Oil shortages as a result of the Iran war present a unique opportunity for ASEAN chair the Philippines to make progress on a ...

The US currently depends on China for crucial rare earth minerals and magnets. But its domestic electronic waste contains vast quantities of valuable magnets that could be reused and recycled to ...

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 80, is running for re-election in October. Lula’s leftist Workers Party (PT) ...

Image — Chinese youth hold American and Chinese flags as they join officials to welcome US President Donald Trump at Beijing Capital International Airport on 13 May 2026 in Beijing, China. Photo by ...

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

President Donald Trump travels to Beijing this week with the US’s alliance structure under enormous strain. Washington has fewer partners at its side, and a weaker hand to play. It doesn’t have to be ...

For Beijing, President Donald Trump is the gift that keeps on giving. His decisions have handed China’s leadership advantages of which it cannot have dreamed before he arrived in the Oval Office for ...

Image — World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivers his report before delegates during the World Health Assembly in Geneva on 19 May 2025. Photo by FABRICE ...

Trump’s tariffs court challenge shows next 100 days will test executive authority The case concerns tariffs levied under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which empowers the ...

Following the re-election of President Donald Trump in November last year, Afghanistan’s Taliban leadership expressed hopes of opening ‘a new chapter’ in relations with the US. Afghanistan has not ...

The war in Iran has made China’s future posture in the Gulf more uncertain. Some analysts have rushed to conclude that the war has revealed China’s absence and proved that the US is the only reliable ...

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 ...