Creativity Foreign Policy At G20, Biden promotes US leadership, but faces its limits | View caption Hide caption Even without the leaders of Russia and China in attendance at the G20 summit in India, their influence created real challenges for President Joe Biden, who drew on creative diplomacy to assert U.S. global leadership. “The message…
Cooperation Europe Putin meets Kim Jong Un, looking for arms – and friends | View caption Hide caption Vladimir Putin is often accused of trying to restore the old Soviet Union. But his meeting with Kim Jong Un suggests he might be focusing on restoring ties with like-minded former Soviet allies instead. But analysts suggest…
HANOI, Vietnam — President Joe Biden sought to downplay friction with China and insisted he isn’t trying to constrain the country’s rise, even as he spent a weekend in Asia strengthening ties with other countries seen as bulwarks against Chinese economic and military clout. “I don’t want to contain China,” Biden said at a news…
Transformation Europe Chinese, Iranian automakers woo Russians after Western brands leave | View caption Hide caption The auto market is one of the few areas in Russia where Western sanctions had an immediate effect. Today, Russia’s car industry has been transformed, with new players, foreign and domestic, stepping to the fore. But exhibition organizers say…
Mysterious blue lights were seen illuminating the sky moments before a devastating earthquake in Morocco killed 2,900 people. These bizarre bursts of light were filmed by a CCTV camera at a property in Agadir, appearing approximately three minutes before the disaster. A single blue flash appears in the upper left corner of the frame in…
1 Erdogan and Putin meet in effort to rejuvenate Ukraine grain deal Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin met Monday to discuss Russia’s potential re-entry into the Black Sea grain deal. The agreement, which allows grain from Ukraine to be shipped to food-scarce countries around the world, was upended this past July…
If you hadn’t yet heard of Temu, chances are you would have soon. Consider it a wannabe Amazon, another morally questionable online retailer with prices so low you can understand why an inflation-plagued consumer would want to take advantage. And it’s only getting more popular — unique visitors in the U.S. catapulted from 5.1 million…
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.…
1 North Korea fires missiles into sea following US-South Korea drills North Korea fired several missiles into the sea on Saturday, South Korean officials said, in an apparent retaliation for extended joint military exercises between the United States and South Korea. The missiles were detected off the west coast of North Korea, according to a…