In an interview with BBC Newsnight’s Paddy O’Connell, Slavoj Žižek discusses his new book, Signs from the Future, examining Donald Trump’s political legacy, the decline of the liberal international order and the
A rare visit to Beijing by a cross-party delegation of Japanese lawmakers has failed to produce an immediate breakthrough in strained China-Japan relations, after a senior Chinese Communist Party official reportedly told
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The war that resumed in Sudan in April 2023 has created the largest humanitarian and displacement crisis in the world, forcing more than 11 million people from their homes by June 2026.
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For Sliman Mansour (1947-2026), a gentle and generous painter of Palestinian emancipation. In January 1968, 470 delegates from seventy countries gathered in Cuba for the Cultural Congress of Havana. They arrived from
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The United States has removed Syria from its designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, granting the post-Assad government of Ahmed al-Sharaa another major vote of confidence as Washington seeks to consolidate
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An American intelligence chief would normally have every means at his disposal to travel to Moscow without being noticed. That is, after all, part of the job. John Ratcliffe, the CIA chief,
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The dispute over Gianni Infantino’s plans to bring private investors into future World Cup business has moved into a far more serious phase, with UEFA preparing the ground for potential criminal proceedings
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Editorial Ratko Mladić is dead at 84, having spent the final years of his life behind the walls of a United Nations detention facility in The Hague. His death closes the biological
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has formed an alliance with the leaders of Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Austria and Sweden to oppose a major expansion of the European Union’s long-term budget, arguing that
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Vichy is known today for its thermal waters, cosmetics and distinctive hexagonal mint sweets, but the name remains inseparable from one of the darkest episodes in modern French history. On 10 July
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In Gori, a provincial Georgian city better known as the birthplace of Joseph Stalin, dozens of bullet marks remain visible on the façade of the town hall, physical scars from the fighting
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At a time when wars and humanitarian crises- from crimes in Gaza to the bitter tragedy like attacking Minab School- have reached unprecedented proportions and political mechanisms often fail to deliver peace,
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Migrant smuggling to Europe remains a lucrative illicit industry even as overall irregular migration has declined, exposing a persistent security challenge for European governments and a humanitarian danger for those attempting to
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On 20 August, during the 23rd edition of the Council of the Americas in Buenos Aires, Javier Milei concluded his speech to the business elite by blaming the ‘little green scarves’ and
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For more than three years, Manipur has offered India a warning it can no longer afford to treat as a peripheral crisis. The northeastern state bordering Myanmar has been fractured by violence
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Francis Fukuyama remains one of the most influential political theorists of the modern era, a reputation forged in 1989, months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, when his essay “The End
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