Giant bamboo snake parades through Japanese village
A giant straw and bamboo snake over 80 metres long was paraded through a Japanese village on Sunday as part of a festival first held in 1988.
Month: September 2025
Beijing to host massive military parade
In China, a major military parade will take place in Beijing on Wednesday, September 3, to mark the 80th anniversary of the victory over Japanese aggression. Amid rising global tensions, the Chinese government aims to showcase its power, preserve hist…
Timeline of Afghanistan’s deadliest earthquakes since 2015
Afghanistan is prone to tremors due to its location near the meeting point of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates.
China’s Xi hosts Putin and Modi at Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit
Chinese President Xi Jinping is hosting a high-profile summit with leaders from Russia, North Korea and India gathering among others in a challenge to U.S. influence.
Yangzijiang banks $920m worth of newbuilding orders
Shipyard gorges on feeder container vessels
Geopolitics Expert Einar Tangen Blasts Trump Tariffs Says ‘Belittling Country Like India Doesn’t Make Sense’
The recent imposition of steep tariffs by President Donald Trump’s administration on India, amounting to 50%, has reverberated across global economic and diplomatic circles, with significant commentary from geopolitical analysts.Einar Tangen, a senior fellow at the Taihe Institute and a noted expert on Asian geopolitics, characterised these tariffs not merely as punitive economic measures but as
How Trump’s high tariffs on Indian goods may impact the country’s geopolitics
NPR asks economist Devashish Mitra of Syracuse University where he thinks India’s economic and geopolitical relationships will go after the Trump administration imposed 50% tariffs on Indian goods.
SCO leaders sign over 20 agreements, condemn Israeli, US Strikes against Iran
Leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), including Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian, signed more than 20 agreements and joint statements at the conclusion of the group’s 25th summit in Tianjin, China, on Monday.
Must stand unified against double standards in terrorism, says PM Modi at SCO summit
By R Anil Kumar SCO leaders condemn Pahalgam terror attack, demand justice The Member States strongly condemned the terrorist attack in Pahalgam on 22 April 2025. They expressed their deepest sympathy and condolences to the families of the dead and the…
Critical ImageMagick Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution
A critical security vulnerability has been discovered in ImageMagick, the widely used open-source image processing software, that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-57803 with a se…