Foreign Affairs

Taipei: In a sharp response to China's protest over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's reply to Taiwan President Lai Ching Te's congratulatory message, Taipei said that Beijing's actions are "utterly unjustified." The Ministry of Foreign Affairs...

Basco (Philippines): A Philippine fishing vessel was traversing Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea when two Chinese Coast Guard ships fired water cannons at both sides of the boat. The incident, which took...

Washington: There’s a lesser-known Pentagon agency which plays a key role in enabling small business hoping to break into the multi-billion dollar defence contracting arena. The Defence Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA),  nicknamed America’s gatekeeper,...

Milan: Finland is the latest Nordic country to beef up its coastal defence with the planned acquisition of over a dozen self-propelled artillery systems to protect the country’s territorial waters in the Baltic Sea. The...

Tel Aviv: When all indications are that Iran is "inches" from a nuclear device, the understanding in some parts of the western world is changing – more and more voices call for a military...

Amid a shifting and increasingly competitive global landscape, technology cooperation has emerged as a vital component of the United States–India strategic partnership. In May 2022, the two countries announced the US-India Initiative on Critical...

As the world’s oldest and largest democracies, respectively, the United States and India constitute key anchor points of the democratic world, and the two nations have significantly deepened their partnership over the past three...

The recent Seoul summit brought together South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, Chinese Premier Li Qiang and Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Seoul for the countries' first trilateral talks in nearly five years,...

Tel Aviv: The west is deaf and blind and Iran is using this fact to acquire military nuclear capability, a senior Israeli defence source said on May 28. According to a report in Iran International,...

Washington: US Navy awarded Wisconsin-based shipbuilder Fincantieri Marinette Marine a contract modification valued at a little more than $1 billion to produce the fifth and sixth Constellation-class frigates, according to the daily Pentagon contract...

Tampa, Florida: With threats from China, North Korea and Russia spread out across the Indo-Pacific, it is time for Japan’s special operations forces to create greater ties with their partners in the region, says ...

Hong Kong: The Arctic may be the single region most subject to competition for resources and new trade routes being made possible by climate change, with Russia and China pressing ahead on construction of...

  Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, Raisi acted as an assiduous apparatchik of the Islamic Republic and a prominent protégé of the supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei. Before becoming president in 2021, Raisi held various positions...