Checkpoint

For more than three decades, Indian and American leaders pursued a mutually beneficial relationship that built upon common grounds and sought middle grounds in case of divergences. But the principle of mutuality that underpinned the India-US relationship has now ended. With 50 per cent tariffs, unending verbal attacks, unleashing his…

Zbigniew Brzezinski—Washington hawk, Soviet Union doom prophet, and the intellectual Cold Warrior behind Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy—is the focus of this episode of the Rachman Review, featuring FT columnist Edward Luce. Drawing from his newly published biography, Luce explores how "Zbig" armed the mujahideen, opened the door to China, and…

“A fire shall always be burning on the altar; it shall never go out.” (Leviticus 6:13) Dr CE French told the story of a 98-year-old woman by the name, Sister Mary, who was a faithful intercessor in America in the 1960s, a critical period in the Cold War between the…

The US foreign aid agency formally closed down Tuesday, with President Donald Trump's administration trumpeting the end of the "charity-based model" despite predictions that millions of lives will be lost. Founded in 1961 as John F. Kennedy sought to leverage aid to win over the developing world in the Cold…

A landmark agreement for Ukraine to hand over half of its future oil, gas and mineral wealth to the U.S. may be thawing a cold war within the Republican Party. For more than a year, Republicans have been at odds over the war-torn country, with Trump-aligned lawmakers skeptical of continued…

In October 2024, the US Coast Guard spotted two Chinese maritime enforcement vessels operating alongside a pair of Russian border patrol boats as they transited the Bering Sea, just kilometers from Alaskan waters. It was the third consecutive year that a joint Russian-Chinese military convoy sailed through the strategic waterway.…

On April 7, 1966, after an exhaustive 80-day search, the US military finally recovered a missing hydrogen bomb from the depths of the Mediterranean Sea. Weighing heavily with a destructive force nearly 100 times that of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, the warhead was delicately lifted from 2,850 feet…

CNN  —  News organizations are in a cold war with OpenAI. While a shot has yet to be fired, some of the nation’s largest newsrooms are actively taking defensive measures to safeguard their content from ChatGPT, the groundbreaking artificial intelligence chatbot that is seen as a potential aggressor to an…

The leaders of the Brics grouping greet each other after their closing speeches on Thursday on the last day of the 15th Brics summit in Sandton. With the BRICS summit now concluded, Siphamandla Zondi looks at three aspects that will be discussed and debated for a long time. The 15th BRICS summit in…

The Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi attend the Brics Business Summit on August 22, 2023 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Brics summit is held in South Africa between (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images) China’s Xi Jinping, the…