South & Southeast Asia

New Delhi's relationship with Tel Aviv is one of the most complex diplomatic dynamics in modern geopolitics. What appears today as a close strategic partnership was, for decades, either nonexistent or deliberately hidden from public view.

Improving disaster response is critical to saving lives and reducing damage. Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) offer new tools that can help emergency teams act faster and more effectively.

After 50 years of its reunification and later, its economic liberalization implemented by the Doi Moi reforms in 1986, the Vietnamese Communist Party under To Lam, secretary general, aims at transforming the country in an emerging economic powerhouse by limiting the dependence on exports and state-owned companies and building stronger ties with Western economies (in January 2026, To Lam elevated ties with the EU through a strategic partnership and in February 2026 he agreed d