With the situation in northern Israel now escalating, it’s imperative to take stock of the purpose of the Oct. 7 attacks and what it ...

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In the first weeks of September, dozens of senior Chinese officials from high-profile positions throughout the country were tapped to take up new positions ...

There are two major wars being fought. One, between Ukraine and Russia, has been raging for more than two and a half years but has been roughly confined ...

By GIORGIO CUSCITO 1. The People’s Republic of China wants to use a future, stable ceasefire between the Russian Federation ...

Sales boost. Russian agricultural exports have increased by 7 percent so far this year compared to the same period last year. According to Russia’s minister of agriculture, exports are rising because ...

Russia understands that it’s approaching a demographic crisis. Problems such as falling birth rates would be difficult enough for Moscow to solve even if it weren’t trying to manage migration, ...

The European Union’s economic growth rate slowed in the second quarter, though the bloc’s gross domestic product was 0.2 percent higher compared with the previous three-month period. The EU’s largest ...

Over the past few days, Israel’s air force has conducted hundreds of airstrikes against Hezbollah positions in Lebanon. Nearly 600 Lebanese residents, including 94 women and 35 children, were killed ...

At GPF we have a distinct method for looking at the world, and every day we see this model play out in real time, like in the current conflicts in the ...

Ecuador is grappling with a 1,000-megawatt energy shortfall due to poor maintenance of existing dams, failure to secure new power generation contracts and the worst drought in 61 years. In response, ...

Coalescing opposition. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a network of Iran-backed militias, would consider the United Arab Emirates the first target of attack if a full-scale war breaks out with Israel, ...