Chinese Premier Li Qiang visited Malaysia in May 2025 to attend the ASEAN-GCC-China Summit, aiming to deepen Beijing’s influence in Southeast.

US President Donald Trump, Education Secretary Linda McMahon and the Supreme Court’s conservative majority have advanced long-standing Republican efforts to weaken the federal role in public education ...

Rock music was designed to disrupt, offend and confront society, from Elvis’s racial subversion to Dylan’s protest lyrics, Motown’s coded defiance, and hip-hop’s open confrontation. Recent ...

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Unfortunately, more often than not, the environmental consequences of a healthy diet are disastrous, particularly in the case of avocados.

The US dollar serves as both the world’s reserve currency and America’s national currency, forcing other countries to accumulate dollars while the US runs persistent trade deficits. The global ...

Ten years after Germany accepted nearly 900,000 refugees, politicians have rewritten the story of the 2015 “refugee summer” as a crisis instead of a humanitarian effort. Far-right narratives, led by ...

It is time Russia found a solution to secessionist movements like Chechnya. Background Nestling between the Black and Caspian seas, the North Caucasus is home to a number of separatist movements, many ...

In the US media landscape, conservative Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson has become the single most popular voice disseminating political opinion on American cable television. His personal opinions ...

Somali piracy has had unintended positive consequences—from the economy to international cooperation. In 2009, piracy off the coast of Somalia splashed onto the global stage at near epidemic levels.

Turkish culture wars around headscarves are not as simple as a fight between the people and the mullahs — they’re a product of a tortured history.

US President Joe Biden wrote in the New York Times in June 2022 that the United States was arming Ukraine to “fight on the battlefield and be in the strongest possible position at the negotiating ...