India and New Zealand have concluded a landmark free-trade agreement ...

In early March 2026, US President Donald Trump called Kurdish leader Mustafa Hejri, the head of the Iranian Democratic Party. The purpose of this call, according to the sources, was to push Kurds to ...

The G20 has invited Bangladesh to participate in its annual summit for the first time this year. Bangladesh’s growing economic might and its strategic location at the crossroads between South and ...

Wars are usually judged by who wins and who loses on the battlefield. The Iran War is not. The conflict surrounding Iran is producing a different kind of outcome. Its most significant effects are not ...

Despite the removal of senior Iranian officials, Operation Epic Fury has yet to deliver the outcome Washington sought. As of last week, following 21 hours of direct talks facilitated by Pakistan, the ...

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On January 1, Germany implemented a law requiring men aged 17 to 45 to obtain approval before staying abroad for more than three months, sparking widespread criticism due to poor communication and ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin launched Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Donald Trump assumed the US presidency on January 20, 2025. Would Putin have risked a years-long war if ...

The contemporary rise of transnational repression has exposed a structural paradox in liberal democracies. Authoritarian regimes increasingly exert coercive influence within democratic countries, even ...

In the first part of this conversation, I followed the lead of Shane Harris —The Atlantic’s staff writer specialized in national security, intelligence and foreign policy — who recounted in a ...

Healthcare productivity is often mismeasured by focusing on service volume rather than health outcomes, obscuring its true value. A welfare-based framework reveals stronger productivity gains driven ...

US President Donald Trump is back! The world was waiting anxiously for his bombshell after the inconclusive talks in Islamabad. He didn’t take long to announce on his Truth Social: “Effective ...