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Britain after Brexit, divided, uncertain and stagnant
Some anniversaries are merely observed. Ten years after the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union (EU), on June 23, 2016, and as it prepares for yet another change of Prime Minister, it is clear that whatever the benefits or drawbacks of Britain’s divorce from the EU, Brexit has left it bitterly divided. ‘Take Back Control’ the Leave campaign had urged.
Perspectives on the West Asian conflict
People attend a gathering to support Iran's new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, on March 9, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Published - March 10, 2026 01:52 am IST
A turning point for nuclear deterrence
The rupture between Europe and Donald Trump’s U.S. over Greenland may be papered over in time, but Europe’s trust in the U.S. as a reliable North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) ally has been irreparably broken. As the last remaining arms control treaty limiting Russia’s nuclear arsenal comes to an end, conversations about defending Europe are acquiring a sharper edge.
The Trump NSS, Europe’s existential crisis
Hope is not a strategy. For most of this year, European leaders have hoped that the Trump Administration has not actually meant its President’s oscillating support for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), its Vice-President’s berating his European hosts in Munich over their liberal values and immigration policies, President Donald Trump’s tirade against migration at the United Nations, and of course his mercurial support for Ukraine.
Eighty years on from Hiroshima
At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, a nuclear bomb exploded just above Hiroshima, instantly killing at least 70,000 people. Another 70,000 died of injuries and radiation sickness before the year ended. Three days later, a second weapon exploded over Nagasaki, killing 40,000 on the day. In the 80 years since, nuclear weapons have not been detonated again in anger even though the possessor states have swelled from one to nine, and the number and sophistication of the weapons has increased considerably.
A new age of imperialism
In Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, a character is asked how he went bankrupt. “Gradually and then suddenly”, he says. So, too, perhaps with the rules-based international order that has governed relations between member states, after the dizzying first weeks of the second Trump presidency. Three years ago, when Russia invaded Ukraine, the violation of the UN Charter by a permanent member of the Security Council severely tested the principles upon which the post-war order had been built.
A new age of imperialism
In Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, a character is asked how he went bankrupt. “Gradually and then suddenly,” he says. So, too, perhaps with the rules-based international order that has governed relations between member states, after the dizzying first weeks of the second Trump presidency. Three years ago, when Russia invaded Ukraine, the violation of the UN Charter by a permanent member of the Security Council severely tested the principles upon which the post-war order had been built.
Genocide and the world’s averted gaze
Eighty years ago, on January 27, 1945, Soviet soldiers stumbled upon the barbed wire surrounding Auschwitz-Birkenau. Inside they found 8,000 emaciated prisoners, along with 44,000 pairs of shoes, piles of spectacles, and mounds of cooking utensils. This was all that remained of the approximately 1.1 million people, mainly European Jews, who were killed at Auschwitz.
They were told a big tree fell: Why India needs to address wounds of 1984
The ghosts of 1984 still walk among us. It is forty years since Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards on the morning of October 31, a killing that unleashed a savage wave of violence against Sikhs, mainly in the capital. By that evening, Delhi was burning.
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World Comes To New York, Myanmar School Attack, Vegan Bite
đ Goedendag!* Welcome to Tuesday, where world leaders start gathering in New York for the first in-person UN General Assembly since the pandemic, Iran faces growing protests after a young woman died following her arrest by the âmorality policeâ for violating the hijab law and a group of scientists manage to estimate the total number of ants on Earth. Meanwhile, Jan Grossarth for German daily Die Welt unpacks the potential of âhempcrete,â i.e. bricks of hemp used as building material.
