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Facing a UN-flagged human rights crisis and a restive Balochistan, Pakistan has quietly signed a $50,000-a-month US lobbying contract — not to fix the problems, but to manage the optics. With Field…
Myanmar's President U Min Aung Hlaing opened his first state visit to India not in New Delhi, but at Bodh Gaya — a deliberate…
After eight years of research, the India Heritage Center is pushing to build the first dedicated India museum in Washington DC —…
At the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth backed South Korea’s push to retake wartime OPCON —…
Cambodia has quietly achieved one of global health's most demanding benchmarks — the 95-95-95 HIV targets — and is now awaiting…
Kenya is no longer content with aid — it wants technology. Foreign Minister Musalia Mudavadi's pitch to South Korea on rare earth…
No deal, no enrichment talks, and a firm claim over Hormuz — Iran's Foreign Ministry has pushed back sharply against Trump's…
A federal judge has struck down the Trump-era renaming of the John F. Kennedy Center, ruling that only Congress — not the board —…
Trump signalled a deal was hours away — then blinked. After a two-hour Situation Room session on 30 May, he deferred his ‘final…
