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Democratic Sen. John Fetterman reiterated his support for "targeted efforts" to topple the Iranian regime as protests rage on in the country.
The visa bond pilot program mandates that otherwise eligible applicants for business or tourism visas from select countries, now including Turkmenistan, will have to post a bond of up to $15,000 in or...
Once proud of its reputation as Central Asia’s democratic outlier, Kyrgyzstan now looks like a typical resident of the neighborhood: centralized authority, silenced dissent, and fear of open criticism...
Iranians have shown a willingness to pay a devastating price for political change, as protest has consistently been met by the Islamic Republic with violence and mass killing. The death toll since Ira...
For nearly four centuries, the global order has rested on the foundation of Westphalian sovereignty: the idea that a state has exclusive authority over its territory and that a head of state is shield...
The 20th anniversary of the China Chamber of Commerce in Indonesia (CCCI), celebrated in Jakarta on January 9, was framed as a moment of confidence and continuity. Indonesian and Chinese officials spo...
In December 2025, South Korean and Russian diplomats held a closed-door session in Moscow to address concerns over North Korea’s expanding nuclear arsenal. The talks involved South Korea’s foreign min...
For many Asian electronics component suppliers, India is no longer unfamiliar territory. Sales teams visit regularly. Distributors are appointed. Memorandums are signed. Yet a familiar frustration per...
In late November 2025, debt-related products distributed through the Zhejiang Financial Assets Exchange Center entered default. More than 15,000 onshore investors were affected, impacting approximatel...
India’s launch of the e-B-4 “Production Investment Business Visa” for Chinese nationals, effective January 1, allows stays of up to six months, with processing times of around 50 days. The visa’s timi...
In late December, Tehran’s bazaar merchants began protesting against Iran’s theocratic rulers over the sharp collapse of the currency. These protests quickly spread nationwide, although the level of p...
Kevin Rudd’s premature departure in March from his post of Australia’s ambassador to the United States is a surprise, but perhaps not as unexpected as it might initially appear. Rudd’s term had anothe...
Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s fixer, has entered the Iran mess and is now talking to Iran’s leaders. This is a very bad sign for the Iranian revolution, because Witkoff’s approach is to fix “proble...
Days of protest across Iran have left hundreds dead and many more injured. Attempts by Iranian authorities to quell dissent through a near-total internet blackout point to the pivotal role of social m...
The US is saber-rattling over Greenland once again. The vast island’s natural resources are back on the agenda, a year after then-US national security advisor Michael Waltz announced: “This is about c...
‘The ways we express queerness might be more poetic and less obvious’: We speak with the team behind Deviant Ornaments, a new exhibition which brings together decorative art, textiles, and futuristic ...
There’s plenty to be excited about in 2026: the year’s blockbuster exhibitions include a Sophie Calle survey at Louisiana and Edward Enninful’s curation of the 90s
From butter-yellow lips to cybersigil brows, the London-based MUA approaches beauty as a tool for self-realisation
From MF Doom’s fabled legions of impostors to Dean Blunt’s bodyguard accepting his NME award, we look back at the times artists duped the world with doppelgängers
Featuring Bella Hadid as Marie Antoinette, Lakeith Stanfield in new Dior, and Bear Grylls’ son in a Burberry campaign