August 2026

Can Saudi Money Build France’s Next Global Destination?

Saudi Arabia’s proposed €6 billion entertainment complex near Paris is significant not because France needs another roller coaster, but because it reveals how the country intends to compete for capital, tourism and

August 26, 2026

Europe·Opinion

Beyond Migration: The Geopolitics Behind Ceuta’s Border Crisis

According to a European Parliament resolution adopted in June 2021, Moroccan police temporarily eased controls at the border of Ceuta, the Spanish enclave of about 83,000 people on the North African coast, and failed

August 25, 2026

Opinion

War and Oil Pollution Threaten Gulf Ecosystems

Oil pollution has reached the Hara mangrove forests of Iran’s Qeshm Island, raising fresh concerns over the environmental consequences of the continuing conflict between Iran and the United States in one of

August 24, 2026

Middle East·Planet

Choosing Partners, Not Sides: Brazil’s India Bet

Last week, while much of Brazil’s attention was fixed on the usual churn of domestic issues, our Communications Minister, Frederico de Siqueira Filho, signed a document in Pune, India, that deserves far

August 23, 2026

Americas·Asia·Opinion

A Tariff War With Canada Is No Victory

By letting its hurried trade arrangement with Canada collapse, the Trump administration has chosen escalation over certainty — and a political spectacle over a durable North American economic strategy. At midnight Friday,

August 22, 2026

Americas·Opinion

An Embargo That Might Actually Work

On Wednesday, the United Arab Emirates did something it had resisted doing for decades, even through years of American pressure and multiple rounds of UN sanctions: it shut the door on Iran

August 21, 2026

Middle East·Opinion

Who Really Makes Your Gadgets Now?

Pick up your phone. Turn it over. Somewhere on the back, in letters small enough that most people never bother to read them, is a line that used to say almost the

August 20, 2026

Asia·Technology

Why Our Brains Love a Made-Up Language

Invented languages may seem like something that belongs in fantasy novels, science-fiction films or childhood games. Yet the impulse to reshape language is surprisingly universal. Children do it for fun, communities do

August 19, 2026

Culture

China’s Slowdown Isn’t a Blip. It’s a Warning.

For most of this year, Beijing’s economic managers have offered a familiar reassurance: growth is cooling, but it’s cooling in a controlled, deliberate way — the natural byproduct of a planned shift

August 18, 2026

Asia·Opinion

The Australian Illusion: Why Banning Teens From Social Media Is a Policy Mirage

When Australia enacted the Online Safety Amendment in December 2025—prohibiting adolescents under 16 from holding accounts on platforms from TikTok to Instagram—the world watched with a mixture of envy and ambition. Confronted

August 17, 2026

Australia·Culture

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