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The Quad met in Manila on the sidelines of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting — a deliberate choice that sent its own message. By explicitly backing ASEAN centrality and the AOIP framework, the four…
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who made arresting Benjamin Netanyahu a campaign centrepiece, has quietly reversed course — his…
At the ASEAN Post-Ministerial Conference in Manila, EAM Jaishankar warned that no nation or bloc can handle today's volatility…
President Trump has signed off on a 30-year nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia that could, for the first time, allow uranium…
US farm income collapsed by more than $90 billion in a single year — one of the largest annual drops on record — as fertiliser…
For the first time in history, the White House has formally acknowledged China as a peer-level rival in R&D spending — a…
The White House announced a historic Oval Office meeting with Lebanon's President on 22 July 2026, framing the bilateral…
A former White House national security adviser told Congress the US was ‘extraordinarily negligent’ as China grew its military…
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth publicly confirmed before a Senate committee that Russia and China are enabling Iran's actions…
