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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.

Ranjini Srinivasan was the Indian face of anti-Trumpism and anti-Israel in Columbia University where she was a doctoral student of Urban Planning till she had to "self-deport" after the Trump administration revoked her US visa. Srinivasan fled to "friendly Canada" from the "unfriendly shores" of Trump’s United States.

NEW YORK: It's a paradox of sorts. While Chinese goods flood the markets globally from watches to pens to electronic gadgets and EVs and luxury goods, China is facing a deluge of Russia made goods in its markets taking the local citizens by craze.

LONDON: US bombers killed at least 31 people in Yemen at the weekend, mainly women and children in residential areas.

LONDON: As Trump brutally hammers out a settlement for Ukraine and Russia, he’s also been hammering Europe for vast, cold-war levels of military spending. And European leaders seem very keen to oblige.

Germany, the strongest economy of Europe and the nation facing big onslaught from the United States President Donald Trump in his second term, is finally getting back its mojo to carve out a strong independent position distancing from its longtime ally the U.S. Despite the spectacular victory of the far right pro-Trump AFD in the recent national elections, the political mood in Berlin is aligned against far right and Trump helping the chancellor designate Frederick Merz of the CDU/CSU to consolidate his position as the head of a strong nation caring for its sovereignty and national interests.

On January 20, 2025, US President Donald Trump issued an executive order suspending all USAID and State Department-funded projects, totalling $60 billion, for 90 days. This decision was framed as a reassessment of foreign aid effectiveness and its alignment with the administration’s strategic priorities. The abrupt termination of nearly 10,000 foreign aid grants and contracts has sent economic and humanitarian shockwaves through countries in the Middle East, North Africa (MENA), and South Asia, raising concerns over regional stability, economic sustainability, and geopolitical realignments.