Geopolitics
Modi and Xi Met for Under an Hour. Their Governments Told Two Different Stories
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping met for less than an hour at Bharat Mandapam on the afternoon...
North Korea Fires Missiles Into the Sea as Washington’s War on Iran Grinds On
North Korea fired several ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast at around 5:20 a.m. on Saturday, South Korea's...
One Table, Two Wars: Modi Seats Putin and Xi as Delhi Opens BRICS
Prime Minister Narendra Modi opens the 18th BRICS summit at Bharat Mandapam on Saturday, seating Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President...
AfD Storms Saxony-Anhalt: Germany’s Firewall Shakes, and Beijing Quietly Cheers
Germany's far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) won the Saxony-Anhalt state election on Sunday, September 6, taking 43.8 per cent of the...
Trump Renames Lake Ontario ‘Lake America’, and Google Has Already Redrawn the Map
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on 27 August renaming Lake Ontario as "Lake America," tying the decision openly...
Trump Posts AI Video of Kharg ‘Blown to Smithereens’ as US and Iran Trade Fire
United States forces bombed Iranian territory on Sunday for the first time in more than a month, and Iran struck back...
Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan Open First Defence Pact Talks as Saudi Refineries Burn
Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan will open their first defence pact talks on Monday, with foreign ministers, defence ministers and chiefs...
Fire, Tear Gas, and 322 Detained: Jakarta’s Anti-Corruption Protest Ends in a Riot
Police have detained 322 people after a Jakarta protest against corruption spilled into a night of rioting outside parliament. Forty-five were...
Trump’s Venezuela Oil Deal: 65 Billion Barrels, a 100-Year Lease, and a Country Divided
Donald Trump announced what he called the biggest oil deal in world history late Friday. The agreement, he wrote on Truth...
China’s Hypersonic Gliders Can Now Shoot at Aircraft — And America’s Radar Planes Are the Target
China has developed hypersonic glide vehicles that can launch air-to-air weapons in mid-flight, Bloomberg reported on 24 August, citing a person...
North Korea Readies More Soldiers for Russia, but Seoul Says Nothing Has Moved Yet
South Korea's military intelligence says North Korea is continuing preparations for another troop deployment to Russia, but that no movement indicating...
A Ship Sails North, and the China-Russia Arctic Shipping Route Comes Alive
A Chinese container ship left the port of Ningbo-Zhoushan on August 15 and turned north, opening what its operator calls the...
