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Monday, August 18, 2025
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Topic: Brexit

Is democracy voting itself out in elections?

Once democratic institutions weaken and the only the pretence of elections remain, then democracy in its meaningful form is already gone.

Putin gets the summit he’d been waiting for, and a crocodile massacre in Indonesia

Senior military officers in Egypt may escape punishment for post-Morsi violence, and British army to hire Gurkha women.

How the World Cup has changed the way we see Russia, and Trump advised May to sue the EU

France beat Croatia to win the FIFA World Cup for the second time, Trump and Putin sit down to meet in Finland.

Trump was received in the UK with an awkward dinner and mass protests

In a landmark judgment, the Supreme Court has recognised and given sanction to passive euthanasia and "living will"

A Chinese black comedy film on treating cancer with Indian medicine raked in over $140 mn

Boris Johnson among two UK cabinet ministers to resign over Theresa May's 'soft Brexit' push, and four more Thai teens rescued from flooded cave.

Jayant Sinha garlands lynching convicts, and Theresa May needs to get on with Brexit

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

Trump ends border separation of families, and a transatlantic trade war brews

Nepal and China $2.4 billion agreements and Hungary makes it illegal to help migrants.

Here’s what happened between Trump and Kim, and a ‘meaningful’ Brexit vote

Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un's meeting, for all its hype, has not achieved much, and Bangladesh is introducing a new visa category. 

Modi set for landmark London trip as Britain eyes ‘post-Brexit’ partners

Prime Minister Modi is reportedly one of only three attending Commonwealth leaders invited for an audience with Queen Elizabeth II Wednesday evening.

Global Pulse: Former French president is under investigation for allegedly receiving funds from Gaddafi

Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg has admitted to Facebook's data breach into what has now turned into the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

On Camera

Postcards from Hyderabad—stories Europeans told about the city

For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.

Navigating Trump’s tariffs is no child’s play. Indian toymakers are losing out on orders, enquiries

Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?