We live in a globalized world, where the degradation of land in the Sahel has implications not just on people living there, but for humanity as a whole. Just look at the European migration
A growing body of research, including several recently published papers and reports, shows that the indoor environment is a significant source of our exposure to air pollutants. Although strict regulations in several countries have spurred dramatic improvements in outdoor air quality, indoor air remains largely unregulated.
The consequences of global pandemic COVID-19 have traumatized the whole world. In this scenario, we are entrusted to take all the possible measures to protect the world from another such pandemic occurring.
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.
Hungary’s parliament is on the brink of approving Sweden’s bid to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Monday.
A news leaked by a Bloomberg journalist accredited to the White House, then developed in a larger article by the same publication, according to which three countries—Turkey, Romania, and Hungary.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has emerged as a favored candidate for the organization’s top position, garnering explicit support from the United States, Great Britain, and Germany.
Mohammad Eslami, the head of Iran’s civilian nuclear program, has dismissed the possibility of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi’s proposed visit to Iran in March.
In a recent press release, Diaa Rashwan, the director of Egypt’s State Intelligence Service and the government spokesman in Cairo, explicitly denied international media reports suggesting that Egypt is planning to create a safe zone for Palestinians potentially displaced from Gaza due to the ongoing Israeli offensive.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has publicly criticized the long-standing legal actions against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, stating on Thursday that the time has come for these proceedings to end.
On February 21, the Russian Duma, the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia, is set to vote on whether the nation will suspend its participation in the Parliamentary Assembly.
Nearing the presidential elections in Romania, two notable candidates are attracting the attention of both local and Romanian Diaspora voters: Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu and former NATO Deputy General Secretary Mircea Geoană.
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.
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.
