G7 countries finally set the highly anticipated price restriction on Russian oil at $60 per barrel on December 3, 2022. This price ceiling applies to crude oil, petroleum oils, and oils derived from bituminous materials produced in or expor...
Elon Musk, the tech billionaire successfully caught the world’s attention when he announced plans to send SpaceX’s space-based internet services Starlink in service of Ukraine in the aftermath of the Russian invasion in February 2022. The w...
Turkey was able to create a lethal fusion of its electronic warfare systems. Turkey has been projecting its power recently by showing its indigenous and cost-effective military developments. This fusion secured a strategic edge for Turkey i...
The People's Republic of China's economic ties with Africa up to the late 1970s were motivated by ideological imperatives but the political elite in China now sees the continent's economic ties as a way to advance the nation's development o...
Edward Snowden, widely regarded as the most important whistleblower in human history, was previously a US citizen. He began working for the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 2006, and then in 2009 he left the CIA to join the Nat...
Pakistan, a South Asian country, is experiencing not just a political crisis but also military, environmental, economic, and foreign policy crises. The worst flood to ever hit the nation struck in 2022, killing thousands of people. On the e...
The COP27 marks the adoption of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 30 years ago at Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, and the Paris Agreement that was agreed upon seven years ago at COP21. The 'Conference of the Parties...
India and the United States of America (USA) due to their shared value interests and the convergence of policies have led to their bilateral engagement being termed a “global strategic partnership”. In the past few years, India’s emphasis o...
The cost of war is enormous at any time in history, and the current decisions being made by world leaders are a reflection of that, Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced Partial mobilization in the country and given a brief explana...
Earlier this week, Iran's court said it would undertake public hearings for up to 1,000 persons imprisoned during the anti-hijab rallies in Tehran and over a thousand more outside the city. The decision comes as international worry grows ab...
Hungary, a country in Eastern Europe, has come full circle from autocracy during the Cold War period to democracy in the post-communist world post the fall of the USSR and the end of the Cold War again back to autocracy under its current pr...
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has added Myanmar to its category of “high-risk jurisdictions subject to a call for action” popularly referred to as the “Blacklist”. The statement from FATF stated that Myanmar continuously showed a l...