A New Low for Indian Diplomacy
NEW DELHI — India is standing at a crossroads when it comes to the war in Ukraine. Unlike Israel and Turkey, who are trying to use their relatively tame responses to Russia’s invasion to provide space for negotiating peace, India has not attempted any initiative to carve out a global role for itself in what is already the worst crisis in Europe since World War II. While New Delhi has called for a ceasefire and dialogue, it has done nothing to bring it about. Read Full Article »
Modi's Response To Russian Invasion Is A New Low For Indian Diplomacy
-OpEd- NEW DELHI — India is standing at a crossroads when it comes to the war in Ukraine. Unlike Israel and Turkey, who are trying to use their relatively tame responses to Russia’s invasion to provide space for negotiating peace, India has not attempted any initiative to carve out a global role for itself in what is already the worst crisis in Europe since World War II. While New Delhi has called for a ceasefire and dialogue, it has done nothing to bring it about.
Commercial ties
-OpEd- NEW DELHI — India is standing at a crossroads when it comes to the war in Ukraine. Unlike Israel and Turkey, who are trying to use their relatively tame responses to Russia’s invasion to provide space for negotiating peace, India has not attempted any initiative to carve out a global role for itself in what is already the worst crisis in Europe since World War II. While New Delhi has called for a ceasefire and dialogue, it has done nothing to bring it about.
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In Kyiv, Ukrainians cover the monument of political and civic leader Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny with sandbags ūüĎč Tungjatjeta!* Welcome to Monday, where Ukrainian President Zelensky calls for a referendum on Ukraine‚Äôs neutrality after Russian troops leave, Shanghai goes back into full lockdown and Will Smith‚Äôs slap steals the Oscars spotlight.
Article 5 responsibility
A U.S. Marine scans for targets for a Fire Support Coordination exercise prior to Exercise Cold Response 22 -Analysis- PARIS — If we are to believe Vladimir Putin, NATO policy of the past three decades forced him to invade Ukraine. Safe to say, we don’t believe Vladimir Putin. Still, the Transatlantic military alliance, which marks 73 years since its founding next week, is a problem. Ukraine is pleading in vain for membership.
An Avoidable Own Goal for India Over Ukraine
The global role for India that New Delhi claims is its manifest destiny is slipping away over the horizon above eastern Europe. There is disbelief in Turtle Bay over India’s mealy-mouthed response at the UN Security Council to Russia’s aggression in Ukraine.
The Ghosts of Auschwitz: Inside Hitler's Killing Machine
Seventy years ago this week, Soviet soldiers liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex where they found about 7,000 desperately ill and emaciated prisoners and 600 corpses. They also found 370,000 men’s suits, 837,000 items of women’s clothing and 7.7 tonnes of human hair. And thus the efficient killing machine of the Third Reich was exposed to the wider world. Though the retreating Nazis had tried to destroy the evidence of their genocide, the full extent of the horrors soon became apparent.
The road to genocide
The 27th of January marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, a date that is now observed as ‘International Holocaust Remembrance Day’. Of the 5.5 million-6 million people killed in the Holocaust, about 9,60,000 are believed to have died at the Auschwitz complex, built to house both concentration and extermination camps.
No light at the end of the Brexit deadlock
More than three years after the United Kingdom voted, by a narrow margin, to leave the European Union (EU), Brexit has claimed the scalp of two Prime Ministers. Should Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party fare poorly in the upcoming general election scheduled for December 12, he could be the third PM to exit.
An intervention that leads to more questions
Policymaking by tweet may have arrived in India, for the Defence Minister, Rajnath Singh, appears to have altered a key pillar of India’s nuclear doctrine when he tweeted that India’s ‘future’ commitment to a posture of No First Use of nuclear weapons ‘depends on the circumstances’.
Brexit and the fragility of the U.K.
The continuing impasse over Brexit has brought an entire continent to a standstill. It has also strained the very unity of the United Kingdom. Nothing illustrated this more clearly than the pro-Brexit demonstrations on March 29, the original departure date. Protesters, waving the English flag of St. George, denounced the delay as ‘a betrayal of England’. Note this was not considered a betrayal of the U.K.: in this fight, England has gone its own way.
Brexit and the fragility of the U.K.
