India’s Air India has announced the suspension of flights to Israel’s Tel Aviv amid the increasingly tense situation in parts of the Middle East. It will come into effect from Friday (August 2) and no Air India flights will fly to Tel Aviv until August 8, reports NDTV. In a statement, Air India said, considering […]
Read MoreThe Middle East is hot because of the assassination of Ismail Haniya, the head of Hamas of Hezbollah. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has vowed to punish Israel “severely” for killing Haniya. In such a situation, the Israeli army is afraid of a possible attack by Iran and its allies. A spokesman for the […]
Read MoreUS President Joe Biden has commented that the death of the top leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, will not help the ongoing ceasefire dialogue in Gaza. He made this comment in response to reporters’ questions at a press conference at the White House on Thursday. At the briefing, reporters asked him whether the recent killing […]
Read MoreToday marks the 300th day of the Israeli occupation of the besieged Gaza Strip. Since October 7 last year, more than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed by the occupying Israeli forces in Gaza and the West Bank. As such, Israeli forces have killed an average of more than 133 people in Palestine every day. On […]
Read MoreIran and its regional allies vowed retaliation on Thursday for the deaths of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, raising regional tensions as mourners filled Tehran’s city centre calling for revenge. A public funeral was held for Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyeh in the Iranian capital where he was killed early Wednesday in an attack on which […]
Read MoreBy Alyssa Chen Tensions are mounting in the South China Sea – a hotly contested and globally significant waterway that’s become a flashpoint for conflict. In the third instalment of a four-part series we look at some of the claimants’ legal efforts to support their case. In recent weeks, two of the countries with competing […]
Read MoreBy Gunay Khalilova This article is part of the US-China Dynamics series, edited by Muqtedar Khan, Jiwon Nam and Amara Galileo. One of the founding fathers of geopolitics, Mackinder (1904), emphasizes the importance of Central Asia for the command in the world because of its location in the center of Eurasia. Similarly, Brzezinski (1997) highlights the […]
Read MoreOfficials from both countries held the 30th meeting of the China-India Border Affairs Consultation and Coordination Working Mechanism in New Delhi on Thursday. China and India will speed up negotiations around a disputed border and continue to maintain peace and tranquility in the areas, China’s foreign ministry said in a statement on Thursday. Officials from […]
Read MoreWhile bolstering relations with Russia, Pyongyang was keen to reopen nuclear negotiations if Trump – who engaged in both fiery brinkmanship and unprecedented diplomacy with North Korea during his previous term – won re-election in November North Korea wants to reopen nuclear talks with the United States if Donald Trump is re-elected as president and […]
Read MoreLast Saturday, 12 Israeli children were killed in a rocket attack on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. In retaliation, Israel attacked Lebanon’s Beirut and demanded the killing of Hezbollah commander Fouad Shukhar. However, this claim has been dismissed by Hezbollah. The Israeli military claimed in a statement on Tuesday that the strike targeted Hezbollah commander Fuad, […]
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