The emerging maritime partnership between Pakistan’s Gwadar Port and Oman’s Sohar Port deserves attention far beyond the language of bilateral diplomacy. Pakistan and Oman are discussing an arrangement that would designate Gwadar
Deep beneath the vast deserts of Egypt lies a mineral wealth that has attracted explorers for thousands of years. Today, the country is turning once again toward those landscapes in an effort
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Xiang Biao has become an unusual intellectual figure in China: an academic whose ideas have reached a mass audience. Although much of his career has unfolded abroad, the Chinese anthropologist has developed
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Europe’s Digital Independence Test: AI Power, US Controls and the Race for Technological Sovereignty
The global race for artificial intelligence dominance has entered a new phase as governments debate who controls the world’s most powerful technologies. A decision by the United States to restrict access to
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Across the Middle East, the scale of destruction has created one of the most daunting reconstruction challenges in modern history. Hospitals, schools, homes, power networks and water systems have been reduced to
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As international efforts continue to address Iran’s nuclear ambitions, one of the world’s most closely watched experts on nuclear proliferation says the country’s program has suffered a major setback but remains unresolved.
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There are many who think Trump’s about face on Iran, virtually embracing the radical IRGC (now they are linked up to CENTCOM in Doha, Qatar) is a sellout of US and allied forces,
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Phrases like “public benefit,” “impact,” “responsibility,” or “sustainability” are routinely used by universities, nonprofits, corporations, and public agencies to describe their work, summarizing complex activities in ways that are easy to communicate
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During a discussion held last February by the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee on American foreign policy toward South Asia, Committee Chairman Bill Huizenga highlighted how critical Sri Lanka and the Maldives
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United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has called for immediate action to prevent further deaths in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody, urging independent investigations into every reported
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For eight years, Morocco has lived with a clock set closer to much of Europe than to its own traditional timetable. Now, after years of public debate and criticism, the North African
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Cuba is preparing for one of the most significant economic transformations in decades, but its leadership insists that the changes represent an evolution of socialism rather than a retreat from it. President
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Latin America is experiencing one of its most significant political shifts in decades, as a series of electoral victories by right-wing movements transforms the region’s political landscape and creates new opportunities for
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More than 100 million Europeans experienced temperatures above 35°C on Thursday as a severe heatwave swept across the continent, with authorities in several countries reporting deaths and rising pressure on health services.
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King Felipe VI of Spain and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum have moved to restore diplomatic ties between their countries after seven years of political tension, meeting Thursday at Mexico’s National Palace in
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Some sense of diplomacy and peace has prevailed in West Asia after the US-Iran deal was signed. However, its durability remains questionable. India’s strategic response to almost five months of conflict in
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