The US military buildup in the Middle East is now sufficient for Trump to order military action against Iran at any moment.
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Donald Trump’s approach to peacemaking is deeply flawed.
South Africa’s preference for dialogue has become harder to sustain in a polarised world.
The secretary of state’s speech was less divisive than J.D. Vance’s a year earlier, but it did not mark any significant change in US foreign policy under Trump.
In Colombia’s coca-cultivating Catatumbo region on the border with Venezuela, community care and survival efforts amid escalating violence are in a state of emergency.
Airstrikes may disrupt militants, but Nigeria’s insecurity is rooted in a governance collapse that military force alone cannot fix.
Various proposals have attempted to envision Gaza’s future, but most are detached from reality and sideline Palestinian voices.
The treaty is the last of the agreements put in place after the cold war to lapse.
The Lobito Corridor has become strategically important in the global scramble for critical resources.
The demise of the treaty will bring a definitive and alarming end to nuclear restraint between the two nuclear powers.
Kurds are the casualties of a US Syria strategy that aims to keep America afar, Iran out and Israel and Turkey apart.
Established procedures for writing new dietary guidelines were bypassed, including public consultation.
A scholar of modern Iran looks at Reza Pahlavi, son of the last shah of Iran, and examines what he believes and why his profile has been elevated during the recent anti-government protests.
The Trump administration’s move to withdraw the US from these organizations risks undercutting lasting peace and global human rights accountability.
The new strategy leans heavily on AI hype – with potentially fatal consequences.
The speeches delivered by the Canadian prime minister and the US president presented a stark contrast in style and substance.
Despite a record-breaking trade surplus of US$1.2 trillion, China faces some stubborn economic headwinds.
The new strategic reserve may provide the West with greater access to key minerals. But China still dominates the processing of many of them.
With an average temperature of -50°C, Antarctica’s first-ever 100% natural sanctuary protects endangered ice cores from global warming.
Trump is the predictable result of the deteriorating economic conditions in the U.S. since the 1980s and the political machinations that brought those economic conditions about.
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