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Nuclear reactor exports are becoming an increasingly important arena of strategic competition.

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Both sides are trying to sustain trade talks and practical cooperation, but the EU’s new security definition of China may complicate this progress.

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Brussels should use the leverage before it slips away.

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Amid generational shifts and Trump-era transactionalism in the U.S., Taiwan should take a page from Singapore’s book.

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“When a language becomes accessible, it becomes visible. And when it becomes visible, it becomes part of international scholarship and global dialogue."

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Pakistan continues to view the Islamabad MoU that it facilitated as the most viable framework for de-escalation.

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Taiwan’s diplomatic space is shrinking along a vital Pacific energy route.

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Since the inception of the IBGs, they have been framed as formations to launch offensive operations against Pakistan under the nuclear overhang. Now they are finally a reality.

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Under discussion for 20 years, the CKU Railway is finally under construction with some hurdles surpassed and other challenges ahead.

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The visits extend a string of high-level exchanges as Beijing works to keep pace with Pyongyang’s deepening ties with Moscow.

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The trilateral is more feasible – and more important – than ever before.

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The territory that could be considered for exchange lies in Manipur’s Chandel district in India, contiguous to Myanmar’s Kabaw Valley in Sagaing Region.

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At a time of growing regional turbulence, nations across the region are seeking to equip themselves with more and better armaments.

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The Department of Foreign Affairs demanded the "immediate takedown” of the AI-generated video, in which the Philippines was depicted as a monkey.

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The reports come on top of the 300 people already reported missing or drowned in the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal in 2026.

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The nation is looking to expand and balance its economic and security relationships – and India is at the top of the list.

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A controversy centered on Bangladesh's Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) exam brought students back out to protest.

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For China, the decision to sell the J-35 would carry ramifications far exceeding those of any previous Chinese arms sale.

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One woman’s attempt to stand for election as mahalla chairperson reveals the barriers that remain to inclusive self-government in Uzbekistan.

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International sport offers something that conventional diplomacy often cannot: a stage on which Taiwan can appear before a global audience.

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A conversation with journalist and advocate Nathan Paul Southern.

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The growing negative sentiment about the community bears a disturbing resemblance to the narratives that justified their mass expulsion from Myanmar in 2017.

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The High Court ruled that a 2024 article on the city-state's luxury real estate market maliciously defamed ministers Tan See Leng and K. Shanmugam.

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The real danger lies not in the immediate scarcity of Indus water flowing from India into Pakistan but in the widening gap between how they interpret the same facts.

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The BJP government, whose support base includes traditionalist Hindus, moved to drop eggs from the midday meal program in Kolkata.

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ASEAN special envoy Ma. Theresa Lazaro held separate talks with military-backed negotiators and six rebel groups in Pattaya earlier this week.

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“This is our time to decide what AI looks like here in Australia,” Prime Minister Albanese said.

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From floods to heatwaves, cascading climate disasters expose mounting vulnerabilities demanding coordinated scientific and policy responses.

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Controversy is raging over how – and how much – to shave the prosecutors’ inordinate powers.

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