After decades of frozen diplomacy and political hostility, the United States and Cuba cautiously turned a page. Under US President Barack Obama, diplomatic ties were restored and the US Embassy in Havana reopened. On the Cuban side, the country was led by Raul Castro, who had taken over from his brother Fidel Castro. American diplomats,…
Israeli television producer Dana Eden, known for her work on the award-winning spy thriller Tehran, was found dead in a hotel room in Athens, Greek authorities said.52-year-old Eden was in the Greek capital for work related to the fourth season of Tehran, an Apple TV+ series. Her body was found in her room at a…
There’s a hilarious BBC skit titled The Treaty of Westphalia (part of it’s the Complete History of Everything) which imagines the dialogues between European superpowers as they divide the continent, taking digs at each other’s fish-eating habits (pickled herring), bonding over the desire to kick German arse, figuring out how to split Luxembourg, and wondering…
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that reaching an agreement with Iran is very difficult because of how the country’s leadership formulates policy.Speaking in Budapest alongside Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Rubio said that Iranians make policy decisions on the basis of pure theology.“Doing a deal with Iran is not easy. I said it…
White House former Speaker of Nancy Pelosi is a “fan girl” of Gavin Newsom and set her sights on getting him in the White House, a report claimed.The 85-year-old, who is serving out her last term before stepping down this year, believed the California governor would make a “great President”, according to Axios.“She’s a Gavin…
Minneapolis officials said on Friday that Operation Metro Surge, a federal immigration enforcement deployment by the Trump administration, cost the city at least $203 million.The statement came on Friday as the White House began winding down the operation across Minnesota following months of occupation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection…
A Texas-based conservative activist has sparked controversy after sharing a video of a 90-foot-tall “Statue of Union” of Lord Hanuman, which is located at the Shri Ashtalakshmi Temple in Sugar Land, Texas. While sharing the video, Carlos Turcios, a Republican activist based in the Dallas–Fort Worth region, said that third World Aliens are slowly taking…
Over a month after US special forces lifted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro out of Caracas under cover of darkness, and flew him to New York to face federal drug trafficking charges, the South American country is navigating a new but uncertain political phase. suspended between rupture and continuity. The January 3 operation — which country’s…
A debate over love, marriage and dating has broken out in the Indian-American community after a policy analyst publicly called for a rethink of long-held attitudes towards relationships.Responding to a 2024 report by NBC News on the rise of arranged marriages among young South Asian Americans, gender expert Neeraja Deshpande argued that deeper cultural attitudes,…
Beneath a serene grassland at Hedegaard, near Ejstrupholm in central Jutland, a 2,000-year-old Iron Age temple and stronger settlement have emerged, shedding light on politics, religion, and trade in northern Europe, archaeologists in Denmark confirmed. Experts say this site may be one of the most important power centres ever discovered in Denmark.For decades, Hedegaard seemed…
