- January 20th, 2026
The Trump administration has sharply expanded a controversial visa bond requirement, nearly tripling the number of countries whose citizens must post refundable bonds of up to US $15,000 in order to apply for a U.S. visitor visa. The dramatic move marks...
Aldrich Ames, the former CIA officer whose decade-long espionage for the Soviet Union and later Russia stands as one of the most damaging intelligence breaches in U.S. history, has died in a Maryland prison at the age of 84. The...
US President Donald Trump has claimed that Venezuela will “turn over” approximately $2 billion worth of crude oil to the United States under a new arrangement that would redirect supplies away from China and ease pressure on Venezuela’s constrained oil...
NATO countries could attack another, but it is so far outside the alliance’s postwar imagination that its most famous clause does not clearly spell out what would happen if two members were to come to blows. Article 5 of the...
Just days after removing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from power in a controversial move that shocked much of the world, US President Donald Trump has once again turned his attention to Greenland, reigniting one of the most sensitive geopolitical disputes...
European leaders have mounted an unusually forceful and united defence of Denmark and Greenland after senior figures close to former US president Donald Trump suggested Washington could be prepared to seize control of the Arctic territory, even by force if...
India’s private refiner Reliance Industries said on Tuesday (Jan 6) it does not expect to receive any Russian crude oil deliveries in January and has not taken such cargoes for the past three weeks, signalling a further pullback by India’s...
The United States’ direct operation in Venezuela, which resulted in the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, has sent shockwaves across the world, prompting widespread condemnation and raising profound questions about regional geopolitics, economic interests, and...
Nearly 150 countries have signed off on a reworked global tax agreement aimed at curbing profit shifting by multinational corporations, but a major exemption for the United States has sparked backlash from tax transparency advocates, who warn the deal risks...
India is poised to formalise one of its most consequential defence-industrial agreements with the United States, with the long-negotiated technology transfer deal for General Electric’s F414 fighter jet engines expected to be signed by March 2026, according to sources familiar...
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