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Lebanon remains committed to the path of reforms and will continue working to achieve its goals despite the war, Joseph Aoun says Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said Friday that his meeting with US President Donald Trump was “fruitful,” adding that the time had come to end the war …

President says diplomacy remains possible but warns US is ‘locked and loaded’ if military action becomes necessary President Donald Trump said Friday that Iran is showing its strongest commitment yet in negotiations with the United States but that he has not decided whether to launch major military strikes …

Eng.  Saleem Al-Batayneh No one writes from outside of their place. Even Edward Said, the author of Out of Place, wrote from the very heart of his. Is it not our right to be anxious? We are retreating backward, even if the headlines tell us the opposite. I …

Dan Steinbock After the Gaza genocide, bipartisan consensus over US-Israel ties is crumbling. As legal debate is expanding, the political foundation of unconditional U.S. military support for Israel has entered its most serious crisis in decades. For decades, U.S. support for Israel rested on one of Washington’s strongest …

Georgi Asatrian image source: ndtv.com Global instability is today the defining characteristic of world politics. The liberal international order that has shaped global affairs is steadily disintegrating. It is being replaced by a system that many describe as multipolar. What this new system will ultimately look like remains …

Dr. Yashwant Singh  The India–Indonesia model demonstrates that civilizational memory can be retrieved as a shared diplomatic resource when deployed as a basis for mutual recognition rather than civilizational hierarchy – real or perceived. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Indonesia underscored that the India-Indonesia partnership …

Norbert Tofall Despite the very real structural weaknesses in the U.S. economy, no BRICS+ country – not even China – and not the group as a whole comes close to matching the role of the U.S. dollar in the world economy. The great contradiction Chinese officials like to …

Global markets traded lower Friday as heavy selling in semiconductor shares and escalating US-Iran tensions weighed on investor sentiment. Chipmakers remained under pressure amid concerns over whether massive artificial intelligence investments will generate sufficient returns. Renewed attacks between Washington and Tehran also raised fears of further disruption to …

By Dan Steinbock Renewed U.S.-Iran hostilities and Israel’s continuing military campaigns reflect rising risks of a wider Middle East conflict and elevated energy and food crises internationally. The United States and Iran traded new attacks overnight into Thursday, intensifying an exchange that has threatened the collapse of their agreement …