The muddle over how to leave the EU is threatening London’s sway over Scotland and Northern Ireland The muddle over how to leave the EU is threatening London’s sway over Scotland and Northern Ireland The continuing impasse over Brexit has brought an entire continent to a standstill. It has also strained the very unity of the United Kingdom. Nothing illustrated this more clearly than the pro-Brexit demonstrations on March 29, the original departure date.
An own goal for Britain?
The Brexit slogans have returned like a boomerang in the U.K. “Take back control,” the Brexiteers had demanded. Parliament has now wrested control of the Brexit process from Prime Minister Theresa May and will indicate the type of exit from the European Union (EU) that might be acceptable to it, having earlier rejected both her withdrawal agreement and her threat of leaving without an agreement.
A history we must confront
Two days ago, I watched my children being introduced to a parcel of their history — a tightly bundled up piece of the past that is difficult to confront. They were watching a Doctor Who episode on Partition called ‘Demons of the Punjab’. My son has just turned nine, roughly the age that my father was when Viceroy Mountbatten announced the results of Cyril Radcliffe’s red pen slashing through the map of imperial India.
Charting its own path
Some anniversaries are celebrated with enthusiasm while others are merely observed. The muted response to the 20th anniversary of India’s nuclear weapons tests this past month puts this milestone firmly in the second category. It is a far cry from the triumphalism that overtook India 20 years ago. And yet, in crossing the rubicon (a phrase from that era) India took a gamble with the international nuclear regime that, despite the turbulent reception, has largely paid off.
Charting its own path
Some anniversaries are celebrated with enthusiasm while others are merely observed. The muted response to the 20th anniversary of India’s nuclear weapons tests this past month puts this milestone firmly in the second category. It is a far cry from the triumphalism that overtook India 20 years ago. And yet, in crossing the rubicon (a phrase from that era) India took a gamble with the international nuclear regime that, despite the turbulent reception, has largely paid off.
In Oil-Producing Norway, Electric Cars Are All The Rage
OSLO — Electric vehicle (EV) owners living around Oslo have an extra incentive to wake up early. That's because in the Norwegian capital's city center, parking spaces equipped with charging devices are in short supply. "If I get here after 6:45 a.m., I can be sure I won't find anywhere to park and charge my car," says Henning Heitmann, a well-dressed professional in his 40s. Heitmann is in the third level of a bunker-like underground parking. He works in a legal office not far from the parking area.
Revisiting India’s nuclear doctrine
Calls for reassessing India’s nuclear doctrine are a regular feature of our strategic landscape. Depending on where the person asking for this reconsideration sits on the strategic spectrum, the demand for revision rests either on scepticism about India’s commitment to a No First Use posture or the intention to retaliate massively to any nuclear first strike, no matter what the yield of the weapon used first.
Obama’s nuclear pilgrimage
The challenge before him is to show he is serious about moving the world as far away as possible from another nuclear weapon being used in anger. On May 27, Barack Obama will become the first sitting U.S. President to visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. Eleven presidents before him have declined to view for themselves the devastation wrought by Enola Gay’s deadly payload on that morning of August 6, 1945.
India’s nuclear diplomacy must change
Last month’s final Nuclear Security Summit in Washington appeared to be another successful attempt by India to present itself as a responsible global player. But President Obama’s unscripted comments at the concluding press conference altered the situation. South Block reacted with some anger to Obama’s mentioning as a challenge developments in India and Pakistan’s military doctrines; he went on to state his hope not to see them ‘continually moving in the wrong direction’.
Russia-Ukraine: The Dangers of Nuclear Brinkmanship
The shelling and subsequent fire at Ukraine’s largest nuclear power plant early on the morning of Friday, March 4 briefly raised the spectre of nuclear catastrophe, 35 years after a fire in Chernobyl spread plumes of contamination through parts of Europe. Though the fire has been brought under control and, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), radiation levels have not been affected, President Zelensky has accused Russia of nuclear terrorism.
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