Ludhiana Court Blast: Pak-backed Babbar Khalsa May Be Responsible, Say Intel Sources In a major development in connection with the Ludhiana Court Blast, Intelligence sources have informed that the blast might have been carried out by Pakistan backed international terrorist organisation Babbar Khalsa. According to the intel report, the explosion […]
Omicron Spells the Return of Pandemic Political Calculus
If you would like to receive Latin America Brief in your inbox every Friday, please sign up here . The highlights this week: how governments across the region are responding to the rapid spread of the omicron variant , Mexico faces a record year of asylum applications , and the […]
Chile’s President Could Be a Leftist or Another Bolsonaro
If you would like to receive Morning Brief in your inbox every weekday, please sign up here . Here is today’s Foreign Policy brief: Chile prepares for a presidential runoff, Hong Kong holds Legislative Council elections, and a record number of journalists are jailed in 2021. Here is today’s Foreign […]
China Strikes Football: Authorities Ban National Team Players From Donning Tattoos
In the latest development, China has banned their national team footballers from donning tattoos and has also instructed players to remove or cover the existing ones. Moreover, the country’s sporting administration body has also prohibited the selectors from recruiting new players with tattoos at both the national and the youth […]
Kazakhstan’s Border With Russia Is Suddenly an Open Question Again
Russian revanchism over the past decade is hardly a secret. Yet although the locus of the Kremlin’s irredentism has centered on Ukraine—where Moscow illegally annexed Crimea and where it once more toys with seizing swaths of eastern Ukraine—Russian nationalists have never shied away from the fact that they believe significant […]
US: Nancy Pelosi lauds Biden after he signs bills banning imports from China’s Xinjiang
Speaker of the United States House Nancy Pelosi has issued a statement after President Joe Biden signed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. Pelosi said that with the enactment of the act, the US President and Congress have taken a “strong step” to combat the exploitation of forced labour in […]