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NEW YORK: An inflatable frog has been pepper-sprayed, spawning (sorry) an army of affinity frogs and other creatures real and fictional, protesting at the often violent arrests of immigrants. A clarinettist in a brass band has been assaulted and arrested, abbreviations have been outlawed and naked bicycle riders are swarming our streets. If it looks like the United States has gone mad, that’s because it probably has.

Every war leaves behind shattered cities, broken societies and grieving families. But some wars destroy something less visible yet infinitely more consequential: faith in the institutions created to prevent humanity from repeating history's darkest chapters. The latest report of the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories is therefore more than another meticulous chronicle of atrocities. It is a stark reminder that the international system is steadily losing either the ability—or the political will—to enforce the principles upon which it claims to rest.

The U.S.-China high tech battle for supremacy has reached a new peak after the China manufactured Supercomputer LineShine was adjudged the best among the Top 500 supercomputers made by various nations including the USA, at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany held on June 23.China got this top slot recognition after 2017- a gap of nine years.

American politics is full of irony. A real estate agent's son becomes a president after wasting all the billions his father earned in New Jersey and knocks at the doors of the elite in New York for admission without an answer that angers and frustrates him.

The true measure of a democracy is rarely found in the grandeur of its elections or the eloquence of its constitution. It is found instead in the silence of its prison cells, the transparency of its police stations and the restraint exercised by those empowered to deprive citizens of their liberty. Every constitutional democracy confers extraordinary powers upon the state—the authority to arrest, detain and prosecute—but those powers derive their legitimacy from one indispensable condition: that the state itself remains bound by law. The moment a detainee dies without trial, without judicial determination of guilt and while entirely under state custody, the state ceases to function merely as an investigator and begins to resemble judge, jury and executioner.

Keir Starmer announced his resignation as Labour leader on 22 June 2026 after a mutiny within his own party, but before leaving Downing Street he unveiled a near-£300 billion, drone-heavy defence plan - a move critics call his final, and most contested, act as prime minister.

WASHINGTON DC: From the governorship race down to the Secretary of State’s contest, progressive candidates—including current Democratic Socialists of America member Melat Kiros for Congress in Denver and former DSA member Manny Rutinel in a swing district north of Denver—won. Melat Kiros made a name for herself when she was fired in 2023 from Sydney Austin Law Firm for backing Palestinian rights.

The Right wing resurgence in the political arena of Latin America continues with the victory of the far right candidate Keiko Fujimori in the Presidential elections in Peru. Keiko, daughter of the former President Alberto Fujimori won by only less than 50,000 votes in a neck and neck contest by defeating the :Left coalition candidate Roberto Sanchez.

Communist Party of China has now 101.28 million members, the second highest party membership in the world after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of India which claims to have 180 million members. Both the countries have around 1.45 billion population. While the BJP’s membership increased at a steep rate in the last ten years, the CPC maintained a moderate growth due to its strict procedures.

Trump’s annual financial disclosure report shows that cryptocurrency is already part of mainstream finance. President Donald Trump disclosed more than $1 billion in crypto-related income in his latest federal financial filing, with digital asset ventures generating more revenue than much of the real estate empire he spent decades building.