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 picture is supposed to be worth a thousand words. In Romania this week, two pictures were worth a constitution, a foreign policy, and whatever dignity still clung to the idea of a state.
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.
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.
Since the first cold hours of the morning, the square in front of the Romanian Government has begun to fill—not merely with people, but with a grief that has been accumulating for months, perhaps years.
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:
Yesterday afternoon, at the Geneva Press Club, a small gathering tried to do something the United Nations often fails to do: put two of its own worlds in the same room and ask why they barely speak to each other.
Anti-corruption prosecutors have suspended and ordered the house arrest of Vlora Hyseni, the head of Albania’s State Intelligence Service, on suspicion of leaking classified information.
On the tarmac at Shannon Airport in western Ireland, two aircraft sat for refueling. According to two people familiar with the matter, that pause was long enough for CIA Director John Ratcliffe to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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.
