Rabbi Doug Alpert had come to the West Bank to pick olives. He left having spent seven hours in Israeli military detention, facing the threat of deportation, and carrying a firsthand understanding of what Palestinian farmers endure not for a…
The Kremlin is openly welcoming a dramatic shift in U.S. foreign policy as President Donald Trump ratchets up pressure on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, eases sanctions on Russian fuel exports, and casts doubt on continued American military support for Kyiv…
China increased its research and development spending by 8.2% in 2025, pushing total investment past $583 billion and widening a strategic gap with the United States, where the Trump administration is pursuing some of the deepest cuts to federal science…
What did Trump say about Ukraine’s president? President Donald Trump publicly attacked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky this week, claiming that Ukraine’s devastating war with Russia started because of “incompetence” — and suggesting that Ukraine should install a new leader. The…
Singapore is suffocating. One of the wealthiest and most meticulously governed city-states on earth — home to 6.21 million people and an economy generating more than $650 billion annually — has this week earned the grim distinction of being the…
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi privately indicated during talks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York that Tehran would allow nuclear inspectors access to bombed facilities in exchange for sanctions relief, according to diplomats who spoke on condition…
Swiss glaciers shed 5.5% of their total ice volume in 2026, experts announced on September 30, marking the second-largest annual loss ever recorded and continuing a devastating trend driven by summer heat waves and dramatically reduced winter snowfall. The figures,…
Five men arrested near a strategically sensitive British air base, a declared national emergency, and a U.S. secretary of state publicly implicating a foreign state — all without a single piece of publicly released evidence. The RAF Fairford incident is…
When Xi Jinping boarded his plane back to Beijing on Saturday, he left behind a Washington that had offered him something rare in the current era of great-power rivalry: a degree of warmth. The three-day summit between President Xi and…
What is actually at stake with Argentina’s glaciers? A quiet but consequential battle is unfolding across the Andes, where Argentina’s nearly 17,000 documented glaciers face mounting pressure from mining conglomerates, Big Tech data centre developers, and a federal government that…