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.
A directive to American diplomats to stop writing “artificial intelligence” and start writing “super intelligence”. What are the consequences?
Three sources with knowledge of the discussions have told The Diplomatic Affairs that Romanian President Nicușor Dan asked JP Morgan in New York this week to open a financing line for the Romanian state and was turned down.
In a reception without precedent in more than a decade, President Trump personally greeted Xi Jinping at a military base outside Washington, and hours later the two governments agreed to extend their fragile trade truce into January.
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.
Yesterday, Sunday, from a foreign policy perspective, the attention of the interested world was focused on Russia.
The summer Romania built a crisis: ambulances without fuel, a President who does nothing and a political class that flew away.
This weekend, Russia is holding the ninth legislative election in its post-Soviet history, an event that has largely escaped public attention because of the lack of clear analysis of these elections in the Western press.
The subject I want to address today is Ukraine, and the long-standing concerns that I and the members of the GOLD Think Tank have had about the problems we would eventually face with this country.
NEW YORK — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met his German counterpart, Johann Wadephul, on the sidelines of the 81st United Nations General Assembly on September 26
Russia’s foreign intelligence chief has accused the European Union of interfering in the country’s State Duma elections, saying Brussels prepared a critical assessment of the vote before it was completed.
In a region often defined by sudden headlines and hard-edged military talk; last Sunday’s meeting in Cairo felt like something rarer: a deliberate bet on conversation.
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.
