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People drive past a billboard with a picture of the late Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah displayed on Beirut airport highway, Lebanon, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike, thousands of supporters of the longtime leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group have flown into … Read more
An explosion at a Hawaii beachside resort injured seven people, including three in critical condition, and left a pile of debris in a popular tourist area of west Maui, according to police and video footage. Preliminary investigations suggested liquefied petroleum gas, which supplies barbecue grills in the resort’s common area, was involved in the explosion, … Read more
Police say three people were shot and killed at a motor vehicle office in Louisville on Friday. Louisville Metro Police Department Maj. Donald Boeckman told reporters officers were called to the office around noon and found one person dead and two others wounded. The two wounded were taken to hospitals and died of their wounds. … Read more
Hadi Matar charged with severely injuring author Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack, stands next to public defender Nathaniel Barone in Chautauqua County court in Mayville, N.Y., Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP A New Jersey man was convicted Friday of attempted murder and assault for stabbing author Salman Rushdie multiple times on a New … Read more
Three years ago, Kathmandu was caught in the crossfire of Washington-Beijing tensions over the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a multi-million American grant for Nepal. While the United States warned of reviewing its overall ties with Nepal should Kathmandu fail to ratify the MCC-Nepal Compact from Parliament, Beijing referred to the grant as a “Pandora’s box.” … Read more
In a bid to convey a united position regarding the Trump administration’s plans for solving the Gaza crisis, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman hosted the leaders of the six GCC member states and Jordan and Egypt. | Photo Credit: AP In a bid to convey a united position regarding the Trump administration’s plans for … Read more
Critical juncture: Secretary of State Marco Rubio boards an aircraft in Abu Dhabi to depart to the U.S. on February 19, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio pushed back against accusations that the Trump administration has given in to Russia even before talks on ending the Ukraine war begin, saying … Read more
Surgeon Sergio Alfieri speaks to journalists, in the entrance hall of Rome’s Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic where Pope Francis is being treated for pneumonia, on February 21, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Pope Francis’ condition isn’t life-threatening, but he’s not out of danger, his medical team said Friday as the 88-year-old pontiff marked his first week … Read more
The US’s Gaza proposal and talks with Russia threaten to turn the template of global alignment. Is the Transatlantic alliance at an end, or is Trump simply bargaining for a better deal with Europe? And how should India react to this global churning? Worldview Reading Recommendations: 1. The Changing World Order by Ray Dalio : … Read more
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed revenge Friday (February 21, 2025) for what he described as a “cruel and malicious violation” of the ceasefire agreement after a body that Hamas released as part of the deal was found to not be that of an Israeli mother of two young boys, as the militants had promised. … Read more