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Min Aung Hlaing oversaw elections in Myanmar five years after a coup. Five years after mounting a coup that ousted an elected civilian government, Min Aung Hlaing has overseen tightly staged elections transitioning him from commander-in-chief to president. Foreign governments should ensure interaction with Naypyitaw is calibrated, so as not to confer unwarranted legitimacy on the administration.
India and Japan expressed serious concern over the East and South China Seas. India and Japan also expressed "serious concern" at the situation in the East China Sea and South China Sea, and opposed unilateral actions that endanger freedom of navigation as well as attempts to change the status quo by force.
China's electric vehicle fleet is emerging as a significant, often overlooked, artificial History has a habit of concealing its most consequential turning points inside the mundane. The invention of the shipping container did not announce itself as a revolution in global trade. The rise of the mobile phone was initially dismissed as an expensive novelty for businessmen. Today, something similarly quiet and similarly transformative is unfolding across The post China’s EV fleet is wo.
Armenia holds its first general election since 2021 on 7 June. Foreign policy issues have become the central focus of the campaign. Voters will decide the country's external relations direction. Armenians will head to the polls on 7 June for the country’s first general election since 2021. In this Q&A, Crisis Group expert Joshua Kucera explains why foreign policy has dominated the campaign and what the results may mean for Yerevan’s external relations.
Samson Abebe Bezabeh discussed Djibouti’s history and politics on This week on The Horn, Alan speaks with Samson Abebe Bezabeh, Assistant Professor of African Studies at the University of Hong Kong, about Djibouti’s history, politics and efforts to navigate turmoil and shifting alliances in the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea.
Pakistan started conveying proposals to end the war soon after the United States and Israel began bombing Iran Soon after the U. S. and Israel began bombing Iran on 28 February, Pakistan started conveying proposals for ending the war. The mediator’s mantle comes with risks, but Islamabad feels the stakes are high enough that it has persevered at the task. A New Player in the Quest for a U. S.-Iran Breakthrough.
The European Union's next seven-year budget could put spending on conflict prevention The European Union’s next seven-year budget could put spending on conflict prevention and aid to fragile states at risk. In this Q&A, Crisis Group experts Lisa Musiol and Dylan Macchiarini Crosson explain the potential consequences.
Trump administration officials believed Israel intended to assassinate Iran's top negotiators. Trump administration officials reportedly believed that the Israeli government intended to assassinate Iran’s top negotiators. including the country’s foreign minister. during peace talks with the US in an effort to sabotage diplomatic progress. The New York Times reported Thursday that “American concerns about the targeting of two particular Iranian officials.
Twin earthquakes struck Venezuela's northern coast last week. Thousands of volunteers are joined by overseas teams in the hope of finding more survivors in the rubbleWhen twin earthquakes tore through Venezuela’s northern coast last week, Israel Rivas was at home hundreds of miles away in the industrial city of San Félix. As the scale of the catastrophe became clear, the 24-year-old knew he had to react.
Iran's government is preparing a multiday funeral for late Supreme Leader Ali Kham Iran's government is preparing a multiday funeral ceremony for late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who died in US and Israeli strikes in February. But many Iranians are not mourning his loss, and are instead sharing complex reactions to the death of a man who led an oppressive theocratic regime.
Narendra Modi received the Guardian of the Blue Horizon award in Seychelles. The Indian prime minister accepted the "highest" honor from Seychelles president Patrick Herminie. Modi has a pattern of collecting awards during his overseas travels. Indian prime minister has a habit of collecting awards on his travels, some as their first and only recipientAs Narendra Modi touched down in Seychelles over the weekend, the archipelago nation in the Indian Ocean swiftly bestowed one of its “highest” honours upon the Indian prime minister. Modi beamed as he accepted the Guardian of the Blue Horizon award from Patrick Herminie, the Seychelles presi.
A new UN report by an independent expert found racism significantly impacts access to sport. High From high participation costs and restrictions on Palestinian athletes – to bans on Muslim women wearing hijabs – racism continues to shape who gets to participate in sport, a new UN report published on Thursday has found.
