NEW DELHI — If showing up is one of life’s basic tenets, President Joe Biden may have one-upped his rivals the moment he stepped off Air Force One and set foot on Indian soil. The leaders of America’s two main geopolitical foes, China and Russia, stayed home as the world’s wealthiest countries met this week…
Balance Foreign Policy In African ‘coup belt,’ Western values must now compete | View caption Hide caption Amid Western hand-wringing about the string of coups in Africa, some experts say the moment suggests not so much the twilight of Western influence but that African countries have choices and are breaking a dependence on one power.…
The powerful earthquake and aftershocks sent people racing from their beds into the streets – and toppled buildings in mountainous villages and ancient cities not built to withstand such force. More than 2,000 people are now confirmed to have died and the toll is expected to rise as rescuers struggled yesterday (Saturday, September 9) to…
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Russian former convict and restaurateur who founded the Wagner mercenary army, is presumed dead after a plane he was reportedly traveling in crashed Wednesday in a field between Moscow and St. Petersburg, his hometown. Russia’s civil aviation agency said Prigozhin’s name was on the flight manifest of the Embraer private jet, along…
China’s president, Xi Jinping, has decided not to attend the two-day Group of 20 summit starting Sept. 9 in India. Xi attended the 2020 and 2021 meetings virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic, but this will be the first time a Chinese leader has skipped one of the gatherings outright since the first summit in…
First Look Putin dashes hopes of new Ukraine grain deal after talks with Erdoğan The Russian president says a deal that allowed Ukraine to export grain amid the war won’t be restored until the West meets Moscow’s demands on its own agricultural exports. | View caption Hide caption Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that…
Cooperation Europe Isolated from West, Russia looks to Africa as land of opportunity | View caption Hide caption Shunned by the West over its war in Ukraine, Russia is looking to Africa to find new international partners. And, lacking colonial history on the continent, Moscow is finding a more welcoming audience. Still, the Kremlin seems…
Mutinous soldiers claimed to have seized power in Gabon on Wednesday and put the president under house arrest, hours after he was declared the winner in an election that extended his family’s 55-year reign in the oil-rich Central African nation. In his first public appearance since the coup attempt, President Ali Bongo Ondimba called on people to…