Islamabad seeks economic backing while balancing new defence commitments and a volatile regional security landscape.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has said communication with supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of his predecessor Ali Khamenei, is “very difficult”, in an inte…
At least 56 people have been executed in Iran on national security-related charges in the past five months, including 27 in cases linked to protests at the start of the year, UN h…
Min Aung Hlaing stressed that his government was focused on ending the civil war and restoring peace.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli on Aug. 6, a day after a government-backed draft law aimed at supporting the dissolu…
US officials say they would not accept any arrangement on the waterway that would leave Iran in control.
Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has described the Israeli attacks in southern Syria as a major risk for the stability and sovereignty of the country, reiterating his calls on the int…
During my tempestuous teenage years, I was attracted to the work of Sylvia Plath. I voraciously read her poems, as well as The Bell Jar and Paul Alexander’s 2003 biography, Rough …
Growing up, my mother and I often joked that I was a thirty-year-old in a ten-year-old’s skin. That happens when you’re an only child with a tendency toward bookishness—you spend …
The AI-powered “Ask Maps” tool in Google Maps can now perform a broader range of personalized and conversational requests, including ordering food, finding hotels, and providing s…
The newspaper 'Le Canard enchaîné' uncovered a video produced by the French embassy in Brazzaville that many social media users condemned as racist. Published in June and deleted …
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