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Democratic socialist and other progressives swept the election to the primaries in New York and Washington as the results were available on Tuesday night. Three congressional candidates endorsed by the democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani won defeating the other candidates endorsed by the Democratic Party establishment.

When China hauled India before the World Trade Organization (WTO) over New Delhi’s solar manufacturing incentives and tariffs on information technology products, Beijing presented itself as a guardian of free trade, a defender of multilateral rules, and a victim of protectionism. Yet the complaint may ultimately be remembered less for its legal merits than for the extraordinary irony at its core. The world’s most heavily subsidized industrial power is accusing a developing country of using industrial policy. If ever there was a case of the pot calling the kettle black, this is it.

LONDON: Socialists both inside and outside the Labour Party need to be intervening to help shape the political atmosphere around the impending change in government. It now seems certain that former Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham will become the next Prime Minister, most likely without a contest.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's exit was forced by a massive mutiny, spearheaded by the leftist and Marxist factions within his Labour Party as his tenure was defined by a decisive shift to the political right and the systematic abandoning of the party's socialist base. Rightist forces who were his last hope to bail him out of the crisis, did not shield him and refused to create a political scenario in his favour. On the contrary, conservative and right-wing figures actively criticized his administration's military spending and immigration policies, offering no political cover as his premiership collapsed. The Defence Secretary John Healey and Armed Forces Minister Al Carns resigned just prior to Starmer’s resignation.

NEW YORK: State capitalism, socialist market economy, New Economic Policy—whatever term supporters or critics of the Cuban Revolution want to use, it’s clear that the emergency reforms being proposed in the island nation under seize by the U.S. through economic blockade, will bring major changes to its socialist system.

Low-tech, low-cost strategies could prevent 400 million falls at home, 8.5 million new type 2 diabetes cases and 2.4 million dementia cases by 2040, while unlocking $5.8 trillion in healthcare savings and $645 billion in productivity gains. Yet much of that opportunity remains unrealized because governments and businesses manage health, finances and labour participation separately, a new World Economic Forum report finds.

Pro-Trump far right billionaire lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella won the Presidential elections run off on Sunday defeating the candidate of the ruling Left coalition Ivan Cepeda by a narrow margin. Espriella got 49.66 per cent of the votes while Cepeda got 48.7 per cent. The difference was less than one per cent.

The assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in February 2026 has produced an irony as profound as it is unexpected - the killing of the world's most prominent Shia leader by a US-Israeli strike has, at least momentarily, dissolved sectarian walls that decades of theological dispute and proxy warfare had built.

By the standards of modern diplomacy, it was an unusual encounter. There were no bear hugs. No back-slapping theatrics. No clasped hands held aloft for the cameras as though two victorious prizefighters had just emerged from Madison Square Garden. The famous Trump-Modi choreography, perfected over years in Houston, Ahmedabad and Washington, appeared conspicuously absent on the sidelines of the G7 summit. Yet if the body language had cooled, the language itself had not. Instead, President Donald Trump reached for a familiar instrument: hyperbole.

NEW YORK: The war that began on February 28, when American and Israeli strikes targeted Iran's nuclear infrastructure, formally ended on Wednesday with the signing of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding — not in a Geneva ballroom with cameras rolling, but quietly and electronically, then sealed in person by President Donald Trump at the Palace of Versailles during a G7 dinner hosted by Emmanuel Macron.