Gardiner Harris, a former pharmaceutical industry reporter for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, has accused Johnson & Johnson (J&J) of a pattern of misconduct spanning decades, arguing that
Sri Lanka’s President Anura Kumara Dissanayake says his country is confronting a disaster “beyond our control” as it struggles to recover from the catastrophic impact of Cyclone Ditwah while still emerging from
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Mexico’s Congress is set to vote this week on a proposed slate of tariffs targeting imports from China, part of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s broader strategy to shield domestic producers and ease trade
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New Zealand’s largest naval vessel briefly encountered a Taiwanese warship while transiting the Taiwan Strait last month, the country’s armed forces said on Tuesday, publishing a rare image of the encounter, Reuters
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China’s Premier Li Qiang warned on Tuesday that the “mutually destructive consequences of tariffs have become increasingly evident” over 2025, during a “1+10 Dialogue” attended by heads of the IMF, World Trade
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Kyiv – Ukraine will share a revised peace plan with the United States on Tuesday aimed at ending Russia’s war, following high-level talks in London between President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and the leaders
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Japan is rapidly transforming its southernmost islands into a fortified “missile archipelago” as relations with China reach their highest tension in more than a decade, Bloomberg reported. At the forefront of this
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The Parable of the Broken Window In 1850, the French economist Frederic Bastiat penned “The Parable of the Broken Window.” A boy breaks a shop window, and a glazier is paid six
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Australia’s imposition of autonomous sanctions on senior Taliban leaders marks a decisive moment in the global response to Afghanistan’s ongoing human rights crisis. Announced on 5 December 2025, these measures go beyond
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The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) issued a stark warning today, stating that a new bilateral agreement between the United Kingdom and Mauritius over the Chagos Archipelago threatens
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An extraordinary catalog of US interference – amounting to an electoral coup – may have destroyed what was already a struggling democracy in Honduras. Trump has succeeded in closing the door to
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Thailand launched a series of air strikes with F-16 bombers along its disputed frontier with Cambodia on Monday, after both governments accused each other of breaching a US-brokered ceasefire. According to Cambodia’s
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by Luxman Aravind Nine days after Cyclone Ditwah tore through Sri Lanka’s coast, the public woke to the unexpected sight of a United States military team landing in the country under the banner of
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India and Russia held their 23rd Annual Summit in New Delhi on 4–5 December 2025, marking a quarter century of their Strategic Partnership (2000–2025). The visit reaffirmed the depth and durability of
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“Pearly shells, shining in the ocean…” The gentle lyric of that timeless island song carries more geopolitical truth than its composer ever imagined. Pearls are prized for their beauty, rarity, and the
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In a powerful demonstration of regional solidarity and humanitarian commitment, the Pakistan Navy this week played a pivotal role in rescue efforts in Sri Lanka, a nation reeling from the devastating impact
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