Wildfires fueled by extreme heat and high wind spread further across California, Oregon, and Washington on Thursday, destroying hundreds of homes and killing at least seven people.
Typhoon Haishen has moved closer to Japan’s southern mainland, urging the authorities to evacuations and warn of possible record flooding, extreme waves, high tides and large ocean swells.
The ongoing oil pollution incident involving the grounded 203,000 DWT bulk carrier MV Wakashio is causing an ecological disaster on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, endangering corals, fish and other marine life which are already affected by climate change.
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 relationship between Hungary and Ukraine has experienced its fair share of strain, largely due to disagreements over minority rights and geopolitical orientations.
The Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta, commonly known as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM)
As the world continues to grapple with the challenges of polarization, armed conflict, and the erosion of international norms, the theme of “Rebuilding Trust”
In the midst of chaos and conflict, there exist a group of individuals who risk their lives to bring the raw, unfiltered truth to the world.
After half a century since humanity last touched the lunar surface with the Apollo missions, the United States is poised to make history yet again.
Amidst an economic backdrop that necessitated an international bailout last year, Bangladesh is gearing up for a landmark general election this Sunday.
Iran is reeling from a devastating tragedy as the country mourns the loss of more than 80 lives lost to two bomb attacks.
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.
