As statistics authorities across the globe start to publish inflation data for the month of April, the scale of the Hormuz ...

Image — This undated picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on 26 December 2025 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visiting major munitions industry ...

The dominance of the US and China in AI development poses a significant conundrum for the rest of the world. For middle powers, the establishment of ‘sovereign AI’ strategies, which allow a country to ...

Foreign aid cuts present security and geopolitical challenges for the UK. To remain influential in this new era of aid scarcity, the UK must cooperate with European allies and other donors to develop ...

Explaining the link between heatwaves and climate change, the impacts of extreme heat, and what governments and cities are doing to adapt. Image — Residents are collecting drinking water from a tanker ...

Recent assassinations in Aden are likely to undermine confidence in the Yemeni government’s ability to maintain security for ...

Image — France's President Emmanuel Macron (R) and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) sign an agreement at the Villacoublay air base near Paris on 17 November 2025. Photo by CHRISTOPHE ...

Is the initiative on the Ukraine war slipping out of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s hands? And how has the US-Israel war ...

There are four possible outcomes for Russia’s war on Ukraine: ‘long war’, ‘frozen conflict’, ‘victory for Ukraine’, and ‘defeat for Ukraine’. This paper outlines how these scenarios may take shape, ...

A symbol of an alternative path for Libya Saif al-Islam was the heir apparent of his father, longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi. He had been at the centre of Libyan politics since the 2000s, when he ...

When ‘maximum’ economic pressure fails to bring regime change, and rhetoric has made diplomacy politically impossible, ...

Senior Research Fellow for China and the World, Asia-Pacific Programme This week Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, took issue with talk of an ‘AI bubble’, as Nvidia announced bumper earnings growth in the ...