Month: August 2025

Pakistan’s Human Rights Groups Decry Surge in Enforced Disappearances Amid Intensified Repression ISLAMABAD / QUETTA — In a coordinated public outcry marking the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, eight prominent civil society and human rights organizations—including Amnesty International, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), and Defence of Human Rights (DHR)—have condemned […]

Xi Reaffirms UN Support Ahead of SCO Summit Chinese President Xi Jinping has assured United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that Beijing will remain a steadfast supporter of the UN’s central role in global affairs, vowing commitment to what he called “true multilateralism.” Xi delivered the remarks on Saturday in Tianjin, where Guterres arrived to attend […]

Yemen’s top political leader has issued a stark warning to Israel following the assassination of Prime Minister Ahmed Ghaleb Nasser al-Rahawi and several of his ministers in what officials in Sanaa say was an Israeli airstrike, reported by Mehr News Agency. Mahdi al-Mashat, chairman of the Supreme Political Council, vowed that retaliation was inevitable. “Our […]

Trump Scraps India Visit as Trade Rift Widens President Donald Trump has canceled his planned trip to India this year, a decision that underscores the deepening rift between Washington and New Delhi over trade and foreign policy, according to the New York Times. The move marks a dramatic reversal in a relationship once celebrated at […]

TAIPEI — A High-Profile Visit Deepens Tensions A two-day visit to Taiwan by senior U.S. lawmakers has ignited sharp criticism from Beijing, which denounced the trip as a violation of China’s sovereignty and a boost to what it calls separatist forces on the island. Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi, chairman of the Senate Armed Services […]

India at the Crossroads: Between Trump’s Rebuke, Xi’s Handshake, and Putin’s Oil In his 2020 book The India Way, Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar offered a crisp blueprint for navigating a fractured world: “Engage America, manage China, cultivate Europe, reassure Russia, bring Japan into play.” It was a vision of India as a deft balancer in […]

The United States has revoked visas for several Palestinian Authority (PA) and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) officials ahead of next month’s United Nations General Assembly, the State Department confirmed Friday, reported by Euro News. Secretary of State Marco Rubio also ordered some new visa applications from Palestinian officials to be denied, marking the latest in […]