
Beijing and Pyongyang Rebuilding Ties
President Xi arrives in Pyongyang one day after North Korea unveiled a new nuclear plant, the timing is deliberate as Beijing is reasserting its Korean card.

President Xi arrives in Pyongyang one day after North Korea unveiled a new nuclear plant, the timing is deliberate as Beijing is reasserting its Korean card.

A joint communique co-signed by the EU mentioned Kashmir alongside Palestine, India called it unwarranted.

Ninety-five days into the Iran war, a tentative agreement sits unsigned on both sides. The guns are still firing. The strait is still closed.

Lebanon’s humanitarian disaster deepens as a partial cease-fire offers little more than a fragile and fleeting illusion.

The 23rd Shangri-La Dialogue opened against a backdrop of Middle East tensions, an absent Chinese defense minister, and an America still trying to hold the Indo-Pacific together.

Twenty-eight years after Chagai, Pakistan’s nuclear deterrent has been tested in live conflict, restructured, and is being rebuilt stronger.

As Muslims around the world prepare for Eid ul Adha, India’s 200 million Muslims face a reality that turns a sacred obligation into a legal and physical risk.

Afghanistan’s Decree No. 18 says a girl’s silence at puberty can be interpreted as consent to marriage.

The fragile ceasefire that has held since early April is disintegrating rapidly under the weight of critical ultimatums.

India spent a decade trying to remove Kashmir from the world’s agenda; in four days of May 2025, that project collapsed.