Category: World

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the Indo-Pacific Business Forum in Washington revealed America’s infrastructure development plan for the Indo-Pacific region. The Trans-Pacific Partnership was a free trade agreement between countries bordering the Pacific Ocean. At the time, it was the largest trade agreement..

U.S. spy satellites have detected renewed activity at the North Korean factory that produced the country’s first intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the United States, a senior U.S. official said on Monday, in the midst of talks to compel Pyongyang to give up..

US President Trump said he would be willing to meet Iranian President Rouhani with “no preconditions” as tensions between the two countries climb following the U.S. president’s decision to withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal. Iran’s nuclear program was first launched in the 1950s, with help from the US.

Synergia Foundation organized a round-table discussion with Max Rodenbeck, Editor, South Asia Bureau Chief at The Economist, and moderated by OV Nandimath, Registrar, National Law School, Bangalore. The event was attended by experts who shared their insights on various challenges..

The ongoing trade war between the US and China has taken a new turn, with the two sides now engaged in a currency war. A gradual depreciation of the yuan is one of the weapons China is likely to use in the trade war but experts are divided over how it will work for exports…

Zimbabwe’s general elections held on 30th July 2018 will elect the President and members of both houses of Parliament. Pre-election polls give President Mnangagwa a narrow lead over his rival Mr.Chamisa from the MDC Alliance. For multiple decades now Zimbabwe has struggled to feed its own people due to severe droughts and the effects of…

The Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), headed by Prime Minister Hun Sen who ruled Cambodia for 33 years, won a landslide victory in the general elections. However, the election was widely condemned by human rights groups and international political observers who said that the elections were neither free nor fair due to voter intimidation and..

Singapore is hosting the 51st ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM) from 30th July to August 4th. The Association of Southeast Asian Nationsis a regional intergovernmental organization, established in 1967 comprising ten Southeast Asian countries that promotes intergovernmental…

The current campaign for the Presidential elections in Mali on 29 July has occurred in the midst of chronic insecurity across the state. Experts believe that the elections will be the true test of the nation’s stability. Mali is a land-locked nation in West Africa bordered by seven countries: Algeria, Niger …

An inquiry carried into fake news by UK’s DCMS committee says electoral law needs to be updated and tech companies need to do more to stop malicious propaganda on their networks. The committee warned that UK faces a “democratic crisis” due to the spread of “pernicious views” and the manipulation of personal data…