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The United States in its latest “let’s alleviate Gazans’ condition” will build a port on the Gaza coastline for easing the movement of relief into the war-torn city of the dead and a few living. This isn’t President Joe Biden’s brainwave, but the POTUS mentioned it in his “fiery” State of the Union address which also saw Biden pull-up Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for being the reason for everything rotten in Gaza after the October 7 Hamas massacre.

The Gaza war has turned Palestine into a lightning rod for mounting frustration and discontent in Arab autocracies such as Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. Concerned that the war could mobilise segments of civil society, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates where any form of public protest is banned, have cracked down on expressions of solidarity with Gaza, including the sporting of keffiyehs, the chequered scarf that symbolises Palestinian nationalism.

President Joe Biden’s last State of the Union address before the 2024 elections laid out an agenda of sharp contrasts, with economic populism dominating domestic policy and Cold War confrontation and militarism defining his international strategy.

Asking for the moon ceased to denote seeking the impossible ever since the first man landed on earth’s sole god-made satellite in the year 1969, it didn't matter whether it was a "blue moon" or a "hunter's moon." What had been a giant leap for mankind is now going to take several steps ahead with the drawing up of the blueprint of setting up a nuclear outpost on the soil of the "Queen of the Night". A nuclear power plant is likely to come up by the mid-2030s, a collaboration between Russia and China to lay the groundwork for a potential lunar settlement, said Yuri Borisov who heads ‘Roscosmos’, Russia's space agency.

On Friday, March 1, Mexico’s left-wing Morena party marked the beginning of the country’s official presidential campaign season with a kickoff event in Mexico City’s central square, or Zócalo. Before a maximum-capacity crowd and following an introduction by the party’s mayoral candidate for the city, Clara Brugada, presidential standard-bearer Claudia Sheinbaum laid out a hundred-point plan for building the “second floor of the transformation.”.MexicoI going for te Presidential elections on June 2 this year.

Sweden joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and Europe is more secure. Finland joined and it wasn't similar hype. Finland is Sweden's neighbour. Both added muscle to NATO. The feeling runs deep — deeper than the Atlantic Ocean — that the more European countries join NATO, the more threatened Russia will feel and threatening Russia’s expansionism is the raison de’ etre for NATO. It is no laughing matter, but the free nations of NATO take this dictum seriously.

Iranian elections are over and given the counting trends, moderates will be taking a back seat while the hardliners are set to sweep the polls..Reformist movement has been in steady decline for years and was further damaged by the previous president, Hassan Rouhani. The reformists backed Rouhani in elections even though he was not a reformist. He failed to deliver change during his two four year tenure.

Third day after Super Tuesday and Donald Trump is on everybody’s mind. His Republican Party rival Nikki Haley, after the drubbing she got, is full of unsolicited advice for the man who beat her in every state but two in the ongoing Republican Party primaries. And Trump’s detractors are talking of how Trump “will have to make a choice” on what to do with Nikki Haley’s supporters, court them or leave them to their defeated devices?

Recent news about Russia testing new space technology has made countries all over the world worried. The future of warfare is expected to involve autonomous weapons, robots, and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Another crucial aspect that has come up is the competition for control over space. Satellites in orbit offer various important functions for combat systems on Earth, such as GPS navigation for weapons and soldiers, monitoring enemy activities, and command and control operations. Attacking or hindering these satellites can significantly impact military effectiveness on the ground.

There was lot of complacency after the end of cold war as several people felt that now we shall enter an era of lasting peace and a world free of nuclear weapons. But this did not happen. The United States and its allies, many of them erstwhile colonial masters, have constantly been putting efforts for a unipolar world. With their designs they have pushed several parts of the world in different continents into armed conflicts.