When institutions decide instead, through annulment, disqualification and prosecution, the message to every citizen is chilling: “you may vote, but only for the approved choices.”
This was evident, in part, during the funeral of former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei—an event attended by millions—as well as among the many Iranians who left the country at various points
The European Union is facing a complex situation: on one hand, the lingering effects of the conflict in Ukraine; on the other, the consequences of a fragile energy model, the lack of investment in the technology and artificial intelligence sector and challenges regarding global competitiveness.
Vladimir Putin – the modern Tsar of Russia– is serving as President of Russia since 2012, previously holding the position from 2000 until 2008. In between his presidential terms, he was also the Prime Minister of Russia under his close associate Dmitry Medvedev (Putin was barred from a third consecutive term by the Constitution). However, Vladimir Putin gained 76% of the March 2018 presidential vote and was re-elected for a six-year term that will end in 2024.
The bureau highlighted its presence at the International Association of Chiefs of Police annual conference, where organizers reported the largest attendance in the event’s history.
Romania’s foreign intelligence service says a fire at a defence-linked industrial site near Brașov was part of a wider campaign of sabotage it attributes to Russia. T
Federal prosecutors say Ian Brinksman repeatedly pulled top-secret reports he had no reason to read and fed them to a journalist he was dating, who published the material online.
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.
Among the ten smallest countries in Africa, Rwanda has long harbored the ambition to become a driving economic force in the Great Lakes region, leveraging
The growth of the African continent has always been a topic of great interest among economic and financial analysts.
