Israeli-Palestinian crisis. The Israeli air force said it destroyed at least 500 targets in Gaza and killed Hamas intelligence figures, including the head of the group’s military intelligence security department and his deputy. Palestinian militias countered with more than 1,000 rockets launched over a 38-hour period. The Israeli military said it is deploying paratroopers to […]
Over the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic has understandably commanded the world’s attention. So it was sometimes easy to forget that every country on...
Background: Israel and the Palestinian territories engage in low-level skirmishes pretty regularly, but intifadas and outright kinetic war are comparatively rarer. There hasn’t been...
China's demographic decline. For the past month, China appeared to be dragging its feet on releasing the results of its decennial census, conducted last...
High stakes Jerusalem. Clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian protesters broke out in Jerusalem over the weekend. Several hundred Palestinians and over a dozen...
For several months, China has been relentlessly asserting its control over disputed parts of the South China Sea. Hundreds of vessels in the Chinese...
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After the collapse of the Soviet Union, five independent states were formed in Central Asia, the boundaries of which were artificially established...
Disappointing jobs number. The U.S. economy added 266,000 jobs in April, far below expectations of about 1 million new jobs. The unemployment rate ticked...
Strong recovery. China’s debt-to-GDP ratio fell an estimated 2.6 percentage points during the first quarter, according to new official figures from the Chinese central...
Russia checks in on Nagorno-Karabakh. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Armenia on Wednesday to discuss bilateral cooperation with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan....
