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
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
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
