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12/01/2026

Speaking ahead of meetings in Washington, DC, from Monday on the global scramble for key raw materials, Frederiksen said that “there is a conflict over Greenland”. “This is a decisive moment”, with stakes that go beyond the immediate issue of Greenland’s future, Frederiksen said in a debate with other Danish political leaders. https://arknewsnepal.com/denmarks-pm-says-greenland-showdown-at-decisive-moment/

11/01/2026

Less than a week into the new year, after a meeting between Pakistan’s Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Babar Sidhu and his Bangladeshi counterpart Air Chief Marshal Hasan Mahmood Khan, the Pakistani military announced that a deal to sell its domestically produced JF-17 Thunder fighter jet could be imminent. https://arknewsnepal.com/is-pakistan-selling-its-jf-17-fighter-jets-to-bangladesh-and-others/

04/01/2026

“The United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolás Maduro, who has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the Country,” he wrote on Truth Social early Saturday morning.

President Donald Trump announced Saturday that the US will “run” Venezuela after capturing President Nicolás Maduro and his wife in a large-scale military

31/12/2025

The war games began on Monday in the waters and airspace to the north, southwest, southeast and east of Taiwan’s main island, according to China’s Eastern Theatre Command spokesperson Shi Yi.

The exercises saw China deploy its naval destroyers, frigates, fighter planes, bombers, drones, and long-range missiles to simulate seizing control of Taiwan’s airspace, blockading its ports, and striking critical infrastructure, “mobile ground targets” and maritime targets, Shi said.

https://arknewsnepal.com/how-are-chinas-new-war-games-around-taiwan-different-from-earlier-drills/

30/12/2025

The escalation of threats to Venezuela by United States President Donald Trump may be easy to dismiss as one of his random whims, but it is too closely linked to major confrontations to be seen as a regional affair with limited impact on the rest of the world. https://arknewsnepal.com/russia-may-gain-more-than-lose-from-a-us-intervention-in-venezuela/

28/12/2025

Tensions are flaring along the Tajikistan-Afghanistan border in Central Asia with the Tajik government reporting multiple armed incursions this month, straining its fragile relationship with Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders.

Leading the Way

26/12/2025

Zelenskyy’s comments represent Ukraine’s biggest territorial concession so far as he faces mounting pressure from both Russian military advances and United States President Donald Trump to agree to a ceasefire with Moscow. Zelenskyy unveiled the plan in a two-hour briefing with journalists, reading aloud from a highlighted and annotated copy. The plan was formulated by negotiators from Washington and Kyiv in Florida over the weekend. https://arknewsnepal.com/ukraine-accepts-demilitarised-zone-to-end-russia-war-but-do-dmzs-work/

25/12/2025

The initiative was announced at the end of the two-day Alliance of Sahel States (AES) summit in the Malian capital, Bamako, as the three countries struggle to improve the security situation amid rising attacks from separatist groups as well as armed groups linked to al-Qaeda and ISIL (ISIS). They agreed to launch a joint battalion, which is expected to comprise an estimated 5,000 soldiers from the three countries, with a mandate centred on counterterrorism and border security. https://arknewsnepal.com/sahel-summit-what-is-the-biggest-challenge-facing-the-africa-region/

23/12/2025

Japanese authorities have approved a decision to restart the world’s biggest nuclear power plant, which has sat dormant for more than a decade following the Fukushima nuclear disaster, in a pivotal moment as the country looks to looks to shift its energy supply away from fossil fuels.

https://arknewsnepal.com/japan-to-restart-the-worlds-biggest-nuclear-power-plant/

22/12/2025

Miller’s comments came a day after US President Donald Trump posted on social media that he is imposing a “total and complete blockade” of sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela. The US has amassed the largest military force in the region in decades, just off the coast of Venezuela, and has carried out multiple strikes on boats it claims are trafficking drugs, killing about 90 people since September. However, the Trump administration has provided no evidence of drug trafficking, prompting claims that it is more interested in controlling oil in the region and forcing regime change in Venezuela. https://arknewsnepal.com/does-the-us-have-any-real-claim-on-venezuelan-oil/

21/12/2025

In early November, United States President Donald Trump declared that “Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria”. In a series of posts on his Truth Social platform, he accused “radical Islamists” of “mass slaughter” and warned that the US “may very well go into that now disgraced country, guns-a-blazing“. https://arknewsnepal.com/nigeria-must-not-become-americas-next-battlefield/

18/12/2025

Kaynes Semicon, together with Japanese and Malaysian technology partners, assembled the chips in a new factory funded with incentives under Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s $10bn semiconductor push announced in 2021. Modi has been trying to position India as an additional manufacturing hub for global companies that may be looking to expand their production beyond China, with limited success. https://arknewsnepal.com/can-india-catch-up-with-the-us-taiwan-and-china-in-the-global-chip-race/