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Karimova – already serving a 13-year sentence in Uzbekistan – wasn’t allowed to attend the trial in Switzerland and as such, the judges dismissed the case on procedural grounds.

Trump’s reposting of a podcaster’s description of India as a “hellhole” is the latest of several insults from Washington.

Bangkok’s gas bet was always going to hurt consumers. A distant conflict has merely made that reckoning impossible to defer. 

The ART is framed as a market-access deal, but its deeper clauses are geopolitical. For Bangladesh, that represents a challenge to its traditional balancing strategy.

In his statement, Tashiev urges people not to protest and "act only within the law."

Several European countries have been quietly developing a new drone doctrine built on both Ukraine’s battlefield experience and Taiwan’s high-tech components. China is trying to sever that link.

Central Asia is not yet a fully coordinated regional actor on climate and water, but it is starting to behave like one in some areas.

Zardari’s visit focused on CPEC’s second phase, exploring new avenues for bilateral trade and investment, and advancing regional connectivity.

Beyond U.S.-China competition or rules-based order anxiety, states are pursuing their own North Stars in geopolitics and geoeconomics.

The recent visit to China of Vietnam's top leader To Lam could well mark a turning point in the sometimes fraught bilateral relationship.

A whopping 2.7 million voters have been deleted from the electoral rolls in West Bengal after the controversial SIR exercise. Here are some of their stories.

Beijing has a deliberate, long-term strategy – one that prioritizes persistence and gradual advantage. 

A controversy over the South Korean unification minister’s comments exposes the illusion at the heart of decades of North Korea policy.

Col. Ajai Shukla discusses India’s Army modernization and reform post-Sindoor.

For many small island states, the abstract concept of a “polycrisis” has become a dangerously tangible threat.

Lee Jae-myung’s post on X marked a new beginning for South Korea’s digital diplomacy. It immediately caused a diplomatic row. 

The implications of Australia’s NDS for the Indo-Pacific region and the Quad warrant careful examination.

It’s been almost a decade since Bangladesh joined the BRI. What has the Belt and Road actually accomplished in the country?

Moscow is the latest to offer, however cautiously and conditionally, to mediate between Pakistan and Afghanistan. 

Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are committing billions to mining, nuclear power, data centers and AI infrastructure at the same time that the region’s water supply is becoming less abundant, less predictable and more legally constrained.