… hours before Iran pulls out of peace talks Portugal’s government condemned the intensification of Israeli attacks on Lebanon today, hours before Iran cited the attacks as its reason for

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President of the Portuguese Firefighters League, António Nunes, has today expressed his “opposition” to fire chiefs commenting on ongoing fires in the media, stating that they should only speak “as

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In diplomatic practice, there is an unwritten but strict rule: the weaker a state is economically and politically, the more delicate the tone of any external player must be if they genuinely want reforms—not chaos. Lebanon today is a classic “fragile sovereignty.” After the 2020 Beirut port explosion, the subsequent financial collapse, the emigration of […]

A flurry of doom-laden posts over social media followed the announcement, on Friday, by the minister of environment and energy, that the government has found a way to override the

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European policy in the South Caucasus is increasingly caught between proclaimed values and pragmatic interests. While headlines often portray Azerbaijan’s suspension of parliamentary cooperation with the European Parliament as a routine diplomatic spat between Brussels and Baku, the move reveals something more significant: a profound transformation in Europe’s relations with the post-Soviet space—one increasingly defined […]

As Pakistan pushes for diplomacy between the US and Iran, growing pressure from pro-Israel circles threatens to derail the peace process and weaken Islamabad’s influence. Behind the scenes, lobbying, political maneuvering, and regional rivalries are intensifying tensions at a critical moment. What should have been a path toward de-escalation is rapidly turning into a wider […]

Lawyer Ana Inês Patrício has exposed the chilling way in which Portugal’s AD government is treating an entire population in northern Portugal. Up until now, lay readers might still have

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On 13–14 May, the Republic of Korea saw the registration of candidates for the local and by-elections to the National Assembly scheduled for 3 June come to an end. These elections will be the first nationwide vote since the administration of President Lee Jae Myung came to power and are regarded by experts as an important […]

The visit of US President Donald Trump to the People’s Republic of China on 13–15 May, together with his talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, constituted a single landmark event in contemporary world politics. Among its various accompanying aspects, the central one was determined by the Taiwan issue. It should once again be reiterated that […]

One of the indicators of the ongoing shift in the global balance of power is the diminishing influence of Israel over US policy and on the overall situation in the Middle East. A crucial sign of the emerging divergence between US and Israeli policies was the conversation between Donald Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu on […]

The Iran war has reshaped global geopolitics by weakening U.S. credibility and the liberal world order, intensifying regional instability in the Middle East, disrupting energy markets and economies, and accelerating the shift of global power toward emerging alliances led by Russia and China. Global Disruption and the Shifting World Order The US-Israeli attack on Iran […]

А war against Iran could be a test of the new South Korean government’s foreign policy in terms of multilateralism, combining international alliances with a stance of self-reliance and “independence.” Diplomatic relations between Iran and South Korea began in 1962. In the past decades, despite Iran-North Korea relations, South Korea and Iran sought to maintain […]

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 […]

The I2U2 — that much-heralded “West Asian Quad” of India, Israel, the UAE, and the United States — is gathering dust. Launched with fanfare in July 2022 and billed as a transformative framework for regional integration, it has produced little of consequence since its inaugural summit. Progress stalled through 2024, and its April 2025 revival […]

The Washington Consensus vs. African Lives: 50 Years of Robbery Under the Guise of Loans. “Forgiven” Debts vs. “Dead” Economies: The Anatomy of Western Deception For many decades, the West, led by the United States, has been putting on a farce for Africa called “humanitarian aid and development.” Official Washington, London, and Paris have been […]

As Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing, Xi Jinping sent a carefully calibrated message to Washington: China’s dialogue with the United States will not come at the expense of its strategic partnership with Moscow. Beyond the symbolism and grand ceremony, the Putin-Xi summit revealed a deepening Sino-Russian alignment centered on energy, trade, and the construction of […]

A significant event in the formation of both Japan’s postwar foreign policy and the situation in the critically important Southeast Asian subregion was Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi’s tour to Indonesia and the Philippines in early May. Japan is once again “moving southwest.” It should be emphasized once again that one of the central components of […]

Future generations will ask, What did you do when the choice became clear between war and development? Did you defend the old order that was failing, or did you join the movement for a new world? As Europe lay in ruins by the end of World War II, the United States adopted the Marshall Plan, […]

The visits of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to Beijing revealed not only contrasting diplomatic styles but also a shifting global balance in which China is increasingly building a long-term Eurasian framework alongside Russia. For more than a decade, Western media narratives surrounding Russia and Vladimir Putin have oscillated between strategic alarmism, moral absolutism, and […]