Summer 2026 was the hottest ever recorded in western Europe, its rivers ran dry, its crops failed and its forests burned. But the real story is no longer survival.
A slab of Himalayan ice and rock gave way high on the Nepal-China border and thundered down the valleys below, burying towns in mud
Across the hills of Appalachian Ohio, lands stripped bare by a century of mining are becoming woods again — the result of a patient, half-century experiment in undoing industrial damage, and a lesson in how reforestation actually works when it’s done right.
At the BRICS summit in New Delhi, China’s president urged the bloc to take on a peacemaking role in the Middle East war.
European banking mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are back. Market volatility triggered by US tariff actions has threatened the global M&A recovery
Donald Trump is getting his hands on Venezuelan oil and announcing a mega-deal to take control of over 65 billion barrels of Caracas’ crude oil, “the largest deal in world history,” as he himself calls it in Truth.
The BRICS summit in India has just wrapped up, and it was a remarkably effective one: unified, and unmistakably assertive in the geoeconomic signals it sent.
In Dallas, on the eve of the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Donald Trump took the stage at the Republican convention and asked the audience to raise their right hands. Not for an oath of allegiance to the Constitution, but for a pledge of loyalty to him:
The Trump administration is reportedly considering a significant adjustment to its team handling negotiations over Russia’s war against Ukraine, with CIA Director John Ratcliffe potentially assuming a larger role
To explain coherently yet concisely what I stated in the title—even if it strikes you as incredibly dramatic—I will take a brief look at actual recent history, not the version taught in schools. Let me remind you that the Cold War
The Eastern Economic Forum is taking place these days. Vladimir Putin is set to deliver a lengthy speech later today—if he hasn’t already started. The Eastern Economic Forum is similar to the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, though not quite as significant in terms of the number of participants.
A defiant Facebook post from a Romanian MEP raises a question every European democracy is now wrestling with: when your country goes wrong, do you fight it at home, or do you take it to Brussels?
When official channels freeze, another kind of conversation sometimes continues in the dark. That is the unwritten rule of great-power politics: ambassadors may be recalled, summits
The file sat in a drawer for almost six months. That, more than any speech in Parliament, is what should keep people awake.
The country hosting the 2034 World Cup has just made clear whose side it is on, and that may matter more than the rebellion.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s reported visit to Moscow on 26 August was never going to be a purely diplomatic courtesy call. Intelligence chiefs do not fly to the capital of a nuclear-armed adversary at war in order to exchange weather reports.
Fifty-seven thousand people on the largest island on earth, sitting atop rare earths and astride the melting sea lanes of the Arctic. In 2026 Greenland found itself the object of an American president’s ambition, a Danish reckoning, and a great-power scramble it never asked to join. This is the country behind the headlines.
Kyrgyzstan is a small, mountainous country with a booming economy, a fading reputation for revolution, and a president quietly turning the region’s most open political system into something that looks increasingly like its neighbors.
A profile of the archipelago the world suddenly wants to know.
Let us turn, however, to the situation in East Asia. On August 12, Putin visited Iturup Island in the Kuril chain—touring a fish processing plant and some schools—an event that sparked quite a controversy, so to speak.
It began with one sentence a prime minister didn’t need to say. Ten months later, Japan and China are locked in their worst rupture in a generation.
In what observers are calling the most consequential election in Bangladesh’s recent history, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) swept to a commanding parliamentary victory on Friday, ending nearly two decades in the political wilderness and setting the stage for a dramatic new chapter in the South Asian nation’s turbulent democratic journey.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – October 27, 2025 – In a significant diplomatic push, world leaders assembled in Malaysia on Monday to explore avenues for enhancing economic and trade relations, against the backdrop of impending U.S. tariffs.
Many global analysts predict that India will be the next great economic power: Goldman Sachs has predicted that it will become the world’s second-largest economy by 2075 and Martin Wolf of the Financial Times
On the 21st of October, the Takaichi has been selected as the 104th Prime Minister of Japan by the Japanese Parliament, which has stopped the persistent political deadlock situation after the resignation of Ishiba Shigeru on the September 7th.
Against the backdrop of intensifying great power rivalry and sluggish global economic growth, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) stands at a strategic crossroads that will determine its future destiny.
The great-power struggle between China and the West now runs through a scattering of small island nations most Europeans know only from postcards.
Almost 98 percent of its people voted for independence. Its leaders have set a date: September 1, 2027.
For four and a half centuries, the world’s default map made Europe and North America look larger than they are and the global south smaller.
Nearly 800 people are dead in eastern DRC, American diplomats are barred from traveling, and the deal meant to loosen China’s grip on the world’s most important battery metals has quietly moved to conference rooms in London and Brussels.
