Checkpoint

London’s irregular electric hire bike rules have created a “Checkpoint Charlie” situation at bridges, according to a top comedian. Dara Ó Briain took to social media to complain that e-bikes are “stacking up” at river crossings between the boroughs of Hounslow and Richmond in the west of the capital. Lime,…

The loudspeaker exchanges have been a longstanding element of Cold War-style psychological warfare between the two countries. South Korea’s military says North Korea has started removing some of its loudspeakers from the Korean border, just days after Seoul took down its own equipment used for anti-Pyongyang broadcasts. The Joint Chiefs…

Nuclear weapons – their lethal menace, dark history and future spread – are back in the headlines again and, as usual, the news is worrying, bordering on desperate. Russia’s decision last week to formally abandon the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty banning medium- and short-range nuclear missiles completes the…

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…