US President Donald Trump on Saturday said the United States would respond in a significant way if Canada proceeds with the trade agreement that it negotiated with China. “If they do a deal with China, yeah, we’ll do something very substantial,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. “We don’t want China to take over […]
The foreign ministers of eight Muslim nations, including Pakistan, have strongly condemned Israel’s repeated violations of the ceasefire in Gaza, which have resulted in the killing and injury of more than a thousand Palestinians. A joint statement issued by Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Turkiye, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar said that Israel’s […]
On March 16, 2017, Anil Ambani, an Indian billionaire closely associated with Narendra Modi’s BJP government, sent financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein a message that the “Leadership” was asking for his assistance in connecting with senior figures in Donald Trump’s orbit ahead of an upcoming state visit by the Indian prime minister. Ambani texted Epstein, […]
The naval forces of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have no plan to carry out live-fire exercises in the Strait of Hormuz as reported by some media outlets earlier this week, an Iranian official told Reuters on Sunday. Iran’s state-run Press TV reported on Thursday that the force would carry out the exercises in the Strait of […]
By the time Japan announced that its defence budget would reach the NATO benchmark of 2 per cent of GDP, the fiction of postwar pacifism had already collapsed. What remains is the shell of Article 9, which is still inked into the constitution but is being steadily hollowed out by reinterpretation, legal manoeuvres and geopolitical […]