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Foreign Ministers Wang Yi and Javad Zarif of China and Iran respectively signing the strategic cooperation agreement in Tehran on March 27.

Iran signs 25-year, $400-billion strategic and economic partnership agreement with China

Iran signs a historic economic and security cooperation agreement with China amid talks with the United States on the resumption of the nuclear deal.

Protesters hold up the three-finger salute and placards with the image of detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi while using their mobile torches during a demonstration against the military coup, in Yangon on March 12.

Rebels vs rulers after military coup in Myanmar

The spectre of civil war looms large in Myanmar as opposition parties persist in a nationwide civil unrest even as 10 of the country’s major rebel gro

An aerial view of the graves of COVID-19 victims at the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery in Manaus, Brazil on April 15.

In second COVID wave, Asia and Latin America suffer acute shortage of vaccines, health sectors overwhelmed

As the pandemic rages across the world and nations of the global South continue to face several hurdles, billionaires add to their wealth and military

Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at a press conference in Sao Bernardo do Campo, in metropolitan Sao Paulo, on March 10, two days after Supreme Court Judge Edson Fachin annulled the convictions against him.

Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil is cleared to contest the 2022 elections

The recent rulings of Brazil’s Supreme Court annulling former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s conviction for corruption expose a corrupt nexus i

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh with U.S. Defence Secretary Llyod Austin at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi on March 20. Austin’s visit to New Delhi, the first by a senior member of the Biden administration, came after he held talks in Japan and South Korea in mid March soon after the virtual summit of the Quad grouping on March 12 between President Joe Biden and Prime Ministers of India, Australia and Japan.

India now a major defence partner for the US as it gangs up on China

The U.S. recognises India as “a major defence partner” as it prepares for a confrontation with China. The special status gives India access to militar

U.S. soldiers at an Afghan National Army base in Logar province in August 2018.

U.S. troops withdrawal in Afghanistan: A long drawn-out endgame

The U.S. is supposed to withdraw its troops in Afghanistan by May 1, but the Biden administration is keen to involve neighbouring countries in a diplo

The aftermath of the February 15 rocket attack in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region, Iraq.

Biden bombs Syria, says it was in ‘self-defence’

Even as U.S. forces routinely targeted militants in Yemen, Somalia and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, President Biden ordered a military strike in

Jamal Khashoggi speaking at an event hosted by Middle East Monitor in London on September 29, 2018.

U.S. intelligence report states that MBS approved the 2018 operation in Istanbul to capture or kill Khashoggi

The Biden administration releases a U.S. intelligence report that spells out Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s role in the brutal killing of Jamal Kh

Outside the Khan Yunis hospital in the southern Gaza Strip on July 29, 2014, two Palestinians injured in Israeli air strikes.

ICC to investigate Israeli war crimes in occupied Palestinian territories

The International Criminal Court has ruled that it has the jurisdiction to investigate all of Israel’s actions, including possible war crimes and buil

Graduates of Mandalay University protesting against the coup, in Mandalay on February 14.

Myanmar returns to military rule after army stages a coup on February 1, the day the newly elected parliament was to convene

The army in Myanmar stages a coup yet again, on the day the new parliament was to convene, but the people have come out on the streets defying curfews

Army officers of India and China holding a meeting at the Pangong lake region in Ladakh on the India-China border on February 10.

Signs of a thaw between India and China

The agreement between India and China to withdraw their troops deployed in the Pangong Tso area is a positive sign of the two sides returning to the p

Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman in the custody of the Pakistan Army. The Pakistan Air Force dropped its payload on an unpopulated area in a retaliatory cross-border day-time raid. Not only did it accomplish its mission, but the operation led to the capture of the Indian pilot and the downing of his MiG-21 fighter plane which had crossed the LoC in pursuit of the PAF planes.

Frosty relations with Pakistan after the Pulwama terror attack

Post Pulwama, India-Pakistan ties took a nosedive with the Modi government claiming that its hard-line tactics made Pakistan bend to its will when the

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