Generative artificial intelligence has become a practical tool in terrorist and violent extremist activities, supporting attack planning, weapons acquisition, target selection and the preparation of ideological material, according to a new analysis
Nearly a month after U.S. military forces intervened in Venezuela and removed Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores from power, the country’s political landscape continues to shift in ways that feel both dramatic
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Fraud is no longer a peripheral crime affecting a careless few. It is now the most prevalent offence in the UK, eclipsing burglary, violent crime and car theft combined, and costing victims
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A packed global election calendar in 2026 is emerging as a fresh source of volatility for financial markets already unsettled by abrupt shifts in US policy and rising geopolitical tension. From Japan
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As soon as the television cameras were ushered out of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, the carefully choreographed spectacle of diplomacy gave way to something more personal. Sitting across
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Japan’s reliance on foreign labor reached a historic milestone in 2025, as the number of overseas workers climbed to a record 2.57 million, highlighting how deeply the world’s fourth-largest economy is being
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The idea that the COVID-19 pandemic merely hastened deaths that were already imminent has been deeply embedded in public debate since the crisis began. But a sweeping new analysis suggests that assumption
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On India’s 79th Independence Day, in August 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi devoted his speech to Viksit Bharat 2047 (Developed India 2047) and announced a National Manufacturing Mission. The mission, he said, must ‘reduce import
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Terrorist attacks, whether by individuals or groups, are usually followed by attempts to explain the rationale and causes behind them. The core reasons, however, lie not in surface-level factors but in the
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Eric Schmidt, one of Silicon Valley’s most influential figures of the past two decades, has issued a stark warning to Europe over its approach to artificial intelligence, arguing that the continent is
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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has delivered a stark assessment of Europe’s security ambitions, warning that the European Union would be unable to defend itself without the United States even if member
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What does it mean when a defence strategy announces itself as a triumph before it has even articulated a problem? What kind of naval order is being imagined when a state declares,
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The world’s most dangerous conflict equations are increasingly being drawn not between nuclear equals, but between nuclear-armed states and those without the bomb. Already, two such wars are ongoing: Russia versus Ukraine
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Elon Musk is one of the most polarising and influential figures of our time, a man whose name has become synonymous with audacious ambition, relentless engineering, and a vision of humanity that
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George Friedman is widely recognised as one of the most influential geopolitical analysts of the modern era. As the founder and chairman of Geopolitical Futures, a forecasting organisation devoted to anticipating major
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by Durga Jamie Dimon’s conversation with The Economist’s editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes at the World Economic Forum in Davos was, in many ways, a warning shot fired across the bow of global
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