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Last week, Russian and Ukrainian ceasefire negotiators met face-to-face for the first time since March 2022. The location for the talks was the same as three years ago, some of the negotiators were ...
After three years of intense negotiations in the aftermath of Covid-19, the World Health Assembly this week adopted a historic Pandemic Agreement. The agreement, only the second of its kind adopted by ...
In an environment where people are feeling increasingly dislocated and disconnected, Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots have proven themselves a compelling form of social connection. Chatbots can ...
One development that has tended to pass under the radar in Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda is the decision to revoke regulations on artificial intelligence (AI). This raises serious concerns ...
Australian citizen Oscar Jenkins, a 33-year-old former teacher from Melbourne, was captured in December 2024 by Russian forces in the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic while serving in Ukraine ...
The battlefields of Ukraine have seen the return of large-scale, high tempo operations. This has been accompanied by higher casualties, higher use of munitions, and greater destruction of military ...
In the immediate aftermath of the April terrorist attack in the Pahalgam region of Jammu and Kashmir, and anger in India towards Pakistan at harbouring terrorists, diplomatic rhetoric escalated and ...
In 1971, US President Richard Nixon shocked global financial markets by ending US dollar convertibility to gold, unanchoring exchange rates and ending the norms established at Bretton Woods in 1944.
Chinese President Xi Jinping used his 7–10 May state visit to Russia, which included Second World War commemorations in Red Square, to not only signal China’s ongoing alignment with Moscow but to ...
Donald Trump’s aid cuts sent a shockwave through Pacific health departments. Governments across the region have been scrambling to secure critical programs and to understand potential gaps created.
Much of the current discourse on Taiwan centres around one scenario: war. The prevailing imagery involves amphibious landings, missile strikes, and an Indo-Pacific showdown with global ramifications.
As we interrogate the circumstances in which India and Pakistan found themselves racing towards catastrophe late last week, a photograph from almost exactly 80 years ago offers a good symbolic ...