Donald Trump, whose war on Iran is the greatest strategic blunder in United States history, is not responsible for triggering the decline of the American empire, but he is responsible for its fatal denouement.
China has elevated household consumption to the centre of its long-term economic strategy by unveiling its first stand-alone five-year plan dedicated exclusively to boosting consumer spending. The blueprint sets a target of
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Japan is increasingly looking to lessons from Ukraine’s war with Russia as it reassesses its defense strategy, military technology and procurement systems amid growing concerns over the future security environment in the
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Nvidia has reduced by more than half the number of Asian customers authorised to purchase its artificial intelligence chips after introducing a new “white list” of approved buyers that have passed expanded
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A resignation letter from inside Alibaba’s workplace communication platform DingTalk has become a rare public reckoning over the pressures facing China’s technology workers, sparking debate about a corporate culture built around relentless
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Hitting more than 170 targets in Iran in 48 hours across two waves is an unprecedented escalation. The recent third wave of attacks, targeting more than 100 sites, has set the stage
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The European Parliament’s latest intervention on Pakistan raises a difficult question: when does legitimate human-rights scrutiny become an oversimplification of another country’s judicial process and when does it become political leverage? At
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On July 11, 2026, a school teacher, Shaukat Armani, was killed while two of his nephews sustained injuries following a suspected Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) quadcopter drone strike on his residence in the
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On June 26, 2026, Bangladesh’s Home Minister, Salahuddin Ahmed said the government was set to amend the law to equip officials of the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) with modern firearms, to
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When the French Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Rémi Lambert, and the German Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Dr. Felix Neumann, travelled together to Jaffna, their visit became more than a routine diplomatic engagement
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The government has proposed extending the retirement period of all judges by two years, widening an earlier plan that focused only on Appeal Court and Supreme Court judges, amid concerns over judicial
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Europe purchased more liquefied natural gas from Russia’s flagship Yamal LNG facility in the first half of 2026 than ever before, absorbing almost all of the Siberian project’s output ahead of an
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Honey Trehan’s “Satluj” lasted 48 hours online. ZEE5 released the film uncut on July 3 and pulled it two days later, citing only vague current developments as an explanation. The platform still
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On January 20, 2025, Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office four years after leaving power following his defeat to Joe Biden and the political fallout from the January 6, 2021, attack
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Sudan’s Anti-Terrorism Court on Sunday sentenced the leader of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, widely known as Hemedti, to death in absentia after finding him guilty of genocide
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China and Russia have expanded their naval cooperation with the participation of submarines in the “Joint Sea-2026” military exercise, marking what Chinese military sources described as the first time Chinese and Russian
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