It seems the Britain of 2025 no longer confronts violence but accommodates it. The latest episode of horror, where knife-wielding attackers stormed a London-bound train in Cambridgeshire, slashing passengers and leaving an elderly man bleeding as he shielded a girl, ought to have convulsed the nation in collective outrage. Instead, the government prefers to sigh in weary denial. Within hours, police ruled out ‘terrorism.’ This ritual of minimisation has become a national refl

Brazil’s deadliest police raid exposes the futility of a decades-long war on drugs and the inequality that sustains the racket. The police operation in Rio de Janeiro that killed more than 130 people this week was the deadliest in Brazil’s history. What authorities hailed as a ‘success’ against the Red Command – Rio’s most powerful gang - has instead exposed the brutality, impunity and political convenience that sustain Brazil’s cycle of urban violence. Over 113 alleged membe

As former President Andry Rajoelina loses both power and citizenship, Madagascar’s turbulent waltz between democracy and military rule repeats itself with echoes of a lingering colonial past. Few African nations embody political déjà vu quite like Madagascar. The Indian Ocean island, famed for its unique biodiversity, has long been equally fertile ground for political upheaval. Earlier this month, the military once again stepped into the presidential palace in what is its sev

The failed prosecution of Englishmen Christopher Cash and Christopher Berry underscores how Chinese espionage exploits the gaps in Western legal and investigative frameworks to operate effectively in plain sight. Christopher Berry (L) and Christopher Cash have been accused of passing secrets to China. When Ken McCallum, the head of MI5, laments the collapse of a high-profile espionage prosecution, his frustration reflects a deeper anxiety within Western intelligence communiti

Pakistan’s reckless airstrikes in Afghanistan betray its growing insecurity as India’s quiet courtship of the Taliban exposes the...

Once hailed as the Black Sea’s democratic beacon, Georgia now teeters between its European aspirations and a return to post-Soviet...

China’s ‘nature reserve’ at Scarborough Shoal is less about saving coral and more about cementing control. In the South China Sea,...

A restless section of Britain’s electorate is turning to Nigel Farage, while Labour PM Keir Starmer struggles to keep control of the...

Kim Jong Un’s enrichment drive revives old Cold War dilemmas in a new Asian theatre. Few regimes are as adept at turning scarcity into...

Saudi Arabia’s defence pact with Pakistan signals a new phase in Gulf-South Asian security. Islamabad and Riyadh recently formalised a...

Estonia, small but strategically vital, is once again testing the West’s resolve against Russian assertiveness. The violation of Estonian...

Few stretches of coastline are as geopolitically freighted as the one around Iran’s Chabahar port. At the mouth of the Gulf of Oman,...

Darfur reels from a landslide even as war, famine and siege push Sudan deeper into one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises in recent...

India and China edge closer as America’s tariffs push Delhi into Beijing’s arms. For years Washington cast itself as India’s...

A quiet gesture along the world’s loudest border could signal more than a pause in propaganda. The Korean Peninsula has long been a place...

Myanmar’s junta prepares for an election that is likely to be rigged amid civil war and authoritarian consolidation. The generals in...

After more than half a century of bloodshed, the New People’s Army is a shadow of its former self. But peace still proves elusive. The...

A fiery abort in Denver revives global unease over Boeing’s safety culture In wake of the AI 171 crash in Ahmedabad involving a Boeing...

Hun Sen’s betrayal of the Shinawatras reignites tensions on the Thai-Cambodian border, exposing the fragility of personal diplomacy and...

As Jair Bolsonaro faces trial, Brazil tests its fragile democratic guardrails against the ghosts of military rule and foreign meddling....