by Our Correspondent in New Delhi Chinese President Xi Jinping skipped a gala dinner hosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for BRICS leaders and other delegates attending the Summit in New Delhi
Russian President Vladimir Putin described his closed-door talks with U.S. President Donald Trump in Alaska as “trustful and constructive,” highlighting both the challenges and opportunities in U.S.–Russia relations. The meeting in Anchorage,
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If you were watching the US “news” channels (I put that word in parentheses to emphasize sarcasm), the build up to the press conference was the equivalent of a virgin waiting for
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Haidar Eid is a Palestinian professor who used to teach postcolonial and postmodern literature at Al-Aqsa University in Gaza. That university no longer exists thanks to the missiles and the Zionist minds
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U.S. President Donald Trump has pledged to intervene in the case of Jimmy Lai, the British-Hong Kong media tycoon on trial under Hong Kong’s national security laws, telling The Times UK and
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It has been a long time since a diplomatic event drew as much global attention as Friday’s meeting between the Russian and US presidents in Alaska. In terms of its significance for
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Eighty years after the end of the Second World War, Japan is beginning to acknowledge a group of victims long overlooked — the children of traumatised veterans whose post-war lives were marked
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It is entirely understandable that, after such a long and bloody conflict—not to mention the ongoing genocide now entering its ‘final phase‘—the hastily arranged Trump–Putin summit in Alaska has caught many off
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The famous quote by Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci seems to have been written for the moment humanity is currently experiencing: “The old is dying, and the new cannot be born. In
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British soldiers stationed at a training base in central Kenya continue to engage in “transactional sex,” violating a 2022 ban aimed at curbing sexual exploitation and abuse, an internal investigation has revealed.
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North Korea has dismissed attempts by South Korea’s new government to reduce tensions along the heavily fortified border as a “pipe dream,” insisting it has not removed propaganda loudspeakers from the Demilitarized
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The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed a serious nuclear incident occurred earlier this year at HMNB Clyde, also known as the Faslane naval base in Scotland, according to The Times
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Yesterday President Trump in his public statements validated my conclusion that Trump does not know what the Russian position is and that he is going to the meeting to find out what
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Reports suggest that South Sudan, an African nation struggling with the aftermath of civil war and facing the threat of famine, has held discussions with Israel about the possibility of hosting Palestinians
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India and China are holding talks to restart border trade in locally produced goods for the first time in more than five years, in what officials say is a modest but symbolic
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Zelensky’s maximalist position, supported by the UK, France and Germany, is at odds with public opinion in Ukraine. A new, dramatic Gallup Poll makes clear that Zelensky and his hardline clique don’t
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