In the early hours of Thursday morning in Bridgetown, the Caribbean’s easternmost nation did not just choose a leader. It reaffirmed a global reform mandate. Mia Mottley, the 60-year-old Prime Minister of Barbados, has secured her third consecutive landslide victory. Her Barbados Labour Party (BLP) swept all 30 seats in
Dhaka woke up this week to a political landscape that had been scrubbed clean. After fifteen years of an autocratic grip that ended in the blood of a student-led uprising, Bangladesh has delivered its verdict. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has claimed a landslide victory in the country’s first competitive
Bangkok woke up to a different political map. Thailand general election 2026 delivered a clear and unexpected result: a conservative surge led by Anutin Charnvirakul and the Bhumjaithai Party, vaulting the party to the largest bloc in parliament and halting what many believed was an inexorable drift toward progressive reform.
The era of Japanese political hesitation effectively ended on Sunday. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, capitalizing on her “Iron Lady” persona and a fractured opposition, steered the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to a landslide victory that defies recent trends of incumbent fatigue. Projected to secure a supermajority with coalition partner Ishin,
The race to become the next United Nations Secretary-General is taking shape, but it is far from settled. With António Guterres due to step down at the end of 2026, the contest is emerging as one of the most consequential leadership decisions in modern multilateral history. It is also still
Costa Rica has long defined itself by what it chose not to have. No standing army. No oil drilling. Few countries have so deliberately woven restraint into their national identity. Now, following a decisive election, the country is testing whether that identity can endure a new phase of political power
Today is the day it becomes official. The United States has formally exited the Paris Agreement, completing a yearlong withdrawal process and severing its participation in the world’s most consequential climate accord. With the notification period concluded, Washington is now outside the legal framework that has guided global climate cooperation
Myanmar’s first national election since the military seized power in 2021 has concluded with a decisive claimed victory for the military-aligned Union Solidarity and Development Party, a result that has been swiftly rejected by much of the international community as lacking credibility. The vote, conducted in phases from late December
LIMA — Peru’s president, Dina Boluarte, is facing a mounting political crisis after revelations that she held undisclosed meetings with Chinese businessmen outside the official presidential schedule, triggering a criminal investigation and renewed calls for accountability in a country already defined by institutional instability. The meetings, which took place at
The United States Reimagines Multilateral Engagement DAVOS, Switzerland — Speaking at the World Economic Forum this week, Donald Trump announced the creation of the Board of Peace, a new international body intended to oversee ceasefires and coordinate post-conflict arrangements, beginning with Gaza but envisioned as a global mechanism. The announcement
