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The four day World Conference on Artificial Intelligence which concluded in Shanghai on July 20 has established dominance of China in AI application as also in AI governance as large number of countries responded to the Chinese model of open source AI application thereby expanding scope for wider collaboration of China with the non western countries.

Andy Burnham entered Downing Street on July 20, 2026, without winning a general election. He inherits a stagnant economy, a fractured Labour Party, and an anxious relationship with Washington, Beijing and Brussels alike. History suggests unelected prime ministers can govern effectively - but only if they move fast.

The expanding war around Iran has moved beyond the stage at which India can regard it as a dangerous but geographically contained conflict. The latest military deployments, repeated waves of American strikes and Iran’s threats of larger retaliation point towards a prolonged contest whose economic consequences may ultimately prove more damaging than the battlefield destruction. For New Delhi, the central concern is no longer merely whether crude oil prices rise sharply on a particular day. It is whether the physical availability of oil, gas and shipping capacity begins to shrink faster than governments can compensate.

LONDON: British politics has once again demonstrated why it remains one of the most unpredictable democracies in the world. Barely two years after leading Labour to one of its biggest electoral victories in modern history, Prime Minister Keir Starmer is leaving 10 Downing Street as the 6th prime minister after — David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak.

WASHINGTON: Even before his 20-minute speech blaming his 2020 election loss on everyone but himself and his own administration, President Donald Trump’s primetime “election fraud” broadcast got some pretty bad reviews.

Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s announcement last week to return to her country in December this year ending her exile in India, has created big interests in global diplomatic circles, apart from India and Bangladesh. In an interview to the Reuters, she said that she intends to return to her own country voluntarily to face justice and revive her party Awami League. She was candid that she would lead an active political life.

Iran is constructing a dangerous dual-chokepoint architecture across the Middle East’s vital waterways. By coordinating Houthi rebels in Yemen and al-Shabab militants in Somalia, Tehran is tactically moving to dominate both sides of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, duplicating the strategic energy leverage it already holds over the vital Strait of Hormuz.

NEW YORK: With just over a hundred days standing between the country and the November midterm elections, the Communist Party USA’s National Committee gathered here July 11-12 with a single overriding message: Everything now runs through the fight to break MAGA’s hold on Congress. That was the frame co-chair Joe Sims set in his keynote, delivered a week after the country’s 250th anniversary.

To view the ongoing conflict in West Asia merely as a war between Iran and Israel, or between Iran and the United States, is to miss its larger significance. At its core, this is a struggle over the future of the international order established under American leadership after the Second World War. One side seeks to preserve global dominance through military power, strategic alliances and political pressure; the other represents an emerging order increasingly shaped by production, technology, infrastructure and economic partnership.

The United Kingdom and India have crossed a historic milestone in their economic relationship with the long-awaited Free Trade Agreement (FTA) coming into force on July 15, 2026, transforming years of negotiations into a commercially binding pact that promises to reshape trade, investment and business opportunities between the world's fifth and sixth largest economies.