Floods in Côte d’Ivoire killed 59 people since May. Authorities say rainy season deadlier, with Ghana reporting 13 dead and floods also hitting Benin, Togo and Nigeria Floods in Côte d’Ivoire have killed 59 people since May, the communication minister told a cabinet meeting in Abidjan. There are fears the toll could further rise as rescue teams continue to search for victims during the rainy season, which runs from May until July, the minister, Amad.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is experiencing an ongoing Ebola outbreak from the Bundib If we don’t know the source, not only do humans remain at risk but wildlife can suffer needlessly health departments were palpitating over the news of an Andes virus infectious disease outbreak on a cruise ship (13 cases, three deaths), in the Democratic Republic of the Congo the Bundibugyo virus, the root of the current Ebola outbreak (currently more th.
Iran tests the Strait of Hormuz and conducts actions in the Gulf. As Washington and Tehran test the limits of a fragile interim understanding, the diplomacy around Iran has become increasingly complex. To unpack the latest developments, RFE/RL spoke with Marc J. Sievers, a former US diplomat based in Abu Dhabi who has served across the Middle East.
Russia launched a major drone and missile attack on Kyiv on July 2. Kyiv residents mourned those killed in a Russian overnight attack on July 2 that marked one of the biggest strikes on the Ukrainian capital this year and left at least 30 people dead and nearly 100 more injured.
A Systema investigation found that banana shipments to St. Petersburg sometimes conceal cocaine. Shipments of bananas to St. Petersburg sometimes conceal a contraband cargo: cocaine. A Systema investigation finds that two companies with roles in the delivery and further distribution of the fruit are controlled by Russians with ties to longtime associates of President Vladimir Putin.
Vladimir Putin confirmed on June 28 that Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia's energy Vladimir Putin has finally acknowledged that Ukraine’s relentless drone attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure are having an effect. Speaking to the ruling United Russia party on June 28, the Russian president confirmed that his country is facing “a certain shortage” of fuel and that “strikes on our infrastructure sites are creating problems.” In fact, the post Crimea in emergency as Uk.
Russian recruitment officers seized men off streets in Penza and other regions. In a video captured in the Russian city of Penza, women sob as their loved ones are loaded into a van by recruitment officers, apparently after the men were forced into signing military contracts. Similar reports have emerged from several Russian regions in recent weeks.
Russian missile and drone attacks killed at least 17 people and injured over At least 17 people were killed and more than 80 injured, including children, in overnight Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, on July 2. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had warned that Russia was preparing a massive strike.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz suggested a Plaza Accord 2. TOKYO. Enter German Chancellor Friedrich Merz as the latest to suggest a Plaza Accord 2.0 is needed to knock China’s export competitiveness down to size. Merz argues the yuan is 30% undervalued, accuses Beijing of “flooding global markets” with artificially cheap goods and warns that its state-subsidized overcapacity is destabilizing an already fragile world economy.
NASA launched a spacecraft to rescue the Swift telescope. The spacecraft will gradually catch up with the Swift telescope before using its robotic arms to latch onto the observatory and gently raise it into a higher orbit, potentially extending its operational life by years.
The Supreme Court affirmed birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment. This ruling grants automatic US citizenship to anyone born in the country. It includes children of undocumented immigrants and temporary visa holders, a policy the Trump administration had previously challenged. Birthright citizenship is the law of the land. The Supreme Court has once again ruled that the 14th Amendment gives automatic citizenship to anyone born in the US.
Hernán Alberto Gil Flores, 43, was rescued from a collapsed shopping center Security guard Hernán Alberto Gil Flores, 43, initially told rescuers not to tell his wife in case he did not surviveA 43-year-old security guard who survived last week’s devastating earthquakes in Venezuela thanks to a pocket of air in his workstation cabin has been pulled from the collapsed basement of a shopping centre amid huge cheers from international rescue teams. Hernán Alberto Gil Flores h.
An eleven-year-old Canadian boy died of rabies after a bat encounter in an Ontario Eleven-year-old developed symptoms 19 days after encounter in ‘exceedingly rare’ case in Canada Doctors in Canada say a child who awoke to find a bat resting on his nose and mouth while visiting an Ontario cottage later died of rabies, in an “exceedingly rare case” that highlights the need for better public awareness. In a report published this week in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, infe.
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