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Iran has created a brand-new authority — the Persian Gulf Strait Authority — and imposed a 48-hour pre-registration, permit, and insurance regime on every ship entering the Strait of Hormuz. Even as…
At an HRCP symposium in Lahore, Pakistani human rights activists laid bare a damning picture: Zia-era laws still distort judicial…
A Taliban decree quietly issued in April 2026 doesn't just restrict divorce — UN experts say it effectively sanctions child…
India and Denmark have formally launched a standing Maritime Security Dialogue — the first of its kind — in Copenhagen, covering…
A fire tore through a Tokyo elementary school during active classes on 19 June, injuring 11 — eight of them children. The blaze…
Taiwan's Coast Guard deployed two patrol vessels to physically flank and disrupt the Chinese research ship Xiang Yang Hong 22…
Kashmiri protesters brought their grievances to the doorstep of the European Parliament in Brussels, while a UK Conservative MP…
Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te used a foreign correspondents' reception to deliver a pointed democratic rebuke to Beijing —…
Afghanistan's Taliban-led government has publicly claimed cross-border airstrikes on ISIS-linked sites inside Pakistan — a…
