China’s forthcoming new strategy wants to make innovation the engine of economic growth – but can it pay the bill without ...

From AI and electric vehicles to robotics and pharmaceuticals, Beijing is driving a low-cost technology revolution with price ...

The dual objective is to prevent migration and impose US domination in the ‘Western Hemisphere’. But Latin American leaders ...

A widespread, but misleading, assumption holds that Moscow’s current weakness signals its inevitable retreat from the region.

The Gang Suppression Force will be more than 5,500 strong. But as another power vacuum looms in February, the international ...

The collapse of talks for the UK to join the SAFE defence fund is a blow to the UK–EU reset. But it has not hit a brick wall.

US President Donald Trump enters 2026 with bold pronouncements under his belt, but now confronts the reality of delivering on them. In this year, the 250th since the nation’s founding, his leadership ...

Swathes of the public are understandably disengaged from the climate crisis and the COP is increasingly irrelevant – a clear, ...

President Trump’s threats towards Greenland and rumoured American mineral deals with Russia mean NATO allies can no longer ...

Weapons underpin the group’s alliance with Tehran and its political power in Lebanon. Any new US–Iran nuclear deal must ...

Nitazenes are as dangerous as fentanyl and linked to more than 750 deaths in the UK alone since 2023. Further international ...

A possible test of India’s K4 submarine-launched missile, and the presence of Chinese research ships, highlights how deterrence dynamics among nuclear-armed states are making the wider Indian Ocean ...