The United Kingdom decided to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) earlier in July after two years of discussions, with full ratification anticipated in 2024. The U.K. will thus become the first new and first non-Pacific member of the pact, joining Australia, Brunei, Chile, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Mexico, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam. With this, the United Kingdom advances a key objective of its “Indo-Pacific Shift,” a post-Brexit strategy to increase its ties to the Indo-Pacific area. The union is expected to be fruitful because British membership will help the U.K. in many ways and…
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Following intensifying Ukrainian strikes on Russian warships, Russia will establish a naval station on the Black Sea coast of a separatist area in Georgia, its commander said in an interview on Thursday. According to Mr. Bzhania, the new naval facility in the Ochamchire district will strengthen Russia’s and Abkhazia’s defense capabilities and “safeguard the fundamental interests” of both countries. Security is paramount, he said to Izvestia. Moscow has recognized the region of South Ossetia and its enclave as separate entities. Since Moscow pulled out of a treaty guaranteeing safe passage for cargo ships to and from Ukraine’s Black Sea ports…
According to a document acquired by AFP, the Russian mercenary outfit Wagner inked a contract with a Chinese firm in 2022 to purchase two satellites and use their photographs to strengthen its intelligence operations, as the organisation wanted to further Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The agreement was made more than six months into Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, when Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner group, was playing a crucial role on the front lines. According to a European security source, the satellite photos were also used to support Wagner’s operations in Africa and even its failed rebellion in June,…
A drone attack on a military academy in Syria’s Homs province during a graduation ceremony resulted in at least 100 deaths and 240 injuries, according to a war monitor and Syria’s health minister. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimated that over 100 people were killed and 125 were injured. An official with the coalition supporting the Syrian government estimated the death toll at roughly 100. Hassan Al-Ghabash, the minister of health, provided a lesser estimate, saying on state television that 80 people had died, including six children, but that 240 people had been hurt. There were worries that the…
The Enforcement Directorate (ED), in its fourth supplementary prosecution complaint in a money laundering case connected to the Delhi excise policy case, claimed that AAP MP Sanjay Singh was “extremely close” to accused Dinesh Arora and served as a conduit between him and then deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia. The prosecution complaint, which is the equivalent of a chargesheet in the ED, was submitted in May of this year. Singh, a Rajya Sabha MP, was apprehended by the agency on Wednesday following raids at his New Delhi apartment, a day after a court granted Dinesh Arora, a Delhi-based businessman, approval…
On October 3, the Delhi Police detained Prabir Purkayastha, the founder and editor-in-chief of the news site NewsClick, as well as Amit Chakraborty, the director of human resources, in connection with an alleged terrorism investigation. Suman Nalwa, the deputy commissioner of police (PRO), reported that a total of 46 “suspects,” including nine women, had their phones, computers, and other electronic devices taken for additional investigation after being questioned. She continued by saying that two people had already been arrested during the ongoing process. Police raided the residences and offices of journalists, authors, professors, contributors, and a satirist linked with the…
Alliances and partnerships are continuously examined and analyzed in the dynamic world of international politics. Russia’s expanding ties with Afghanistan is one such collaboration that has attracted a lot of attention recently. It is crucial to determine whether these links represent real substance or are purely symbolic gestures in today’s complicated world order as the globe observes a shifting geopolitical landscape and the aftermath of the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan. The historical context of its relationship with Afghanistan is crucial. The Soviet Union’s invasion in 1979 led to a tumultuous period, with the Afghan Mujahideen resisting the occupation. This…
On Sunday evening, Turkey conducted air assaults over northern Iraq after a Kurdish terrorist organization claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in the Turkish capital Ankara earlier that day. Turkish military aimed 20 targets in northern Iraq associated to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), including bunkers, warehouses, and tunnels, about 9 p.m. local time on Sunday, according to the Turkish defence ministry. Suicide bombing in the heart of Ankara The raids were conducted about 12 hours after a suicide bomber injured two police officers at Turkey’s interior ministry in Ankara on the first day of the country’s parliament’s return from…
Andhra Pradesh CM is slated to have security cover that officials believe will be “like the Special Protection Group (SPG)” that covers the Prime Minister. The force will be known as the Special Security Group (SSG). The primary goal is to provide round-the-clock safety to the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and their immediate family members—spouse, parents, and children. The Print quotes Superintendent of Police (Intelligence) Babujee Attada, an IPS officer from the 2011 batch who has been selected to be the first SSG director, as saying that the SSG law has been given to the governor for approval and that…
The long-running territorial dispute over the Nagorno-Karabakh territory between Armenia and Azerbaijan is once again making headlines. After a three-decade attempt at independence, Nagorno-Karabakh’s separatist administration announced on Thursday that it would dissolve itself and the unrecognized republic would cease to exist by year’s end. The actions followed Azerbaijan’s last-week rapid offensive to regain control of the area and its demands that Armenian troops in Nagorno-Karabakh disarm and the separatist government disband. On Thursday, the region’s separatist president, Samvel Shakhramanyan, signed a decree to that effect. The document highlighted a cease-fire agreement negotiated last week under which Azerbaijan will allow…
