World politics

World politics

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Doha, Qatar Foreign dignitaries from across the Arab and Muslim world have gathered in Doha, and observers are expecting them to deliver a decisive response to Israel after its attack on Qatar. The emergency summit of the Arab League and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) opens on Monday, a day after foreign ministers from the participating states met behind closed doors in Doha to hammer out a draft resolution proposing concrete measures against Israel.

The United States and China have reached a framework agreement to transfer TikTok's ownership to US control. Officials from both countries made the announcement on Monday. list of 4 itemsend of list The short-form video app was set to be banned in the US by Wednesday if its owner ByteDance did not agree to sell the company to a US-based operation or if the US did not extend a pause of the ban, which the White House has already done three times, most recently in June.

My country's capital was subjected to a treacherous attack targeting a residence housing the families of Hamas leaders and their negotiating delegation, the Qatari emir said in his opening speech at the emergency summit of the Arab League and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). list of 4 itemsend of list Our citizens were surprised, and the entire world was shocked by the aggression and cowardly terrorist act, he said, referring to the global condemnation of the September 9 attack that killed six people.

The proposed increase seeks to guarantee a fair and proportional contribution, based on the intensive use of infrastructure and specialized human resources,

We were not allowed to paint in red, green, black and white: The Palestinian flag was forbidden. And the colors of the Palestinian flag were forbidden,

US political analyst John Mearsheimer argues that Israel attacked Qatar to preclude any closure to the war on Gaza. In the aftermath of an Israeli attack on Qatar targeting the leadership of Hamas, American political scientist John Mearsheimer argues, The Israelis are interested in making sure there are no negotiations that settle the conflict in Gaza. Mearsheimer tells host Steve Clemons that the United States and Israel basically act as a tag team, and despite a mild rebuke by President Donald Trump, the US supports Israel unconditionally.

I am ready to do major Sanctions on Russia when all NATO Nations have agreed, and started, to do the same thing, and when all NATO Nations STOP BUYING OIL FROM RUSSIA, Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform on Saturday, which he described as a letter to all NATO nations and the world. Trump proposed that NATO, as a group, place 50-100 percent tariffs on China to weaken its economic grip over Russia.

The veteran negotiators Hussein Agha, representing Palestine, and Robert Malley, an American diplomat, played instrumental roles in that long effort, including the critical Camp David summit of 2000. But, in their new book, "Tomorrow Is Yesterday," they conclude that they were part of a charade. "A waste of time is almost a charitable way to look at it," Malley notes bitterly. "At the end of that thirty-year-or-so period, the Israelis and Palestinians are in a worse situation than before the U.S. got so heavily invested."

Dalio described a future where humanoid robots, smarter than humans, and advanced AI systems, powered by trillions of dollars in investment, could render many current professions obsolete. He questioned the need for lawyers, accountants, and medical professionals if highly intelligent robots with PhD-level knowledge become commonplace, stating, "we will not need a lot of those jobs." This technological leap, while promising "great advances," also carries the potential for "great conflicts."

In 2015, a scrappy group of Hong Kong film-makers imagined what their semi-autonomous city could look like under the increasing influence of the Chinese Communist party (CCP). Any resemblance to actual events or persons is entirely coincidental, reads the first scene in the opening credits. But decade on, many of the predictions made in Ten Years have, in some form, come to pass.

No matter where you are, Israel's long arm' may be coming for you next. And so Israel has struck again. On Tuesday, the Middle East's favourite perennial aggressor launched missiles against the Qatari capital of Doha, targeting Hamas leaders involved in negotiations surrounding a proposal from the United States for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli genocide of Palestinians has officially killed more than 64,000 people in less than two years.

Israeli-Russian academic and Princeton University student Elizabeth Tsurkov, who was held captive in Iraq for more than two years, was released earlier this week in an exchange deal with Israel, according to a report by Iran's Tasnim News Agency. Two prisoners, including a Lebanese national seized in 2024, were released by Israel in exchange for the freedom of Tsurkov, whom Tasnim described in its report on Thursday as an Israeli spy.

