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The IMO evacuated nearly 2,500 seafarers from 115 vessels in just three-and-a-half days — then had to halt the operation after a vessel was attacked in the Gulf of Oman. With Iran insisting any valid…
Washington's Pax Silica initiative — barely six months old — has already drawn 35 countries into a US-led AI and supply chain…
Nepal's dominant RSP has formally backed abolishing provincial assemblies — the very institutions that gave federalism its…
Russia's summoning of Moldova's ambassador over detained diplomatic couriers is more than a protocol dispute — it is the latest…
India's envoy in Budapest held back-to-back meetings with Hungary's new State Secretary and National Assembly Speaker in a single…
John Bolton — Trump's former National Security Adviser turned fiercest Republican critic — has pleaded guilty to retaining…
China's crackdown on LGBT events during Pride Month has gone beyond domestic platforms — it is now reaching foreign embassies and…
Bangladesh has spent a decade celebrating its digital transformation — but a Daily Star report backed by a 2026 UN Women study…
Northeast China's industrial decline has compressed into just 40 years what took Detroit and Western Europe's rust belts…
