Sri Lanka, the oldest democracy in Asia, is in a state of emergency. After the wave of protests because of soaring prices and shortages of fuel and essential goods turned…
Neither the vote of no confidence against PM Boris Johnson nor May’s local elections across the UK have dealt the terminal blow to Johnson’s premiership, yet the country’s political landscape…
Twitter’s executives shut down discussion on Elon Musk’s takeover bid at the company’s annual shareholder meeting on 25 May. Is it ‘business as usual’ or has Elon Musk’s takeover become…
The rise of anti-Muslim sentiment in India is reaching a boiling point as Modi and the BJP government are sharing dangerous rhetoric and encouraging communal ethnic violence. With some far-right…
This past decade has seen a rising power to challenge US global hegemony. While Chinese investments in Latin America have certainly increased drastically during this period, a closer look into…
While the media has been largely barred from Ethiopia and prevented from documenting the ongoing civil war, a new report presents evidence of sexual violence, ethnic cleansing, and other atrocities.…
Ramadan marks the beginning of the UN-brokered truce between the warring parties in Yemen. After seven years of war in Yemen that has directly or indirectly killed hundreds of thousands…
Following Japan’s surrender in WWII, no peace treaty was ever concluded between Moscow and Tokyo. The unresolved territorial dispute over the southern part of the Kuril Islands remains the main…
As the Ukraine crisis continues to escalate, China has offered to mediate between Russia and Ukraine. Western leaders have failed to bring the parties back to the negotiating table. Is…
France has set its priorities for its current presidency of the European Council to be regulating Big Tech, introducing an EU-wide minimum wage and strengthening control of the Schengen Area…