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After demanding Iran’s unconditional surrender and threatening to erase its civilisation, U.S. President Donald Trump, on April 8, agreed to a two-week ceasefire and to hold direct talks with Tehran on the basis of its 10-point peace formula. Iran has said that it will honour the truce and allow the “safe passage” of vessels through…
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‘There is no grand strategy at play for Field Marshal Munir’. Photo: Special Arrangement American scholar, the late Stephen P. Cohen, had once pontificated that Pakistan often finds itself in a place of political success because it negotiates with the world by putting a gun to its own head. While this has been proven true…
When United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio proposed restructuring the G-20 into an elite “inner caucus” of powerful states, it should have dominated the week’s geopolitical news. It signalled a major reordering of global economic governance, shifting rule-making to a narrower group and weakening emerging economies. Yet, the proposal barely registered. It was immediately…
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President Joe Biden and Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese hold a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on, Oct. 25, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP U.S. President Joe Biden has said that he is convinced that one of the reasons why Hamas launched a terrorist attack on Israel was…