The Earth’s climate has changed throughout history. Just in the last 650,000 years there have been seven cycles of glacial advance and retreat, with the abrupt end of the last ice age about 11,700 years ago.
Australia is being ravaged by the worst wildfires seen in decades. Find out more here.
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Pollution is a big problem all around the world. It can cause or exacerbate health problems such as allergies, asthma, diseases such as cancer or heart disease, and even death. Pollution is harmful to humans and animals, and it also can affect crops, which puts our food supply at risk.
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 European Union (EU) and Chile have embarked on a new chapter of their relations, having signed an Advanced Framework Agreement and an Interim Trade Agreement.
In a seismic shift in Middle Eastern geopolitics, the world has been alerted to the development of negotiations being conducted behind closed doors between Israel and Qatar.
On Monday, a historic change swept through the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) as Kate Forbes was elected President, the second woman ever to hold this prestigious position.
Mario Draghi, the former European Central Bank President and Prime Minister of Italy, is now being touted as a potential candidate for the presidency of the European Commission, following the European parliamentary elections scheduled for June 2024.
Recently, European media has been paying attention to the declining rural population in Europe, focusing on general trends in countries such as Spain, Germany, France, and Italy.
Romania has always played a key role in the Eastern European political landscape, and its relationships with the United States have been of strategic importance for both nations.
FBI Director Kash Patel hosted Montenegro’s Minister of Justice Bojan Bozovic and a Montenegrin delegation at FBI Headquarters on October 19, 2026
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
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.
