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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has finally concluded by 10 – 4 votes on May 21, 2026 that the worker’s right to strike is protected under the International Labour Organization’s (ILO’s) Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 No. 87. This Advisory Opinion settles the long-running dispute between workers and employers regarding whether the 1948 treaty includes the right to strike.

LONDON: US threats to Cuban revolutionary leader Raul Castro reek of the extraterritorial arrogance of a thuggish imperial power. They indicate too that the extreme economic war Washington is waging to break the Cuban people could escalate to a direct military attack very soon. The charges levelled at the 94-year-old former president of Cuba — a veteran of the 1959 revolution and a communist even before his great brother Fidel — are a sick joke.

NEW YORK: After kidnapping Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January and killing Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei the following month, President Donald Trump declared “Cuba is next.” With the unsealing of a criminal indictment against former Cuban President Raúl Castro on May 20, the administration in Washington is preparing to make good on its threat.

The joint declaration made by Chinese President Xi Jinping and the visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin after their summit in Beijing on May 20 has major ramifications on the global geopolitics in the context of the present unilateral actions of the U.S. President Donald Trump including the launching of war against Iran which still is m not over.

Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo has been declared to be an international public health emergency by World Health Organisation (WHO). It is much more than a timely medical alert. It is a call to seal "viral frontiers". The epidemic in fragile states are no longer local tragedies. This is an age of migration, conflict, informal economies and porous borders. Aided by these factors, public health failures travel faster than government can respond.

NEW YORK: In what can only be described as an acceleration and expansion of the bellicose and dangerous far-right populist movement around the globe, the U.S. government of Donald Trump is reportedly seeking to build an international coalition to oppose the anti-fascist left.

LONDON: Former Welsh Labour leader Mark Drakeford is the latest figure to call for an orderly removal of Keir Starmer. The defenestration of the Prime Minister is now Westminster Labour’s default position as well as meeting the desires and expectations of most people.

This is the season of high level summits. On May 14 and 15, U.S President Donald Trump visited Beijing and had ‘fantastic’ talks, according to the U.S. President, Chinese media also went overboard explaining the great possibilities of China-US cooperation in political and economic spheres and also how important this was in the present state of global situation. Russian President Vladimir Putin was on a visit on May 20 to China and had very fruitful talks in strengthening the relations between the two big powers.

The United States and Iran appear locked between diplomacy and military escalation as tensions over the Strait of Hormuz intensify. While President Donald Trump has temporarily postponed military action following pressure from Gulf allies, Tehran is simultaneously advancing new proposals on nuclear talks and unveiling a fresh maritime mechanism to manage one of the world’s most strategic waterways.

NEW YORK: For years, Pakistan’s political class has lived inside a hall of mirrors — where conspiracy theories become national doctrine, where whispers from Rawalpindi travel faster than court judgments, and where the line between reality and manufactured narrative has almost entirely collapsed.