President Biden urged lawmakers to act after 18 (19 by the latest reports) students and a  (two by last reports) teacher(s) were shot and killed at a Texas elementary school on Tuesday, May 24. “Why are we willing to live with this carnage?” Biden asked in an emotional speech, where he said the pain of losing a child was …

The first sentence of an interim report released yesterday on the collapse of the Afghan military concludes that “the single most important factor in the [Afghan National Defense and Security Forces’] collapse in August 2021 was the U.S. decision to withdraw military forces and contractors from Afghanistan through signing the U.S.-Taliban agreement in February 2020.” Reuters adopted this sentence in its headline covering …

With Trump’s blessing, Turkish-American pop doc faces off against the old anti-Muslim wing in the senate primary today.

Extreme weather has been called a ‘threat multiplier’ — feeding into existing social and political problems and making them even worse.

For now, ethnic tensions appear to be on hold. The common foe is the Rajapaksa family, as protesters demand that the president and prime minister step down.

An irate outgoing prime minister accuses the US of orchestrating his demise in government because he refused to play ball.

The Fed lifted its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point as it fights raging inflation.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said pointedly that his country “will not take sides.” Indian leaders have reaffirmed their policy of nonalignment, implying that their nation will seek to stay out of the fight. South Africa, Pakistan and numerous other nations are following a similar path.

The architects of the judicial coup to depose Imran Khan had underestimated his popularity among the people – from urban to remotest rural areas of Pakistan. It made him more popular and acceptable than ever before and solidified his leadership for years to come, which at the same time cemented further the national unity and solidarity in Pakistan. The private citizen Imran Khan is more powerful and popular than the premier Imran Khan.

Officials are preparing to make up for an electricity shortfall if sanctions delay completion of the Rooppur nuclear power plant.