After years of fruitless discussions and aborted plans in the European Union, one country—Italy—has recently begun to process irregular migrants’ asylum claims in a third country for the first time. ...
With only a few weeks left in office, U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration recently launched new export bans designed to hit China’s semiconductor industry. In return, Beijing announced restrictions on ...
Among the many countries targeted by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s tariff threats—a net that he recently widened to include all the BRICS countries if they so much as think of ...
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump claims to have ideas for quickly settling the Russia-Ukraine. Whether or not that’s true—and there’s plenty of reason to think it’s not—it’s likely the Trump administration ...
In July, the local government of the Italian region of Sardinia suspended the construction of hundreds of new wind turbines, claiming that it would destroy the island’s beautiful landscape. In ...
In November 2004, Ukraine’s pro-Russian prime minister, Viktor Yanukovych, tried to steal the country’s presidential election, triggering the Orange Revolution protests and reactions from the West. Then-U.S. Secretary of State ...
There is something mysterious about how a coffee bean becomes a commodity. From remote farmsteads and steep hillsides, it finds its way into global markets as a weighed, graded, standardized ...
As Moldovans prepare to go to the polls on Oct. 20, it looks like another round of the familiar geopolitical standoff between Russia and the West over the countries in ...
The United States’ history of using economic sanctions as a means of coercion has not only outraged its adversaries but also upset its friends. Washington’s allies have long been concerned ...
Picture this scenario. It’s 2028, and U.S. intelligence services have assessed that the Chinese military is preparing a full-scale invasion of Taiwan to make good on Chinese President Xi Jinping’s ...
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