Author: Deshwale Global Desk

A Damascus court has finally put a number on what the Assad family did to its own country. It took two men, five decades, and roughly half a million lives to get there. On Tuesday, a courtroom in Damascus did something that would have been unthinkable in Syria for most of the last fifty years: it put Bashar al-Assad’s name on a guilty verdict and read it aloud on state television. The Fourth Criminal Court sentenced the former president, in absentia, to death for premeditated murder, torture and crimes against humanity, alongside his brother Maher al-Assad once commander of the…

कैसा हो जब एक ही देश की दो राजधानियां हों? सुनने में यह बात अजीब लग सकती है, लेकिन दुनिया के कई देशों में यह व्यवस्था पहले से मौजूद है। हालांकि आज हम जिस देश की बात करने जा रहे हैं, वहां दूसरी राजधानी बनाने का फैसला लोगों के मन में कई सवाल खड़े कर रहा है। हाल ही में जापान की संसद ने एक कानून पास किया है, जिसके तहत टोक्यो के अलावा देश में एक “बैकअप राजधानी” तय करने का रास्ता खुल गया है। जुलाई महीने में यह विधेयक निचले सदन में आसानी से पास हो गया, लेकिन…

Travelling to South Africa has become easier for eligible Indian passport holders with the introduction of the country’s new Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) system. The digital platform allows travellers to apply for travel authorisation entirely online, with applications expected to be processed within 24 to 48 hours, making the visa application process quicker and more convenient. The newly launched ETA is designed for short-term tourism and work visits of up to 90 days. Unlike the traditional visa process, travellers no longer need a physical visa sticker, as the travel authorisation is digitally linked to their passport. The system also allows…

Turkish Airlines has taken another step towards strengthening its pilot training programme by signing an agreement with Turkish defence and technology company HAVELSAN to purchase 12 new flight simulators. The move is part of the airline’s long-term plan to expand its fleet to more than 800 aircraft by 2033. Under the agreement, the airline will receive eight Full Flight Simulators (FFS) and four Flight Training Devices (FTD). The new simulators will be added to Turkish Airlines’ growing training infrastructure, helping the carrier increase its pilot training capacity as it continues to expand its operations. The simulators will be installed at…

अगर आपसे पूछा जाए कि क्या आप एक ऐसे घर में रहना चाहेंगे जहां एक रात रुकने के बदले आपको लगभग 52,000 रुपये दिए जाएंगे, तो आपका जवाब क्या होगा? सुनने में यह किसी गेम शो का टास्क लगता है, लेकिन असल में ऐसा नहीं है। जापान में यह सच में हो रहा है, और इसके पीछे की वजह उतनी डरावनी नहीं जितनी सुनने में लगती है। दरअसल जापान में एक कानून है। अगर कोई व्यक्ति कोई घर या प्रॉपर्टी खरीदना या किराए पर लेना चाहता है, तो एजेंट को उसे उस प्रॉपर्टी की पूरी जानकारी देनी पड़ती है। अब…

For years, a garment manufacturer in Tiruppur or a leather goods maker in Kanpur has watched competitors from Germany, Spain and the Netherlands walk into the British market with a built-in advantage. Those European exporters paid little to no duty on their goods entering the UK. Indian products, meanwhile, carried tariffs that made them costlier on the shelf, even when the quality matched or beat the competition. That gap has just closed, at least on paper. From July 15, the India-UK Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) comes into effect. It gives 99% of Indian exports duty-free access to the…

Iran’s former Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is being laid to rest this week in one of the biggest state funerals the country has ever held. The guest list tells its own story not just about Iran, but about India too. Khamenei was killed at age 86 in a joint United States-Israeli air strike on his compound on February 28, the first day of the US-Israel war on Iran. His burial was originally planned for March, but was delayed as the war dragged on. Ceremonies began on July 3, when Khamenei’s body arrived in Tehran and foreign delegations started paying…

Back in November 2025, Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said something in parliament that Beijing has still not forgiven her for. She told lawmakers that if China ever took military action against Taiwan, including a naval blockade, it could pose an “existential threat” to Japan, one serious enough that Japan’s own military might have to respond alongside the United States. China’s reaction was fast and furious. Beijing summoned Japan’s ambassador. Japan summoned China’s ambassador right back, after a Chinese diplomat made an alarming remark about “cutting a dirty neck.” China suspended imports of Japanese seafood. The two countries have been…

For a few hours on Tuesday, it looked like Donald Trump had lost a very personal fight. The US Supreme Court struck down his executive order to end birthright citizenship, calling it unconstitutional. Immigrant rights groups celebrated. Headlines called it a “stinging defeat.” But by that evening, the Trump administration had already moved on to Plan B and this one doesn’t need the Constitution to change at all. Here’s what actually happened, and why it matters far beyond America’s borders. The century-old rule that was under threat Since 1868, the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution has guaranteed that anyone…

When the ground started shaking under Caracas on Wednesday evening, Maria Alejandra was inside her apartment building, watching the walls crack around her. She and her neighbours had to force the door open through the dust and debris before climbing down past rubble to reach the street. “The scene was like a horror movie,” she later told Reuters. She was one of the millions who never left even as more than 7.7 million Venezuelans fled the country over the past decade, escaping hyperinflation, shortages and political turmoil that gutted entire neighbourhoods. Two earthquakes struck Venezuela within roughly 40 seconds of…