"The third countries that have received or been about to receive third-country deportees so far—El Salvador, Libya, South Sudan, now Eswatini—are marked by serious pre-existing human rights violations. This is a recipe for prolonged arbitrary detention or worse."

People across 25 nations are mostly unfavorable toward China and lack confidence in Xi, but views have improved in some places.

President Trump is alerting countries around the world of impending tariff rates that they will face when sending goods to the United States, hitting prominent trading partners and poorer nations

The percentage of people who view the United States favorably has declined compared to one year ago, according to Pew Research.

That’s 19 more than Germany and more than any nation in the world aside from the United States, China, Japan and India. Very few of those companies are anywhere near the top of the list, however.

World map showing all 52 countries with winners from L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers and Illustrators of the Future including an arrow pointing to the most recent, Slovakia. Slovakia joins 51 countries in the prestigious Writers & Illustrators of the Future Contests,

The growth stems from the extraordinary demographic divergence between Africa, the world’s youngest continent with the fastest-growing population, and everywhere else.

But Africa has the highest rate of forest loss in the world. About 3.9 million hectares of African forest – the size of about 381 million soccer fields – was destroyed every year between 2010 ...

After all, it created these agencies after World War II with loyal junior partners in Japan, the United Kingdom, and Europe. China, by contrast, has had to build up its influence elsewhere through bilateral diplomacy and by setting up multilateral institutions of its own, such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.

Eswatini's government said on Wednesday that it was holding five third-country nationals deported from the United States in isolated prison units under a deal with President Donald Trump's administration,