The speech by US Vice President JD Vance at the recent Munich Security Conference delivered a blistering critique of the European project and its supposed failings. More important than the detail of ...

Did you know that Chelsea Clinton bought herself an $80 million mansion from the proceeds of an aid fund for Haiti managed by Bill and Hillary? Or that Sean Penn was handed $3 million from USAID for ...

On 4 December 2024, Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was shot and killed on the street in midtown Manhattan. Following a highly publicised manhunt, Luigi Mangione, was arrested and charged ...

The midterm poll in May for members of the Philippine Congress composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives is shaping as the most consequential in the country’s history. Traditionally, ...

The fate of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the premier aid organisation in the US government, hangs in the balance. But it is not Donald Trump alone that can decide its fate, and ...

In the high-stakes race to master potentially game-changing technologies, one field receives substantially less attention: quantum computing. This emerging field is a major front in the US-China tech ...

Arid landscapes are not easy homes for rapidly growing urban centres. So cities across the Middle East are grappling with pressing environmental challenges, whether rising temperatures, water scarcity ...

In the years leading up to the pandemic, senior diplomats and foreign ministry officials from China began to adopt a pugnacious and overtly nationalist tone to official statements, media comments and ...

Three years ago, Russian forces moved across the Ukrainian northern, eastern and southern frontiers, as well as in a coordinated series of missile and air assault actions, in the hope of a short, ...

Singapore relations with the United States were built on a foundation of strong defence ties rooted in shared values and mutual interests – a stable rule-based global order and multilateralism. In the ...