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The Financial Times has run a striking assessment: Pakistan, it argues, has become an emerging “hinge power” – a state whose simultaneous ties to Washington, Beijing, the Gulf and Tehran…

Beijing may believe that Donald Trump’s 2016 election and his return to office eight years later are not accidents but part of a deeper American current. Beyond Trump himself, the…

This update focuses on the role of allies in the Russo-Ukraine War (which was the fascinating and distressing story of the last week). Ukraine’s allies (I use that word knowing…

His decision to reduce the partnership came after South Korea recently declined to aid his war effort in Iran.

This article was originally published on Jonathan Larsen’s Substack. It is republished with permission. Less than a month after the June 2025 strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, Israeli Prime Minister…

Officials say a rapid assessment into the impact of the earthquake that destroyed hundreds of buildings and killed 47 is under way.

New South Wales, where the attack took place, will offer gun owners cash to give up their firearms.

Lee Jae Myung offers chance to end the conflict, which has been frozen since an armistice in 1953.

When Zhu Rongji died in Beijing on August 12 at the age of 97, Asia lost one of the finest public servants of its modern era. He was the premier…

A search and rescue operation is under way to find survivors in Flores, an island in eastern Indonesia.