Another key Russian goal is to secure control over the Northern Sea Route, amid increased human activity prompted by climate change. In Antarctica, Russia perceives a need to protect its national ...
Ending a dispute on minority rights would do more than progress Ukraine’s EU accession talks: it could strengthen the ...
In this week’s episode of Independent Thinking, our experts discuss Sir Keir Starmer’s resignation and the challenges awaiting the Labour Party’s next leader. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer leaves ...
Whoever is leading the country must deal with a fundamental shift in the UK’s most important relations – with the US and ...
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The US–Iran memorandum of understanding nods to international law. Can that be taken seriously?
The memorandum restores the prohibition on the use of force, seeks a binding resolution at the UN to endorse a ‘final deal,’ and relies on multilateral institutions to implement it. But are the US and ...
Image — China's President Xi Jinping speaks during a bilateral meeting with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Tianjin on 30 August ...
Image — Men dressed as frontline workers from the First Indochina War parade by a poster of the late general Vo Nguyen Giap as Vietnam marks the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu battle, on 7 May ...
The Iran war and its prelude have confirmed for GCC countries that they are in the crosshairs of their volatile neighbours.
Since the US and Iran signed the memorandum of understanding (MOU) ending the war, much discussion has centred on the simple question of who won. There is no clear-cut answer. Washington and Israel ...
This symbolic contrast is important. More than four years after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has not been isolated in the way many Western governments expected or hoped. Large parts of ...
Image — Boats are seen off the coast of Bandar Abbas, Iran, on 15 May 2026. Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images. Earlier this week, the US and Iran signed an interim peace deal that includes plans to ...
French President Emmanuel Macron appears to have had two goals for France’s Evian G7 summit which concluded on 17 June. First, to facilitate a constructive dialogue between President Donald Trump and ...
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