Emerging Risks

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz attends a cabinet meeting of the new government at the Chagall Hall in the Knesset, …

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There was a moment a decade ago when it appeared that the mafia’s influence over Turkish politics had ended. Since the 1970s, individuals from Turkey’s

GAZA: A top Hamas official on Monday warned of renewed violence if right-wing pro-settler organizations hold a controversial march Thursday in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem. “We warn the occupation (Israel) against letting the march approach east Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Thursday,” senior Hamas figure Khalil Al-Hayya said. “We hope the message is clear so that Thursday doesn’t become (a new) May 10,” he said, in reference to the start of last month’s 11-day war between Israel and Hamas, the Islamist group that rules the Gaza Strip.

The perception that 2020 was unprecedented is inaccurate, says Niall Ferguson

“Most U.S. commercial activity in China will continue as before," former diplomat says.

The Chinese president’s conciliatory speech rings hollow in the face of his brutal policies

The Covid-19 pathogen has a genetic footprint that has never been observed in a natural coronavirus.

“The Generals Have No Clothes: The Untold Story of Our Endless Wars” by William M. Arkin. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2021. 272 pages, $28 (hardcover).

With Hamas threats pouring out at the rate of one a day, Israel’s military charges Egypt’s General Intelligence chief Gen.

The world’s anger will be terrible to behold.

Throughout 2020, the notion that the novel coronavirus leaked from a lab was off-limits. Those who dared to push for transparency say toxic politics and hidden agendas kept us in the dark.

‘I expected it from politicians. I didn’t expect it from science,’ Robert Redfield says

On January 16, the CDC will stage a grand rounds titled "Public Health Response to a Nuclear Detonation," the timing of which has some concerned.

The people responsible for bringing the Wuhan lab-leak story to light are not journalists or spies or scientists. They are a group of amateur sleuths, with few resources except curiosity and a willingness to spend days combing the internet for clues.

The origin of the virus is a scientific question — but one with huge political implications.

The potential consequences of the origins of the virus are shattering – if they can be proved

Baylor University’s Peter Hotez adds his voice to a chorus that includes prominent Democrats and Republicans,

A diverse coalition of conservatives, centrists and liberals say they have votes to form a government this week.

The 22-page paper on the origins of COVID-19, exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com and slated for publication in the coming days, is set to make waves among the scientific community.

Newspaper editor affiliated with Lebanese terror group claims Hezbollah sent weapons and ammunition to Gaza during conflict

Behind China's triumphalist rhetoric lurks an inconvenient truth: China’s own society is fracturing in complex and challenging ways.

When it's geology versus cities, the geology usually wins.

Scientists and executives laid out their plans to combat new strains of the virus, saying new waves of the pandemic are on their way.

Taiwan, which China considers a breakaway province, is the most tense issue between Beijing and the U.S. Taiwan argues it is on the frontline of democracy ag...

In a pressure move, Iran’s parliament speaker said international inspectors would no longer have access to surveillance images of its 18 nuclear sites.

In terms of the terrorist “ring of fire” that Iran is now surrounding Israel with, Hamas is the minor league.

LONDON: Israel “firmly rejects” pressure not to build in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday following spreading international condemnation of planned evictions of Palestinians from homes in the city claimed by Jewish settlers. “We firmly reject the pressure not to build in Jerusalem. To my regret, this pressure has been increasing of late,” Netanyahu said during a televised address ahead of national commemorations of the Israeli capture of east Jerusalem in a 1967 war.

International community fails to speed up government formation in Lebanon, even with the economy in meltdown.

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