Christa Pike's survival has exposed a contradiction that capital punishment normally conceals. The state can declare a life forfeit, but when its machinery of death fails, it suddenly becomes responsible for keeping
by Our Correspondent in Colombo Sri Lanka’s Government has rejected what it described as attempts by foreign countries to pressure Colombo over the holding of long-delayed Provincial Council elections, as a senior
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On August 7, 2026, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif signed the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement at the Makkah Al-Mukarramah Summit
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A few days ago, TIME revealed how an artificial intelligence system went out of control and attacked other systems. Days later, more than 1,100 engineers at major artificial intelligence companies signed a joint petition calling for
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Murdering foreign leaders is not something any American president should ever do. How can the US uphold its claim to be a champion of laws and political decency while committing murder and
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In recent times, the term Gen Z and the concept have been subjected to intense debate in the print, visual and social media and in debating forums. There have been conflicting views
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UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, Reem Alsalem, has expressed serious concern over what she described as a troubling pattern in Israeli family courts and
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I was only sixteen years old when I first set eyes on Fidel Castro at the 1983 Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in India. When Fidel, who would have turned 100 this week,
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The German general and geopolitician KarlHaushofer first coined and conceptualized the term “Indo-Pacific” (Indopazifischer Raum) in the 1920s. He argued that the global balance of power would shift from the Atlantic toward
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More than four years after Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine, civilians on both sides are paying an increasingly heavy price as the war shifts further towards long-range strikes and attacks deep behind
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By publicly documenting her decision to freeze her eggs, the US congresswoman has transformed an intensely private medical choice into a wider debate over reproductive autonomy, women’s careers and the political struggle
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August 13, 2026, marks the 100th anniversary of Fidel Castro’s birth, recalling the Cuban revolutionary leader who governed the Caribbean nation for nearly five decades and became one of the most prominent
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As tens of thousands of people crossed from Morocco towards Spain’s enclave of Ceuta in a single day, the question of what borders are actually for returned with renewed force. For philosopher
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North Korea may be preparing to send another large contingent of troops to support Russia in its war against Ukraine, raising concerns not only about the immediate battlefield consequences but also about
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For decades, resource-rich African nations operated within a familiar economic model: foreign companies extracted minerals, loaded raw ore onto ships and exported it overseas, leaving producer countries with relatively limited gains from
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China is expanding its scientific collaboration with Iran into the strategically sensitive field of rare earths, including processing technologies that Beijing has increasingly sought to protect from overseas transfer. The National Natural
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