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The risk of a "major miscalculation" in the Middle East is growing by the day as the war between Israel and Hamas rages on, Comfort Ero, president of the Crisis Group NGO, told AFP. Ongoing conflicts across the globe, from Sudan to Ukraine, are also creating a bleak geopolitical landscape.But we are also seeing that every day we're one step closer to a major miscalculation.

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Revelers across Asia celebrated the countdown to midnight on New Year’s Eve with fireworks and brightly lit signs — offering a hopeful start to 2024 for some, even as the globe’s ongoing conflicts raised security concerns and let to muted or even cancelled festivities. As the clock struck midnight in Australia, more than 1 million […]

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Although Biden did not explicitly mention the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, his speech focused on American forces rising to the occasion to defeat darkness and evil.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and some of his fellow progressives in the Senate are asking Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to include just as much funding for domestic priorities as international conflicts in a spending bill being discussed in the upper chamber. The liberals are urging Senate leaders to give…

The visit is expected to lay the groundwork for a potential summit between President Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping next month.

Updated: May 17, 2021 23:38 IST Unprecedented interactions among the major powers are leading to a significant diplomatic churn in the region Share Article AAA Unprecedented interactions among the major powers are leading to a significant diplomatic churn in the region Major West Asian nations have recently embarked on new diplomatic engagements with erstwhile rivals that could in time overturn existing regional alignments and possibly end ongoing conflicts that have wreaked havoc in several ...