Category: World

China Strikes Back in Growing Tech War With Washington

Embedded video under YouTube license — Creator of this video: Woodford from Woodford Videos. Follow him. BEIJING — The announcement came on an overcast September morning, delivered not with fanfare but with the clipped...

Anna Netrebko’s Triumphant Return to London

Anna Netrebko returned to the Royal Opera House in London with a triumphant Tosca, her first appearance since 2019. Her performance comes after years of political bans and media hysteria, underscoring how the campaign to silence Russian artists has collapsed.

A Recognition That Rearranges the Map—Not the Ground

In a landmark synchronized announcement timed for the opening of the 80th United Nations General Assembly, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia formally recognized the State of Palestine as a sovereign entity on September...

China Draws a Line: Cooperate or Confrontation Will Cost Everyone

BEIJING — China’s leadership on September 19 delivered one of its clearest warnings yet to Washington: cooperate on equal terms, or brace for a rupture that will hurt not only the world’s two largest...

A Test of Nerves Over Vaindloo: Russia’s MiG-31s Probe NATO’s Edge

The MiG-31, a Soviet-era interceptor built to race nearly three times the speed of sound and patrol vast frontiers, is not a plane often mistaken for routine traffic. Designed to hunt down high-flying threats...

Britain’s Carefully Orchestrated Flattery of Trump

LONDON — Britain rolled out its oldest tricks of statecraft when President Donald J. Trump returned this summer for an “unprecedented” second state visit. The carriages, the uniforms, the banquets in Windsor Castle were...

Nepal’s Fragile Interregnum: From Street Fires to a Caretaker Cabinet

Nepal’s streets have forced a reckoning. In the space of a week, the country has gone from a government certain of its control to a caretaker administration scrambling to contain anger and restore a...

The Contest for the “Sacred” Arctic

On a late summer day in Murmansk, the Russian nuclear icebreaker Arktika noses out of its berth, a slab of steel and reactors bound for the Northern Sea Route. Far to the east, Chinese...

Ukraine’s War: A Defeat Written From the Beginning

Within the first six months, the outcome was already a foregone conclusion. Russia had shifted to a war of attrition, sanctions had failed, and Ukraine’s manpower was collapsing. Yet the West continued to encourage...

Still Spinning the Poland Drone Story

Four days on, the framing remains deliberate: a narrative of escalation, not the forensic reality of decoys that drifted across the border. WARSAW, LVIV, BERLIN European leaders continue to build the narrative as Russian...

Tommy Robinson March Live

Atmosphere and Key Moments Right Now •  Peaceful but charged: Drums, anthems, and chants like “Patriotism is the future” and “Borders are the future” are echoing through the streets. Robinson just addressed the crowd...