Oil shortages as a result of the Iran war present a unique opportunity for ASEAN chair the Philippines to make progress on a ...

Speaking at Chatham House, the former Australian prime minister strongly criticized the joint Australia–US–UK submarine ...

The US currently depends on China for crucial rare earth minerals and magnets. But its domestic electronic waste contains vast quantities of valuable magnets that could be reused and recycled to ...

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 80, is running for re-election in October. Lula’s leftist Workers Party (PT) ...

Image — Chinese youth hold American and Chinese flags as they join officials to welcome US President Donald Trump at Beijing Capital International Airport on 13 May 2026 in Beijing, China. Photo by ...

As statistics authorities across the globe start to publish inflation data for the month of April, the scale of the Hormuz ...

President Donald Trump travels to Beijing this week with the US’s alliance structure under enormous strain. Washington has fewer partners at its side, and a weaker hand to play. It doesn’t have to be ...

Recent assassinations in Aden are likely to undermine confidence in the Yemeni government’s ability to maintain security for ...

With the world distracted by the Iran war, the situation is worsening in Gaza, where neither Israel nor Hamas are under ...

Image — Protesters wave Kurdistan flags during a demonstration in the northern Iraqi Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah on 22 January 2026. Photo by Shwan MOHAMMED / AFP via Getty Images. Dramatic changes ...

The evolution of the Pepe the Frog meme provides a case study of how online meme culture can appropriate non-political imagery, codify it and redeploy it, sometimes for extreme political purposes.