And yet this powerful and complex documentary, directed by Brandon Kramer (a distant relative of some of the people involved) and co-produced by Darren Aronofsky, is a reminder that the situation now can't be understood without remembering the Hamas massacre how it was calculated to provoke a rage-filled reaction that would discredit Israel internationally, what it meant and continues to mean within Israel and how the political and ideological connotations of the hostages have themselves evolved.

One US official reportedly said that the Trump administration was ready to go, ready to go right now, but we are only going to do this if our European partners step up with us. Trump's proposal comes amid his frustration at brokering a peace deal, including at a high-profile summit with Putin in Alaska, and amid Russia's increasing drone attacks, including its largest ever air attack on Ukraine last week.

As the U.S.-Japan alliance confronts an era where digital threats increasingly target economic stability and national security, integrating cyber strategy into the relationship is essential. The longstanding pillars of military, trade, and diplomacy have supported peace and prosperity. Still, the rise of cyberspace as a borderless, high-stakes domain demands that both nations make cybersecurity a foundational element of their partnership in the Indo-Pacific and beyond.

The small, resource-rich Gulf state has helped negotiate deals to release United States citizens held in Iran, Afghanistan and Venezuela, and return Ukrainian children to their families after they were taken to Russia. Qatar has also presided over diplomatic breakthroughs between Sudan and Chad, and Eritrea and Djibouti, as well as the 2011 Darfur peace deal. In 2020, Qatar helped negotiate the US's withdrawal from Afghanistan with the extremist Taliban group.

Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry says it condemns and denounces in the strongest terms the brutal Israeli aggression'. An Israeli attack in Qatar's capital, Doha, targeting Hamas officials has drawn swift condemnation from across the region and beyond with the UN chief calling the air strikes a flagrant violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Qatar. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office confirmed that the Israeli military carried out the attack in Doha on Tuesday against Hamas leaders.

Jair Bolsonaro led a criminal organization that sought to plunge Brazil back into dictatorship with a murderous power grab involving special forces assassins and a massive disinformation campaign, the supreme court judge presiding over the former president's trial has claimed as he voted for Bolsonaro's conviction. Alexandre de Moraes announced his decision on Tuesday as the trial of Bolsonaro and seven alleged co-conspirators including four senior members of the military and the former head of Brazil's answer to MI6 entered its final stretch.

Climate change, rising seas and China's push for influence are set to dominate talks at the Pacific Islands Forum in Solomon Islands this week, in a meeting already marked by geopolitical tensions. The lead up to the forum has already been fraught with tensions after Solomon Islands prime minister Jeremiah Manele excluded external partners including China, the US and Taiwan from discussions.

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto abruptly replaced Sri Mulyani Indrawati as finance minister, risking renewed financial turmoil for Southeast Asia's biggest economy following violent protests in recent weeks against his administration. Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa, who has served as chairman of the Deposit Insurance Corporation since 2020, was sworn in as finance minister at a hastily-arranged ceremony late Monday. He said he is "a market person" who will keep Indonesia fiscally healthy.

Anutin Charnivirakul was voted in after a special session in Parliament on Friday. The 58-year-old is heir to Sino-Thai, one of Thailand's largest construction firms. He served as the company's president before entering politics in the 1990s. He has since served in a variety of high-profile positions, including as deputy prime minister for the past six years, health minister from 2019 to 2023, and then as interior minister until this year. His time as health minister coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to the official data, the Peronist's center-left candidate Axel Kicillof won 46.8% of the vote across the province, while the candidate for Milei's La Libertad Avanza (LLA) party took 33.8%, with 82.2% of the votes counted. The margin between the Peronist party and Milei's party was much higher than what was predicted in pre-election polls. Milei accepted his party's "clear defeat" and admitted to unspecified "mistakes" which he vowed to "correct."