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LONDON: Former Welsh Labour leader Mark Drakeford is the latest figure to call for an orderly removal of Keir Starmer. The defenestration of the Prime Minister is now Westminster Labour’s default position as well as meeting the desires and expectations of most people.

This is the season of high level summits. On May 14 and 15, U.S President Donald Trump visited Beijing and had ‘fantastic’ talks, according to the U.S. President, Chinese media also went overboard explaining the great possibilities of China-US cooperation in political and economic spheres and also how important this was in the present state of global situation. Russian President Vladimir Putin was on a visit on May 20 to China and had very fruitful talks in strengthening the relations between the two big powers.

The United States and Iran appear locked between diplomacy and military escalation as tensions over the Strait of Hormuz intensify. While President Donald Trump has temporarily postponed military action following pressure from Gulf allies, Tehran is simultaneously advancing new proposals on nuclear talks and unveiling a fresh maritime mechanism to manage one of the world’s most strategic waterways.

NEW YORK: For years, Pakistan’s political class has lived inside a hall of mirrors — where conspiracy theories become national doctrine, where whispers from Rawalpindi travel faster than court judgments, and where the line between reality and manufactured narrative has almost entirely collapsed.

Peru, a nation of Latin America will be holding Presidential face off polls on June 7 after the first round of polls held in April this year failed to give majority to any of the contesting candidates. Peruvian election authority announced finally that Keiko Fujimori with 17.19 per cent of the votes and Roberto Sanchez with 12.03 per cent of the votes, will be entering the final round to decide the President of the country for the next four years.

NEW YORK: The island that the world refuses to recognise as a country has once again been reminded of a brutal geopolitical truth: in the contest between the United States and China, Taiwan is indispensable — but still expendable.

Now that the U.S. President Donald Trump is back to Washington DC. After his two day summit talks in Beijing on May 14 and 15, it is appropriate to decode the gains of the summit. There were four major issues-- Taiwan, Iran war, trade deals and facilitating more business for the American high tech companies focusing on AI. What then was the final outcome of the Beijing summit on these issues?

The New Delhi meeting of BRICS foreign ministers was intended to project the image of a confident and expanding coalition of emerging powers preparing to reshape the architecture of global trade, finance and governance. Instead, what emerged from the two-day gathering was a revealing portrait of a bloc that remains economically ambitious but politically fragmented, rhetorically radical yet institutionally cautious, and increasingly united less by a coherent shared worldview than by a collective dissatisfaction with the existing Western-led order.

NEW YORK: When Air Force One touched down at Beijing Capital International Airport on the evening of May 13, three hundred Chinese schoolchildren in blue and white uniforms waved American and Chinese flags in the warm spring air — a choreography so precisely managed it could have passed for a Broadway production. Standing at the bottom of the aircraft stairs, President Donald Trump waved to the assembled crowd, flanked by a roster of American billionaires that read like a Silicon Valley who's-who: Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX, Tim Cook of Apple, Jensen Huang of Nvidia — a last-minute addition who boarded Air Force One in Anchorage after Trump reportedly called him personally — and Larry Fink of BlackRock, along with Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg. Twelve of America's most powerful corporate chieftains, in total, traveling as a presidential entourage.

US President Donald Trump’s high-stakes visit to Beijing for talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping has triggered global attention amid worsening geopolitical rivalries, trade tensions and security concerns. While both leaders projected optimism and called for a “new vision” in bilateral ties, deep strategic mistrust remains over Taiwan, technology, military competition and the future balance of global power.