- Afghanistan, Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Focus, Israel, Libya, Middle East and North Africa, Russia, Syria, US foreign policy, US news, World news, Yemen
Wars without end: why is there no peaceful solution to so much global conflict?
A new study shows that 60% of the world’s wars have lasted for at least a decade. From Afghanistan to Libya, S…
- China, Coronavirus outbreak, Foreign policy, Politics, United Nations, US foreign policy, World news
Power, equality, nationalism: how the pandemic will reshape the world
Covid-19 has intensified the rivalry between the US and China – but it has also strengthened international co-…
- Americas, China, Cuba, France, Germany, India, Iran, Middle East and North Africa, Russia, Sudan, Turkey, World news
The power behind the thrones: 10 political movers and shakers who will shape 2020
Some are trusted aides, others are fixers who work in the shadows. Often unelected and unaccountable, they all…
- Americas, Asia Pacific, China, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Middle East and North Africa, Myanmar, New Zealand, North Korea, Protest, South and Central Asia, Syria, US news, World news
Reasons to be fearful – the international news review of 2019
This year world leaders struggled to manage the fallout from the erratic tenant in the White House – as China …
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Afghanistan agony is a product of political self-delusion – and public indifference | Simon Tisdall
The Afghanistan papers revealed the same kind of US official groupthink that prolonged the Vietnam war – but w…
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Trump’s bid to buy Greenland shows that the ‘scramble for the Arctic’ is truly upon us
World powers are racing to exploit the vast untapped resources of the Arctic as global heating opens up a new …
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Donald Trump’s ‘peace agreement’ is a betrayal of Afghanistan and its people | Simon Tisdall
This cut-and-run policy will leave the country trapped in a conflict with the Taliban and fail the casualties …
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The nuclear arms race is back … and ever more dangerous now
Donald Trump has increased spending on America’s arsenal while ripping up cold war treaties. Russia and China …
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Why Modi’s Kashmir coup threatens India’s democracy
Clumsy intervention by Trump in dispute over Kashmir may have prompted Indian PM to actIt’s tempting, though i…
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Now that Putin is Xi’s ‘best and bosom friend’, where does that leave the west?
An ever closer alliance between Beijing and Moscow has the Pentagon worried as a threat to US power in south-e…