Until South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol disastrously attempted to seize dictatorial power, there was at least one silver lining in the impending arrival of President Donald Trump: Both are contentious ...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake visits India in his first overseas trip as leader, a top Taliban leader is ...
The price of bitcoin went over $100,000 for a few hours on Dec. 5, peaking at $103,400. The financial press can’t resist constructing a hand-waving story of market forces, so ...
Western powers, including the United States, are tentatively opening lines of communication to the new rulers of Syria — an alliance of Islamists led by an al-Qaeda splinter group whose boss ...
Davit Okruashvili, a 33-year-old information security analyst, still bears the marks of his recent beating, with both eyes blackened. “It was Nov. 29, around 11 p.m., behind the parliament, when ...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party sends a political message with comments about the U.S. “deep state,” India’s foreign secretary meets ...
He’s got a hungry chart. A candidate for New Jersey governor posted a doctored list of his “most-listened-to” annual Spotify songs online — falsely claiming all of the top five were ...
Alice Guo won the 2022 mayoral elections in Bamban, a rural town in the Philippines with a population of around 78,000 people that’s sandwiched between several key military bases. The ...
When South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol declared martial law on the evening of Dec. 3, shock reverberated through the halls of governments and think tanks in both Seoul and Washington. ...
Donald Trump gushed about Prince William’s after their meeting in Paris over the weekend — and said he had “a great talk” with the future king. “He’s a good looking ...