Uganda’s presidential election on January 15 has left the country suspended between two stark realities. In one, President Yoweri Museveni has secured a commanding seventh term and projects continuity after nearly four decades in power. In the other, opposition leader Bobi Wine says the result is a manufactured victory, achieved
Geneva / Brussels / Copenhagen, January 20, 2026 Davos was meant to be a summit about cooperation. Instead, it has become the setting for a reckoning between allies. What began as a dispute over Greenland has transformed the World Economic Forum into an improvised emergency negotiation between President Donald Trump
WASHINGTON — What began as a modest United Nations mechanism to stabilize Gaza has been transformed into one of the most audacious experiments in global diplomacy in decades. President Donald Trump’s new Board of Peace is now less about postwar reconstruction and more about who gets to define the future
Canada is quietly rewriting its foreign policy. The global order is coming apart. Canada is stepping forward. Under Prime Minister Mark Carney, Ottawa is no longer standing on the sidelines of a world being remade. It is moving into the center of the debate, acting with clarity and confidence at
In Nuuk, demonstrators gathered in freezing Arctic air, holding signs rejecting foreign control of their homeland. Thousands of kilometres south in Brussels, EU officials convened an emergency meeting. The catalyst for both scenes was the same: a sharp escalation by Donald Trump, who has tied sweeping new tariffs on European
WASHINGTON — As senior officials talked in Washington yesterday, Europe answered on the ice. While representatives of Denmark and Greenland were meeting with U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, NATO allies were already reinforcing Greenland’s defenses. German, French, and Nordic forces joined Danish units in
The post–World War II international order was built on a simple, fragile premise: that power would be constrained by rules, that sovereignty would be respected, and that the horrors of unchecked militarism would never again be normalized. That premise is now being openly challenged by the President of the United
In Manila, a quiet but consequential shift is underway inside the House of Representatives of the Philippines. By 2026, the chamber plans to eliminate paper from its daily operations and anchor its records in blockchain technology, a move that places the Philippines within a widening global experiment to modernize how
New York is now the center of gravity for Venezuela’s political future. Nearly two weeks after U.S. forces detained Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, the consequences of that operation are spreading outward – into courtrooms, ministries, prisons, and diplomatic corridors from Caracas to Rome. Maduro appeared before a
For decades, the U.S. National Security Strategy has served as a roadmap — a public articulation of how Washington sees the world and what it expects from it. But the latest version, released at the end of 2025, takes on an unusual clarity: it codifies a worldview shaped not by
