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The death toll is mounting after four days of fierce fighting and Thai aerial bombardments .

Critics say the region’s leader hasn’t delivered on his defiant campaign rhetoric.

Queer community organizations mobilized to help release over 200 men detained following a police raid on a sauna believed to have been used for “immoral activities."

The abiding power of sectarianism in the Middle East.

Trump can defy the skeptics and seal the deal.

Trump’s bailout offers temporary relief, but trade war pain remains. 

The White House has suggested that Moscow will likely win the Russia-Ukraine war.

How New Delhi’s pollution has become a more fundamental crisis.

Trump’s overtures to Beijing deal a blow to U.S. hard-liners.

Drought has dried up Mexico’s water supply, much to the chagrin of Texas farmers—and Trump.

Call it “Antisemitism 3.0” – ideological, narrative-driven, geopolitically functional antisemitism has spread throughout China, even without the religious or racial traditions that mark the hateful ideology in the West.

India’s climate policy must demonstrate real achievements vis-à-vis fossil fuels while highlighting modest gains in the realm of green energy.

The mosque that was to come up at Dhannipur remains on the drawing board. Meanwhile, a politician has promised to build a “replica” of the demolished mosque in West Bengal.

2026 looks to be a pivotal year in which the trilateral hydropower project will either make serious steps forward or languish, as previous efforts have, in the void between ambition and reality.

Blaming Paris for Mali’s problems won’t solve them. A collective European response is needed.

While Chung Dong-young’s political agenda is clear, his comments fail to recognize that the DMZ is governed by specific rules and procedures for important reasons.

The new National Security Strategy offers important insights into how a second Trump presidency views the Indo-Pacific and the role India is expected to play within it.

La littérature de Roumanie ne s'écrit pas qu'en roumain, comme le rappelait l'attribution, en 2009, du prix Nobel à une romancière roumaine d'expression allemande, Herta Müller (L'homme est un grand faisan sur terre, Gallimard, 1990 ; La Convocation, Métailié, 2001), née en 1953 dans une famille (…) / Littérature, Roumanie, Histoire

The defense spending hike is a necessary step, but it avoids harder questions.

The PLAN’s deployments – the biggest to date – stretched from the southern Yellow Sea through the East and South China Seas and deep into the Western Pacific.