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In a Belgian castle on February 12, Europe’s leadership staged what was billed as a competitiveness summit—and politely agreed to delay the hard choices until 2027. That delay did not create the continent’s decline; it...
Bettors on the prediction market Polymarket made large profits from wagers placed shortly before the United States struck Iran, raising concerns about possible insider knowledge. Bloomberg reported that six accounts...
When the United States renamed Pacific Command to Indo‑Pacific Command on May 30, 2018, it acknowledged that strategic competition with China stretches well beyond the South China Sea. Subsequent initiatives—most...
Permit me—after two decades inside the organization—to offer a candid appraisal of the task ahead. You have been chosen to lead an agency whose founding framework, the 1951 Refugee Convention, was shaped in a Cold War...
In the 19th century the original “Great Game” saw Britain and Russia vie for control of Central Asia. Today’s version is broader and more crowded: the United States faces a de facto coalition of China and Russia, each...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday he will keep tariffs in place by using other legal authorities after the Supreme Court ruled he exceeded his power under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump exceeded his authority when he used the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose broad, global tariffs. In a 6-3 decision in Learning...
When the US detained Venezuela’s president in early 2026, Donald Trump promised to “unleash” the country’s oil and urged companies to invest $100 billion to develop it. Major oil firms were not impressed. Executives...
Afghan officials say a Pakistani airstrike on a Kabul hospital for drug users has killed as many as 400 people and injured about 250. Hamdullah Fitrat, Afghanistan’s deputy government spokesman, posted on X that Monday...
Israel announced on Tuesday that a strike on Monday killed Gholamreza Soleimani, whom it identified as the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' volunteer Basij force. Iran had not immediately confirmed the...
A Pakistani national was killed in Abu Dhabi after debris from an intercepted ballistic missile fell in the Bani Yas area, the Abu Dhabi Government Media Office said on Tuesday, as the wider US-Israel–Iran confrontation...
A new wave of AI-manipulated videos is flooding social platforms, inserting global political figures into odd and often humorous situations that straddle satire and misinformation. The most recent viral clip appears to...
