Former US president Joe Biden says Donald Trump should be haunted for the rest of his life by the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol, describing his predecessor and successor
In an exclusive interview with Axios, Jake Sullivan, departing as White House national security adviser, issued a stark and urgent warning about the future of artificial intelligence (AI). With only days left
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Like most Americans, I applaud the recent ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas that was approved today by the Israeli security cabinet, and I was glad to learn that the incoming Trump
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by A Special Correspondent When I first walked into the office at The Commonwealth of Learning, I had no idea that I would be stepping into a battle—a battle not just for
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Scott Bessent, nominated by Donald Trump to be the next U.S. Treasury Secretary, told U.S. senators in a heated confirmation hearing on Thursday that failing to extend the tax cuts introduced during
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Ahead of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday, Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke by phone late Friday, according to a statement from China’s Foreign Ministry. The conversation marks an
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The recent remarks by the Chairman of a large corporate group, Larsen & Toubro, in India suggesting that employees should work 90 hours a week have been ridiculed by trade unions, associations
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The Plan During the State visit of Sri Lanka’s President Anura Kumara Disanayake to The Peoples’ Republic of China in mid-January 2025, the two leaders of the countries agreed on a Belt
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Israel, going back decades, has played a duplicitous game. It signs a deal with the Palestinians that is to be implemented in phases. The first phase gives Israel what it wants — in this
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Jimmy Carter’s lifelong commitment to improving U.S.-Cuba relations has come into sharp focus with the recent publication of a 2004 interview by the National Security Archive. In the interview, released alongside declassified
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Kim Jong Un has been using North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme as a critical “insurance policy” to ensure his hold on power, according to Marco Rubio, who is Donald Trump’s nominee for
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In a G-Zero world, where no one country or group of countries is willing and able to provide global leadership, the law of the jungle prevails. And the law of the jungle says the
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In early January, most of the major military forces of Iran participated in a large military exercise called Payambar-e Azam (Great Prophet), which started as an annual exercise 19 years ago. These forces included
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Predicting the future has become increasingly difficult. The pace of global change is so rapid that events which once unfolded over decades now take place within a single year. While the equidistance
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After the Suez Crisis of 1956, when US President Dwight Eisenhower asked France and Britain to park and leave the African continent and grant independence to the colonially controlled states, Africa saw
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Bangladesh’s interim government, led by Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus, has committed to a global effort to return stolen public funds to the people of Bangladesh. A statement issued on Tuesday confirmed the
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