FEBRUARY 27, 2026
Taliban security personnel stand guard near the Torkham border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan in the Nangarhar province, on February 27, 2026. - Aimal Zahir/AFP/Getty Images
Afghanistan and Pakistan are fighting again, trading deadly shelling and mortar fire across their rugged border, with Islamabad’s defense minister saying his country’s patience had “run out” and declaring “open war” on...
FEBRUARY 27, 2026
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and former President Bill Clinton march in the annual Town of New Castle Memorial Day Parade in Chappaqua, N.Y. May 27, 2019. - Tania Savayan/The Journal News
CHAPPAQUA, New York - It’s been more than 26 years since Bill and Hillary Clinton made their home in this wooded, affluent community...
FEBRUARY 27, 2026
This latest escalation comes days after Pakistan carried out air strikes inside Afghanistan following suicide blasts on its soil. - (file photo) AFP via Getty Images
Afghanistan has launched a "large-scale" military operation on Pakistani army positions in response to recent strikes carried out by Islamabad, Taliban officials have said.
"Numerous" Pakstani soldiers have been killed and some captured in...
FEBRUARY 26, 2026
Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that claims China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly previewed a plan to mandate voter ID and ban mail...
FEBRUARY 26, 2026
Donald Trump has urged Sir Keir Starmer, pictured together in September 2025, not to ‘give away Diego Garcia’ - Leon Neal/Pool via REUTERS
Donald Trump is refusing to back Sir Keir Starmer’s Chagos deal again unless the Prime Minister allows the US to use the islands to strike Iran.
The US president is understood to have asked to use Diego Garcia,...
FEBRUARY 26, 2026
Outgoing WEF President Børge Brende delivers a speech at the forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2026. - Harun Ozalp/Anadolu/Getty Images
A month ago, Børge Brende interviewed US President Donald Trump following his address to government and business leaders in Davos, Switzerland.
On Thursday, the president and CEO of the World Economic Forum, which organizes the annual gathering in the...
FEBRUARY 25, 2026
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio attends a joint press conference with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (not pictured) in Budapest, Hungary, February 16, 2026. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo/File Photo
WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Donald Trump's administration has ordered U.S. diplomats to lobby against attempts to regulate U.S. tech companies' handling of foreigners' data, saying in an internal...
FEBRUARY 25, 2026
Chat GPT app icon is seen on a smartphone screen, on August 4, 2025. - Kiichiro Sato/AP/File
A sprawling Chinese influence operation — accidentally revealed by a Chinese law enforcement official’s use of ChatGPT — focused on intimidating Chinese dissidents abroad, including by impersonating US immigration officials, according to a new report from ChatGPT-maker OpenAI.
The Chinese law enforcement official used ChatGPT...
FEBRUARY 24, 2026
President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address in the House Chamber of the US Capitol on February 24, 2026. - Jessica Koscielniak/Pool/Reuters
President Donald Trump made false claims in his State of the Union address on Tuesday.
Here is a fact check of some of Trump’s remarks so far:
Fact check: Trump falsely claims US has secured ‘$18 trillion’ in investments
Trump repeated...
FEBRUARY 23, 2026
Ramayana
The Ramayana has never lived only in verses or manuscripts. It has lived in footsteps, in rivers crossed, in forests remembered, and in temples where lamps are still lit every morning. Long before it became a story we read, it was a journey people believed in, walked through, and passed down not as fiction, but as lived...
