Diplomatic efforts to end an acute and bloody armed conflict should always be welcomed and the persistence of Donald Trump’s administration, which has pursued this goal for more than a year and
On February 5, 2026, Pakistan’s military media wing, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) announced that Security Forces (SFs) had concluded Operation Radd-ul-Fitna (Elimination of Discord)-1 in Balochistan, after a series of intelligence-based operations (IBOs) targeting
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On February 5, 2026, joint forces, including the Police, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and the Army, detained 345 Rohingyas, including 176 men, 86 women, and 83 children and adolescents, during a late-night
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by Durga Yi-Ling Liu’s The Wall Dancers begins not with theory or metaphor but with a body learning fear. “When I was a child in Beijing, I learned early how to stay
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In the Sardinian city of Nuoro, a high stone wall still surrounds a prison once infamous for housing Italy’s most dangerous mobsters and convicted terrorists, exiled far from the mainland. For years,
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Iran will strike U.S. military bases across the Middle East if it comes under attack by American forces, its foreign minister has warned, as tensions escalate amid a growing U.S. military presence
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On a warm morning outside a Los Angeles courthouse, silence carried more weight than slogans. Thirteen parents stood shoulder to shoulder on the stone steps, each holding a framed photograph of a
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Senior Buddhist monk Ven. Muruththettuwe Ananda Thera has announced plans to launch a large-scale protest campaign involving around 800 monks in response to what he described as statements and insults made by
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The United States will make an initial payment toward the billions of dollars it owes the United Nations within weeks, according to comments by the US ambassador to the world body in
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Kenya and Somalia are facing a deepening drought emergency that is devastating pastoralist livelihoods, driving distress sales of livestock, and raising the risk of conflict over scarce resources, according to reporting by
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Russian schoolchildren are being taught that Winston Smith, the protagonist of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, behaved like a dangerous radical whose actions mirror those of criminals and terrorists, according to a
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