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China has finally responded to Cuba’s appeal to its friendly nations to send humanitarian assistance to take care of the immediate needs of the nation whose economy has been battered due to continuous economic blockade by the USA. On Saturday last Chinese ambassador to Cuba handed over to the Cuban government the first part of 15,000 tonnes of rice as a part of the total 60,000 tonnes being sent by China.

NEW YORK: The month-long ceasefire that followed the most dangerous phase of the U.S.-Iran conflict in decades is beginning to resemble an uneasy diplomatic intermission rather than a settled peace. Yet in the past 72 hours, a convergence of signals from Washington, Tehran, New Delhi and the Gulf has raised the possibility that the war may be edging toward a negotiated pause—if not a durable settlement.

Even as Sri Lanka's fragile economic recovery faces unexpected pressures owing to the continuing Iran/US-Israel conflict, a new and apparently helpful Chinese-aided low cost housing project that could have acted as a silver lining, has not brought much cheer among its hard pressed citizens. Sri Lankan media reports suggest that as before, many citizens feel concerned over what they feel to be the island's growing economic dependence on China.

LONDON: A deal with Iran may be close, US leaders say: and nobody imagines that the war they began with such bombast and savagery three months ago has been a success.

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.