When secretary of state Antony J. Blinken arrives in South Africa on Sunday, he will become the third high-ranking American official to have visited the African continent in two weeks. He is also hot...

The war in Ukraine, where one side is egged on by Anglo-Saxon countries and a pusillanimousEuropean Union simply falls in line behind them, is turning out to be a disastrous own goal for the Western p...

Where is Bobby Fischer? It is July 1, 1972, and the National Theater in Reykjavik is getting restless. The hall where the "Match of the Century" is to open is mostly full, but one seat remai...

She wrote an urgent letter at age 10 to then Soviet Union leader, Yuri Andropov, that made headlines in the 1980s. Her message remains relevant on what would have been her 50th birthday. Mention &quo...

The infant Dean Acheson believed that if the world was round, Indians must be standing on their heads. If the future secretary of state of President Harry Truman hadn’t soon tumbled to the laws ...

What is Quad? China would like us to believe that it is an Asian NATO, driven by a Cold War-era mentality. Quad leaders say they are a group of like-minded democracies working together on a constructi...

The signs of failure in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are readily apparent: the tattered reputation of its military as a modernised, overpowering fighting force; its tattered economy; and a weste...

Different rhythm Sir — The Russian invasion of Ukraine has had a devastating effect on Russian athletes and artists. Most sportspersons have been barred from participating in international even...

Bilawal Bhutto’s ‘Long March’ began in Karachi and terminated in Islamabad on March 7 with a call for a motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Imran Khan. The rest of the Opp...

The war in Ukraine is terrible; and the person who started it, Vladimir Putin, must be held squarely responsible for it. But this should not absolve us from examining what has led up to it. Just as th...