Editorial As voting entered its most consequential moment, Donald Trump may have recognised the political damage awaiting his party. On Election Day, he announced that the United States would end its annual
Editorial Colombia has once again done what it has repeatedly done throughout its turbulent modern history: it has swung the political pendulum with extraordinary force. After decades of guerrilla warfare, paramilitary violence,
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The story of Xi Jinping’s China begins far from the gleaming skylines of Beijing and Shanghai. It starts in Liangjiahe, a small village nestled among the dusty, clay-colored hills of Shaanxi province,
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing the gravest crisis of his political career after reports emerged that he is preparing to announce his resignation today ( Monday), a move that could
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For more than four decades, Raimundo Batista de Souza carried memories of a place he believed he would never escape alive. Speaking from Porto Nacional in Brazil’s Tocantins state, where he now
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“More the decline of the Buddhist Order of Sri Lanka, taller the statues.” ~ EW Adikaram (Onwards alone like a unicorn) In November 2025, officials from the Department of Wildlife raided the
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The early internet was sold as a challenge to sovereignty. Information would route around borders, jurisdiction would dissolve into bandwidth, and the territorial state, the durable invention of the seventeenth-century Westphalian order,
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Sixty to seventy percent of Mexico’s terrain is classified as arid or semiarid desert, typically with no rain for eight to nine months a year. La pipa, the water truck, brings enough water to
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by Eric Bailey There are moments in the life of a nation when the real test of character is not found on the battlefield, but in what follows after the guns fall
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For more than a decade, the Islamic State (IS) has been developing a foothold across the Sahel, but recent operations indicate that its regional affiliate has moved into a more advanced stage
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor Long after battles stop and front lines disappear, anti-personnel mines continue to shape the lives of communities living on contaminated land. A new report presented to the
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX did not just launch a company onto the stock market. According to an analysis published by Die Zeit, its highly anticipated debut revealed a deeper transformation in global finance:
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor A widening institutional rivalry at the heart of Brussels is exposing deep strains in the European Union’s diplomatic architecture, as competing centres of authority challenge the coherence
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The report portrays a moment in Washington shaped not only by the approaching 250th anniversary celebrations of the United States but also by a president whose presence has become inseparable from the
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On February 15, 2026, the bulk carrier Grumant (IMO: 9385879) was captured in satellite imagery docked at the occupied Ukrainian port of Feodosia on the Crimean peninsula. The vessel appeared to have
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by Our Economic Affairs Editor If you read markets today as anything other than a speculative mirror reflecting its own adrenaline, you are not paying attention—or worse, you are being paid not
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