Disagreements over the Iran war and defence procurement threaten to turn the annual summit into another theatre for division ...

Image — Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper in April at a virtual summit of countries discussing how to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images. The world is more dangerous than it has ...

The Trump administration’s approach to controlling US companies’ powerful AI capabilities is volatile. It undercuts global ...

Formula 1’s regulator uses a diverse toolkit of rules and penalties to deliver multiple objectives. This could hold lessons ...

Europe cannot affect the course of America’s latest reinvention, as it did 250 years ago. But it can adapt to a more unhappy ...

Chinese lenders account for 12 per cent of Africa’s private and public external debt, which increased more than fivefold to $696 billion from 2000 to 2020. China is a major creditor of many African ...

Image — Belarusian President Aliaksandr Lukashenka smiles during the wreath laying ceremony to the Unknown Soldiers Tomb, marking the 80th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany on 9 May 2025 in ...

Image — Two Likud Party election banners shows Benjamin Netanyahu shaking hands with Donald Trump (L) and Vladimir Putin, with a caption in Hebrew reading "Netanyahu, in another league", in Tel Aviv ...

Image — China's President Xi Jinping speaks during a bilateral meeting with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Tianjin on 30 August ...

This week Egypt hosted indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas, which have yielded an agreement to implement the first stage of US President Donald Trump’s plan to end the Gaza war. This will ...

Image — In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi take a walk during an informal meeting at the ...

Image — Kurdish fighters walk on the site of the outskirts of an Iranian Kurdish military facility north of Erbil, Iraq, on 11 March 2026, after it was struck by an Iranian drone. Photo by Younes ...