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Australia’s COP31 Stalemate Threatens Its Green-Energy Ambitions and Pacific Strategy
Australia entered 2025 determined to position itself as a rising force in the global climate economy. Its bid to host the COP31 climate summit—co-branded with Pacific Island nations—was meant to showcase its transition away from fossil fuels, attract green-capital inflows…
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Colombia’s Search for Armero’s ‘Lost Children’ Exposes Decades of Institutional Failure
Forty years after the Nevado del Ruiz volcano triggered one of Latin America’s deadliest natural disasters, Colombia is still confronting a painful, unresolved chapter: the hundreds of children who disappeared amid the chaos and were never traced. For families, the…
Saudi Arabia Signals Economic Rapprochement With Lebanon as Smuggling Crackdown Shows Results
Saudi Arabia is preparing to ease long-standing restrictions on Lebanese imports, opening the door to a cautious revival of commercial ties after Beirut demonstrated improved control over drug trafficking networks that once strained relations between the two states. The decision…
Iran’s Two Realities: Looser Social Rules, Harsher Political Repression
On the streets of Tehran, Iran appears to be changing. Women walk unveiled in broad daylight, couples sit openly in cafés, Western music plays in shopping arcades, and a quieter, more relaxed social atmosphere has settled over parts of the…
Demis Hassabis, Google’s Cosmic Gambler: Can a Nobel Mind Win the AI Business Race?
Demis Hassabis has spent more than a decade chasing something far larger than a killer app: an artificial intelligence powerful enough to solve science, reshape economies, and maybe, one day, help humanity “travel the stars.” For Alphabet shareholders, the question…
Regional Fed banks face new uncertainty as White House sees openings for influence
A quiet but consequential process inside the U.S. Federal Reserve is drawing unusual scrutiny as political pressure intensifies in Washington. The reappointment cycle for the Federal Reserve’s 12 regional bank presidents—traditionally a routine administrative exercise—is now emerging as a potential…
Brazil and the U.S. Edge Closer to a Tariff Breakthrough
The air in Niagara Falls carried more than mist this week. On the sidelines of the Group of Seven foreign ministers’ meeting in Canada, Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio quietly convened to take stock of trade negotiations…
America’s Legal Crossfire: The Global Backlash to Trump’s Anti-Drug Strikes
In a striking departure from traditional U.S. counter-narcotics policy, President Donald Trump’s administration has launched nearly twenty lethal strikes against suspected drug vessels across the Caribbean and Pacific, killing at least 76 people. The White House insists the targets were…
Israel’s President Condemns ‘Shocking’ Settler Violence as Tensions Surge in the West Bank
Israel’s President Isaac Herzog has denounced a wave of settler attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, describing the violence as “shocking and serious” and urging state authorities to act swiftly to end it. The statement marked one of the strongest…
Diplomacy at a Crossroads: G7 Weighs Pressure Tactics to Draw Russia Back to the Table
The world’s top diplomats gathered in Canada this week with one unspoken admission hanging over the polished mahogany tables of the G7 foreign ministers’ meeting: after nearly three years of conflict, Russia shows no real interest in peace. In the…