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It appears that one of the Middle East’s most intractable conflicts might be nearing its end, and its ramifications will be felt far and wide, following the call for peace by PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan. For half a century, Kurdish militants have fought Türkiye for independence in the southeast of the country, which has claimed more than 40,000 lives and has rippled beyond Türkiye’s borders into Iran, Iraq, and Syria.

If you wanted to know the exact meaning of the English proverb “bearding the lion in its lair”, you should have seen the Oval Office meeting when an embattled president from a small, beleaguered country fought up to the grimaces and attacks from an immeasurably more powerful —what was meant to be — ally.

LONDON: On the one hand, Keir Starmer hosts European and Canadian leaders for a summit on militarisation in response to the abrupt US policy shift on Ukraine. On the other Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu blocks all humanitarian aid to Gaza, threatening to derail the second phase of the fragile ceasefire.

Is the global geopolitics moving a full circle after 80 years since the end of the Second World War in 1945? The question is now extremely relevant after the world saw on Friday in TV channels the unprecedented spat between the United States president Donald Trump and the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Ukraine president visited Trump in the White House to sign a deal on mineral resources apart from discussions on the proposed peace deal with Russia. But what happened in that 45 minute meeting was nothing but, as the London-based newspaper The Guardian termed “one of the greatest diplomatic disasters in modern history”.

NEW YORK: The late, great Gene Hackman was a working-class guy from Danville, Illinois, the son of a waitress and a pressman for a local newspaper who deserted the family when young Hackman was just thirteen. An avid moviegoer from childhood and a big fan of the ultimate urban working-class tough, James Cagney, whom he considered “the consummate actor,” Hackman wanted to act from an early age. But he spent many years, after a post-WWII stint in the Marines, moving furniture and driving trucks and selling shoes for a living while he studied acting and got his training on the New York stage.

US President Donald Trump’s AI-generated video on Gaza, which he uploaded on self-owned 'Truth Social', stumped the majority who sat down to watch it. They didn’t think Ai could have been more realistic than the works of celebrity filmmakers like James Cameron with their creative imaginations.

The world is facing the brunt of attacks by Donald Trump after his installation as the 47th president of the US. This person combines the qualities of an early capitalist adventurer and an American cowboy-robber baron of a bully and a businessman. Thrown up by the collapsing world imperialist economic order, he appeared on the world stage to rescue crisis-ridden capitalism with raw, savage corporate capitalism. In his latest avatar, he is surrounded by a new breed of unruly technocapitalists who plan to plough huge profits out of powerful new technologies to crush other competitors and pauperise poor developing nations and workers domestically and worldwide.

Three years after it was started on February 24, 2022, the war in Ukraine is coming to end. True to his claims, the US president, Donald Trump, is striking deals on all sides to bring this war to a close. True. Trump has shamefully deserted all principles and concluded a secret kind of understanding with Russian president in search if his MAGA goals.

The Latin American nation Bolivia is currently undergoing a major political turmoil as after two years of infighting between the former President Evo Morales and the incumbent President Luis Arce, the ruling left wing coalition was split at a convention of MAS workers on February 25 with the declaration of Morales to form a new party Front for Victory (FPV) dissociating from the President Arce and his followers in MAS.

The final results of Germany’s national elections held on February 23 are being debated intensively in the global media, especially in the European media about the upsurge of the far right party AFD which virtually doubled its voting percentage in the 2025 elections compared to the 2021 national elections. The ruling Social Democratic Party (SPD) was the main loser apart from the Free Democratic Party which failed to cross the ceiling of five per cent.