Image — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif sign the agreement in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on 7 August 2026. Turkish ...

Israeli settlement expansion, land appropriation, and escalating settler violence in the occupied West Bank represent some of the most outstanding obstacles to realizing a sovereign Palestinian state ...

Global trade wars, geo-economic competition and climate change are catalysing threats within minerals supply chains. The Business and Human Rights Centre recorded a 73% increase in human rights abuses ...

Image — Demonstrators at a rally in support of Afghan women and girls in Madrid, Spain, on 20 June 2026. Photo by Francesco Militello Mirto/NurPhoto via Getty Images. The women of Afghanistan have ...

Guests explore how the current Ebola outbreak in the DRC exposes tensions between ad hoc international health responses and local healthcare systems. During the 2018–2020 Ebola outbreak in the ...

Image — Nigerian soldiers from the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) run while singing during training, at the MNJTF military base, Sector 3 Headquarters, in Monguno, Borno state, Nigeria, on 5 ...

Both Lula and the younger Bolsonaro face high levels of voter rejection. More than 54 per cent of Brazilian voters disapprove ...

Nearly five months after the United States and Israel launched their military campaign against Iran, it is becoming increasingly difficult to escape one conclusion: the central objectives that ...

Denmark used its soft power to rally support and took the dispute out of the limelight – addressing underlying US interests ...

China absorbed the shock by drawing on stockpiles and a decade of electrification. Europe needs electrification for security, ...

Gulf Arab states increasingly view Israel as the main obstacle to progress on the peace plan – and may hope for an opening ...

The US and China both face serious domestic strains. As Trump and Xi meet this week to discuss trade, AI and Taiwan, neither side should mistake the other’s weaknesses for strategic decline.