There are moments in the long march of international affairs when a summit, otherwise destined for the archives of routine diplomacy, acquires the resonance of a turning point. The BRICS Summit convened in New Delhi in 2026 was one such moment. It did not
The Lee Administration's recent consideration of deploying Korean forces to the Strait
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has called on Sri Lankans to accept sacrifice and hard work for the sake of rebuilding the country, invoking China’s experience as an
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The Jewish New Year being marked this weekend, followed by the approaching
The recent theft of two Renoir paintings from a museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer
Donald Trump, whose war on Iran is the greatest strategic blunder in United States history, is not responsible for triggering the decline of the American empire, but he is responsible for its fatal denouement. This is the end. Hundreds of U.S. bases in the oil-rich Persian
by Our Correspondent in New Delhi Chinese President Xi Jinping skipped a gala dinner hosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for BRICS leaders and other delegates attending the Summit in New Delhi on Saturday, according to news agency PTI, which cited sources familiar with
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Bangladesh is moving towards a more diversified foreign policy as its ties
by Our Correspondent in Colombo President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has called on Sri Lankans to accept sacrifice and hard work for the sake of rebuilding the country, invoking China’s experience as an
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by Our Correspondent in New Delhi Chinese President Xi Jinping skipped a gala dinner hosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for BRICS leaders and other delegates attending the Summit in New Delhi
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There are moments in the long march of international affairs when a summit, otherwise destined for the archives of routine diplomacy, acquires the resonance of a turning point. The BRICS Summit convened
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Chubu Electric Power Co.’s top two executives are set to step down over the falsification of safety data used in regulatory reviews for the proposed restart of some of its nuclear reactors,
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by Nil Twenty-five years after the planes struck New York and Washington, the most unsettling argument in 25 Years After 9/11: The Future of the Global Jihadi Movement is not that al-Qaeda
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by Nil Rory Cormac’s Fakers is not merely a history of British covert propaganda. It is an anatomy of a state learning to weaponise uncertainty. Its most unsettling achievement is to show
by Durga Mahvash Sabet’s Open Wide the Doors: A Memoir of Faith, Hope and Freedom in Iran is ostensibly a prison memoir, but its real subject is larger and more dangerous: what
