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Claims about a “New World Order” have been used in two distinct registers since 2020: as a conspiratorial smear that links global institutions and elites to secret plots (recycled and debunked across ...
Australian authorities have publicly acknowledged multiple investigations and responses to foreign intelligence activity on Australian soil, including statements that ASIO has disrupted at least 24 “m...
Thailand’s Supreme Court ruled on 9 September 2025 that former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra must serve a one‑year prison term after finding his 2023 hospital stay did not count as time served . M...
Requesting or offering insults directed at a sitting head of state raises legal, ethical, and platform-policy questions that available reporting addresses only indirectly; sources emphasize that Xi Ji...
Coverage of Sanae Takaichi in international outlets has been polarized: a cluster of pieces frames her as a hardline, nationalist figure whose Taiwan remarks escalated tensions with China (TIME, Reute...
Thailand’s government and elite have taken a mix of legal, political and pragmatic steps to manage Thaksin Shinawatra’s possible comeback in 2025: courts and criminal sentences have been central — inc...
Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) has publicized two captured Chinese nationals, identified as Wang Guangjun (born 1991) and Zhang Renbo (born 1998), who say they were recruited to serve with Russian f...
UNCLOS does not itself create a general right to use force at sea; it allocates jurisdictional zones (territorial sea, exclusive economic zone, high seas) and specifies activities that affect when sta...
You named India, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, China and South Korea; authoritative definitions and government lists show the Indo‑Pacific is much larger — counts range from roughly 40 to more ...
Reporting and academic work document organized pro‑Duterte online networks, academic estimates of campaign spending on “trolls,” and multiple complaints and calls for probes alleging government links ...
After the Nuremberg trials the U.S. military and legal community rejected “just following orders” as an absolute defense for war crimes and taught that service members have a duty to refuse manifestly...