The United States is leading a diplomatic push aimed at engineering a Moroccan–Algerian reconciliation as part of a broader effort to resolve the long-running Western Sahara conflict, according to a Western diplomatic source. Peace talks over Western Sahara began in Madrid last week in a renewed push to resolve the half-century-old frozen conflict.
For decades, Ghana has cultivated a reputation as one of Africa’s most stable democracies, characterized by political continuity paired with a pragmatic, restrained, and morally credible foreign policy. Accra’s standing now has garnered an unusual global spotlight following a brief but highly charged diplomatic fallout with Israel.
Iran has entered its fifth day of an effective nationwide internet blackout as anti-government protests, born of deep economic grievances, spread across several cities. While independent verification of casualties and overall scale remains constrained by the telecommunications lockdown, activists and monitoring groups using Starlink and shortwave radio report significant violence and mass arrests.
Federal inaction on AI regulation has produced a patchwork of state AI laws, undermining U.S. competitiveness and threatening the country’s leadership of a potentially civilization-defining technology. Since 2024, more than 145 AI-related laws have been enacted at the state level, with Colorado, California, Texas, and Utah adopting divergent regulations.
President Trump’s military raid that removed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro may have been tactically impressive. Yet his promise that the US will reap billions from a Venezuelan oil bonanza runs up against harsh economic realities. Venezuela’s oil industry has collapsed after decades of mismanagement.
The capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro by U.S. special forces has altered Kim Jong Un’s strategic calculus by collapsing the distinction between wartime and peacetime threats to regime survival. For Pyongyang, the nuclear deterrent no longer functions as a bargaining chip, but rather as a core instrument of regime survival.
The world just witnessed another high-intensity, live-fire Chinese military exercise around Taiwan. The dispute over the island represents one of the most serious risks of another great-power war. Even if unsuccessful, a Chinese attack against Taiwan would risk nuclear escalation, global economic shock, and long-term degradation of international relations.
For the first time since the Cold War, the US explicitly seeks to influence Europe’s internal political order. The Trump administration’s 2025 NSS does not merely criticize European policies or institutions but openly endorses nationalist parties as preferred partners. It thus reframes Europe’s conflicts as matters of strategic alignment.
For two decades, Berlin treated China less as a geopolitical problem than as an economic solution. German carmakers sold more vehicles in China than in Germany. Machinery firms supplied the tools for the world’s most spectacular manufacturing boom. Politicians wrapped this symbiosis in a comforting doctrine: Wandel durch Handel or “change through trade”.
Reform UK built its movement on anti-establishment sentiment but has gradually begun inducting political figures from within the very establishment it once opposed. While this shift may strengthen its institutional reach, it risks undermining the party’s outsider identity, which is the core of its original appeal.
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