As fighting escalates in Tigray and neighbouring areas, there are fears that Ethiopia’s internal instability could spill over ...

Denmark used its soft power to rally support and took the dispute out of the limelight – addressing underlying US interests ...

Both Lula and the younger Bolsonaro face high levels of voter rejection. More than 54 per cent of Brazilian voters disapprove ...

China has made no secret of its AI ambitions. Back in 2017, its Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan set out its goal of becoming the ‘world’s primary AI innovation centre’ by 2030 ...

As statistics authorities across the globe start to publish inflation data for the month of April, the scale of the Hormuz inflation shock is slowly becoming visible. The US announced its Consumer ...

Yair Golan is an Israeli politician who leads the Democrats, a left-of-centre coalition formed last year. He was a major general and deputy chief of staff of the Israel Defence Forces. It is 17 months ...

Nearly five months after the United States and Israel launched their military campaign against Iran, it is becoming increasingly difficult to escape one conclusion: the central objectives that ...

Image — US President Donald Trump responds to questions from the press during a meeting with travel industry executives in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on 2 September 2026.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 80, is running for re-election in October. Lula’s leftist Workers Party (PT) has governed for 16 of the past 23 years, 11 of those under Lula. If he were ...

On 13 July President Donald Trump appointed the United States the ‘Guardian’ of the Strait of Hormuz. The US would ensure passage through the Strait, he announced, but would ‘as a matter of FAIRNESS’ ...

Gulf Arab states increasingly view Israel as the main obstacle to progress on the peace plan – and may hope for an opening ...

Image — A ballot paper is read out by a member of Myanmar's Union Election Commission at a polling station in downtown Yangon on 28 December 2025. Photo by Sirachai Arunrugstichai/Getty Images. Five ...