On June 1, 2026, millions of Ethiopians took to the ballot box despite widespread conflict and displacement. Ethiopian citizens’ willingness to work towards improving democratic institutions may point ...

In the Chinese province of Xinjiang, the Uyghur ethnic minority faces mass detention and forced labor. The CCP has woven databases, cameras and detention centers together to create a massive network ...

When the US and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury on the morning of February 28, the Middle East witnessed the acceleration of a conflict simmering for nearly half a century. The opening salvos of ...

As Arctic ice melts, Greenland is increasingly becoming a pivotal area of geopolitical competition, where issues of resource extraction, logistics and national security overlap. However, perceiving ...

Shamim Mafi, a US permanent resident living in California, was arrested for allegedly brokering millions of dollars in Iranian weapons sales to conflict zones like Sudan. Prosecutors say she worked ...

Iran’s intensified repression of Kurdish opposition groups reflects deep fears of a coordinated internal uprising that could unite marginalized ethnic communities and opposition forces. Tehran’s ...

A 40 billion Brazilian real hole, high-society parties in Sicily and a trail leading to the Supreme Court, together these things make up the anatomy of a banking scandal that reveals the dangerous ...

In October 2025, Le Monde featured a column by its San Francisco correspondent, Corine Lesnes, in which she expressed her doubts about the sanity of a prominent figure in finance and a Silicon Valley ...

Contemporary great power competition is shifting toward strategic “gateways” of the international system — regions where geopolitical influence, economic infrastructure and military power intersect.

China condemned the operation that started the Iran War but refrained from direct involvement, revealing limits in its strategic partnerships. The disruption of Iran’s oil exports to China highlights ...

Gladys West, a pioneering American mathematician, played a significant role in the development of precise Earth models that made the Global Positioning System possible. Her contributions to the ...

History will record the early 21st century as the era of the “Great Betrayal.” We witness a profound moral collapse within Western academia, media and political movements — a collapse defined by a ...