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The United Arab Emirates is leaving OPEC. Saudi Arabia is ending its splashiest foreign sports venture. The two U.S. allies... Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he was not satisfied with the latest Iranian proposal for talks on the Iran war, while Iran's... Read More

The small group of Islamist regime loyalists now ruling Iran by committee may be able to fool the world with AI-generated propaganda... Read More

Germany’s defense minister sought to downplay the impact of Washington’s decision to withdraw 5,000 troops from the country,... Read More

 In Bremerhaven on Germany’s North Sea coast, Europe’s largest car port is getting a €1.35 billion ($1.6 billion)... Read More

“We may stop by Cuba after we’re finished with this,” President Donald Trump mused earlier this month during... Read More

In 2015, Michel Houellebecq published “Submission,” a novel describing (among other things) how members of the radical right... Read More

Keir Starmer has now been Prime Minister for one year and 300 days, which puts him 43rd in the list of Britain’s longest-serving prime... Read More

It may seem odd that the reigning English monarch is visiting the United States to celebrate the 250th anniversaryopens in a new... Read More

Iranians are increasingly leaving their country to escape the regime’s internet shutdown. At the same time, in Russia, the... Read More

China doesn’t need missiles to attack the United States. They’re already using hackers, spies, and meth engineers. Read More

The Artemis II mission captured worldwide attention, but something even more impactful than the space race is occurring on a global scale,... Read More

The upcoming meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will be a high-profile moment in the... Read More

He begins by probing his own feelings—the things he loves and the things he hates. The things that pique his interest and pierce his... Read More

One of the world’s most sprawling and populated urban areas, at 3,000 square miles (about 7,800 square kilometers) and some 22 million... Read More

The sudden eruption of war in the Mideast Gulf has created dramatic new risks for global energy security. Read More

No region of the world produces more oil and gas than the countries straddling the Persian Gulf, and most of it needs to travel by tanker via... Read More

We’re approaching 60 days of the so-called Iran war, and we’re still getting these loud voices that... Read More

As Iranians marked the failure of the U.S. military to defeat their country and indeed celebrated a perceived victory, Iran’s... Read More

By seeing only the trees, we risk losing sight of where we are Read More

For almost five decades, Iran’s Islamic government has survived financial pressure from the U.S. by selling oil to China. It confronted... Read More

It’s now been two days since the Golders Green terror attack, so if the response to previous such incidents is anything to go by,... Read More

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has spent months walking a tightrope in his dealings with U.S. President Donald Trump. Now he appears to... Read More

The King charmed Americans – including the president – while artfully asserting his views on climate and executive... Read More

If you follow the Middle East, you have likely heard about Lebanon’s “ceasefire” with Israel. Read More

Politicians will build a bridge even where there is no river, said Nikita Khrushchev.   Read More

While the world has its eyes on the Strait of Hormuz, China’s gaze is fixed farther east: Taiwan. For decades, Beijing’s... Read More

With India’s rupee and Indonesia’s rupiah under siege, Asia faces the specter of a 1997-style reckoning if the Iran war drags... Read More

Autocratic leaders – from Beijing to Kabul, Tehran to Moscow, Havana to Caracas – seek to silence those... Read More

Amid harsh persecution and an internet blackout, Iran’s house-church movement continues to grow as believers preach, serve their... Read More

For decades, U.S. involvement in Libya has oscillated between neglect and fleeting moments of attention and resolve. But so far, the second... Read More

The Wall Street Journal reports that President Donald Trump has “instructed aides to prepare for an extended... Read More

The missiles and bombs may have stopped, at least for the moment, but the war between the United States and Iran continues. The Strait of... Read More

ust weeks after President Trump declared the Strait of Hormuz “COMPLETELY OPEN AND READY FOR BUSINESS” only to see ship traffic... Read More

The Strait of Hormuz is the point at which approximately one fifth of the world’s traded oil passes through a corridor 21... Read More

Officials in the United Arab Emirates have framed their decision to quit the OPEC group of oil producing nations as an opportunity to respond... Read More

Opposition leader has praised Putin, echoed China’s propaganda and called Taiwan a US pawn – a record that will haunt her in... Read More

Among U.S. President Donald Trump’s first actions after returning to office in January 2025 was imposing new tariffs on Canada, China,... Read More