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
On 21 November 1938, Hitler met with the South African defence minister Oswald Pirow and told him that the Jews would be killed if war broke out. The same month, an official
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The National Investigating Agency (NIA) investigation into the Pahalgam attack revealed that the suspects were not of Pakistani origin, raising questions about India’s motivation and the influence of domestic politics in the
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In July, a few days after the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s birth, I had lunch with his daughter, Mireille Fanon Mendès-France. When I commented that Fanon had died so young, at thirty-nine,
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the world’s largest contract chipmaker, will be exempt from the newly announced 100% U.S. tariff on semiconductor imports, Taiwan’s government confirmed Thursday. The news sent TSMC shares
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Israel’s largest natural gas consortium has signed a major deal to supply $35 billion worth of fuel to Egypt over the next 14 years, underscoring Cairo’s growing reliance on imported energy amid
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There are moments when I am exhausted by crises that come and go, and remember the next real existential crisis of humanity. It puts things in perspective. Please forgive my momentary indifference
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In an economy as small as Chile’s, and with the degree of concentration that characterizes it, the constant appeal to “what the market thinks” should at least raise doubts. Far from representing
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The American Nobel laureate Pearl S. Buck handed down to the aspirant-Nobel American president Donald Trump a golden maxim but he seems oblivious of it — although his life is made of
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Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, once hailed by the West as a liberal reformer, is back in the global spotlight — this time not as a symbol of modern Russia, but as
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In Arugam Bay, a sunny coastal town known for its pristine beaches in Sri Lanka, has now become the limelight of Palestinian solidarity movement condemning the Hebrew welcome signs and Israeli tourists
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Ayano Hirashima was just eight years old when she became a living witness to one of the darkest turning points in human history—not once, but twice. On the morning of August 6,
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi finds himself at the centre of a deepening geopolitical confrontation as former US President Donald Trump threatens to escalate tariffs on Indian imports, in retaliation for New
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On July 30, 2025, National Citizens Party (NCP) Convener Nahid Islam declared, “Even if (former Prime Minister) Sheikh Hasina is hanged ten times, her crimes won’t be reduced. The people of Bangladesh
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On July 30, 2025, Security Forces (SFs) arrested two active cadres of the Revolutionary People’s Front (RPF)/People’s Liberation Army (PLA) identified as Konjengbam Jiten Singh (38) and Khongbantabam Priyobarta Meitei aka Tomba
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In the cultural psyche of 21st-century America, Donald J. Trump occupies a symbolic role that far surpasses his actual political achievements or capacities. For many liberals—particularly those embedded in the media, academia,
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