A quiet but consequential recalibration is underway in Northern Europe. Some of the region’s largest pension funds are reducing or exiting U.S. Treasury holdings, signaling that geopolitical risk and political volatility are now being weighed alongside yield and liquidity in long term portfolio decisions. The moves come amid heightened transatlantic
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
Wellington moves to turn deep science into economic muscle WELLINGTON — In a modest line item with outsized ambition, the New Zealand government has committed NZ $1.35 million to chart a national pathway into quantum and photonic technologies. The goal is not abstract discovery alone, but something more pragmatic and
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
Masdar and UAE partners move to deliver round-the-clock renewable energy for Uzbekistan A major step toward always-on clean electricity is taking shape in Central Asia. Masdar, alongside UAE partners, has signed a new agreement with Uzbekistan Ministry of Energy to explore a gigascale, round-the-clock renewable energy project that could transform
At Davos, the reset was meant to sound definitive. Pressed on whether the United States might use military force over Greenland, President Donald Trump offered what appeared to be a clean retreat. “I won’t do that. Now everyone is saying ‘oh good.’ That’s probably the biggest statement I made because
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
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
