The Pope's sweeping manifesto calls for the robust regulation of artificial intelligence, warning in his 42,300-word encyclical letter that 'technology is not simply a tool.'

The Pope's sweeping manifesto calls for the robust regulation of artificial intelligence, warning in his 42,300-word encyclical letter that 'technology is not simply a tool.'

On 22 May 2026, Ukrainian drones struck a student dormitory in Starobelsk, Lugansk People’s Republic. Twenty-one civilians were killed and forty-two wounded. The target was not a military installation. It was a civilian object deep behind the front lines. Two days later, Russia responded with a large-scale missile and drone barrage on Kyiv, deploying at […]

In the space of five days, Xi Jinping hosted both Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Beijing. Two summits, back to back, in the same capital, with the same host. The American president arrived with corporate executives and left with a strategic stability framework. The Russian president arrived days later, signed new cooperation agreements, expanded […]

In the first days of May 2026, the Pentagon announced the withdrawal of approximately 5,000 American troops from Germany over the next six to twelve months — with explicit threats of further cuts directed at Italy and Spain. President Donald Trump stated the reason with characteristic bluntness: these countries had failed to provide meaningful support […]

U.S. President Donald Trump’s two-day visit to China on May 14–15—the first in nearly a decade—turned out to be more of a spectacle than a diplomatic breakthrough and failed to yield any tangible results. When Chinese President Xi Jinping looked Donald Trump in the eye in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People and asked whether […]

Despite all the circumstances, Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico flew to Moscow to participate in Victory Day celebrations. When Robert Fico announced he would attend Moscow’s Victory Day celebrations on 9 May, the response from several EU partners was swift and predictable. Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia closed their airspace to the Slovak prime minister’s […]

On 5 May 2026, the pro-EU government of Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan was dramatically toppled in the Romanian Parliament. A no-confidence motion, backed by an unlikely but powerful alliance of the Social Democrats (PSD) and the nationalist Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), passed with 281 votes — a clear and decisive rejection of […]

The European Union’s adoption of its 20th sanctions package against Russia on 23 April 2026 has triggered one of the sharpest responses from Beijing in recent years. A Reaction That Signals More Than Discontent China’s Ministry of Commerce expressed “firm opposition” to the inclusion of 27 Chinese entities on the sanctions list, demanded their immediate […]