Background: The COVID-19 pandemic devastated European economies, but it also created opportunities for the bloc to reform its fiscal rules. The existing framework, which...
Oil warnings. The International Energy Agency warned on Tuesday that oil supplies will get significantly tighter in the coming months if OPEC+ countries don’t...
U.S. President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are scheduled to meet Thursday in Washington, where they are expected to discuss issues such...
Cuban dissent. Large-scale protests broke out across Cuba Sunday against the country’s shortages of basic goods, medicine and food items. The government responded by...
The security situation in Afghanistan has been deteriorating since the United States and NATO began to withdraw their forces earlier this year. In early...
Secret meeting? Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett traveled to Jordan last week to meet with Jordanian King Abdullah II, according to a report from...
On Sept. 11, 2001, a special operations team created by al-Qaida attacked the United States, hijacking commercial airplanes to target psychologically significant structures. I...
Background: Belarus, an important buffer between Russia and NATO, has recently come under sanctions pressure from the West due to Minsk’s human rights violations as...
Iranian diplomacy. On Wednesday, Iranian President-elect Ebrahim Raisi met with Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, who is now in Moscow for talks with his...
Iran presents itself to the outside world as the mighty Islamic Republic, built on strength, perseverance and independence. But in reality, Iran is a...
Ready to help. Russia is prepared to use its Tajik military base to defend Tajikistan from spillover violence originating in Afghanistan, Russian Foreign Minister...
