Geopolitics & international affairs
MOSCOW, Petrol stations across Russia are running dry. Drivers queue for hours. Fights break out in line. In the Black Sea resort of Anapa, Cossacks have been deployed to keep order. One mayor in Siberia installed portable toilets for stranded motorists. The fuel crisis gripping Russia is not a temporary hiccup. It is the result […]
DHARAMSHALA, The 14th Dalai Lama turned 91 on July 6. The birthday was celebrated quietly in the Himalayan exile town of Dharamshala, where he has lived since fleeing Tibet in 1959. But the question of what comes after him is the subject of an increasingly open battle between India and China, a contest not just […]
MOSCOW, Petrol stations across Russia are running dry. Drivers queue for hours. Fights break out in line. In the Black Sea resort of Anapa, Cossacks have been deployed to keep order. One mayor in Siberia installed portable toilets for stranded motorists. The fuel crisis gripping Russia is not a temporary hiccup. It is the result […]
Mitch McConnell is reportedly brain dead. The journalist who broke the story of his cardiac arrest, independent reporter Desirée Townsend, is at the hospital waiting for them to move his body. NBC and CBS spent a week catching up to her. That is the Threads post that lit up the internet on Wednesday. And the […]
Mass surrenders by Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province fighters have handed Nigeria its most significant counterterrorism gains in years. Thousands of militants have laid down their weapons. The military says the insurgency that has terrorized northeastern Nigeria for more than a decade is on its last legs. But the victory comes with […]
ANKARA, President Donald Trump revived his push for the United States to take control of Greenland as he arrived in Ankara for the NATO summit, making clear that what many dismissed as a passing fixation has not gone away. “Experts said he didn’t give up the idea. Trump confirms,” as one analyst put it. Speaking […]
The United States launched airstrikes on multiple locations in southern Iran on Wednesday, hours after revoking a sanctions waiver that had briefly allowed Iranian oil exports. The targets included the port city of Bandar Abbas, Qeshm Island, and the coastal town of Sirik, all strategically positioned along the Strait of Hormuz. Explosions were reported across […]
ANKARA, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the United States will lift sanctions on Turkey imposed in 2020 over Ankara’s purchase of Russian S-400 missile defense systems, and signaled he is willing to sell F-35 stealth fighter jets to the NATO ally. The move, announced during the NATO summit in Ankara, removes a major irritant […]
KYIV, Russia launched a second massive aerial assault on Kyiv in less than a week, killing at least 11 to 15 people and wounding dozens more on the night of July 5-6, just hours before world leaders arrived in Ankara for a NATO summit where Ukraine’s future is the central agenda item. The strikes followed […]
KYIV, After more than four years of war, a counterintuitive truth is emerging: Ukraine is winning. Russia is killing fewer Ukrainians, losing more of its own soldiers, and struggling to sustain the offensive momentum it built in 2025. That is the argument laid out by RAND Europe analysts John Kennedy and Jacob Parakilas in Foreign […]
