Since Recep Tayyip Erdogan rose to power two decades ago, Turkey has witnessed a surge in populism, driven more recently by the country’s political and economic uncertainty. Elections last month confirmed as much. Still, populism has been a significant force in Turkish politics since the country’s founding a century ago. The founder of the modern […]
The long-feared destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam became a reality on Tuesday, flooding towns and villages downstream in southern Ukraine and forcing hasty...
Dam destruction. The Kakhovka dam and hydroelectric power station in a Russian-occupied area of southern Ukraine were destroyed on Tuesday. Ukraine accused Russia of...
Over the past weekend, major global media outlets revealed that the heads of intelligence of about two dozen countries held a (formerly) secret meeting...
Uproar in Poland. Hundreds of thousands of anti-government protesters took to the streets of Warsaw and other cities on Sunday, the 34th anniversary of...
The U.S. and Israel. Israeli National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer met with U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan...
For years, the Venezuelan economy has been largely disconnected from Western markets. The war in Ukraine, however, initiated a sort of restructuring of the...
Wheat loss in China. China’s Henan province, which produces more wheat than any other, experienced higher-than-normal rainfall in the final week of May, just...
