Geopolitics & international affairs
The Democratic Republic of Congo has filed a case against Rwanda at the International Court of Justice, accusing its neighbor of three decades of abuses in the country’s east. It is the third time Kinshasa has tried this. The first case was withdrawn in 2001. The second was dismissed in 2006 because the court ruled […]
Bill Cassidy, the outgoing Republican senator from Louisiana, has done something rare in Donald Trump’s Washington. He said what he thought to the president’s face. The exchange happened at a closed-door GOP lunch on June 24. Cassidy, who lost his primary to a Trump-backed challenger, confronted the president over the Iran war. What started as […]
Bill Cassidy, the outgoing Republican senator from Louisiana, told reporters on Sunday that Donald Trump “sometimes acts as if Congress is merely an appendage.” The remark followed a closed-door confrontation between the two men at a GOP Senate lunch, where a vote on the president’s war powers over Iran erupted into a shouting match. Cassidy […]
Can the ICJ Help End the War in Eastern DRC? On June 26, 2026, the Democratic Republic of Congo filed a formal case against Rwanda at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. The application, registered as case number 202, accuses Rwanda of violating the Genocide Convention, the Convention on the Elimination of All […]
The 48 Hours That Broke the Truce: Strike, Retaliate, Threaten, Repeat The 60-day window for a final Iran-US peace deal, signed with cautious hope in early June, is now in ruins. What remains is a pattern that has defined this conflict since a tentative truce took hold: the United States strikes, Iran retaliates against Gulf […]
When thousands of immigration agents flooded Minnesota earlier this year under Operation Metro Surge, a loose network of neighbors sprang into action. They tracked the movements of federal officers. They fed each other. They got children to school safely, navigating streets where deportation raids had become routine. The crackdown killed two local residents and deported […]
The battle for Crimea has become the central front of the Ukraine war. Ukraine is intensifying its attacks on the occupied peninsula with a clear purpose: to make the cost of holding it unbearable for Moscow. On June 22, Russian-installed authorities in Crimea suspended civilian fuel sales indefinitely, allowing purchases only for government agencies. Street […]
When the Trump administration slapped 100 percent tariffs on branded pharmaceuticals in April, India’s generic drugmakers breathed easy. The duties hit patented medicines, not the low-cost generics that are India’s stock-in-trade. For now, India’s pharma industry looks tariff-proof. But it is not China-proof, and that exposure is a problem not only for India but for […]
Ukraine unleashes 660 drones across 12 Russian regions in one of the heaviest bombardments of the war KYIV. Ukraine launched 660 drones across a dozen Russian regions and occupied Crimea overnight on June 25-26 in what appears to be the largest aerial attack of the four-year war, hitting naval targets in Kerch and industrial facilities […]
Trump Threatens 100% Tariff on Any Country Imposing Digital Services Tax on US Companies WASHINGTON. President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to impose a 100% tariff on all goods imported from any country that levies a digital services tax on American technology companies, escalating a simmering transatlantic trade dispute that threatens to unravel last year’s […]
