As the summer of 2024 unfolds, Europe is grappling with an unprecedented heat wave that has shattered temperature records and impacted millions across the continent.
On the occasion of the 75th summit organized between July 9-11 by the Atlantic Alliance in Washington, NATO published the annual report of its Secretary General.
Noticed or not, the changes in world energy happened. At the same time that global petroleum is approaching its peak, clean energy is developing rapidly.
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 Romanian prime minister avoids the word “economic crisis”. I see why. Officially, two consecutive quarters of GDP decline mean a technical recession. And the crisis was often caused by external shocks, as it was in the period 2008-2009, while now, the problems come from within.
In the whirlwind of the Epstein case over the past week, few journalists have noticed a detail that highlights one of the most well-defined geopolitical rivalries of our time.
About three weeks ago, when the Davos Forum was held, I announced, from this microphone, that Kirill Dimitriev had become Putin’s negotiator in relations with the leaders of Europe.
What do we need to know so as not to…make a mistake? Well, first of all, today we need to know that, from China, the world has received a real sledgehammer blow, through the effects that we will see in the next period, and emphasize: not necessarily in the short term.
The US National Defense Strategy came out of the blue; Pete Hegseth simply chose to send an internal email last Friday at 7 p.m., after people were already going home from work to rest for the weekend. It’s a little different from the National Security Strategy
It’s been three full days since the US aggression against Venezuela, and it seems like nothing momentous has happened in the world. The UN is agitating needlessly, on the “we’re making a fuss about nothing” model. Russia and China have mandated second-ranking officials to protest.
The year 2026 has started strong, with the harshest action taken by Donald Trump so far. Today I spent the whole day tuned to all the news channels, also waiting for the statements of the American president to be able to provide you with a comprehensive analysis
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.
On 2 October 2026, the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth and the International Day of Non-Violence, Ambassador George Papadatos declined the usual rites of reverence.
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.
