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
History occasionally produces leaders whose influence transcends the confines of political office and becomes inseparable from the national consciousness itself. Such figures are remembered not merely for the authority they wielded, but
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For more than three decades, the United States has treated Middle Eastern diplomacy as an exercise in writing the terms for others. Iran’s emerging regional strategy is challenging that privilege. The immediate
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Sri Lanka has published the draft 22nd Constitutional Amendment, proposing significant changes to the tenure of the Chief Justice, the retirement ages of judges serving on the Supreme Court and Court of
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The Russian President Vladimir Putin fired the political equivalent of Oroshnik hypersonic missile Wednesday to scatter the recent pot shots by hawkish factions at the Russian ‘power vertical’, never a unified construct
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Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are expected to sign a trilateral defence pact at a summit in Jeddah on Friday, according to information obtained by Agence France-Presse (AFP) from Saudi military and
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When the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021, Saeedullah Wafa knew that remaining in his homeland was no longer an option. Music was swiftly outlawed under the movement’s austere interpretation
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China has shifted from being Africa’s largest financier of major infrastructure projects to becoming a net collector of debt repayments, marking a significant transformation in its financial relationship with the continent as
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Unconfirmed reports regarding the health of Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei have intensified after two sources described as being close to President Masoud Pezeshkian’s administration claimed he is in an extremely critical
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US President Donald Trump has renewed his campaign to restrict birthright citizenship by signing two executive orders that seek to limit the automatic acquisition of US citizenship in narrowly defined circumstances, despite
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A major Chinese historical film portraying the Qing dynasty’s conquest of Taiwan has been indefinitely delayed without official explanation, despite extensive state backing and expectations that it would become one of the
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The United States has intensified both its economic and intelligence campaign against Cuba, expanding covert operations while tightening sanctions in what officials describe as an effort to accelerate political change on the
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As India marks the eightieth anniversary of its independence this month, it is worth returning to the opening words of Jawaharlal Nehru’s historic “Tryst with Destiny” speech. Few passages in modern political
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Editorial The judgment delivered by Judge Bryan Biedscheid of the First Judicial District Court in New Mexico yesterday, 6 August 2026, may prove to be one of the most consequential legal decisions
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For Mahabir Pun, the challenge of connecting Nepal’s remote mountain communities is deeply personal. Long before he entered government as Nepal’s first minister for science, technology and innovation, he was a teacher
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From the Bengal famine of 1943 to the election of the Left Front government in 1977, the communist movement in West Bengal, India, patiently built its strength among workers, peasants, refugees, students,
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