The Pacific Ocean is warming fast. Scientists are watching the numbers climb and issuing a warning that the world — and India in particular — may be heading toward one of the most disruptive climate events in decades: a Super El Niño that could scorch summer temperatures, slash monsoon rainfall, and destabilise agriculture across the…
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New Delhi / Mumbai — When the Prime Minister of the world’s fifth-largest economy publicly urges citizens to exercise caution in purchasing two of the most economically and culturally significant commodities in Indian life — petrol and gold — financial markets do not shrug. They listen, recalibrate, and in many cases, move. Prime Minister Narendra…
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Washington / Tehran / Persian Gulf — Guns are firing and diplomats are talking. In what may be the defining paradox of the current US-Iran war, Washington is simultaneously conducting active military operations against Iranian-linked targets and waiting — with a patience that surprises even seasoned observers of American foreign policy — for Tehran’s formal…
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He has not been photographed. He has not spoken publicly. He communicates only through sealed handwritten messages carried by human couriers to an undisclosed location where he is recovering from severe burns, a fractured leg, and injuries that have, at times, limited his ability to speak. Yet according to a new US intelligence assessment, Iran’s…
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“Super Revolutionaries”: The Extremist Iranian Hardliners Set on Destroying an Agreement With the US
Tehran / Washington — Inside Iran’s labyrinthine power structure, where factions within factions operate behind layers of ideological allegiance and institutional loyalty, a specific and dangerous bloc has emerged as the single greatest internal threat to any US-Iran diplomatic agreement. They are known, with a mixture of reverence and alarm depending on who is speaking,…
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Tehran is in no hurry. Even as Washington watches the clock — and Donald Trump hints that bombing could resume if a deal is not struck before his China trip — Iran’s government is making clear that American deadlines mean nothing to the Islamic Republic, and that it will respond to the US peace proposal…
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Washington / Persian Gulf — A classified CIA assessment that has made its way into senior policy discussions on Capitol Hill and within the National Security Council carries a conclusion that is reshaping American strategic thinking about the Strait of Hormuz: Iran has sufficient fuel reserves, alternative energy infrastructure, and internal rationing capacity to withstand…
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The United States military has struck another alleged drug-trafficking vessel in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two men and leaving one survivor — the latest operation in a rapidly escalating campaign that has now killed nearly 200 people since it began in September 2025 and sits at the centre of the most aggressive anti-cartel strategy…
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Tehran / Washington — In a disclosure that has sent shockwaves through diplomatic and intelligence circles worldwide, Iranian officials have confirmed that Mojtaba Khamenei — the reclusive, powerful son of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the figure most widely considered his likely successor — was physically affected by a U.S. strike, claiming he was knocked…
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Every time Washington picks up the phone to Beijing these days, China plays the same opening note. Before trade, before Iran, before energy markets or nuclear deals — there is Taiwan. And as President Donald Trump prepares to land in Beijing on May 14, China is making sure that message has been heard at full…