Geopolitics & international affairs
E. Jean Carroll is calling on Donald Trump to pay the $5 million a jury awarded her after finding the president liable for sexually abusing and defaming her. The call comes after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Trump’s appeal, exhausting the president’s legal options in the case. The Supreme Court rejected Trump’s petition […]
China has a messaging problem. On one side, President Xi Jinping personally assures world leaders that the country is open for business. On the other, Beijing keeps passing laws that make foreign companies wonder if they are welcome at all. The contradiction is becoming harder to ignore. Xi told Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin in […]
China has a messaging problem. On one side, President Xi Jinping personally assures world leaders that the country is open for business. On the other, Beijing keeps passing laws that make foreign companies wonder if they are welcome at all. The contradiction is becoming harder to ignore. Xi told Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin in […]
Opinion: Ukraine and Iran Have Exposed the Limits of Global Power Two wars. Two superpowers. Two stalemates. Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 expecting a three-day campaign that would topple the government in Kyiv and redraw the map of Eastern Europe. The United States attacked Iran in February 2026 expecting a rapid, decisive strike that […]
Britain will pour more than £63 billion ($84 billion) into its nuclear deterrent over the next four years, the government confirmed this week. The spending, announced on June 30 as part of outgoing Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Defence Investment Plan, is the clearest signal yet that London sees atomic weapons not as a last resort […]
Australians have a more negative view of Israel than of China, the latest Guardian Essential poll has found. The survey of 1,017 people asked respondents for their attitudes toward a dozen countries. Only 19 percent had a favorable view of Israel. China scored 24 percent. The numbers tell an uncomfortable story for a country that […]
The death toll from Russia’s overnight attack on Kyiv has risen to 17, with damage recorded at 30 locations across the city, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said Thursday. The mayor called it the most massive attack on the capital since the invasion began more than four years ago. Russia warned it will “continue to increase pressure” […]
The United States of America turns 250 years old this week. There should be parades, history lessons, and a moment when the nation looks at itself honestly in the mirror. Instead, there is a fire sale. A congressional report released Thursday reveals that President Donald Trump and his inner circle have carried out what one […]
BRUSSELS. The European Union talks of principles. It passes resolutions condemning violence. It sanctions extremist settlers in the West Bank and calls for restraint. And while it does all of this, the money keeps moving. Billions of euros flow from EU institutions and member states into Israeli companies, some of which supply the very military […]
LONDON. For 18 months, Russia ran a drone surveillance campaign against Europe’s most sensitive military sites: nuclear weapons bases, power plants, and submarine ports. The drones came from ships. The ships were part of Moscow’s shadow fleet, the same tankers that already evade Western sanctions on Russian oil. And the Kremlin got away with it, […]
