Nearly 300 millimetres of rain in 48 hours left a metropolis of more than ten million wading through waist-high water, its roads turned to canals and its army deploying field kitchens.
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
From the ancient hill where Athenians invented democracy, America’s top diplomat told a weary continent it stands at a crossroads between renewal and decline.
Over the past three decades, international and commercial negotiation theory has been driven by a prevailing premise: the pursuit of efficiency through market integration.
After two days of talks in Beijing, the European Union and China have reached an agreement that could reduce Chinese exports of hybrid and plug-in hybrid cars by more than half over the next four years, preventing the arrival of several million vehicles.
Last night, what has already become a widely discussed phone call took place between Donald Trump and Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
Meanwhile, an entire nation is awaiting the Trump Administration’s declassification of this file and the release of evidence concerning the involvement of the former Biden-Blinken administration in orchestrating the annulment of the Romanian presidential election.
“The press must serve the governed, not the governors.” – Hugo Black, in the Pentagon Papers case
There is an ancient saying that whispers through the ages, carried on the winds of history: In times of trouble, raise your flag high, as high as possible, so that it can be seen in all directions, and those who are your friends will answer your call and come to your aid.
A history of South Korea I recently read is titled *Shrimp to Whale* by Ramon Pacheco Pardo. The title alludes to a Korean proverb stating that when whales fight, the shrimp’s back gets broken.
The Romanian press has offered only superficial commentary on the visit to New York for the UN General Assembly—ranging from the presidential couple’s kiss (viewed by some as a theatrical gesture and by others as entirely
History does not always wait for committees. Sometimes it waits for four men who refuse to treat the world as a finished script.
August Hanning once ran the BND, the agency charged with keeping Germany’s secrets. Now, at 80, he stands accused of trafficking in them.
On 2 October 2026, the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth and the International Day of Non-Violence, Ambassador George Papadatos declined the usual rites of reverence.
On a Monday morning in Geneva, with the Palais des Nations behind them and a season of stalled talks all around, the European Public Law Organization asked a question that diplomacy has been circling for years: can artificial intelligence help restore collective action when politics itself has gone rigid?
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.
A history of South Korea I recently read is titled *Shrimp to Whale* by Ramon Pacheco Pardo. The title alludes to a Korean proverb stating that when whales fight, the shrimp’s back gets broken.
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.
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.
