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Kyrgyzstan abolished capital punishment in 2007; President Japarov has suggested reinstating it as a way to confront horrific crimes against women and children.

With Japan entering a more security-driven and domestically oriented phase under Takaichi, India must adjust its approach to the relationship accordingly.

The current conflict is the most serious since the Taliban’s return in 2021. Yet it is also a logical extension of the never-ending tensions between the two countries.

Hong Kong is stuck in a governance vacuum, where neither democratic nor authoritarian accountability functions effectively.

The law is set for consideration in the Senate next week.

North Korea’s state-controlled media reported that Pyongyang began a plenary meeting to prepare for the upcoming Ninth Congress of the ruling WPK.

An interview with Edward Lemon on the recent attacks targeting Chinese workers near the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border.

Economic liberalization in India has shifted the emissions burden from more equal and developed states to less equal ones. This needs to change.

A colleague describes the reality of being a journalist in a country under military control and shares insights into Sai Zaw’s life in prison.

The death toll is mounting after four days of fierce fighting and Thai aerial bombardments .

Queer community organizations mobilized to help release over 200 men detained following a police raid on a sauna believed to have been used for “immoral activities."

Call it “Antisemitism 3.0” – ideological, narrative-driven, geopolitically functional antisemitism has spread throughout China, even without the religious or racial traditions that mark the hateful ideology in the West.

India’s climate policy must demonstrate real achievements vis-à-vis fossil fuels while highlighting modest gains in the realm of green energy.

The mosque that was to come up at Dhannipur remains on the drawing board. Meanwhile, a politician has promised to build a “replica” of the demolished mosque in West Bengal.

2026 looks to be a pivotal year in which the trilateral hydropower project will either make serious steps forward or languish, as previous efforts have, in the void between ambition and reality.

While Chung Dong-young’s political agenda is clear, his comments fail to recognize that the DMZ is governed by specific rules and procedures for important reasons.

The new National Security Strategy offers important insights into how a second Trump presidency views the Indo-Pacific and the role India is expected to play within it.

The defense spending hike is a necessary step, but it avoids harder questions.

The PLAN’s deployments – the biggest to date – stretched from the southern Yellow Sea through the East and South China Seas and deep into the Western Pacific.

Amid difficult relations with the U.S., India is keen to show that it has other options.