Morocco is entering a more assertive phase of its foreign policy, buoyed by international backing that has strengthened Rabat’s confidence and encouraged it to revisit questions of territorial sovereignty beyond the Western
The United Nations was never supposed to work like this. For eight decades, the process of selecting its most powerful official, the closest thing the world has to a global leader, has
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A quick check of TikTok can easily become a much longer session than expected. A cooking video leads to a travel clip, then a technology review, an interview, or a political analysis.
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The German writer reflects on how the internet evolved from a space of experimentation into a system of depletion, while arguing that literature can still create new ways of thinking. When writer
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Indonesia is preparing to scale back President Prabowo Subianto’s flagship free meals program, with officials considering more than $2 billion in additional budget reductions alongside cuts to the number of beneficiaries and
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The recent meeting of the Jammu and Kashmir political party National Conference at Dachigam was an atypical party meeting. This meeting was an important political manoeuvre to unify the party, reaffirm support
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As South Africa braces for a self-declared June 30 deadline promoted by anti-migrant groups demanding that undocumented foreigners leave the country, authorities are confronting growing fears that a familiar pattern of xenophobic
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The Collective for Social Media Declaration (CSMD) has raised concerns over the proposed Chartered Institute of Media Professionals of Sri Lanka Bill, gazetted by the government in June 2026, warning that the
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Read, In Order to Live ~ Gustave Flaubert Being Bookish Lucy Mangan’s Bookish: How Reading Shapes Our Lives is far more than a memoir about books. It is an affectionate meditation on the transformative
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Few developments since the Taliban’s return to power have been as surprising as India’s gradual re-emergence in Afghanistan. In 2021, most observers assumed Islamabad would be the principal beneficiary of the new
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by Our Correspondent in Geneva New allegations have emerged from Mohamed Haris, a Sri Lankan citizen living in Switzerland, who claims Azad Maulana’s asylum strategy evolved from a personal and political dispute
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