Russia report: intelligence expert explains how UK ignored growing threat
Jul 22, 2020 12:12 pm UTC| Politics
The new report from parliaments Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) on Russia is damning. The document certainly isnt a page-turner, and nor does it provide all the answers some had expected. But contrary to most ISC...
In Kashmir, military lockdown and pandemic combined are one giant deadly threat
Jul 21, 2020 14:17 pm UTC| Politics
COVID-19 is taking a terrible toll worldwide. But in the Himalayan territory of Kashmir, its only the latest indignity in a 73-year cycle of oppression, militarization and scarcity. At least, thats what the minimal news...
The EU's new defensive approach to a rising China
Jul 14, 2020 09:34 am UTC| Politics
Chinese officials have been repeatedly calling for closer cooperation with Europe, but the era of Covid-19 has made China-EU relations sour to an unprecedented low level since the two formally established diplomatic...
China is becoming increasingly assertive – security law in Hong Kong is just the latest example
Jul 14, 2020 08:34 am UTC| Insights & Views
Chinas enforcement of a new security law in Hong Kong marks the de facto end of the one country, two systems model that came into effect following the British handover in 1997. This has repercussions that go far beyond...
EU warns of decisive action against US over trade disputes
Jul 07, 2020 06:29 am UTC| Economy
The EU is threatening to take decisive action against the US over its unwillingness to settle the issue of aircraft subsidies and its plan to conduct new investigations in trade deficits. The aircraft trade dispute...
Israel's proposed annexation of the West Bank could bring a 'diplomatic tsunami'
Jul 02, 2020 15:56 pm UTC| Politics
In a deadly game of Middle East cat and mouse, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is continuing to weigh his options in pushing ahead with plans to extend Israeli sovereignty over territories occupied by Israel in...
Nepal is caught in the middle of India-China border tensions
Jun 26, 2020 06:58 am UTC| Insights & Views
A tense military standoff between China and India over a disputed border area in the Himalayas has put much of the region on edge. Not least in Nepal, which has its own ongoing land dispute with India and where concern is...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects