Europe risks becoming dangerously dependent on foreign AI, threatening its economic independence, security and geopolitical influence. The warning is that decisions made now could determine whether Europe helps shape the future of
In an interview with El País, Scottish writer Douglas Stuart speaks about the subjects that have defined both his life and his fiction: poverty, fractured families, homosexuality, class and the enduring difficulty
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Wittenoom no longer appears on Australia’s road signs. It has been removed from official maps, abandoned and effectively erased. Nobody lives there, and visiting is prohibited. Yet for decades this remote settlement
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Across some of the world’s driest regions, strange barren circles known as “fairy circles” may be revealing something far more valuable than an unusual geological curiosity: naturally occurring hydrogen beneath the ground.
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The crisis in Tirah Valley, Khyber District, is ultimately a test of whether security can be transformed into sustainable civilian peace. For years, militancy, difficult terrain, and the region’s proximity to the
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Tripura’s latest road and rail blockade by surrendered insurgent groups highlights persistent gaps in the implementation of the September 4, 2024, tripartite peace accord and raises questions over the sustainability of the
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The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a resolution calling for greater use of world maps that more accurately represent the relative size of Africa and other continents, in a vote led
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For nine months, the sailors of the USS Abraham Lincoln have lived largely within the confines of a warship. This week, 5,000 American military personnel arrived in and around Pattaya, Thailand, as
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The double earthquake on June 24 and recent torrential rains in Caracas have reopened an old wound in Venezuela: the plight of families who have spent years waiting for state-provided housing while
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The People’s Palace Scene: The End of an Experiment and the Beginning of a Question On 25 August 2026, Mazloum Abdi announced from the People’s Palace in Damascus the end of the mission of
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Palestine is the current example of Stalin’s cynical observation. There, young, violent Israeli hoodlums – known as ‘settlers’ in western media – have been trying to terrorize Arab villagers into flight. It’s
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As President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping prepare for their next summit, an increasingly urgent question hangs over their rivalry: can the world’s two leading AI powers cooperate on the
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For decades, successive US national security strategies have warned that violent non-state actors could acquire sophisticated technologies and use them to overcome conventional military advantages. Weapons of mass destruction, advanced military systems
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The economic pressure being exerted on Iran by the United States is inflicting severe hardship on the population without materially changing the country’s core demands or preventing Tehran from challenging US operations
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After International Energy Agency executive director Fatih Birol labeled the ongoing global energy turmoil the “biggest energy security threat in history” in April, events over the summer vindicated his warning. The United States authorized the
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A few days ago, when I landed at Budapest Airport on my way to an international conference devoted to serious questions of international politics, the first thing I saw was a huge
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