Lone ISIS Bomber Carried Out Kabul Airport Attack, U.S. Says
The suicide bombing killed as many as 170
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G.O.P. Declares Jan. 6 Attack ‘Legitimate Political Discourse’
The Republican National Committee voted to censure Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for participating in the inquiry into the deadly riot at the Capitol. Representative Liz Cheney has said Republican leaders “have made themselves willing hostages” to former President…
House Passes Bill Adding Billions to Research to Compete With China
The vote sets up a fight with the Senate, which has different recommendations for how the United States should bolster its technology industry to take on China. Workers at a semiconductor factory in Beijing in 2020. The renewed push for…
US Assassinations Reverberate in Iraq Two Years On
The assassination of Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) elite Quds Force, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, an Iraqi militia commander, head of Kataib Hezbollah and de facto leader of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF),…
The Truth About the Founder of Pakistan
Many scholars have spilled much ink on Pakistan’s founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah. A giant has now waded into the fray and penned a masterpiece. Ishtiaq Ahmed is a professor emeritus at Stockholm University who first made his name with a pathbreaking…
Russia and China tell NATO to stop expansion, Moscow backs Beijing on Taiwan
Russia and China called in a joint statement on Friday (4 January) for NATO to halt its expansion while Moscow said it fully supported Beijing’s stance on Taiwan and opposed Taiwanese independence in any form. The joint statement, including harsh…
Tweets of the Week: Orban in Russia, Taxonomy and Eurovision is coming
This week there was a meeting of “minds” as Hungary’s Viktor Orban travelled to Russia to meet his biggest idol Vladimir Putin. Putin to host EU ally Orban amid Ukraine crisis — EURACTIV Global EU (@eaGlobalEU) February 1,…
EU states agree to ‘mandatory solidarity’ on migration
EU interior ministers have agreed to make the so-called “
Covid-19 Commission Modeled on 9/11 Inquiry Draws Bipartisan Backing
A broad, bipartisan group of senators is coalescing around a plan for an independent panel to investigate the origins of the coronavirus and the U.S. response. Senators Richard M. Burr, Republican of North Carolina, and Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington,…
US lawmakers push to rename Taiwan’s de facto embassy in Washington
A bipartisan group of US lawmakers proposed matching bills in the Senate and House of Representatives on Thursday (3 February) that would require the United States to negotiate the renaming of Taiwan’s de facto embassy in Washington as the “