Eighty-nine schoolgirls and their teachers were hospitalized (NYT) with respiratory and neurological symptoms in a suspected incident of poisoning at two girls’ schools over the weekend. There is a fiery… Read more »
As the war in Ukraine enters yet another phase with the coming Ukrainian offensive, it is clear that China is positioning itself to benefit from the outcome regardless of which… Read more »
Volatility is likely to characterize the process by which Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei’s successor is chosen. It will be rather chaotic, with many spoilers and few sincere brokers, argues… Read more »
History tells us war is a question of will, @general_ben tells @FukuyamaFrancis @americanpurpose. One reason why #Ukraine will defeat #Russia in the coming months & threaten their position in #Crimea…. Read more »
The 3000-word-long G7 Hiroshima Leaders’ Communique issued by the world’s most powerful democracies lays down some important markers against the authoritarian challenge of Russia and China to the rules-based international… Read more »
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress has forgotten that the outside world’s principled rejection of neutrality sustained the struggle against apartheid, Johannesburg-based political analyst Eusebius McKaiser writes for Foreign Policy. Earlier… Read more »
Russia’s war in Ukraine has drawn Western allies closer together, but it has not unified the world’s democracies in the way U.S. President Joe Biden might have hoped for when… Read more »
Who opened the doors of Kober prison, located north of the Sudanese capital, on 23 April? analyst Gwenaëlle Lenoir asks. Where are the three International Criminal Court (ICC) suspects who… Read more »
A North Korean school dropout will testify on human rights in North Korea at the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy on 17 May, VOA reports: A North Korean… Read more »
What does the Kremlin’s crackdown mean for the regime and what remains of the organized domestic opposition? CSIS expert and former Penn Kemble fellow Maria Snegovaya asks Natalia Arno of… Read more »