If the current momentum survives the next several weeks, December may become the month in which the war that reshaped Europe finally gives way to the agreement that reshapes the world.
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.
An Iranian journalist who had been arrested after an interview with the father of the young Mahsa Amini, whose death in detention triggered widespread protests in Iran, said on Saturday that she was sentenced without a hearing, AFP reports.
The head of American diplomacy, Antony Blinken, acknowledged on Friday a decrease in tensions with China.
On Friday, 11 member states of the UN Security Council called on the Taliban in power in Kabul to lift “all oppressive measures” taken against women in Afghanistan.
The Peruvian President, Dina Boluarte, on Thursday called for dialogue to end the demonstrations that are shaking several regions of this country, where protesters are demanding her resignation.
The government did not confirm the action, but it may be seen as a surrender to the protest movement that arose following the death of a young lady while under the morality police’s custody.
On the evening of November 20th, local time, FIFA World Cup 2022, held for the first time in the winter of the northern hemisphere opened in Qatar. According to statistics, the investment amount of the World Cup this year is as high as 220 billion US dollars.
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
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.
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.
