Emerging Risks

From sectarian passions to shifting tides of global opinion, there are threats that missiles can’t defend against.

Documents from stolen Iranian archives show surprising innovation as Iran embarked on a crash course to build a nuclear weapon.

Rosbalt media's senior correspondent Alexander Zhelenin interviewed the military expert Pavel Felgengauer and heard from him a shocking prediction. Russia intends to invade Ukrain

All pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads. Droplets! No, aerosols! At the heart of the fight was a teensy error with huge consequences.

Colonial Pipeline Co. paid nearly $5 million to Eastern European hackers on Friday, contradicting reports earlier this week that the company had no intention of paying an extortion fee to help restore the country’s largest fuel pipeline, according to two people familiar with the transaction.The company paid the hefty ransom in untraceable cryptocurrency within hours after the attack, underscoring the immense pressure faced by the Georgia-based operator to get gasoline and jet fuel flowing again

"Fluctuations" at Iran's Natanz plant pushed the purity to which it enriched uranium to 63%, higher than the announced 60% that complicated talks to revive its nuclear deal with world powers, a report by the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Tuesday.

Even though sand can be found in nearly every single country on Earth, the world could soon face a shortage of this crucial, under-appreciated commodity. San...

China is aging much more rapidly than many demographers expected. That won’t be enough to derail its rise, but it will pose a serious challenge to its economic model.

Historian Niall Ferguson, author of "Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe", joins Fareed to look ahead to what the post pandemic world might look like.

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The traditional May 9 Victory Day parade in Moscow was not a grand affair this year, unlike the one originally planned for 2020, which had to be postponed and curtailed because of the severe aggravation of the COVID-19 pandemic. The rumble of tanks on Red Square last Sunday signified, nevertheless, that the pause in Kremlin policymaking caused by the extended …

Sky News host Sharri Markson has assessed "chilling" details from a document produced by Chinese military scientists, in which they discussed weaponising SAR...

A dried-up canal running from Ukraine into Russian-occupied Crimea is emerging as one of Europe’s main flash points.

It should worry more about why it is so distrusted | China

The world may be entering an era of "potential international instability" with the rise of China and the advent of disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotics that could prove decisive to warfare, the top U.S. general warned on Wednesday.

Canberra’s had enough of trade embargoes and Chinese grievances—and is ready to draw a line.

Slow rise in neutrons stirs concerns about possible “criticality” accident

The former head of Australia’s special forces told his troops that we were already engaged in a “grey zone” war with China, and worse could well be around the corner.

The Islamic Republic of Iran made multiple attempts in 2020 to obtain technology for its weapons of mass destruction program and has not stopped its drive to develop atomic weapons, intelligence agencies from the Netherlands, Sweden and Germany recently reported.

It is "absolutely credible" to say that President Xi Jinping's primary purpose for his military is to have the capability to take Taiwan by force and will li...

"This problem is much closer to us than most think," the new head of US Indo-Pacific Command said in March.

There is no need to presume China will take Taiwan by military force when its supreme leader Xi Jinping has already said he has “plans to unify Taiwan with t...

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When US President Joe Biden urged Americans to "win the 21st century" in his joint address to Congress, he painted a picture of a new great power competition with China and repeatedly name checked its leader, Xi Jinping.

In a recent column published by RIA Novosti, the deputy chairperson of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, writes that Russia’s relations with the United States have reverted back to a full “Cold War” (RIA Novosti, April 23). Medvedev served as Russia’s caretaker president from 2008 to 2012, holding the post while the country’s true ruler, Vladimir Putin, took the …

One of Australia’s most senior security officials has said liberal democracies must brace for war while searching for peace amid elevated global tensions.

From plagues and volcanic eruptions to the current Covid pandemic, mankind has always been faced with catastrophes. This panoramic history about how we coped in the past and will continue to do so, is packed with brilliant insights and ideas, says Martin Bentham

Cognoscenti Group Founder and CEO Dr Alan Dupont says the risk of war has considerably risen from 0.5 per cent to about 25 per cent on his own estimates, esp...

The persistent lack of response from the EU, NATO, or individual countries only convinces Russia it is free to carry out attacks across Europe with impunity.

Sky News host Andrew Bolt says "we have evidence that woke politics is making the west desperately weak" after New Zealand's Foreign Affairs Minister refused...