Parts of Texas hit 0F (-18C) on Sunday, and weather warnings are expected to stay in place through the week. According to the US National Weather Service (NWS), this is down to an “Arctic outbreak” that originated just above the US-Canada border, bringing a winter snowstorm as well as plummeting temperatures.
The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed body of water on the earth. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and discovering large oil and gas fields, some issues such as political, economic, and environmental events, made the Caspian Sea important.
US President Joe Biden’s administration has started discussions with the utility and automobile sectors about reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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 Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has made an impassioned appeal to the nation’s major investment firms.
As the crescent moon heralds the arrival of Ramadan, the holy month of fasting and reflection for Muslims around the globe, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, the sovereign of Saudi Arabia, has utilized this spiritually significant moment to address a pressing humanitarian concern.
In a significant breach of national security, a United States military intelligence analyst, Korbein Schultz, was arrested on allegations of disseminating sensitive information to a suspected foreign entity.
In a landmark decision aimed at bolstering cooperation in the fight against cross-border crime within the European Union, the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
The Russian opposition landscape was shaken by the death of its most prominent leader, Aleksei Navalnyi. Known for his fierce criticism of the Kremlin and his anti-corruption investigations, Navalnyi’s sudden death raised immediate questions about the circumstances surrounding his demise
In a move that underscores the escalating shadow conflict between Iran and Israel, the Islamic Republic of Iran has carried out the execution of an individual accused of being an agent for Israel’s Mossad foreign intelligence service.
In a revelation that has sent shockwaves through the Australian political and academic arenas, the head of Australia’s primary intelligence agency, the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO).
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.
