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LONDON: Sir Keir Starmer bid farewell to the House of Commons front bench on July 15 with spiteful smears against his predecessor as his successor deliberated how far he is willing to move beyond the failures of Starmerism.

LONDON: Thousands hit the streets in Durban, Johannesburg, and other cities in South Africa on June 30 to participate in over 120 separate marches demanding that all “illegal foreigners” leave the country. Over 900 participants were arrested, shops were looted in several places as the protests turned violent, and at least two people were killed. Further deaths in the aftermath of the marches are under investigation.

LONDON: One man alone is responsible for the resumption of hostilities in the Persian Gulf — Donald Trump. The apparent breakdown of the ceasefire between the US and Iran is a consequence of the US president’s unwillingness to face up to the disaster of his strategy in the region.

Ten months after toppling one government, Nepal's Gen Z is confronting the one it built. A brutal eviction drive, a driver's self-immolation and a widening crackdown on dissent are testing whether Balen Shah's "new politics" differs from the old.

For decades, the Strait of Hormuz has been treated as a narrow stretch of water with outsized geopolitical importance. Yet the latest regional security shocks have exposed a deeper reality. Hormuz is not simply an oil chokepoint; it is the foundation upon which the modern economies of the Gulf were built. Every major disruption—whether military confrontation, sanctions, or maritime tension—reminds Gulf leaders that their prosperity depends on a maritime passage they neither fully control nor can easily replace.

NEW YORK: When President Donald Trump departed Türkiye after the NATO summit this week, he did something American presidents almost never do. Instead of remaining aboard the newly modified Boeing 747 that had carried him into the country, he boarded one of the older presidential aircraft for the first leg of his journey before later switching back to the newer aircraft in Britain for the flight to Washington.

Change, Andy Burnham offered. Yet it is now clear that in the absolutely critical area of foreign and military policy, the incoming Labour premier offers no new course at all. His article in The Times sets out his approach to the world. It is one that KeirStarmer would immediately recognise and endorse.

China is hosting the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai on July 17 to 20 the deliberations of which are expected to decide the course of AI development globally as also the scope of AI governance as also collaboration for assisting AI growth in the developing countries. The four day session will be having big participation from most of the countries including India which is a major player in the development and application of AI among the developing countries.

KOLKATA: Nearly 10,000 job seekers and unemployed youths, mostly from South Asian countries, were killed worldwide in various accidents and mishaps in 2025, as their quest for work/migration abroad ended in tragedy. In addition, a large number of people were also reported missing.

On May 23, the International Court of Justice (‘ICJ’) delivered a resounding ‘YES’ in its verdict to the question, referred to it by the International Labour Organization (‘ILO’) to draw advisory opinion on “whether the right to strike is protected under the international legal framework of the Convention No. 87 ‘Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize’ (‘Convention No. 87)? While the Court upheld this labour right in principle, the devil lies in the details of judicial analysis that formed this affirmative advisory opinion. The larger constitutional question regarding the ILO’s Committee of Expert (‘CoE’) is left unanswered.