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When foreign ministers of countries that are part of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) gathered in New Delhi last week, the agenda looked familiar: supply chain resilience, telecommunications security and maritime domain awareness. The talking points have evolved, the initiatives have multiplied and the meetings have become routine.
Asia is entering a new strategic era. However, its geopolitical debate remains stuck in the previous one. Across the region, governments are investing in…

US President Donald Trump lasted through scrutinising questions about his Iran war strategy and repeated weather disruptions during an interview with US broadcaster NBC – but angrily stormed out when confronted over his unfounded claims of election fraud.
“You’re a one-sided, crooked network. Sorry. Let’s call it quits because I’ve had enough. Thank you, darling. Have a good time,” Trump told Meet the Press host Kristen Welker before standing up and walking out of the interview that aired…

A 28-year-old man was shot dead in North Philadelphia after he delivered pizza boxes inside a housing society. The man has been identified as Anshul Kuncha, an Indian man. The shooting took place on Friday after 12.30 am at the Raymon Rosen Homes housing complex on Edgeley Street in North Philadelphia. Kuncha was shot in the head after completing the delivery. The address where the delivery was made was, in fact, a vacant unit. But police found a phone number from where the order was made and are working on this lead.”He was lying on the ground unresponsive, bleeding heavily with a gunshot wound to his head,” said Chief Inspector Scott Small with the Philadelphia Police Department. He was rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. “From looking at the pizza boxes, we were able to identify the pizza shop,” Small said. It has now been confirmed that Kuncha worked for Pete's Pizza.At the scene, police recovered three spent shell casings, just inches away from where the vic..

Australian NRI Sunil Sharma was murdered by his brother in India over crores of property. A week after Surbhi Sharma, the daughter of an NRI maths teacher in Australia, launched a plea to find her father, the chilling murder plot has been revealed by the police in India as they made four arrests. And the four are his brother, brother's wife, son, and another person involved in the plot. 66-year-old Sunil Sharma was a maths teacher at Diamond Valley College. He was close to retirement and came to India to sell two properties. But he mysteriously disappeared in India which came to notice first on May 23, when a person in India reported that Sharma went missing.Sharma, an Indian-origin Australian citizen, arrived in India just a day before. Some renovation work was going on at the property before the alleged sale, for which Sharma traveled to India. He had crores of property in his name in India.“Anyone who’s met my dad will say he is intelligent, strong and funny, but he is also lov..

An ⁠American student ⁠who disappeared while on ⁠a family holiday in Japan was found dead outside Kyoto, his mother wrote in a social media post on Saturday.
The body of James ‌Higginbotham, 20, was discovered in a mountainous area by a volunteer search-and-rescue group, Nancy Higginbotham wrote.
A cause of death and further details were not immediately available.
“Our family is heartbroken,” she said. “The grief we feel is ⁠impossible to put into words.”
Higginbotham, an Alabama resident ‌and an…

A top White House artificial intelligence policy adviser on Saturday said he will leave his position at the end of June, marking the exit of a leading ‌figure helping craft policies for frontier technologies.
“This journey has been the privilege of a lifetime,” the adviser, Sriram Krishnan, posted on social media.
Krishnan did not give a reason for leaving, but wrote in the post he intends to help “tackle some of the large challenges facing America” related to AI.
Krishnan has been involved in…

More than $580,000 has been seized by Australian authorities following an investigation into a visa fraud scheme linked to a 61-year-old man from the New South Wales Central Coast.The case centred on the misuse of Australia's immigration system, including the Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme. Investigators claimed the man received large sums of money for helping lodge visa applications that contained false information submitted to immigration authorities, reports Australia Today.Financial investigations uncovered hundreds of thousands of dollars moving through bank accounts connected to the man. Some of the money was used to purchase other assets, prompting the AFP-led Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce (CACT) to take action to restrain and confiscate the funds.Earlier this week, the supreme court of New South Wales ordered the forfeiture of $117,000 after the man admitted the money was the proceeds of offences committed between July 2017 and May 2020. The offences involved..

Image/X Recently, Sneako trended after the release of a short video clip showing that he was to get married. In the short clip, he was seen making a marriage announcement through a passionate speech in an excited voice. This information gained popularity among many people on the internet. Everyone seemed to think that the streamer was finally marrying someone in order to start a new life.However, this is not actually the case because there is more information to the statement. Sneako is seen saying that he will be getting married; however, towards the end of the video, the streamer reveals the truth by clarifying that the statement was just a joke. This led to confusion online, as people reacted to an incomplete version of what he actually said in the full video.Sneako’s viral marriage clip sparks confusion before full truth behind announcement is revealedIn one of the short clips circulating on X, the streamer says he is getting married and keeps the announcement vague and secret. Thi..

Taiwan’s main opposition leader said cross-strait peace can be maintained as long as Taipei did not move towards “de jure independence”, during her trip in the United States.
Cheng Li-wun, chairwoman of the Kuomintang (KMT), attended a closed-door seminar at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government on Thursday, according to a KMT statement on Friday.
Cheng told the seminar that peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait, which she described as the greatest common denominator…

US President Donald Trump said Friday he wants his incoming acting spy chief to start firing employees, deepening the controversy over the appointment of a man with no previous intelligence experience.
Bill Pulte, a Trump loyalist who heads the Federal Housing Finance Agency, was named by the Republican president on Tuesday as acting Director of National Intelligence.
“If he cut, I wouldn’t mind that,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, adding that the number of employees in Pulte’s…