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MEXICO CITY: Earlier in the beginning of January, a firm, direct and principled stance by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, avoiding rhetoric and insults but refusing to give ground to threats, had persuaded the then US president-elect to back down and hold a respectful conversation with the Mexican leader.

In the first Presidential elections in Latin America in the year 2025, , in Ecuador , the incumbent right wing president Daniel Noboa faced a close fight with his left wing opponent Luisa Gonzalez resulting in a runoff elections on April 13 to choose the President of the country for a term of four years. Figures released show that Noboa got 44.43 per cent of the votes polled while Gonzalez got very close 44.17 per cent. There were 14 other candidates.

A yet unpublished UK Home Office report has outlined eight key extremist threats facing the UK besides Hindutva. These threats further include Islamist extremism, extreme right-wing extremism, extreme misogyny, environmental extremism, left-wing extremism, anarchist and single-issue extremism, and conspiracy theories and violence.

U.S. President Donald Trump has started breaking all conventions about abiding by international laws b h announcing the U.S. government’s sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) taking the plea that the ICC is biased against the U.S. and Israel. Donald Trump launched sanctions against the global body, which is seen as a vital last resort to prosecute powerful individuals accused of atrocities including war crimes and genocide.

NEW YORK: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first bilateral meeting with the U.S. President Donald Trump in his second term on February 13 at White House has got unusual significance at the present moment when the entire country is worried at the fate of the huge number of undocumented Indians in the U.S. as also the future of the Indian H-1B visa holders. Modi will be the second foreign leader to get the opportunity to have a summit with Trump after the inauguration on January 20. The first was the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

It is significant that President Trump, despite his bluff and brinkmanship with 25 percent tariff threats against Mexico and Canada, chose only to impose a 10 percent tariff on China. China is Washington’s only real peer competitor in great power realpolitik and its preeminent rival in Cold War 2.0.

Exactly six months have passed since the installation of the interim government in Bangladesh on August 8, headed by Dr. Mohammad Yunus, three days after the ouster of the Awami League government led by former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Hasina, daughter of the founder of the present Bangladesh, the late Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, fled to India on August 5, 2024, and since then, the relations between India and Bangladesh have been deteriorating.

United States President Donald Trump has doubled down on his 'Gaza Plan', which the United Nations says is 'unlawful'. Trump's 'Gaza Plan' is 'loco', said somebody else, without asking if Trump has a 'motive' to go with the 'loco', a movable plan? For one thing, the USA is not a banana republic. Even Russia will balk at challenging the United States. China might resort to bluster.

WASHINGTON: He’s hot, then he’s cold. He’s yes, then he’s no. He’s in, then he’s out. He’s up, then he’s down. Donald Trump appears to be all over the place when it comes to his trade war against Canada and Mexico, as well as in his threats of a future offensive against the European Union and other ostensible allies.

Donald Trump, now used to roiling the world of politics and diplomacy on a daily basis, has turned his attention to strife-torn Gaza Strip. He now promises the US Imperialist Eagle to fly over the disputed area.