Emerging Risks

For many students, physical school wasn’t replaced with Zoom. Rather, school closures meant no school—literally none at all.

The great “convergence” of the mid-20th century may have been an anomaly.

The testing system set up by the CDC actually deters doctors from ordering a monkeypox test, and many physicians aren't familiar with the disease, resulting in too few tests and little tracking.

Anthony Albanese’s presence at the meeting is part of an intensifying effort to range as many nations as possible against Moscow and Beijing, officials said.

Leaders convene in Berlin over growing food crisis related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

The great “convergence” of the mid-20th century may have been an anomaly.

How the melting Arctic could lead to huge riches — but also a global conflict between Russia and the US.

As Nato leaders prepare to convene in Madrid next week for their annual summit, observers say the world's largest defence alliance is likely to harden its stance towards China over its position on Russia's war in Ukraine. China is expected to be identified for the first time in Nato's new strategic concept, a key document charting the 30-member bloc's future security trail and military development to be adopted at the summit. A recent Nato survey across all member states found China was viewed a

Vast surveillance data allows the state to target people whose behavior or characteristics are deemed suspicious by an algorithm, even if they’ve done nothing wrong.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Is North Korea preparing to deploy tactical nuclear weapons along its tense border with rival South Korea, which is only a short drive from the 26 million people living in and around Seoul, its capital?

Recorded June 23 2022 🔥https://youtu.be/HczOPzsdD-YJust a decade ago, the financial world was abuzz discussing the future of the BRICS – Brazil, Russia, In...

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The great “convergence” of the mid-20th century may have been an anomaly.

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The millennia-old contest between China’s rulers and its people has never been more consequential.

Some law-enforcement officials remember how to make cities safe.

Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of the Russian Security Council, was in Kaliningrad on June 20, where he declared that Moscow was preparing a serious response to what he called Lithuania’s (already three-day-long) “transportation blockade” of that Russian exclave (Ren.tv, June 21). Hours earlier, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called in the head of the Lithuanian embassy in Moscow to …

A New York Times analysis of over 100,000 government bidding documents found that China’s ambition to collect digital and biological data from its citizens i...

Exclusive: Questions over palaces, vineyards and yachts run by entities that appear to be part of a cooperative

While there is growing speculation that federal agents and Capitol Police were involved in instigating acts of violence ...

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If we have so far avoided calling it war, maybe that’s only because we’ve become so uncertain of the meaning of the word.

As Vladimir Putin declares the end of the “unipolar world” over three months into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, cracks begin to widen in the West’s maximum-pressure campaign against Moscow.

The number of subjects on terror watchlists apprehended while trying to cross the southern US border illegally has surged in recent months, new data from Customs and Border Protection shows.

The president appeared on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ and didn’t mention Russia’s war against Ukraine in a 23-minute interview.

Russia’s war is becoming a larger struggle of good against evil, and Europe must do more or evil may triumph.

Britain’s new top army general says Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has changed the outlook for Britain’s military, which must be capable of fighting alongside allies and ready to defeat Russia on the battlefield.

In a move of staggering stupidity and hubris, Lithuanian banned the transit of Russian goods to Kaliningrad effective today, June 18, 2022.  Kaliningrad, which is wedged between Poland on the west and Lithuania on the east, is home to almost a half-million Russians and the headquarters for the Russian Navy’s Baltic Sea force. Lithuania claims…

Social, economic and security challenges aplenty have marked what is becoming a tumultuous 2022. The most significant of all the problem sets may be the emergence of a new norm in nuclear doctrine &nd

Kremlin leader hints that neighbouring countries could meet Ukraine’s fate if they turn on him over the invasion