Russia said Sunday it was pushing into Ukraine’s central Dnipropetrovsk region for the first time in its three-year offensive, a significant territorial escalation.
Moscow claims to have annexed five…
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Is Zelenskyy pulling out of the negotiation process?
Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky said that Ukraine had unilaterally postponed indefinitely the prisoner exchange and return of the bodies of the dead to Kyiv, which had been planned in Istanbul. Russia had…
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I took a 7-day trip from Paris to Istanbul on Europe’s newest transcontinental train
ADVERTISEMENT“So this is the great Orient Express,” says a character in Graham Greene’s 1969 novel Travels with My Aunt. “Maybe it’s real luxury travel…for people not in a hurry.”
That novelised version of the famed Paris to…
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Russian Drone Swarms Test a Volunteer Air-Defense Unit Near Kyiv
Clad in khaki fatigues, the Ukrainian volunteers lounged on a concrete terrace as dusk swallowed the surrounding fields. Music trickled from a phone, mingling with bursts of laughter — a fleeting ease before what they had been warned would be a…
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Takeaways From Graduation Speeches by Trump, Taraji P. Henson and Others
It has been a graduation season unlike any other. The Trump administration is investigating elite universities and cutting research funding. Pro-Palestinian activism and claims of antisemitism are shaping campus life. International students are…
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Russia says pushing offensive into Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region
IRMO, S.C.: Mohammad Sharafoddin, his wife and young son walked at times for 36 hours in a row over mountain passes as they left Afghanistan as refugees to end up less than a decade later talking about their journey on a…Continue Reading
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What Russia’s reaction to Op Sindoor tells India – Firstpost
War or conflict is often viewed as the failure of diplomacy. Yet, even during a war, diplomacy remains essential to statecraft. Justifying one’s war effort as legitimate, legal, and invariably defensive requires proactive, sustained,…
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Trump urged Vance not to criticise Musk so as not to burn all bridges
US President Donald Trump advised US Vice President Jay Chao to refrain from criticising entrepreneur Elon Musk in order to leave him a chance to return.
According to the American newspaper The Washington Post, Trump…
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Don’t be fooled: The Musk-Trump blowup is really about immigration
Amid the fallout of the messy public feud between Donald Trump and Elon Musk, it is instructive to think back to Dec. 26, 2024.
That day marked the start of another intra-GOP skirmish that nearly fractured the elite core of the MAGA coalition….
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