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1885: The Indian National Congress (INC) convenes to make demands from the colonial British government on behalf of Indians of all regions, religions, castes, classes et al. The British administration ...

Iran’s latest wave of protests did not begin as a romantic revolution. It started as an economic alarm — a warning flare from the country’s commercial heart, where shopkeepers and bazaar merchants ...

South Yemen is edging closer to independence amid rapid advances by the Southern Transitional Council and a constitutional declaration, challenging decades of marginalization since unification. Saudi ...

US Ambassador to Türkiye and Special Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack’s assertion that federalism and decentralization have failed in the Middle East misattributes the region’s instability to governance ...

The December 14 mass shooting in Sydney, Australia, aimed at the Jewish community during Hanukkah celebrations on Bondi Beach, stunned the world. Fifteen people were killed, including a 10-year-old ...

On October 28, 2025, Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica. Cell towers across Jamaica’s southeastern parishes failed. Families lost contact for days. Emergency responders dispatched helicopters ...

Venezuela faces a turning point after the capture of Nicolás Maduro by US forces, which shattered the balance of the Chavista regime. At first, a tilt away from authoritarianism might have seemed ...

Moldova is relevant to any Ukraine–Russia peace deal, which can only be achieved through enforceable security guarantees for both countries. A small but strategically important country, Moldova is ...

I woke up Saturday morning to the shocking news that US President Donald Trump had ordered the US invasion of Venezuela and the removal of its unanimously declared illegitimate president, Nicolás ...

As 2026 begins, what a strange planet we find ourselves on. The two great empires of my youth, the Soviet Union (now Russia) and my own country, are clearly experiencing some version of imperial ...

Abeyagoonasekera begins by outlining the reality on the ground since the February 2021 coup d’état. More than 6,000 people have been killed, over 3.5 million displaced and roughly half the population ...