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India Why India Is Warning China on the Border Weeks Before Hosting Xi at BRICS India has restated its toughest line on the India China border while denying an Arunachal face-off, weeks before it hosts Xi Jinping at a… Diurna Web Desk · 14 August 2026, 10:37 AM
World Why Karoline Leavitt May Be Impossible for Trump to Replace, and Who’s in the Running Karoline Leavitt leaves Trump's podium at the end of August, and the scramble over her replacement shows how much the press shop leaned on… Diurna Desk · 14 August 2026, 10:19 AM
World Pakistan Gets a New Bloc. What Does It Cost India in the Gulf? A Saudi-Turkey-Pakistan pact reshapes the region where India in the Gulf keeps nine million workers and much of its oil. Delhi is examining the… Diurna Editorial Team · 13 August 2026, 2:52 PM
World What Is Russia’s Shadow Fleet, and Why Is Europe Now Boarding Its Tankers? The Russia shadow fleet moves most of Moscow's seaborne oil past sanctions. Now Europe is boarding the tankers, and Putin is threatening to seize… Diurna Editorial Team · 13 August 2026, 2:52 PM
World Germany Unshackles Its Spies: What the Merz Law Lets the BND and BfV Do Now The German intelligence law from Merz's cabinet lets the BND and BfV hack, sabotage and surveil, not just watch. Here is what the draft… Diurna Editorial Team · 13 August 2026, 2:52 PM
World Eighty Years of Restraint, Undone: Germany Hands Its Spy Agencies New Powers For eighty years Germany kept its spies weak on purpose. The German intelligence reform under Merz trades the caution of 1945 for the threats… Diurna Editorial Team · 13 August 2026, 2:52 PM
World Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan: How Real Is the Mecca Pact’s Nuclear Shield? The Mecca pact binds Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan to mutual defence. But is it a real alliance, and does it quietly hand Riyadh… Diurna Editorial Team · 13 August 2026, 2:51 PM
