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Turkey and Qatar reshape Syria’s future as Trump pivots away from US intervention
DAMASCUS (Realist English). Turkey and Qatar have become pivotal players in President Donald Trump’s redefined Middle East, taking the lead...
Read moreLos Angeles imposes downtown curfew as immigration protests intensify and Trump expands troop deployment
LOS ANGELES (Realist English). City officials in Los Angeles imposed a curfew across a section of downtown Tuesday evening, following...
Read more“Arrest me, let’s go”: Newsom defies Trump amid immigration raid unrest
LOS ANGELES (Realist English). California Governor Gavin Newsom publicly challenged the Trump administration’s threats of arrest on Sunday, refusing to...
Read moreTrump orders National Guard to Los Angeles amid immigration protests
LOS ANGELES (Realist English). President Donald Trump has ordered 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles, escalating a confrontation with...
Read moreUN confirms discovery of mass graves and torture sites in Libya, urges immediate accountability
TRIPOLI (Realist English). The United Nations has confirmed the discovery of more than 80 bodies at official and clandestine detention...
Read moreSouth Korea’s new president unveils sweeping agenda: AI supremacy, democratic reform, and economic revival
SEOUL (Realist English). Newly elected President Lee Jae-myung, who won South Korea’s 2025 snap election with the highest popular vote...
Read moreTrump and Musk alliance collapses in public feud over policy, ego, and influence
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The alliance between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk imploded in spectacular fashion on Thursday, unraveling in...
Read moreGreece seeks Egypt’s help to block possible Libya-Turkey maritime deal
ATHENS (Realist English). Greece is expected to urge Egypt to intervene diplomatically in a bid to dissuade eastern Libya, controlled...
Read moreSouth Korea elects opposition leader Lee Jae-myung as president, ending months of political crisis
SEOUL (Realist English). Lee Jae-myung, the leader of South Korea’s opposition Democratic Party, has been elected president in a high-stakes...
Read moreIndia and EU reach partial trade deal consensus, exclude dairy and rice amid political sensitivities
NEW DELHI / BRUSSELS (Realist English). India and the European Union have reached agreement on nearly half of the chapters...
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India resumes Iranian oil imports and prepares convoy through Hormuz
NEW DELHI (Realist English). India is preparing to send its own tankers through the Strait of Hormuz for the first time...
“Restrictions Alone Are Not Enough — Children Need to Be Engaged”: Paata Amonashvili on Meaningful Alternatives to Gadgets
TBILISI (Realist English). Restrictions alone are not enough to overcome children’s dependence on gadgets — children must be offered meaningful...
US and Iran fail to reach Hormuz deal as Trump threatens new strikes
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The United States and Iran remain far from reaching an agreement to end the war and reopen...
Israel prepares for new war with Iran – from bombing to commando landings
TEL AVIV (Realist English). With US‑Iran talks deadlocked, the Israeli leadership has stepped up preparations for a resumption of full‑scale hostilities....
NATO Anchors at Hormuz? IRGC Warns of Retaliation
TEHRAN (Realist English). On May 20, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) issued an uncompromising statement: if the United States undertakes...
Replacing Baathists with Islamists: why Kurds and other minorities in Syria have not seen equality
HASAKAH (Realist English). The overthrow of Bashar al‑Assad and the rise to power in Damascus of radical Islamist groups has not...
Russia seeks its place in China’s new transport corridor
MOSCOW (Realist English). Ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s official visit to Beijing, experts are increasingly discussing the hidden contradictions...
From Hormuz to Solar Panels: How Iran Accelerated the Global Shift to Renewables
WASHINGTON (Realist English). An analytical article by Benjamin Bradlow, professor of sociology and international affairs at Princeton University, published in...
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