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After the deadly attack on a Hanukkah celebration, accusations arose that not enough has been done to protect Jewish Australians from a clear rise in antisemitism.

The failure to declare a winner – when both top contenders had advocated for dropping relations with Beijing – is reopening the geopolitical map of Central America.

Is Washington moving away from the formula that has governed the tenuous Taiwan Strait equilibrium for 50 years?

As local officials scour every corner for cash, businesses are taking the hit – in unpaid contracts.

Taliban officials admit that at least half of the stockpile is now "unaccounted for.” Many of those weapons ended up with militant groups operating across Afghanistan’s borders.

It divides the world into spheres of influence, with one for the U.S. in the Western Hemisphere and one for China in Asia.

Peninsular-origin parties suffered a catastrophic rejection in the late November polls, while a local duopoly emerged in East Malaysia.

Myanmar's generals are counting on Western governments overlooking the sham election that they have scheduled for December 28.

Manila claims that around 20 fishing boats were hit with “water cannons and dangerous blocking maneuvers” close to Sabina Shoal in the South China Sea.

The Royal Thai Army says there will be no ceasefire “until Cambodia ceases its hostilities and attacks against Thai troops and civilians in the border area."

The promise of frictionless money has matured into something far more consequential: a liquidity system powerful enough to reorder economies, and elusive enough to escape the laws meant to govern it.

The stakes are high for Bangladesh's first election since the 2024 student-led uprising.

The plenum served as a primer for the bigger party congress that is yet to come.

China controls a staggering portion of the United States’ pharmaceutical supply chain – and that means U.S. access to medicine can be weaponized.

People in the West say they must avoid a new Cold War without realizing that they are already in one – and China is winning.

The NSS is likely to offer China short-term relief – but cause for long-term concern.

Chinese electric bus manufacturers are using their membership in the U.N. Global Compact to deflect scrutiny from European regulators. 

Far from celebrating an American retreat, Beijing’s strategists are reading the NSS as a blueprint for leaner – and potentially more dangerous – U.S. primacy.

The elections set for March 2026 will test whether the political energy unleashed by the youth uprising can truly break free from transactional politics.

With major powers like China and India asserting their ambitions in the Indian Ocean, France relies on partnerships with like-minded countries, including Mauritius, to maintain its influence.