1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (337+ words) The countries of the Global South have a particular interest in the success of this visit. President Xi Jinping’s forthcoming visit to the United States must be understood as more than an encounter between two heads of state, but it…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (214+ words) While the Arabs focused on trade, particularly in the Indian Ocean, Western Europeans focused not only on fishing but, in the off-season, on piracy, raiding and looting other nations. Prabir Purkayastha is the founding editor of Newsclick.in, a digital…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1400+ words) A British ban on imports from Israeli settlements collides with a deeply entrenched religious and political conviction in the occupied West Bank The Jewish New Year being marked this weekend, followed by the approaching Sukkot holiday, would normally be a…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (769+ words) Our imperial overreach began 25 years ago with the War on Terror. It is being brought to a grim conclusion by Donald Trump’s war on Iran. Donald Trump, whose war on Iran is the greatest strategic blunder in United States history,…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1482+ words) After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Erika Kirk appeared to embody a new, more forgiving face of the American right. A year later, she has largely disappeared from its stage as younger, more radical voices fight to inherit the movement....

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (413+ words) The capture of a strategic Hezbollah stronghold in southern Lebanon has exposed the fragility of a U.S.-brokered regional ceasefire and complicated efforts to bring Washington and Tehran back to negotiations. Hezbollah and the IRGC refused. Their apparent calculation was that…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (487+ words) Pathfinder Foundation and US Embassy launch lecture series examining the Founding Fathers’ enduring influence on education, institutions and democratic life. The Pathfinder Foundation and the Embassy of the United States of America in Sri Lanka have launched a lecture series…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (689+ words) President Mohamed Muizzu urges Prime Minister Andy Burnham to reopen talks, saying Malé was excluded from last year’s decision to transfer sovereignty to Mauritius Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu has asked British Prime Minister Andy Burnham to reopen discussions over the…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1052+ words) The ChatGPT maker is backing mandatory national regulation and four California safety bills after recent incidents exposed the difficulty of containing increasingly capable AI agents. OpenAI is calling for mandatory national artificial intelligence safety requirements in the United States, arguing…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (757+ words) As Europe’s far right gains ground, an uncomfortable question emerges: are voters rejecting democracy, or are established politics failing to answer their fears and frustrations? Hitler was cornered in his Berlin bunker, desperate and approaching suicide, when he declared: “I…...