Chinese Premier Li Qiang visited Malaysia in May 2025 to attend the ASEAN-GCC-China Summit, aiming to deepen Beijing’s influence in Southeast.

US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose a 50% tariff on Brazilian exports unless Brazil grants amnesty to former President Jair Bolsonaro, who faces serious criminal charges. The White ...

Israel has carried out a relentless and zealous military onslaught in Gaza that shows orchestrated mass inhumanity on a gargantuan scale. This campaign has killed tens of thousands of civilians, razed ...

German minority groups such as the Transylvanian Saxons and the Banat Swabians have a long, rich history in Romania. However, political strife as well as benefits elsewhere drove German cultural ...

The international concerns about Iran’s nuclear ambitions and the repression of women’s rights, especially after Mahsa Amini's death, are profound. Nuclear weapons development could worsen the ...

How long the College of Cardinals will convene before announcing the identity of the new pope no one can predict.

In “Outside the Box,” I interrogate ChatGPT with two goals: to better understand how AI “reasons” and to use its capacity to better understand how we humans reason. There’s a big difference, which ...

While AI large language models excel at answering questions, they struggle with logical reasoning and consistent rule application. I ran tests where ChatGPT4 and ChatGPT4o had to solve three versions ...

Strong institutions — from the rule of law and property rights — are the foundation of economic prosperity. While America’s robust institutions have fostered investment and innovation, driving one of ...

Tigray, Ethiopia’s northern region, trembles on the brink of yet another conflict. It is just beginning to recover from the tragic war of 2020–2022, when it fought off the combined might of Ethiopian ...

As a sovereign nation, the State of Israel has existed since 1948, following the end of the 30-year mandate for British administration of Palestine, when the Jewish Agency declared the territory as ...

Contemporary research has debunked the misleading link between mental health issues and violence/terrorism, revealing factors like substance abuse, past violence and social injustices as key ...