Why are we so obsessed with a group of prehistoric humans who disappeared some 40,000 years ago? Ever since the discovery of the first named Neanderthal fossils in 1856, scientists have struggled
I am told that if I don’t like what “my government” is doing, I should write “my representative.” So I dropped Senator Adam Schiff a note about the US war on Venezuela.
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The US attack on Venezuela on 3 January 2026 came on the same day as French and UK jets bombed an underground facility in the mountains near Palmyra (Syria) and just a few weeks
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China’s military announced that it is developing more than 10 experimental quantum cyber warfare tools, many of which are reportedly being tested in front-line operations. The disclosure, published by the official Science
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If anyone still believes that Asia’s industrial future is being shaped by polite multilateral dialogue and neat development plans, the latest deep-dive produced by Oxford Economics for the Hinrich Foundation should end
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Oilfield services group SLB is poised to secure some of the first contracts under U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to revive Venezuela’s struggling oil industry, drawing on its decades-long footprint in the
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday offered a measured and skeptical assessment of Iranian opposition figure Reza Pahlavi, telling Reuters that while the exiled royal “seems very nice,” he is uncertain whether
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Following the dramatic seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on January 3, 2026, Trump’s comments about taking control of Venezuela’s oil industry quickly triggered accusations of “neo-imperialism”. Critics argued that pledges to share profits with
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For over two weeks now, Iranians have been pouring into the streets in the largest demonstrations the country has seen since the 2022 “Women, Life, Freedom” uprising, and possibly since the 2009
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In a 2009 interview with Voice of America’s Ukrainian Service, conducted by Myroslava Gongadze, Zbigniew Brzezinski ( 1928-2017) offered a penetrating assessment of United States policy towards Eastern Europe and Ukraine at
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In an interview conducted in mid-December in New Delhi by Sri Lanka Guardian, Lieutenant General R. K. Sawhney spoke at length about India’s military posture, strategic culture and national security outlook. His
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Donald Trump’s attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of its head of state have overshadowed his less brazen but possibly more effective regime-change operation in Honduras. No one can be sure if the National
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2026 opened with US muscle-power exercises, intended to revive the Monroe Doctrine and reinforce its security dominance, which had been under scrutiny since Israel’s strikes on Qatar escalated tensions in the Middle
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The fact that a new defence cooperation agreement was signed between Morocco and Pakistan, during a high-level visit to Rabat, is not just another milestone in diplomacy. It indicates a rationalised convergence
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Lord Hermer, the attorney-general and legal chief under Labour leader Keir Starmer, has defended the legal autonomy of the US Central Intelligence Agency, asserting that the agency “acts within their own law”
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The United States has inaugurated a new air and missile defense coordination cell at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, a strategic hub housing approximately 10,000 troops, amid rising tensions with Iran.
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