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
The German defense manufacturer Rheinmetall has secured a massive contract package worth €5.7 billion from Romania, marking one of the most significant defense procurement deals in Europe in recent years. According to
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The government of the China has sharply criticized comments made by Philippine Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jnr, escalating a fresh diplomatic confrontation with the Philippines over long-standing territorial and political disputes. China’s
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The political race in Colombia has taken a dramatic turn after U.S. President Donald Trump publicly declared his “total support” for presidential candidate Abelardo de la Espriella, a move that has triggered
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This may well be the longest period in which the U.S. Embassy in Sri Lanka has functioned without an accredited American ambassador. The appointment of Eric Meyer, nominated by Donald Trump as
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by Luxman Aravind The treatment of former Army Commander and Chief of Defence Staff General Shavendra Silva under the United States’ foreign policy framework represents one of the most uncomfortable contradictions in
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When a government cannot silence its critics at home, it follows them abroad. That is the defining logic of transnational repression: the use of state power to intimidate, surveil, harass, or eliminate
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Maj. Gen. (retd.) K.B. Egodawele believes the ban on import of chemical fertilisers and agrochemicals, in April/May 2021, that led to staggering drop in crop yields, and countrywide protests, had been a
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Water, in contemporary international relations, is far more than a natural resource; it is a strategic asset that shapes national power, environmental security, and state resilience. For Pakistan, a state of over
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Many people are overwhelmed by the fast-paced evolution of mass communication in a world increasingly shaped by the internet and artificial intelligence (AI). Yet ideas have not always circulated across the globe
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Turkey’s secretive HAVA SOJ airborne electronic warfare aircraft has appeared in its clearest imagery to date, offering the strongest indication yet that the long-running program is approaching a more advanced stage of
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After months of mediation drama and so-called shuttle diplomacy by Field Marshal Asim Munir, there was a desperate attempt to secure strategic depth in the Middle East and rebuild ties with the
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Bangladesh is accelerating a major shift in its approach to water management and regional diplomacy, moving closer to China as decades of unresolved water-sharing disputes with India continue to fuel environmental, economic,
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A group of Catholic priests in northern Sri Lanka has renewed allegations that decades of violence suffered by Tamil communities amounted to genocide, reigniting a contentious debate over the legacy of the
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The European Union has taken a decisive step toward a far more restrictive migration regime, agreeing on a new returns regulation that aims to accelerate deportations and expand the bloc’s capacity to
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The Israeli writer Etgar Keret has long built his literary reputation on blending the absurd with the intimate, but in his latest reflections he describes a country where reality itself seems to
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