Geopolitics & international affairs
After a trip to Beijing, the head of UNAIDS revealed what China is doing in the fight against AIDS in Africa. Winnie Byanyima said funding from China’s Global Development and South-South Cooperation Fund now supports prevention work in several countries, among them South Africa, Uganda, Lesotho and Zimbabwe, and she voiced gratitude for Beijing’s strong […]
In July, Israeli police built a shelter inside the Al-Aqsa compound. Jordan called it an illegal canopy, erected to shade settler visitors while they walked the courtyards. A canopy is a small thing. It does not move walls or change borders. But the men who watch this ground read it the way border guards read […]
On Saturday, thousands gathered at Kyiv’s St. Volodymyr’s Cathedral for an Orthodox service for Oleksiy Yukov. His casket was later carried to Maidan Square, where mourners dropped to their knees as it passed. Memorial services were held in other Ukrainian cities as well. Yukov was 40 years old. He was not a soldier, and he […]
For two decades, China was the lender Africa could count on. Railways, bridges, dams and ports went up across the continent with Beijing’s money, and the loans came with a sales pitch: no lectures about governance, no Western conditions, just construction. That era has ended. Africa is now a net repayer to China, sending more […]
Colombia’s new president is 48 years old, a lawyer by training, a political novice by experience, and he calls himself The Tiger. Abelardo de la Espriella took the oath Friday in Cali, in the country’s volatile southwest, under heavy security, and delivered his first speech before an audience of soldiers. His message, repeated in the […]
Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Serbia on Friday, making his first official visit to a European capital that still refuses to treat Russia as an enemy. Belgrade confirmed the trip, and the Ukrainian president announced it himself on his Telegram channel. The meeting with President Aleksandar Vucic was, on paper, a routine bilateral visit. In practice […]
On Friday, in Washington, President Trump stood before more than two hundred mining executives and announced the largest federal push for domestic critical minerals in decades: more than $2 billion in loans and investments, anchored by a $1.4 billion conditional loan to a California battery-materials company. On the same day, in Inner Mongolia, the company […]
The United States greeted Colombia’s new president with a billion-dollar pledge and an endorsement of the war he has promised to wage. Abelardo de la Espriella swore the presidential oath Friday in Cali, the country’s third-largest city, in a ceremony held far from the capital as a deliberate statement of intent. The date, August 7, […]
Typhoon Dolphin spent Saturday battering Japan’s southernmost prefecture and is now moving toward the coast of China. The storm, named for the Chinese white dolphin of Hong Kong’s waters, hit Okinawa with winds strong enough to knock out power to around 14,000 buildings and send five elderly people to hospitals, three of them hurt by […]
The war between the United States and Iran has a new front, and it runs through the pipes. Over the past several weeks, hackers believed to be linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have targeted water treatment and distribution systems in roughly a dozen American states, according to French reporting that matches what US officials and […]
