Few countries have such a fundamental interest in addressing climate change as Australia.
For the first time, reasonable people in the United States have begun to speculate that President Donald Trump could be convicted by the Senate and thus...
The Chinese folk saying “lift a rock only to drop it on one’s own feet,” or its English equivalent - “to shoot oneself in the foot” - perfectly describes the...
Few issues have generated as much public interest in recent years as food loss and waste, widely agreed to be a moral and technical failure in a world where...
Instead of being focused on the country he represents as its top diplomat, Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil seemed to be more concentrated on another...
Syndicates controlling three vital sectors of the Lebanese economy - fuel, flour and medicine - are behaving like cartels and holding the country to ransom.
President Donald Trump last week seemed to be nearing a preliminary truce in his trade war with China.
The aftershocks of U.S. President Donald Trump’s abandonment of the Kurds in Syria are rumbling through the region, and a string of Lebanese officials told me...
Artificial intelligence is all around us, generating excitement about how it could increase prosperity and transform our lives in multiple ways.
At last month’s United Nations summit on the Sustainable Development Goals, child marriage did not get top billing.
Opponents of globalization constantly point to the uneven impact of open trade.
Four years after world leaders signed the Paris climate agreement and adopted the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals, the...
With the United States and China locked in a trade war, climate action lagging behind climate reality and the World Trade Organization’s Appellate Body at...
Political observers and world leaders are at a loss when it comes to determining what the Trump doctrine in foreign affairs is. Thomas Friedman, in an article...
“When you drink the water, remember the spring”
Last month, the Akademik Lomonosov, Russia’s first floating nuclear power plant, arrived in the remote town of Pevek in the country’s Siberian Arctic region.
I have long opposed the various efforts to impeach President Donald Trump.
Europe and Africa are inextricably linked by history, geography and economic ties.
Since 2010, economic growth in low- and middle-income countries has been two to three times faster than in high-income countries.
In Mohammed Hanif’s novel “Red Birds,” an American bomber pilot crashes his plane in the Arabian desert and is stranded among the locals in a nearby refugee...
In the 19th century, the world was Europeanized. In the 20th century, it was Americanized.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s presidency is in peril.
The late Alan Clark, a British politician of the Margaret Thatcher era, chiefly known for his womanizing and his hard-right views, once lamented to me the...
The relationship between monetary authorities and governments differs in important ways between the United States and the eurozone.
The commander of Syrian Kurdish forces didn’t use the word “betrayal.” But with U.S. troops withdrawing from the Turkish-Syrian border and Turkish troops...
Since Chinese President Xi Jinping launched his sweeping anti-corruption campaign in 2012, more than 1.5 million officials, including some of the Communist...
Early on the morning of Sept. 14, drones struck two major oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, affecting close to half of the output of the world’s top oil...
A chaos-order continuum exists in all countries. There is no system that is completely chaotic or ordered. Even those showing some characteristics of chaos...
In a stuffy attic-turned-office in Tijuana, Mexico, Juan (his name has been changed to protect his identity) described the harrowing events that drove him to...