The health of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, the world’s most extensive coral reef ecosystem, is in a critical state and deteriorating as climate change warms the waters around it, an international conservation group said, warning that more than a third of the world’s heritage sites are similarly threatened.
Close to 70% of Close to 70% of voters in the United States consider climate change to be a very (42%) or somewhat (26%) important issue in casting their vote for president in the 2020 election, according to the Pew Research Center.
The world is facing another pandemic of plastics which is not a matter of surprise. Everyone is aware that plastic is detrimental to the health and environment.
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 Maldivian Foreign Ministry announced on Saturday that India has agreed to withdraw its military presence from the Maldives by May.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has called for an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council in response to a decree issued by the authorities in Kosovo.
All 27 European Union leaders have reached a consensus to provide a substantial aid package worth €50 billion to support Ukraine, following a prolonged impasse caused by Hungary’s initial resistance.
Myanmar’s military rulers have announced a further six-month extension of the state of emergency, a move that delays the promised elections once again since the military seized power on February 1, 2021.
On Monday, Iranian authorities firmly rejected any association with the drone strike that resulted in the deaths of three American servicemen and the injury of several others in northeastern Jordan the previous day.
Japan has announced the suspension of its financial contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
Mormonism, formally known as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), holds a unique position in the religious landscape of the United States as the most prominent religion to have originated within its borders.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a high-stakes summit next month with U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping aimed at negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine
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.
The growth of the African continent has always been a topic of great interest among economic and financial analysts.
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.
