Diplomacy & Crisis News

President Lee Jae Myung has proposed that North Korea end its unnecessary hostility and begin direct dialogue to establish peaceful coexistence on the Korean Peninsula.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed directives to amend military-technical cooperation agreements with Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, potentially opening the door to deeper defense ties with the two Central Asian states.

Several Berlin state ministries have been cut off from the government's IT network following a security breach, Anadolu Agency reported, citing the premier's office, as investigators work to contain the incident and determine its scope.

From the frontlines of the deadliest-ever Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN World Health Organization (WHO) shared details on Tuesday of a massive push for community engagement, a day after yet another ambulance attack.

Its network is growing, albeit slowly. But this is unlikely to manifest in mass casualty attacks.

The country has so far outpaced most of its regional peers when it comes to the production of renewable energy.

Kem Monovithya's appointment comes three months after her father Kem Sokha received a royal pardon quashing a 27-year sentence for treason.

Iran and the last gasp of a failed order.

Why Washington still risks losing the tech race.

Preparing for a world of synthetic pathogens.

The case against pessimism and the path to a new allied order.

Learning to live in a post-American world.

The real history of Beijing’s rare-earth dominance.

A quarter century before 9/11, an upsurge in global terrorism prompted the historian David Fromkin to examine its purpose and method. Terrorism was a strategy of the weak, Fromkin wrote in these pages, but modern technology had enabled it “to enter the political arena on a new scale.” And its surprising success seemed to be due, in large part, “to a miscomprehension of the strategy by its opponents.”

How to make government work again.

War with Thailand pushed Cambodia to enact a sweeping scam crackdown. Now the ruling elite is leveraging the same crackdown to consolidate its political control.

Neither region can compete directly with China and the United States, but together they have the potential to show how middle powers can shape the AI economy.

The trip would be the former general's sixth, and third to an ASEAN member state, since his appointment as president in April.

The United States scales back joint military drills with Seoul to appease Pyongyang.

A last-minute order to scale back Ulchi Freedom Shield may have a limited immediate military effect. Its deeper cost is the precedent.