China and North Korea will officially open the New Yalu River Bridge on Thursday, ending a 12-year delay that left the major cross-border infrastructure project unused despite its completion in 2014. The
Lula remains the principal obstacle to the return of this project to the presidency. His defeat would affect workers and peasants throughout Brazil, but also the possibilities for regional cooperation and an
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Montana Governor Greg Gianforte will visit Sri Lanka on October 9 with First Lady Susan Gianforte and a delegation from the US state, seeking to expand agricultural trade and deepen security cooperation
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Maricarmen Abascal, an 87-year-old Spanish woman whose eviction from her Madrid home last month triggered mass housing protests and contributed to the calling of an early election, has died, the Madrid tenants’
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Latin America is undergoing a sharp political shift to the right as US influence expands and Venezuela faces unprecedented pressure following the removal of Nicolás Maduro and the rise of Delcy Rodríguez.
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Three years after October 7, 2023, Israel is still confronting the political and strategic consequences of the Hamas attack and the war that followed. Netanyahu faces an election shaped by questions over
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Pakistan’s latest strikes inside Afghanistan mark a shift from years of diplomacy towards direct military deterrence. Islamabad argues that repeated attacks by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, alleged Afghan-based sanctuaries and unfulfilled assurances have
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The European Parliament has adopted a significantly tougher position on China, calling Beijing a “decisive enabler” of Russia’s war in Ukraine, warning that Chinese industrial policy poses an “existential threat” to the
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When Max-Erich Feuchtinger died in 1960, he was remembered as one of West Germany’s leading transport planners. His designs had shaped the reconstruction of bombed-out Ulm, while he had planned motorways near
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Rachel Goldberg-Polin does not describe grief as a process that steadily diminishes with time. Since the death of her son Hersh, who was abducted by Hamas and killed after 328 days in
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In this op-ed, Iran’s ambassador to Sri Lanka challenges Colombo’s decision to observe unilateral U.S. sanctions affecting Iranian vessels, arguing that the policy sits uneasily with Sri Lanka’s non-aligned tradition, its international
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China has established a new military facility in Laos, expanding its overseas military footprint into a country where Beijing has historically competed for influence with Vietnam. The China-Laos Joint Support and Training
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The text argues that allegations of corruption surrounding Donald Trump, his family and members of his administration are finally becoming a major political issue, with recent media coverage and polling suggesting growing
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Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has pledged stable and constructive relations with China while simultaneously defending a harder security posture that Beijing views as increasingly confrontational. The resulting gap between Tokyo’s diplomatic
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Irina Scherbakova, the Russian historian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who spent decades documenting the crimes of Stalinism, says she has become “incredibly disappointed” with international institutions, including the United Nations and
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Governments and political leaders are adopting increasingly different strategies to protect themselves and the public from deepfakes generated by artificial intelligence, as the technology becomes capable of producing convincing fake videos, images
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