10+ hour, 17+ min ago  (996+ words) Pakistanis are hoping that their role in providing Trump with an offramp to end the war will lead to investment flows. Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif signs the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding as guarantor after US President Donald Trump and…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (137+ words) China managed to secure Taiwan's exclusion from a Track 2 platform designed to address maritime ecology. It's a worrying escalation of China's political warfare. The entrance to the 2026 Our Ocean Conference held in Mombasa, Kenya from June 16-18, 2026. More alarmingly, a Taiwanese…...

10+ hour, 52+ min ago  (491+ words) Pakistan's aspirations in Africa are growing, but its ability to realize them remains constrained by economic weakness, dependence on external financing, and the shifting priorities of its most important allies. Sudan Air Force Hongdu K-8 Karakorum, 2007. For Pakistan, the Sudan deal…...

10+ hour, 52+ min ago  (408+ words) As U. N. sanctions enforcement fragments, Pyongyang is waging a second contest " over status " that is visible only in the original Korean. That the coalition exists at all is because the U. N. s own monitoring body collapsed: in 2024, Russia vetoed the renewal of…...

11+ hour, 57+ min ago  (588+ words) South Korea's ruling party failed to secure key races, underlining the need to steer the country's nuclear future with more than just political momentum. South Korea's Nuclear Future In September 2025, the United States broke with a long-term policy practice and…...

13+ hour, 43+ min ago  (433+ words) The global energy crisis has given a new momentum to relations between Moscow and the 11-nation Southeast Asian bloc. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Russia yesterday pledged to expand trade, energy, and security cooperation, as they met…...

20+ hour, 50+ min ago  (412+ words) Cambodia's Interior Minister appears to have found an adversary in Washington: a sanctions list that no longer exists. Cambodian Interior Minister Sar Sokha attends a meeting with You Xiaowen, secretary-general of the Mekong-Lanchang Security Cooperation and Integration Center, in Phnom…...

22+ hour, 15+ min ago  (491+ words) The fact that the two nations managed to reconcile after their painful history is a true feat of diplomacy " one that holds lessons for the world today. Dr. Jos" Ramos-Horta, President of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, delivers an address…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (650+ words) The geopolitics behind how sanctioned oil continues moving through parallel trading networks despite efforts to curb its flow and what this means for global trading hubs like Singapore...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago  (901+ words) The ongoing Titan Ridge eruption has left parts of PNG's coast covered in meters of floating volcanic rock. For a community dependent on the ocean, that's a serious problem. Pumice on the shore of Kunigami, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, after the…...