Geopolitics & international affairs
Travelers heading to Europe this summer are being warned to expect significant delays at airports and border crossings as the European Union’s new digital border system faces persistent technical problems, staffing shortages, and surging passenger volumes. The Entry/Exit System (EES), which went fully operational across 29 countries on April 10, replaces the traditional passport stamp […]
Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces have annihilated a strategic railway bridge over the North Crimean Canal, severing one of the last rail links between occupied Crimea and mainland Russia and signaling a new phase in Kyiv’s campaign to isolate the peninsula. The operation unfolded in two stages over the night of June 22 and the early […]
Kim Jong Un commissions his largest warship and declares the nuclear arming of the navy is on an “unerring” course, marking a strategic shift for a regime that has historically relied on land-based missiles and ground forces. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the commissioning of the Choe Hyon, the country’s first 5,000-ton multi-mission […]
America’s intelligence community just got smaller. By how much is debatable, but the direction is not. Donald Trump’s newly installed acting Director of National Intelligence, Bill Pulte, has fired six career and political intelligence staff from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and sent 45 others back to their home agencies. These 51 […]
The quiet erasure of honest reporting on China is not the work of a single censorship decree. It is a thousand small retreats, each one reasonable in isolation, that together have redrawn the boundaries of what global journalism dares to say. A new analysis by political scientist Reza Hasmath, published in The Diplomat, documents how […]
A $300 drone built with 3D printers and off-the-shelf electronics is doing what years of diplomacy could not: forcing Israel to confront the cost of its occupation in southern Lebanon. The question is whether even this is enough. For two years, Israeli military analysts knew that Hezbollah would eventually field fiber-optic FPV drones that are […]
A week after the US and Iran signed a peace deal, the Strait of Hormuz is stirring back to life. Ships are transiting again. Tankers laden with Iranian crude are moving. But the numbers tell a story of caution, not celebration. Fewer than 172 vessels have crossed since the deal was signed on June 18, […]
Tehran and Washington gave directly conflicting accounts of Monday’s nuclear talks, even as the United States unilaterally delivered its side of the bargain by lifting oil sanctions for 60 days. Iran’s foreign ministry spent Tuesday swatting back the narrative coming out of Washington. Vice President JD Vance told reporters Monday after mediation talks in Switzerland […]
Colombia’s outgoing president accuses Israel of hacking the election Colombian President Gustavo Petro has accused Israel of interfering in the country’s presidential election, alleging that Israeli operatives compromised the vote-counting software and demanding a full audit and nationwide recount. The accusation, delivered in a series of posts on X on Sunday, plunges Colombia into a […]
UN commission finds Israel committing genocide by deliberately targeting Gaza children A United Nations commission of inquiry has concluded that Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children in Gaza, and that this pattern of killing amounts to genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. The finding, released Tuesday by the UN Independent International […]
