The Lee Administration's recent consideration of deploying Korean forces to the Strait of Hormuz has sparked backlash from civil society and even among Lee's supporters. As public opposition grows, questions arise about
What appears to be routine military repositioning is, in fact, a dramatic build‑up of U.S. combat power in the Middle East that has raised concerns among allies and adversaries alike about the
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The United States has updated its allegation that China conducted an underground nuclear test in June 2020, providing new details from seismic monitoring data that suggest a possible concealed detonation. Assistant Secretary
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Within a fortnight after announcing a trade deal with the EU, the Indian government announced its entry into a “framework agreement” on trade with the US—a precursor to an “interim agreement” and a subsequent full-fledged
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Picking up the threads from where I last wrote on the US-Iran negotiations a week ago in my blog titled Odds are 8-1 Trump won’t start a Gulf war, the talks beginning in
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As America begins to celebrate our 250th anniversary, I’m pleased to have been asked to write about George Washington’s leadership. As president, I found great comfort and inspiration in reading about my predecessors
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One of the towering questions hovering over the Epstein saga was whether the illicit sexual activities of the world’s most powerful people were used as blackmail by Epstein or by intelligence agencies with
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Former US President Barack Obama has said he believes aliens are “real,” while firmly rejecting long-running conspiracy theories that the United States is hiding extraterrestrial evidence at the highly secretive Area 51
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The fragile state of the Western alliance was on full display at the Munich Security Conference, where Marco Rubio delivered an urgent message to European leaders: the United States does not want
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The reported use of artificial intelligence during a U.S. operation targeting Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro has sparked urgent questions about how governments are integrating rapidly advancing technologies into military strategy, and whether
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The artificial intelligence company OpenAI has quietly joined a high-stakes U.S. military initiative exploring how voice commands could direct swarms of autonomous drones, according to people familiar with the effort. The collaboration
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After capturing worldwide attention with the explosive growth of ByteDance through its hit platform TikTok, the Beijing-based firm is rapidly repositioning itself as a formidable contender in artificial intelligence, marking a strategic
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The United States has issued a general license to Reliance Industries Ltd allowing the company to directly purchase oil from Venezuela without breaching existing sanctions, according to sources familiar with the decision.
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As the White House threatens war against Cuba, I am reminded of the charming evenings my parents and I spent at Havana’s venerable ‘Floridita Bar, sipping a newly invented cocktail, the Margarita, with
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by Our Correspondent in Washington DC The hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on South and Central Asia, held on 11 February 2026, took place just one day before national elections
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An emerging dispute in the artificial intelligence sector has intensified after U.S.-based OpenAI told American lawmakers that Chinese startup DeepSeek has been attempting to replicate advanced AI systems developed by U.S. companies,
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