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 ...
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 ...
The war killed more than 100,000 people, and its underlying sectarian divisions are still far from resolved. November marks the anniversary of the 1995 Dayton Peace Accord, an agreement thrashed out ...
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 ...
COP29, the 29th UN annual conference on climate change, takes place in Baku, Azerbaijan from 11–22 November 2024. Every COP conference is an important opportunity for international collaboration on ...
The evolution of the Pepe the Frog meme provides a case study of how online meme culture can appropriate non-political imagery, codify it and redeploy it, sometimes for extreme political purposes.
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 ...
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, ...
Experts examine the human toll of the war in Sudan, and the dynamics of a war fuelled by regional powers and their proxies seeking to control Sudan’s territory, natural resources, and access to key ...
Image — Satellite image taken on 11 July, 2025, showing damage inflicted on the port of Hodeidah, Yemen, by Israeli airstrikes intended to stem the Houthi import of Iranian weapons. ©2025 Maxar ...