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Peru, a nation of Latin America will be holding Presidential face off polls on June 7 after the first round of polls held in April this year failed to give majority to any of the contesting candidates. Peruvian election authority announced finally that Keiko Fujimori with 17.19 per cent of the votes and Roberto Sanchez with 12.03 per cent of the votes, will be entering the final round to decide the President of the country for the next four years.

NEW YORK: The island that the world refuses to recognise as a country has once again been reminded of a brutal geopolitical truth: in the contest between the United States and China, Taiwan is indispensable — but still expendable.

Now that the U.S. President Donald Trump is back to Washington DC. After his two day summit talks in Beijing on May 14 and 15, it is appropriate to decode the gains of the summit. There were four major issues-- Taiwan, Iran war, trade deals and facilitating more business for the American high tech companies focusing on AI. What then was the final outcome of the Beijing summit on these issues?

The New Delhi meeting of BRICS foreign ministers was intended to project the image of a confident and expanding coalition of emerging powers preparing to reshape the architecture of global trade, finance and governance. Instead, what emerged from the two-day gathering was a revealing portrait of a bloc that remains economically ambitious but politically fragmented, rhetorically radical yet institutionally cautious, and increasingly united less by a coherent shared worldview than by a collective dissatisfaction with the existing Western-led order.

NEW YORK: When Air Force One touched down at Beijing Capital International Airport on the evening of May 13, three hundred Chinese schoolchildren in blue and white uniforms waved American and Chinese flags in the warm spring air — a choreography so precisely managed it could have passed for a Broadway production. Standing at the bottom of the aircraft stairs, President Donald Trump waved to the assembled crowd, flanked by a roster of American billionaires that read like a Silicon Valley who's-who: Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX, Tim Cook of Apple, Jensen Huang of Nvidia — a last-minute addition who boarded Air Force One in Anchorage after Trump reportedly called him personally — and Larry Fink of BlackRock, along with Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg. Twelve of America's most powerful corporate chieftains, in total, traveling as a presidential entourage.

US President Donald Trump’s high-stakes visit to Beijing for talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping has triggered global attention amid worsening geopolitical rivalries, trade tensions and security concerns. While both leaders projected optimism and called for a “new vision” in bilateral ties, deep strategic mistrust remains over Taiwan, technology, military competition and the future balance of global power.

NEW YORK: President Donald Trump on May 1 issued an executive order imposing yet another round of new sanctions again Cuba. This latest set of restrictions apply to foreign persons and entities, including financial institutions, not only to Cuba or its government officials. The introduction to Trump’s order states that Cuba constitutes “an unusual and extraordinary threat, which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States.”

LONDON: Reports of an imminent leadership challenge within the ruling Labour Party from British health minister Wes Streeting overshadowed the King’s speech. All now accept Keir Starmer has to go. How to turn that into the “fundamental change of direction” affiliated unions demand is the key question. If Streeting does trigger a contest ahead of the Labour left’s preferred candidate Andy Burnham becoming available, the left needs a plan.

The U.S. President Donald Trump begins his three-day visit to China on May 13 for his summit with the Chinese President Xi Jinping, the outcome of which has special significance for Trump in shaping his political future in the context of the midterm elections in November this year. Among both leaders, the U.S. President has more immediate compulsions in concluding a composite deal with the Chinese supremo, especially the trade deal.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has sharpened Tehran’s diplomatic messaging amid escalating tensions in the Strait of Hormuz and mounting pressure from the United States. Rejecting what he describes as “colonialism and exploitation”. Pezeshkian has simultaneously projected defiance toward Washington and expanded outreach to regional neighbours, especially Iraq, signalling Iran’s attempt to combine resistance with strategic diplomacy.