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India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi talks to U.S. President Donald Trump during the G-7 summit at Evian, France, June 16, 2026. Credit: X/Narendra Modi Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G-7 meeting in France on June 17 was supposed to stabilize relations that have been troubled […]

Credit: Depositphotos On May 21, 2025, Indian security forces killed Nambala Keshava Rao, known as Basavaraju. He was the general secretary of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) in the forests of Chhattisgarh. By November, his top military commander Madvi Hidma had also been eliminated. Union Home Minister Amit Shah on March 30, 2026 […]

Credit: Shutterstock Last year, as part of China’s 15th Arctic expedition, two of China’s manned submersibles, the Fendouzhe and Jiaolong, conducted what Chinese news agency Xinhua described as “joint underwater operations” or manned dives under the Arctic ice. This was the first time that China had done anything like this. For the purposes of these […]

Credit: Shutterstock The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has decided some fundamental tenets of Christianity mark the world’s largest faith as a cult, and one that needs vigorous suppression. That includes sentencing a 77-year-old man to jail, in part, for helping young Christians find spouses and believing that faith in Jesus gets people into heaven. According […]

Credit: Depositphotos In March 2021, Admiral Philip S. Davidson, then commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that Beijing was accelerating its ambition to supplant the United States and its leadership role in the rules-based international order. Davidson warned that China appeared to be moving forward the timeline for goals it […]

Credit: Depositphotos In the first week of June, two seemingly unrelated events took place in Seoul. On June 3, U.S. and South Korean officials met to discuss the implementation of South Korea’s civilian reprocessing and enrichment program. The same evening, Seoul’s conservative mayor Oh Se-hoon was re-elected. Coincidental though they may be, the events should […]

Sudan Air Force Hongdu K-8 Karakorum, 2007. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Melting Tarmac Images Pakistan’s ambitions to become a major defense exporter and an influential player in Africa suffered a significant setback in April as Saudi Arabia reportedly withdrew financing for the proposed $1.5 billion arms agreement with Sudan and urged Islamabad to terminate the […]

The entrance to the 2026 Our Ocean Conference held in Mombasa, Kenya from June 16-18, 2026. Credit: X/ Our Ocean Conference As the 11th Our Ocean Conference (OOC 11) in Mombasa concluded on June 18, international delegates celebrated billions of dollars in new pledges and the newly signed Mombasa Declaration on fisheries transparency and combating […]

In this file photo, provided on April 14, 2023, by KCNA, Kim Jong Un and his daughter observe the test-launch of the Hwasong-18 ICBM at an undisclosed location in North Korea. Credit: KCNA In October 2025, the Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team (MSMT) – an 11-state coalition formed in 2024 to replace the now defunct United […]

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif signs the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding as guarantor after US President Donald Trump and Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian sign the document electronically, Islamabad, Pakistan, June 18, 2026. Credit: X/ Prime Minister’s Office On June 17, the United States and Iran signed electronically a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at permanently […]