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The American and Israeli attacks on Iran and the confusion within the United States over the war’s objectives are making headlines. The attacks, and Iran’s counter-tactics of targeting American military bases and allies in the region, is having geopolitical ramifications beyond Iran’s borders. The surge in oil prices is just one way the war is…

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers said on Friday they were willing to negotiate after Pakistan ⁠bombed their forces in major cities and said the allies-turned-foes were in “open war”. Pakistan struck the Afghan capital Kabul, the city of Kandahar, where Taliban leaders were based, and other towns, a Taliban spokesman said. The attacks were its first directly…

US President Donald Trump’s renewed campaign to acquire Greenland—complete with threats of military force, tariffs against Denmark, and now reports of cash payments to Greenlanders—represents yet another chapter in America’s inability to distinguish between genuine national security interests and grandiose imperial fantasies. Trump has refused to rule out using military or economic coercion to acquire…

New technologies almost always create lots of problems and challenges for our society. The invention of farming causedlocal overpopulation. Industrial technology caused pollution. Nuclear technology enabled superweapons capable of destroying civilization. New media technologies arguably cause social unrest and turmoil whenever they’re introduced. And yet how many of these technologies can you honestly say you…

Since losing his only daughter in a fall from their high-rise flat in Singapore, Delfard Tay has turned grief into purpose, sounding the alarm on drug-laced vapes that put teenagers’ lives at risk. Authorities in the Southeast Asian island state have clamped down on e-cigarettes, introducing strict measures in August to combat a worrying rise…

If all goes to plan, in under three years the world’s largest stadium will tower over Hanoi’s southern suburbs as a shimmering monument to the good times ahead for Vietnam and, by extension, its leader To Lam, the secret policeman who now holds power. The golden, drum-shaped Trong Dong Stadium, with a capacity of 135,000,…