Leaders of the United States, Japan, Australia and India are expected to meet in Manila on Tuesday for the first summit of the four-nation Quad grouping in two years, with critical minerals,
Our offshore concentration camps, for now, are in El Salvador and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. But don’t expect them to remain there. Once they are normalized, not only for U.S.-deported immigrants and residents, but U.S. citizens, they
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As the U.S. intensifies its fight against Mexican drug cartels, the CIA has been thrust into the center of the Trump administration’s strategy to dismantle one of the deadliest criminal networks in
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Rare and rare-earth metals are essential to the functioning of modern technology, yet they are notoriously difficult to obtain in usable form. While not necessarily scarce in the Earth’s crust, these elements
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Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang landed in Beijing this week for high-level talks with Chinese officials and tech leaders, following a fresh wave of U.S. export restrictions that rocked the chipmaker’s share
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As tensions rise in cyberspace between global powers, a new spotlight is being cast on the United States’ long and controversial history of offensive cyber operations. While Washington has frequently accused countries
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is set to meet with US President Donald Trump in Washington on Thursday, marking a pivotal moment in the ongoing trade tensions between the EU and the
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US President Donald Trump has reportedly rejected Israel’s proposal to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities, according to The New York Times, citing White House officials and other sources familiar with the situation. Instead
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US President Donald Trump wasn’t joking. As promised, he has launched a dramatic overhaul of his country’s trade policy, introducing sweeping tariffs to force what he calls a rebalancing of imports and
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China’s economy expanded by 5.4% in the first quarter of this year, according to official data released on Tuesday. This growth came as producers rushed to frontload exports in an effort to
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A group of US professors has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in response to its threat to withhold $8.7 billion in federal funding from Harvard University. The lawsuit, backed by
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Is a partition plan a realistic outcome for ending the Ukraine war. General Keith Kellogg’s proposal appears to have already encountered difficulties. However, that does not mean that some type of partition
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With the foreplay over and US-Iranian talks commencing in Muscat on Saturday, a constructive engagement has begun in right earnestness. The sure sign of it is that Iran’s currency rose nearly 6
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A version of this column originally appeared in The Daily Pioneer, New Delhi, on 12 April 2025 -Editors Less than twelve hours after proudly boasting at the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC)
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American consumers are facing a new wave of price hikes after former President Donald Trump announced a sweeping 125% tariff on more than $1 billion worth of Chinese imports. The move, aimed
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In a stark admission of America’s economic contradictions, former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick made a striking statement about the state of global trade relations, declaring that countries should
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