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May 07, 2026
After years of quiet encroachment by ordinary people, the Islamic Republic reclaims the urban landscape.
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May 06, 2026
A reported memorandum would end the war, reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and lay the framework for future nuclear talks.
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May 06, 2026
India's ruling party got a boost from four state elections this week—and unseated a longtime rival.
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May 06, 2026
Ahead of the Trump-Xi summit, Beijing is pushing back on Washington.
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May 06, 2026
Iran shows that the delusions that caused Iraq and Afghanistan persist.
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May 06, 2026
Officially or not, Washington is now breaking the taboo and talking about its ally's bombs.
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May 06, 2026
The flow of global capital is hitting new walls.
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May 06, 2026
Inside what analysts call a "pinky promise" between Libya's rival factions.
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May 06, 2026
U.S. guarantees have not shielded Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam from economic shock.
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May 06, 2026
By pulling Seoul into its rivalry with Beijing, Washington is undermining the alliance's core mission.
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May 06, 2026
Amid a regional war, political drama and drone strikes are testing Baghdad's power.
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May 06, 2026
Tehran's latest rhetoric is reframing its abdication as a self-respecting state.
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May 06, 2026
There is a way out of this mess—but not right away.
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May 06, 2026
Frustration bubbles with the United States ahead of the leaders' gathering in Cebu.
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May 05, 2026
Leftist and hard-right lawmakers passed a no-confidence motion ousting Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan.
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May 05, 2026
Local elections this week will lay bare growing fragmentation across the United Kingdom.
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May 05, 2026
Fears of Chinese and U.S. trade retaliation have spawned deals that exclude both powers.
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May 05, 2026
Experts say Hamas has few incentives to disarm.
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May 05, 2026
Kim Jong Un is orchestrating his daughter's ascent through a campaign of maternal statecraft.
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May 05, 2026
Deceptive job schemes and transnational networks are pulling Kenyans into Moscow's war.
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May 05, 2026
Malaysia becomes the first country to cancel its tariff deal with the White House.
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May 04, 2026
Trump's latest gambit to reopen the Strait of Hormuz has inflamed the fragile cease-fire with Iran.
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May 04, 2026
Ukraine and its partners are holding their breath to see what's next for Patriot air defense missile deliveries.
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May 04, 2026
The West ignores the warning signs in the Sahel at its own peril.
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May 04, 2026
The so-called Tower fiasco took place in a very different Washington to today.
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May 04, 2026
Collective action by lesser powers will not shape the global order.
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May 04, 2026
Trump's war exposes the limits of collective action among the lesser powers.
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May 04, 2026
The United States has given up on one of its core international strengths.
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May 04, 2026
The Western-led order that emerged after the 20th century's three energy shocks is losing its grip.
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May 01, 2026
The White House argues that the U.S.-Iran cease-fire paused the clock.
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May 01, 2026
Kevin Warsh will face intense pressure to cut interest rates.
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May 01, 2026
Even the most entertaining tale carries a political message.
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May 01, 2026
The Iran war is choking supply of the world's most expensive spice.
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May 01, 2026
A new book explores the geopolitical scheming that created the blood countess legend.
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May 01, 2026
A new horror film reckons with the country's buried sins—and the women erased by them.
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May 01, 2026
Plus, more international fiction releases in May.
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May 01, 2026
Israeli leaders seem increasingly comfortable with the collapse of the Palestinian Authority.
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May 01, 2026
Xi's new commanders are the men his last generals blocked.
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May 01, 2026
He hoped it would be transformational; instead, it's just one more round in the conflict.
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May 01, 2026
The geopolitical realignment goes much deeper than just oil markets.
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May 01, 2026
The country is trying to push for a green transition despite gridlock at U.N. climate talks.
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May 01, 2026
The Section 301 case outlined by U.S. trade officials is neither coherent nor defensible.
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Apr 30, 2026
Belgian Defense Minister Theo Francken on Hegseth, Hormuz, and NATO.
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Apr 30, 2026
But U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth argues that the cease-fire has paused the clock.
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Apr 30, 2026
The Italian prime minister hasn't convincingly delivered the renewal she once promised.
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Apr 30, 2026
Who is Sharaa's investment campaign really for?
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Apr 30, 2026
Belgian Defense Minister Theo Francken on Hegseth, Hormuz, and NATO's future.
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Apr 30, 2026
For Iran's Sunni admirers, resistance remains the appeal.
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Apr 30, 2026
Israel has forgotten the wisdom in an iconic funeral oration delivered 70 years ago.
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Apr 30, 2026
Societies will become richer, but history suggests that wealth may not be equally distributed.
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Apr 29, 2026
The U.N. nuclear watchdog suspects that roughly half of Tehran's stockpile is still at its Isfahan facility.
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Apr 29, 2026
Congressional Democrats fought with the U.S. defense secretary over the war and military spending in a rare public hearing.
