NEW DELHI: President Trump is in big trouble once he steps down from office and no, a presidential pardon to himself and his family – if he does award one – will not make it better. While president-elect Joe Biden may be unwilling to push prosecution against Trump for fear of looking “vindictive” there is […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The recently released document outlining Washington’s strategic framework on the Indo-Pacific came as somewhat of a surprise to the strategic community. Much of the document which talks about containing China in the IOR, has predictably drawn a furious response from Beijing. Given the timing of the document, which comes on the eve of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Pakistan remained the unsaid word in S Jaishankar’s address. The External Affairs Minister who was participating in the UNSC open debate on “International Cooperation in combating terrorism 20 years after the adoption of 1373” made a strong pitch to member nations to recognise and act more firmly on this menace which had a […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Social media giants are busy trying to wipe QAnon off the virtual sphere. The recent deletion of 70,000 QAnon Twitter accounts, the suspension of Parler—a social network believed to have been used by members of the fringe group—by Apple, Amazon and Google and a statement by Amazon that it would remove Q memorabilia […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Ahead of Joe Biden’s swearing-in as America’s 46th president, he was sent unwelcome reminders by two long time adversaries, Iran and North Korea. Both reminders were in the context of nuclear weapons with Tehran showcasing an underground missile base, while North Korea was more brash, promising expansion of its nuclear weapons program. Their […]Read More
NEW DELHI: There is no cause for alarm in UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson cancelling his India visit, says former foreign secretary Ranjan Mathai. In an interview with StratNews Global Opinion Editor Ashwin Ahmad, Mathai said it would be bad optics for Johnson to leave his country at a time the pandemic is seeing a […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On Tuesday, six oil and gas rich kingdoms of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC—Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar) will gather in Riyadh for a key summit that could see the lifting of the three-year long blockade of Qatar. The timing is interesting as it will coincide with the U.S. electoral […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Boris Johnson has done what was seen as the impossible – he’s secured a trade deal with the EU. Political watchers in the UK sensed something was afoot when Johnson and the European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen burnt the midnight oil in Brussels on Wednesday. There were also reports that the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The collapse of the alliance between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party and Benny Gantz’s Blue and White party has forced Israel to its fourth election in less than two years. Never friends at the best of times, the two men formed a coalition of necessity to fight the country’s pandemic that is […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India has suspended all flights from London until December 31. With this New Delhi becomes the latest in a long list of nations across Europe, Asia and South America to suspend or ban flights from the UK flights and imposed strict quarantine rules on arriving British passengers. ‘This suspension to start w.e.f. 23.59 […]Read More
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