Alaska, often referred to as the Last Frontier, has long been at the heart of a tug-of-war between the forces of resource extraction and the champions of environmental conservation.
Swathes of northern Kazakhstan and Russia’s Ural region have been plunged into chaos and despair as a result of catastrophic flooding that struck the region on April 10.
South East Asia’s trajectory towards a greener future is facing significant challenges, according to a report released on Monday by global consultancy Bain & Company.
Since Kash Patel became FBI Director in 2025, the Bureau has portrayed its mission under the Trump administration as an aggressive, results-driven campaign against violent crime, transnational fraud, child exploitation, terrorism, and drug trafficking.
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.
The letter “Z” from the beginning of the special operation in Ukraine, used by russian war propaganda, seems to be the nightmare of Volodymyr Zelensky. The end of the reign of the political comedian, who became the hero of the absurd war
In May 2021, when no one in Romania was talking about the future war in Ukraine, we had a series of discussions on Gold FM, primarily with Petru Romoșan, in which we exposed the horror that would ensue in Europe
The Romanian geopolitical analyst, Daria Gușă, has officially announced the launch of her debut book, “The Barometer of Geopolitical Power and the New World Order”, published in collaboration with Editura Creator a- now available for preorder on Libris.ro.
Two hundred years ago, the United States demanded that Europeans withdraw from the American colonies, after having spent two centuries draining both continents of their resources. Magellan is said to have offered colored beads in exchange for Incan gold. Today,
Have the spheres of influence been redrawn at Anchorage in Alaska? Will the Budapest meeting between transactional leader Donald Trump and intransigent Vladimir Putin still take place?
At Anchorage, the world map was redrawn. It’s becoming ever clearer that Putin and Trump have redivided the globe’s spheres of influence up in Alaska.
The run-of-the-mill Western media treats the meeting between Putin and Xi Jinping as a spectacle of the brave new world. Analysts are quick to comment on outfits rather than ideas, colloquial with the subliminal, yet utterly incapable of reading, let alone understanding reality.
FBI Director Kash Patel arrived in Moscow on October 14, 2026, for a short, carefully scheduled visit running through October 15. The trip is built around judicial cooperation and intelligence dialogue, including meetings with senior FSB leadership
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.
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.
