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NEW YORK: Can India follow the Chinese model with retaliatory tariffs against the US duties on Indian goods as US president Donald Trump, despite his bonhomie with Indian premier Narendra Modi, publicly declared that Indian tariffs on US products were among the highest and so why not increase the tariffs on Indian products.

NEW YORK: The U.S. government is at war with Cuban doctors working in other countries. Currently, 24,180 Cuban healthcare providers, mostly doctors, perform duties in 56 countries. On Feb. 17, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced sanctions directed at people associated with Cuba’s medical missions and declared none of them will be eligible for visas to enter the U.S.

LONDON: “The centrists in Labour are worried that an authentically left-wing rival party could emerge.”Thus the usually interesting Telegraph columnist Sherelle Jacobs, apparently channelling the apprehensions of Downing Street. Have the centrists — generous term by now — anything to be worried about? “Yes” would be the simple answer, not necessarily the longer one. As previously argued here, the Starmer government has exposed more of Labour’s left flank faster than any Labour government in history.

WASHINGTON: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday declined to rule out the possibility of recession hitting the US economy shortly. "There are no guarantees" when it comes to a potential recession hitting the United States. "Like who would have predicted COVID?"

Pakistan is urgently seeking financial and other help from Russia and China, even as it faces a double-edged threat to its own territorial security from the Balochistan Liberation Army and Afghanistan-based Talibans.

NASA astronaut, Indian-American Sunita Williams, smiled and waved on returning to Earth from somewhere in Space where she was stranded for 286 days. No, Sunita Williams didn't stop in Space to gaze at the sky all around her but because she didn't have control of the circumstances, which is not always the situation in Space. Sunita's extended stay was necessitated due to problems developing in the Boeing Starliner capsule that took her to Space.

LONDON: Words wilt in the face of the fresh murderous horrors being unleashed on the people of Gaza by the depraved state of Israel once more. Cynically breaking a ceasefire agreement it had itself signed up to, Netanyahu and his cohorts massacred more than four hundred Palestinians today.

United States Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard spoke for the Hindu against perpetrators of wrongs against the community and the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government of Bangladesh reacted almost immediately, challenging Gabbard to provide "evidence".

The recent arrest of Mahmoud Khalil in the United States, an active member of Columbia University’s protests against the ongoing genocide in Gaza, takes me back to 2016 when student political leaders Umar Khalid, Kanhaiya Kumar and Anirban Bhattacharya were arrested by the Delhi Police on charges of sedition. A controversy had stemmed from an alleged event at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) where slogans allegedly critical of India and sympathetic to Afzal Guru, had been raised.

NEW YORK: In the last few months, the phenomenon of fake news has come to Greenland. Ads posted on Facebook, Greenland’s main social network, variously suggested that two prominent politicians had either been sued by the Bank of Greenland or physically attacked, or that Elon Musk was offering payments to Greenlandic citizens. These cases were financial scams rather than politically motivated disinformation, but their emergence shows how much interest the 2025 Greenlandic election campaign attracted.