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After 264 consecutive days without a full port call, the USS Abraham Lincoln arrived in Thailand carrying an exhausted crew. Its refuge was Pattaya, a city transformed by American servicemen during the Vietnam War.
Opinion
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent promises to sever every economic lifeline sustaining Iran. Tehran says Washington is claiming authority over other sovereign states. History, geography, China’s resistance and Iran’s leverage over Gulf commerce suggest…
Britain’s seizure of the Smyrtos, carrying 101,400 tonnes of Russian crude towards India, has exposed the extraordinary machinery behind Moscow’s shadow oil trade. The…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI is crossing a consequential threshold. From solving open mathematical problems to generating scientific hypotheses, conducting experiments and searching for cyber vulnerabilities, machines are beginning to explore the unknown rather than merely reproduce existing…
For more than a decade Ukraine transformed the Donbas into one of Europe’s most formidable defensive systems, binding cities, mines, railways and roads into…
Education
A leaked examination paper became the spark for one of the most remarkable youth movements in modern India. What began as an online satire—the Cockroach Janta Party grew into a nationwide protest that helped…