A diplomatic contradiction played out in public on Tuesday, with US President Donald Trump announcing imminent nuclear talks with Iran in Doha, and Tehran flatly denying any such meeting had been requested or arranged. Trump posted on Truth Social with…
Cross-Border Strikes and a City Under Siege Pakistan launched ground operations and air strikes along the Afghan border in the immediate aftermath of a significant militant assault on Karachi, with Islamabad claiming its forces killed 29 militants in coordinated precision…
Rubio Reassures Gulf Arab Partners on Iran Talks, But Concerns Over Exclusion Persist U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio concluded a three-nation Gulf tour on Thursday insisting that Washington’s partnerships with its Arab allies remain “rock solid,” even as those…
Iran’s Pezeshkian Rules Out Missile Programme in US Nuclear Deal, Calls Arsenal Essential to National Survival Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian declared on Tuesday in Islamabad that Tehran’s missile programme is entirely excluded from the recently concluded 14-point memorandum of understanding…
Strait of Hormuz in Limbo: Conflicting U.S.-Iran Signals Rattle Global Oil Markets Contradictory statements from Washington and Tehran over the status of the Strait of Hormuz are deepening uncertainty around one of the world’s most critical oil transit chokepoints, with…
India Draws a Hard Line on AI and Military Decision-Making at Geneva Talks India told United Nations member states on June 15 that decisions involving the use of force “cannot be transferred to machines”, as diplomats gathered in Geneva for…
Nature Is Not Stable — And Financial Systems Built on That Assumption Are Already Paying the Price In 2023, severe droughts in the Amazon left giant commodity barges stranded on rivers that had effectively vanished. River transport volumes fell by…
Trump’s Tarmac Remarks Prompt Mental Acuity Questions From Political Commentators A brief exchange between President Donald Trump and reporters on Monday night, following Game 3 of the NBA Finals, has drawn scrutiny from political analysts questioning the president’s cognitive sharpness…
Xi Jinping Visits Pyongyang to Consolidate Beijing’s Indo-Pacific Alliances Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in Pyongyang for a two-day state visit — his first trip to North Korea in seven years — calling for deeper “strategic coordination and cooperation”…
Rubio in India: A Pivotal Moment for US-India Strategic Ties US Secretary of State Marco Rubio‘s visit to India for the Quad foreign ministers’ meeting marks a significant milestone in Washington-New Delhi relations, according to South Asia analyst Michael Kugelman…
