man standing above a São Paulo metro station, waving Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s flag alongside a Palestinian flag, became one of the defining images of
In 2016, a rare photograph captured a moment of exceptional diplomatic intimacy: President Xi Jinping of China, the paramount leader of the world’s most populous and officially atheist nation, stood beaming alongside
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by Nil Tom Wells’s The Kissinger Tapes arrives with the aura of a historical revelation, yet its deeper significance lies less in the novelty of the documents than in the unsettling portrait
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by Durga Velayudham Adam Smith was not who the world thinks he was. The man whose name is synonymous with free-market capitalism — the “invisible hand” evangelist invoked by CEOs, politicians, and
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Madrid woke on the morning of December 11, 2025, to a flurry of police activity that would reverberate far beyond the capital. Agents from the National Police’s Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit
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US President Donald Trump hosted Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado at the White House on Friday for a second private meeting, signaling an unusual and highly
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Palantir, the data analytics and security firm founded by Peter Thiel and Alex Karp, has become a symbol of Silicon Valley’s transformation into a militarized technology hub. Named after the all-seeing “Palantir
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Israel has entered a new era of warfare, openly aligning with the United States in a joint campaign against Iran, a move that has sparked alarm and scrutiny across the region and
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The ongoing U.S. and Israeli campaign against Iran has showcased the dramatic role of artificial intelligence in modern warfare. Analysts say AI has accelerated the planning, targeting, and execution of strikes at
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Chinese leader Xi Jinping has embarked on one of the most extensive overhauls of his military leadership in decades, ousting dozens of senior generals in a sweeping crackdown on corruption and disloyalty.
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In a claim reported by Iran International, an Iranian sailor killed in the U.S. submarine strike on the frigate IRIS Dena contacted his father shortly before his death, saying that American forces
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The United States Indo‑Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) has issued a forceful rebuttal to Iranian assertions that the Iranian warship IRIS Dena was unarmed when it was struck and sunk by a U.S. submarine
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India faces a critical juncture as the US and Israel’s joint military action on Iran sends crude oil prices soaring and puts the country’s strategic trade and energy interests in jeopardy. The
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In a striking response to the Pentagon-Anthropic standoff and growing public concern over artificial intelligence, a bipartisan group of experts, former officials, and public figures has released the Pro-Human Declaration, a detailed
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A well-honed tool in the United States’ diplomatic box is to rub the nose of its vassal states in the dust occasionally to remind them they are a lower form of life,
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Operations at Sri Lanka’s key maritime hubs are under mounting pressure as shipping lines suspend services to the Gulf region amid the escalating conflict in West Asia, causing thousands of containers bound
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