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Ferdinand Marcos Jr and Sara Duterte, his running mate, during their last campaign rally, on May 7 in Paranaque city, the Philippines.

Philippines: Ferdinand Marcos Jr wins landslide victory in presidential election

With Ferdinand Marcos Junior and Sara Duterte Carpio, both children of leaders who had scant regard for human rights and the rule of law, recording la

U.S. President Joe Biden signing the “Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022” in the Oval Office on May 9. This will allow the U.S. to speed up the delivery of more sophisticated armaments to Ukraine.

The U.S.’ actions prolonging the conflict in Ukraine

Despite growing international calls for peace in Ukraine, the brutal conflict drags on, with the U.S. doing more to sustain the hostilities than bring

Emmanuel Macron at a Paris suburb on April 27 during his first trip after being re-elected President.

France's presidential election results highlight growing threat of racism and xenophobia

The results of the presidential election in France show that the influence of racist and xenophobic right-wing parties is growing in French and Europe

At a rally in central Kyiv on April 27, people demanding that international leaders organise a humanitarian corridor for the evacuation of Ukrainian military personnel and civilians from Mariupol.

Deepening crisis in Ukraine

The conflict in Ukraine seems to have no chance of easing as the U.S. and its NATO allies continue with their bellicose statements and an ever-increas

Service members of pro-Russian troops on a road leading to the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine, on April 15.

Ukraine conflict begins to resemble virtual NATO-Russia war

At the instigation of the Biden administration, the conflict in Ukraine has now been virtually transformed into a NATO-Russia war. However, hopes that

Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba of Nepal and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India jointly flag off the inaugural run of cross-border passenger train services between Jaynagar in India and Kurtha in Nepal, at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on April 2.

Nepal’s economy in a tight spot

The government in Nepal says that the economic situation is not as bad as it is in Sri Lanka, but the opposition insists on measures to prevent a cris

Prime Minister Imran Khan arrives to attend a military parade to mark Pakistan National Day in Islamabad on March 23. It was evident by the middle of March that his government was on its way out.

Pakistan’s political chessboard

Pakistan’s economy, like that of Sri Lanka and Nepal, the other two South Asian nations, is teetering. Before the premature end of Imran Khan’s govern

The test launch of a new type of ICBM by North Korea’s strategic forces at an undisclosed location in North Korea on March 24.

North Korea on a testing spree

North Korea tests an ICBM citing the escalating military tension in and around the Korean peninsula, the inevitability of the long-standing confrontat

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan opening the Ukrainian-Russian talks in Istanbul on March 29.

Signs of hope: Negotiations could lead to an end to Ukraine conflict

As the war in Ukraine enters its second month, there is a glimmer of hope that negotiations between the warring sides could end the conflict. This wou

in Krakow, Poland on March 18, a family fleeing the war in Ukraine wait for the departure of a humanitarian train to relocate them to Berlin.

The lingering war: Scope of Russia-Ukraine conflict widens

The scope of the war has widened, with the Russian military announcing that Western arms supplies to the Ukrainian government forces would henceforth

President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol celebrating with his People Power Party colleagues and legislators after his narrow win, at the National Assembly in Seoul on March 10.

Conservatives’ turn in South Korea with Yoon Suk-yeol's victory

The conservative Yoon Suk-yeol, who fuelled his election campaign with a rhetoric of confrontation with the North reminiscent of the Cold War era, is

U.S. President Joe Biden (right) and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House in Washington, D.C., on September 1, 2021.

Ukraine conflict: Western provocation

The Soviet leadership was promised in 1990 that NATO would not “move an inch eastward”, so the military alliance’s decision to include Ukraine touche