End‑of‑Life Dreams: How the Dying Find Peace

Florence sits at the kitchen table. Her husband is there, her daughter, too. They laugh together, share a meal — just as they used to. But there is one difference: both her husband and daughter have been dead for years. "As if we have never been separated," she says. Florence has never experienced dreams with such intensity before.

Can the Quad Remain Relevant for Indo-Pacific Security?

Foreign ministers from the US, India, Japan and Australia — the four nations that make up the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, better known as the Quad — are set to meet in New Delhi over three days from Sunday to discuss Indo-Pacific security, energy supplies and emerging technologies. The meeting comes as China continues to test

Raman Pratasevich: Arrest, Trial, Pardon, and Reinvention

Alexander Lukashenko's regime went to great lengths to arrest Raman Pratasevich. On May 23, 2021, Belarusian authorities forced a Ryanair plane on its way from Athens to Vilnius, in Lithuania, to land in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, sparking global outrage. As soon as the plane touched down, Pratasevich, the former editor-in-chief of Nexta, a Belarusian media networkthat was largely distributed via

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NATO Chief Backs US Decision to Station Troops in Poland

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India Moves to Block ‘Cockroach’ Satire Over Security

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Cannes 2026 Films Mirror a World at War

The 2026 Cannes Film Festival, it seems, has war on its mind. An extraordinary number of movies at this year's festival, which concludes on May 23, deal with the experience of life in wartime. In Lukas Dhont's Belgian World War I drama "Coward," young soldiers in the trenches confront ideas of heroism and masculinity. "Visitation," the latest film

Trump Signals Tougher Approach to Cuba Amid Rising Tensions

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Two coordinated attacks kill at least 24 in Honduras

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