European Union leaders are preparing for a difficult battle over the bloc’s next long-term budget, with disagreements over spending priorities and fears of electoral gains by eurosceptic parties threatening efforts to reach
China’s growing use of export controls on critical minerals has transformed a long-running supply chain issue into a strategic contest involving governments, manufacturers and defence industries, according to a Financial Times report
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The location of Iran’s 440 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60 per cent has become one of the most significant unresolved issues in the ongoing dispute between the United States and Iran,
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The ship tracker in Kota Kinabalu, where I am — on the eastern edge of Malaysia — shows that 281 ships passed through the Malacca Strait on July 14, compared with 134
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A decade after an international tribunal rejected China’s sweeping claims in the South China Sea, the waters remain defined less by the 2016 legal ruling than by an expanding network of islands,
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France has made a “big deal” with Ukraine that includes billions of Euros in Ukrainian purchases of French systems and licenses to produce a number of weapons including SCALP/Storm Shadow, a long
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Summary: When people think of economic sanctions, they often imagine a mechanism targeting a specific government, specific assets, or a list of names. But the U.S. sanctions regime operates differently and in a
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My phone buzzed. It was my girlfriend. ‘Get out of there,’ she said. Her voice was shaking. I was in Graz, Austria, at a European footvolley tournament. I had come to compete.
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“Justice is truth in action.” — Benjamin Disraeli Few principles are more sacred to a democratic republic than the supremacy of the rule of law. Governments may rise and fall. Political fortunes
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Tariff fights with Beijing. Arguments over NATO burden-sharing. Debates about whether the dollar can keep its throne as the world’s reserve currency. None of these are new problems. They’re the latest release
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When President Anura Kumara Dissanayake stood before parliament on 20 March and confirmed that his government had turned down two military requests in a single evening — one from Washington to land
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An investigation details how an ambitious Israeli strategy involving Kurdish militias, covert influence operations and former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad evolved into one of the most far-reaching regime-change plans ever contemplated before
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The Schutzstaffel (SS) evolved from a relatively small Nazi paramilitary unit into the central institution behind the Third Reich’s racial policies and mass violence, according to historian Bastian Hein in an interview
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The U.S. State Department is undergoing one of the most extensive transformations in its modern history, with President Donald Trump’s second administration reshaping America’s diplomatic establishment through sweeping personnel changes, structural reforms
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The UK’s telecommunications industry has entered a new phase in which some of the world’s most influential telecoms entrepreneurs are taking direct stakes in its largest operators, setting the stage for significant
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Opposition Parliamentarian Chamara Sampath Dassanayake has alleged that the Sri Lankan government is preparing to extend the tenure of the current Army Commander until January 2028 at the request of Archbishop of
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