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Apr 29, 2026
As New Delhi feels the crunch, diplomacy in Abu Dhabi hints at expanding green cooperation.
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Apr 29, 2026
Why the World Bank's quiet decision to move the South Asian country to its Middle East column is more than just a bureaucratic footnote.
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Apr 29, 2026
Deals are being canceled as stockpiles run short.
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Apr 29, 2026
Pretoria stakes high hopes on its controversial pick for ambassador to Washington.
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Apr 29, 2026
Gita Gopinath on how countries can make themselves more resilient.
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Apr 29, 2026
The fight against Russia is accomplishing what years of struggle against corruption couldn't.
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Apr 29, 2026
For the foreseeable future, successful statecraft will depend on hedging.
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Apr 29, 2026
In a world of disorder, the bloc's boring stability is suddenly attractive.
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Apr 29, 2026
Washington has no good options for evacuating Americans in a crisis.
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Apr 29, 2026
Friedrich Merz is, slowly but surely, putting his country on a new international footing.
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Apr 29, 2026
An apparently off-the-cuff observation sparked consternation across the region.
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Apr 28, 2026
The British monarch praises multilateral institutions in a pointed message to the Trump administration.
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Apr 28, 2026
The British monarch praised multilateral institutions, warned against climate change, and championed diversity.
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Apr 28, 2026
The reversal underscores Beijing's shifting national security concerns.
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Apr 28, 2026
Trump's blockade aims to force damaging shutdowns at Iranian oil fields. But Tehran has been through this before.
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Apr 28, 2026
Beijing is ready to take risks as Tokyo backs Taiwan.
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Apr 28, 2026
Record-low unemployment is the result of millions of missing workers.
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Apr 28, 2026
The war has deepened Iranian officials' connections with one another—and with the public.
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Apr 28, 2026
Chile's president José Antonio Kast is following the regressive examples set elsewhere in the region.
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Apr 28, 2026
Republicans are declining to use their power of the purse.
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Apr 28, 2026
MAGA is not necessarily the same thing as America First.
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Apr 27, 2026
Why the United States can no longer guarantee freedom of navigation—and why it doesn't need to.
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Apr 27, 2026
But only if the United States postpones nuclear talks and lifts its own naval blockade.
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Apr 27, 2026
"Chinamaxxing" has become an online phenomenon.
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Apr 27, 2026
Washington should help the two estranged neighbors cooperate against a common enemy.
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Apr 27, 2026
The real test for the Trump-Xi meeting will come afterwards.
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Apr 27, 2026
The 70-year history of oil transit crises suggests engineering will prove more effective than diplomacy.
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Apr 27, 2026
The Iran war is choking off a critical input for chipmaking and AI infrastructure.
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Apr 24, 2026
An internal Pentagon email suggests suspending Spain from the alliance and reviewing Britain's claim to the Falkland Islands.
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Apr 24, 2026
Test yourself on the week of April 18: Taiwan's president faces travel troubles, U.N. secretary-general candidates assemble in New York, and Pope Leo concludes his tour of Africa.
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Apr 24, 2026
Apocalyptic headlines overlook conservation and biodiversity successes.
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Apr 24, 2026
A delusional U.S. president is helping thin the line between fiction and reality.
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Apr 24, 2026
The world's worst humanitarian crisis enters its fourth year.
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Apr 24, 2026
An economics writer known for his work on Asia turns his eye toward the fastest-growing continent.
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Apr 24, 2026
Literature's obsessive quest for anti-canonical adaptations pursues the white whale at its peril.
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Apr 24, 2026
A more active approach would help cement Riyadh's regional clout.
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Apr 24, 2026
Peter Magyar must avoid reproducing the very abuses he seeks to dismantle.
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Apr 24, 2026
Despite more colorful medieval precedents, Pope Leo's clash with Trump reflects the Vatican's postwar peace advocacy.
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Apr 24, 2026
The next secretary-general is likely to hail from the region.
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Apr 23, 2026
Pressure will increase on congressional Republicans to vote to end the war if it surpasses the legal time limit.
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Apr 23, 2026
The U.S. and Iran have gone from lobbing missiles to inflicting pocketbook pain.
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Apr 23, 2026
But Hezbollah's opposition to talks and continued Israeli strikes make progress difficult to come by.
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Apr 23, 2026
The talks between the neighboring countries are about defeating their mutual enemy.
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Apr 23, 2026
The talks between the neighboring states are about defeating their mutual enemy.
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Apr 23, 2026
Tehran is following Ho Chi Minh's playbook in Vietnam.
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Apr 23, 2026
Trump's inexplicable effort to lift sanctions on Eritrea reflects a deepening lack of strategy.
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Apr 23, 2026
It is hard to imagine the grouping enduring another two and a half years of Trump.
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Apr 23, 2026
Reversing vaccine mandates is a disaster for military readiness.
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