Nippon Steel plans to invest about $3bn in a major modernisation of U.S. Steel’s Mon Valley works in Pennsylvania, making the facility the largest target of its planned investment in the United
An anticipated executive order on artificial intelligence from Donald Trump was abruptly shelved after intense eleventh-hour pressure from Silicon Valley leaders, including Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, according to people familiar with
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The United States military has significantly drawn down its stockpile of advanced missile-defense interceptors after expending far more high-end munitions defending Israel than Israeli forces used themselves during hostilities with Iran, according
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The Donald Trump administration has just indicted former Cuban President Raúl Castro for the downing of two planes in 1996. Given the similarities between the measures taken against Cuba in recent months
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The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz entered the Caribbean Sea on May 20, accompanied by its strike group, marking a significant escalation in U.S. military presence in the region. The deployment, confirmed
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by Our Foreign Affairs Editor What looked at first like a straight military escalation against Iran is now reading like something looser, stranger, and more improvised than official statements ever admitted. A
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The United States has dramatically escalated its confrontation with Cuba by charging former Cuban leader Raúl Castro and five former military officials with murder, conspiracy and destruction of aircraft over the 1996
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The scenes unfolding in Beijing were carefully choreographed, yet politics can never be reduced to mere spectacle. When US President Donald Trump traveled to China for his summit meeting with Xi Jinping,
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The United States has unsealed a sweeping criminal case accusing seven Chinese executives and four of the world’s largest shipping container manufacturers of running a coordinated scheme to restrict supply and inflate
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It was both painful and humiliating to watch media coverage of Donald Trump’s recent visit to Beijing, because it amply demonstrated America’s decline as a great power relative to China. Prior to the summit,
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According to documents released and analyzed by the National Security Archive, the story of the Brothers to the Rescue shootdown did not begin in the skies over Cuba, but in a growing
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Political and foreign affairs commentator Mohan Samaranayake meticulously deals with the overthrowing of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in 2022, in a manner that exposed the failure on the part of the then ruling
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The administration of Donald Trump has announced the creation of a $1.8 billion compensation mechanism described as a fund for individuals “wronged” by previous government actions, a move that has triggered sharp
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Stocks linked to the Adani Group surged sharply after reports that the United States Department of Justice moved to dismiss criminal fraud charges against billionaire industrialist Gautam Adani, marking a major legal
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More than three decades after two civilian aircraft were shot down over international waters in the Caribbean, the United States is moving toward a dramatic legal confrontation with Cuba’s former president Raúl
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The United States has suspended participation in a long-standing defence coordination forum with Canada, accusing its northern ally of failing to meet key military commitments and widening a gap between political assurances
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