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
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington next week in his first official transatlantic trip since taking office, amid heightened geopolitical tensions and a delicate bilateral
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India is set to receive the remaining two regiments of the S-400 Triumf strategic air defense missile system from Russia in February and August 2026, according to sources within the defense establishment.
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The European Union is set to roll out a new age verification app this July, a move aimed at strengthening enforcement of online child safety regulations without compromising user privacy, according to
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One of the mysteries of the Ukraine endgame is that President Donald Trump did not issue an executive order on January 20 withdrawing all support for Ukraine. That would have been the
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French President Emmanuel Macron issued a powerful call for consistency in global responses to conflict, warning against double standards in international diplomacy during a keynote address at the prestigious Shangri-La Dialogue on
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Southeast Asia is facing a rapidly escalating public health crisis, as heart disease has become the region’s leading cause of death following a staggering 148% rise in cases over the past three
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Macedonia’s state leadership seems to embody Hegel’s bitter wisdom: the only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from it. Thus, the Macedonian state marches blindly from one strategic
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Op Sindoor saw a new form of the much heralded two front collusive threat from Pakistan and China apart from other state actors as Turkey manifesting. India will need to review the
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China’s Ministry of State Security has issued a stark warning to its citizens: be wary of foreigners bearing smiles and sweet talk — they might be spies. In a social media post
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by Our Defence Affairs Editor In the oft-quoted words of Lenin, “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” The sixteen hours between May 6 and May
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by Shen Yi The G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors’ Meeting, held in Banff, Alberta, Canada, from Tuesday to Thursday, revealed a subtle but noteworthy shift: the US is no longer
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The United States has revealed the first public images of its new unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), the YFQ-42A, marking a key milestone in the U.S. Air Force’s push for next-generation warfare
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India and Pakistan have extended mutual airspace bans in a growing diplomatic standoff sparked by rising tensions in Kashmir and a deadly attack on Indian security forces in Pahalgam last month. The
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In the wake of Bashar al-Assad’s downfall last December, an unexpected new phenomenon has gripped the Syrian capital: the shimmer of gold fever. As reported by the Financial Times, the nightly silence
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Defining Tamilness in purely national/territorial terms is problematic today, as transnational factors play a crucial role ~ Nira Wickramasinghe, Sri Lanka in the Modern Age: A History of Contested Identities It has been
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