Ukrainian drone strikes set an oil export terminal ablaze in St Petersburg on Sunday as Kyiv launched one of its largest aerial bombardments of Russia to date, with Moscow reporting that its
I was born and grew up in New York City. I rode the subway to school way, way downtown. School buses were for sissies. I was a typical New York City tough
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The recent eviction drive in Assam targeting Bengali-speaking Muslims has exacerbated the ethnic divide in India. Nationalist groups and government authorities have initiated the selective campaign. According to reports, the eviction drive
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As a professor who has spent more than forty years studying questions of war and peace, international law and relations —and above all, the human consequences of armed conflict— I once believed
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by Durga Velayudham Wow… simply wow. What an amazing gentleman, Mr Andrew, the former Duke of York, erstwhile Prince, occasional newsmaker, and now, apparently, full-time symbol of monarchical awkwardness. Let us not rush
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Latvia has voted to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention, a treaty designed to protect women from violence, after a 13-hour parliamentary debate on Thursday. The decision comes amid growing political divisions and
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The U.S. government has asked a judge to deport a father of two to Afghanistan, where he fears the Taliban would likely kill him, despite the fact that he has not been
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On the last day of October 2025, leaders from the 21 nations of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum will meet in the city of Gyeongju in the Republic of Korea (South
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India says Indus water will be held back, stored, redirected, weaponized. They says “blood and water cannot flow together” a slogan first sharpened in 2016 and repeated again in 2025 by Prime
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Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, has announced a new initiative called Cocoon, a decentralized platform designed to transform AI computing. The project, officially named Confidential Compute Open Network, was revealed at
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Female recruits in the British Army were reportedly forced to strip down to their underwear and perform invasive exercises during medical examinations, Times UK has revealed. Allegations describe recruits being made to
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Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), is facing serious allegations of sexual misconduct from a former staff member, according to an exclusive investigation by Times UK. The
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Washington has revoked the U.S. visa of Nigeria’s Wole Soyinka, Africa’s first Nobel laureate, effectively barring him from entering the country, the author announced at a press conference in Lagos on Tuesday.
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Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is demanding a $1 million ransom for the release of six healthcare workers abducted in the city of Al-Fashir, according to the Sudan Doctors’ Network (SDN).
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A New York City woman wearing a navy blue polka-dot dress has gone viral for her defiant resistance to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a raid in lower Manhattan on October 21,
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by Our Correspondent in New Delhi India is considering a bailout exceeding 1 trillion rupees ($12 billion) for its financially struggling state-run power distribution companies, Reuters reports. The proposed plan links access
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