Nearly 300 millimetres of rain in 48 hours left a metropolis of more than ten million wading through waist-high water, its roads turned to canals and its army deploying field kitchens.
Summer 2026 was the hottest ever recorded in western Europe, its rivers ran dry, its crops failed and its forests burned. But the real story is no longer survival.
A slab of Himalayan ice and rock gave way high on the Nepal-China border and thundered down the valleys below, burying towns in mud
If the current momentum survives the next several weeks, December may become the month in which the war that reshaped Europe finally gives way to the agreement that reshapes the world.
The European Union is facing a complex situation: on one hand, the lingering effects of the conflict in Ukraine; on the other, the consequences of a fragile energy model, the lack of investment in the technology and artificial intelligence sector and challenges regarding global competitiveness.
Over the past three decades, international and commercial negotiation theory has been driven by a prevailing premise: the pursuit of efficiency through market integration.
Romania is playing with fire by accusing and provoking Russia; we are losing even the shred of international credibility we have left. But what if Russia, the US, and China are orchestrating a new Yalta and carving up spheres of influence in Europe?!
Those of you who have been loyal listeners for a long time will recall that, in 2022—and starting from that year—we discussed, on several occasions, the demands made by Putin (whether formally or informally) to NATO leaders.
Let’s turn to the subject of Ukraine. Brussels has once again come up with some “excellent” ideas—for the rest of the world, that is, not for the European Union.
The American economist told MEPs that Europe is not defending Ukraine but destroying it, and that pushing a nuclear superpower toward humiliation is a “death wish.”
The gates did not open. The city did not exhale. In Bucharest, a man who stood at the front of a presidential race remained where the state had put him: behind bars.
To support the claims made in the title, I will briefly present a series of five news items. The purpose is for you—the consumers of news—to grasp, once again, just how important a fair and accurate press would
The bureau highlighted its presence at the International Association of Chiefs of Police annual conference, where organizers reported the largest attendance in the event’s history.
Romania’s foreign intelligence service says a fire at a defence-linked industrial site near Brașov was part of a wider campaign of sabotage it attributes to Russia. T
Federal prosecutors say Ian Brinksman repeatedly pulled top-secret reports he had no reason to read and fed them to a journalist he was dating, who published the material online.
Fifty-seven thousand people on the largest island on earth, sitting atop rare earths and astride the melting sea lanes of the Arctic. In 2026 Greenland found itself the object of an American president’s ambition, a Danish reckoning, and a great-power scramble it never asked to join. This is the country behind the headlines.
Kyrgyzstan is a small, mountainous country with a booming economy, a fading reputation for revolution, and a president quietly turning the region’s most open political system into something that looks increasingly like its neighbors.
A profile of the archipelago the world suddenly wants to know.
A history of South Korea I recently read is titled *Shrimp to Whale* by Ramon Pacheco Pardo. The title alludes to a Korean proverb stating that when whales fight, the shrimp’s back gets broken.
Let us turn, however, to the situation in East Asia. On August 12, Putin visited Iturup Island in the Kuril chain—touring a fish processing plant and some schools—an event that sparked quite a controversy, so to speak.
It began with one sentence a prime minister didn’t need to say. Ten months later, Japan and China are locked in their worst rupture in a generation.
In what observers are calling the most consequential election in Bangladesh’s recent history, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) swept to a commanding parliamentary victory on Friday, ending nearly two decades in the political wilderness and setting the stage for a dramatic new chapter in the South Asian nation’s turbulent democratic journey.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – October 27, 2025 – In a significant diplomatic push, world leaders assembled in Malaysia on Monday to explore avenues for enhancing economic and trade relations, against the backdrop of impending U.S. tariffs.
Many global analysts predict that India will be the next great economic power: Goldman Sachs has predicted that it will become the world’s second-largest economy by 2075 and Martin Wolf of the Financial Times
On the 21st of October, the Takaichi has been selected as the 104th Prime Minister of Japan by the Japanese Parliament, which has stopped the persistent political deadlock situation after the resignation of Ishiba Shigeru on the September 7th.
The great-power struggle between China and the West now runs through a scattering of small island nations most Europeans know only from postcards.
Almost 98 percent of its people voted for independence. Its leaders have set a date: September 1, 2027.
Among the ten smallest countries in Africa, Rwanda has long harbored the ambition to become a driving economic force in the Great Lakes region, leveraging
The growth of the African continent has always been a topic of great interest among economic and financial analysts.
