Saudi Arabia and the UAE appear to be contemplating and engineering some drastic action in Qatar with the stakes in the Gulf crisis so high that a negotiated solution may prove difficult, if not impossible.

The consequences of the continuing standoff may lead to fresh confrontations, adding to the risk of an intensified arms race.

Terrorism is the use of indiscriminate violence for political ends. It has a logic, even if it is one we mostly do not care to understand.

British Prime Minister Theresa May has faced huge criticism for her deliberate absence from a BBC debate held on May 31 in Cambridge with other leaders

The Brexit vote last June and the letter invoking Article 50 on March 29 this year by the government of Theresa May has set in motion

Yogi Adityanath, the recently appointed BJP chief minister of the largest state of the Indian Union, has again become the subject of

The United Nations Charter was a visionary document, calling on all nations “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war”.

Even as the US, under President Donald Trump, is withdrawing itself into the cocoon of isolationism, protectionism and ultra-nationalism...

In any genuine democracy, after a tough electoral struggle, the first challenge of the new incumbent is to unite the nation and reconcile those who did not vote for the winning side.

The outlook for Asia and the Pacific is the strongest in the world, but it is shrouded by challenges at home and abroad, according to the latest IMF report for the region.

The election of Donald Trump as US president worries Bangladeshi Americans. Trump rode to victory on a wave of a nativist animus that has given a new lease of life to racists and Islamophobes.

During the last US presidential elections, candidate Donald Trump always had rather harsh words including warnings for China,

The rise of ultra-nationalist populist parties in Europe has been a threat to European unity. The French presidential election came at a

After a tense and often antagonistic election campaign, Emmanuel Macron is to become the next president of France.

Experts, journalists as well as ordinary voters with good memories agree that the current presidential election in France is the most chaotic political bedlam they have ever witnessed in their lifetimes.

The wag has a point. The 2017 Delhi Municipal Corporation elections, as we are being persistently reminded, were won by the BJP handsomely because of a single factor: a Modi wave. Fair enough. But the BJP won the two previous Delhi Municipal elections also. Who generated the waves then?

Centrist Emmanuel Macron took a big step towards the French presidency on Sunday by winning the first round of voting and

When Donald Trump won, American pundits were baffled and political analysts were stumped. How could this mendacious, tacky, narcissist win?

The visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Bangladesh on October 14-15, 2016 had been dubbed as a 'historical state visit' poised to

In 1973, the Commonwealth's leading economy, the UK, finally joined the European Economic Community (EEC) to the dismay of other