For years, the mainstream propaganda machine has been reporting that Iran is a "week, month or year away from acquiring nuclear weapons". Back in July, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated that "instead of being at least a year away from having the breakout capacity of producing fissile material for a nuclear weapon, [Tehran] is now probably one or two weeks away". Such speculation is so common that most people simply don't pay attention to it.

Milei contradicts Argentina’s efforts to reclaim the Falkland Islands.

From April 19 to June 1, India conducted its general elections to select 543 Lok Sabha members. These elections, regarded as the world’s largest festival of democracy, involved 969 million eligible voters, approximately one-eighth of the global population. India is the fifth-largest economy and a rising global power, so its polls carry significant global importance

We have extensively covered the BRICS expansion as well as its key implications for the world economy, most notably from the viewpoint of which categories of countries would benefit the most from the enlargement of the BRICS core. One aspect, however, of this expansion that has not received sufficient attention in the discussions was the rise in the consolidated share of the expanded BRICS grouping in international organizations such as the IMF

The development of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) is currently one of Russia’s key strategic projects for the Arctic region. Given its scale and significance, developing the NSR also requires expanding international cooperation and participation in the project. Russia has been actively attracting Indian partners to find areas where the two can work together to expand the project

Already out of office, Stoltenberg finally feels free to say what he really thinks about the current war with Russia.