By Shashi Tharoor - Project Syndicate | May 5, 2025
Pakistan spent decades nurturing, sheltering, arming, training, and financing the Taliban, which it viewed as a convenient instrument for exerting control over Afghanistan and achieving “strategic depth” against India. But as Dr. Frankenstein discovered, you cannot always control the monsters you create.
According to EU Economy Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis, higher energy costs are expected to drive inflation to 3.1% this year, well above earlier forecasts.
China’s foreign ministry said Wang will chair a United Nations Security Council meeting in New York on May 26 before traveling to Canada from May 28 to 30 for talks with Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand
The violence erupted at Rwampara Hospital after health authorities refused to release the body of a young Ebola victim
Established in the early months of the second Trump administration and initially led by Elon Musk, DOGE set out to eliminate waste, fraud, and inefficiency in federal spending
The debate is not whether to stop changing the clocks every March and November. Most people, including members of Congress and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, despise the biannual switch. It’s which “version” of time to keep.
“I think the claims that millionaires are going to leave our state are, like, super overblown. And if—the ones that leave, like, bye,” Wilson said to applause at Seattle University.
If enacted, the Chinese CBDC Prohibition Act would prohibit money services businesses from engaging in any transaction that involves a central bank digital currency issued by China.
