EU pushing new sanctions on Russia, expanding aid to Ukraine

IANS | September 11, 2025 11:24 AM

Strasbourg (France), Sep 11 (IANS) European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that the European Union (EU) is preparing a new round of sanctions against Russia while stepping up military and financial support for Ukraine.

Trump blames 'radical Left' after Charlie Kirk's murder

IANS | September 11, 2025 8:46 AM

Washington, Sep 11 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has issued a video statement following the fatal shooting of conservative activist and popular influencer Charlie Kirk, 31, who was killed during a campus event in Utah.

Why is Pakistan Army conducting airstrikes in Balochistan? (IANS Analysis)

IANS | September 10, 2025 10:36 PM

New Delhi, Sep 10 (IANS) Balochistan has been the theater of insurgency since 1948, the year after Pakistan’s creation, when the princely state of Kalat was forcibly annexed against the wishes of its people. From that moment onward, the relationship between Balochistan and the Pakistani state has been defined not by partnership but by coercion.

Turkey's Erdogan silencing opposition and cementing grip on power

Baidya Bikash Basu | September 10, 2025 9:35 PM

Ankara: Turkey's internal political landscape in 2025 has been marked by intensifying conflict and sharpening discord. Domestic political environment included detentions of opposition mayors and other personalities under the garb of anti-corruption investigations, social media restrictions, violent crackdowns, pressurising opposition figures to join ruling dispensation, etc. Municipalities run by the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), a Kemalist and social democratic political party in Turkey, have faced waves of arrests this year.