Islamic State Pakistan Province (ISPP) remains a relatively small but persistent militant threat in Pakistan, using sectarian violence, targeted assassinations and occasional suicide attacks to exploit deep communal and political fault lines,
Bangladesh has descended from the blood-soaked birth of 1971 into the bottomless gulf of 2024 and 2025. Bangladesh today stands on the edge of a perilous abyss. The nation that was born
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Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution was a watershed moment in the history of the class struggle. It was a ray of light in the dark years following the collapse of Stalinism. Long before the
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The Trump administration has launched an initiative to hire 1,000 engineers for two-year assignments within federal government agencies, according to a government website viewed by Reuters on Monday. The campaign targets professionals
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy resumed negotiations with U.S. envoys in Berlin on Monday, following a day of intense diplomatic discussions aimed at ending Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War Two. Zelenskiy met
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In her first public address as head of MI6, Blaise Metreweli offered a sweeping and detailed vision for the future of Britain’s foreign intelligence service, drawing on her decades-long career in espionage
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Britain is already on the front line of confrontation with Russia, the head of MI6 will warn, as Moscow escalates a campaign of disinformation, sabotage and cyberattacks designed to destabilise the West.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping has delivered a rare and blunt rebuke to local officials for inflating growth figures and pursuing “reckless” development projects designed to produce superficial results rather than real economic
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The mass casualty attack that occurred yesterday in Australia represents more than an isolated act of violence; it reflects a dangerous convergence of antisemitism, geopolitical polarisation, and evolving patterns of radicalisation. With
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The involvement of foreign troops in disaster relief efforts in Sri Lanka underscores how real-world circumstances continually shape the dynamics of geopolitics. It also serves as a striking example of how such
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“Inclusion strengthens nations; exclusion strengthens problems.” Sri Lanka’s long-term stability and democratic resilience depend not only on the strength of its security institutions but also on the quality of its inclusiveness. Experience
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On December 12, 2025, Prime Minister of Bulgaria Rosen Zhelyazkov resigned after protesters took to the streets in cities across the country and filled the centre of the capital Sofia in the
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Editorial The World Inequality Report 2026 does not merely describe a malfunctioning global economy; it indicts it. What emerges from its data is not an unfortunate imbalance or a temporary distortion, but
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President Donald Trump is facing sharp criticism from key allies after signing the “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for AI” executive order, a sweeping directive aimed at establishing federal control over artificial
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Inequality remains deeply entrenched across South Asia and China, according to the recently published World Inequality Report 2026, with vast gaps in income and wealth and persistent gender disparities. In India, inequality
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by Our Foreign Affairs Editor The dissolution of Hong Kong’s Democratic Party marks not just the end of a political organisation, but the symbolic death of institutionalised democracy in the city. After
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