On January 16, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen discussed a range of geopolitical and economic topics in a special address delivered at the World Economic Forum (WEF)...
On January 13, William Lai Ching-te of Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won the presidential election, although with a plurality instead of the outright majority of votes it obtained...
In a Facebook post on January 13, Ukraine’s Deputy PM and Digital Transformation Minister Mykhailo Fedorov suggested that Ukrainian citizens should finish online courses and start assembling drones to...
In remarks to CBS on January 14, U.S. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby declared Washington does not wish its operation in the Red Sea to turn into a...
The flow of U.S. military aid to Kyiv has stopped, White House national security spokesman John Kirby admitted on January 11 amid a debate in Congress on whether to...
Yemen’s Houthis, from their base on the eastern flank of the Red Sea, are arguably one of the largest threats to international shipping. Recent weeks have seen this Yemen-based,...
Lai Ching-te, the presidential candidate for Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), emerged victorious after the January 13 election, which China had portrayed as a choice between war and...
In a column published January 10 on the Smotrim.ru media platform, exiled Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Medvedchuk warned that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is doomed to be deposed this...
The Netherlands’ election winner Geert Wilders has ditched three contentious anti-Islamic legislative proposals that critics have regarded as unconstitutional, as his Party for Freedom (PVV) continues talks to form...
On January 8 local time, Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov declared that an internal probe of the country’s military procurement practices unveiled $262 million in theft-related costs, with alleged...
On January 4, members of the U.S. government’s global religious freedom watchdog joined their voices to a rising number of pleas for the liberation of imprisoned Catholic leaders in...
On January 7, top Swedish officials urged the country’s citizens to gear up for a potential war amid worsening ties with Moscow. At the Folk och Försvar National Conference...
A military clash between the U.S. and China over Taiwan would strike 10.2 percent off global GDP, or roughly $10 trillion, in one year, Bloomberg claimed in a report...
Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov wrote in a Facebook post on January 8 that the ministry has bought 50,000 sets of women’s uniforms for the first time since the...
On January 8, foreign-policy specialists from Russia and India, namely from the Valdai Discussion Club and India’s Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), respectively, conducted the first bilateral Russia-India conference in...
Major oil producer Saudi Arabia has reduced February’s price of crude for buyers in all regions, Reuters and Bloomberg reported on January 7, quoting a company statement. Based on...
Ukraine’s leaders should acknowledge that they have lost 500,000 service members since the start of the country’s conflict with Russia, and that the monthly casualty rate is around 30,000...
On January 7, China’s Foreign Ministry declared that Beijing has sanctioned five American defense industry firms following “gravely wrong actions taken by the US,” and as a countermeasure to...
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani told Italy’s La Stampa newspaper on January 7 that European Union leaders should set up a common European army. Without a joint military, Tajani...
On January 7, The Washington Post reported that a clandestine examination from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in Washington concluded that Israeli forces would find it “difficult to succeed”...
