US wants undersea data cable to bypass Hong Kong
US Justice Department officials on Wednesday recommended that a high-capacity undersea data cable system proposed by Google and Facebook bypass Hong Kong, citing potential...
Damascus condemns new US sanctions on Syria
President Bashar al-Assad's government condemned new US sanctions imposed on Syria Wednesday, calling them a form of "terrorism" perpetrated by Washington in the war-scarred...
EU ‘gravely concerned’ about US sanctioning ICC officials investigating its troops
The European Union has called on Washington to reverse its “unacceptable and unprecedented” sanctions on International Criminal Court (ICC) officials who are investigating US...
Trump signs police reform order to end ‘patterns of failure’ amid protests
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order on police reforms that he said would deliver "elegant justice" as the nation is...
Caesar Act in Syria: what is effect of US sanctions?
The United States is imposing new sanctions this week against the Syrian government over alleged crimes during the nine-year war, just as Damascus hopes...
Repercussions of tensions between India and China for Asia
The uprising of Ladakh in 1959 had transformed into a full-fledged war between China and India in 1962. It resulted in a rather unfavourable...
What makes ICC investigation of US war crimes in Afghanistan highly sensitive
Britain has joined France and Germany to break with the United States over President Trump’s Executive Order on June 11 authorising economic sanctions against...
EU and US talks against China: EU diplomatic chief
The EU's chief diplomat on Monday called for Europe and the United States to launch talks aimed at forging a common transatlantic front against...
America faces not one but two pandemics
America is being ravaged by not one, but two, pandemics and both have a lot in common. Both are invisible, equally widespread, mutate in response...
The rocky road of US-Taliban peace agreement
It took the Trump administration 17 months to clinch a preliminary agreement with the Taliban – a first step toward ending more than 18...
Pandemic modifies US-China power dynamics
The coronavirus pandemic is proving to be the most lethal blow to the western (American) world order. It has exposed the lop-sidedness of the...
Russian court to deliver verdict on US spy
A Russian court on Monday will deliver a verdict in the trial of former US marine Paul Whelan who risks up to 20 years...