When climate change transforms from distant scientific warnings into tangible realities of daily life, global cities are facing unprecedented vulnerability.
Though Africa has contributed the least to global warming (less than 4% of the world’s carbon emission), it has suffered the worst extreme climate shocks, from desertification in the Sahel to devastating drought in Southern Africa.
The approaching warmer winters bring doubt to replace the dependable patterns of the past. The older population holds memories of nature’s dependable seasonal patterns which they pass down to their children who live in a changing world.
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 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:
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.
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.
