Trump: Israel To Hand Gaza Over To US When War With Hamas Ends
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said that Israel would turn the Gaza Strip over to the United States after the war with Hamas ends and that no U.S. soldiers would be needed there. Trump, who...
View ArticleKellogg Rejects Report That Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan Will Be Revealed Next...
(RFE/RL) -- U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, has confirmed that he will take part next week in the Munich Security Conference but rejected a report...
View ArticleCaspian Cabals: IOCs, Kazakh State Based On Fierce Mongol Traditions Are...
Russian EADaily, in a report entitled ‘The end has come to the Kazakh show-offs: Tokayev declared the need to live within his means’, said: “It's time to tighten your belts and live within your means....
View ArticleGermans Not Turned Off By Merz’s Far-Right Collaboration, New Poll Shows
By Nick Alipour (EurActiv) -- Germany‘s election frontrunner Friedrich Merz received a boost in a hotly anticipated poll released on Thursday, which suggested that voters are not yet punishing his...
View ArticleThe 2025 Asian Winter Games: Showcase Of China’s Technological Brilliance And...
The 2025 Asian Winter Games, hosted by Harbin in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, have been showcasing the athletic prowess of Asia's finest. As athletes from 34 nations compete in 64 events...
View ArticleWhen Autonomous Surveillance Drones Turn On Humans – OpEd
By Rafael Hernandez de Santiago The sky above Techville was usually filled with gentle breezes and lazily drifting clouds. But on one fateful morning, as dawn broke over the city, the air carried an...
View ArticleChina And The Story Of Supply And Demand – OpEd
Sometimes things are in fact more complicated than they seem, but sometimes they actually are much simpler. The story of China’s weak economy falls into the latter category. Insofar as the world’s...
View ArticleWill The Election Bring A New Dawn To Kosovo? – OpEd
By Dr. Alon Ben-Meir Most Kosovars hope that the February national election and the formation of a new coalition government will usher in a promising new era that will substantially improve the...
View ArticleParliamentary Elections In Kosovo: Is There A Renewed Push For Partition Of...
As Kosovo prepares for its ninth parliamentary elections since independence, the campaign is heading toward its culmination. The International Institute IFIMES has previously published a pre-election...
View ArticleRussia, Iran, And The Anti-Western Axis Of Upheaval – OpEd
The Anti-Western Axis of Upheaval uniting Russia, Iran, North Korea and China is complete. Iran and Russia signed a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement (CSPA) this month in Moscow. The CSPA...
View ArticleHoppe Versus Milei On Central Banking: Breaking Down The Differences – OpEd
By Kristoffer Mousten Hansen At the annual Property and Freedom conference in September 2024, Hans-Hermann Hoppe criticized Argentinian President Javier Milei. Hoppe’s critique is, in summary, that...
View ArticleThe Greatest (Geo-Political) Showman’s ‘Inside Out’ Political Solution – OpEd
How to do the impossible? America is instinctively an expansionist power, needing new fields to conquer; new financial horizons to master and to exploit. The U.S. is built that way. Always was. But –...
View ArticleTrump Revives ‘Maximum Pressure’ On Iran But Adds A Message On US-Iran Deal –...
France’s distinguished former career diplomat Sylvie Bermann, wrote an op-ed recently in the leading financial paper Les Echos that a new chapter of ‘transactional geopolitics’ has begun with Donald...
View ArticleMyanmar: The Arakan Army Battles For Legitimacy – Analysis
By Htet Hlaing Win On 20 December 2024, the Arakan Army (AA) announced that it had captured the headquarters of the Myanmar junta’s Western Command — one of 14 similar commands scattered throughout...
View ArticleRising Tensions Could Push Iran And Trump Toward A New Deal Or Conflict –...
Iran faced many challenges in 2024: Regional Setbacks: Iran's influence in the Middle East suffered major blows. Israel attacked its embassy in Damascus, and key allies Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in...
View ArticleThree Decades Of Baltic Military Cooperation And The Way Ahead – Analysis
By Māris Andžāns (FPRI) -- It is well known that the three Baltic States, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, are distinct yet share many similarities. They are comparable in size and have similar social,...
View ArticlePhilippines: Impeached Vice President Sara Duterte Says She Won’t Resign
By Jason Gutierrez Sara Duterte radiated confidence and smiled as the Philippine vice president addressed reporters, saying she would survive a political storm from her impeachment this week for...
View ArticleNorth Korea To Punish People For Spreading ‘Rumors’ Of Soldiers Dying In Russia
By Son Hyemin North Korean authorities have threatened to punish citizens who spread “rumors” about the country’s soldiers dying in Russia’s war with Ukraine -- and ordered people to snitch on each...
View ArticleTrump Says He Will ‘Probably’ Meet With Zelenskyy Next Week
(RFE/RL) -- U.S. President Donald Trump said he is likely to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy next week, as U.S. efforts to end the war in Ukraine gather force, and Zelenskyy said it...
View ArticleEU Commission To Hold ‘Reality Checks’ With Workers, Says Trade Union Chief
By Thomas Moller-Nielsen (EurActiv) -- The European Commission has promised to hold regular consultations with EU labour representatives, the head of Europe’s largest trade union confederation has...
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