International issues

Today the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom joined Denmark Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in defending Greenland’s sovereignty in the wake of Trump’s comments about Greenland.  For decades, Canada and the United States have…

06 January 2026 –  #RefuseSingleUseDay shines a light on a simple idea that feels almost old-fashioned: stop treating things as throwaways in the first place. From plastic sachets to paper cups to misleading bio-based packaging, single-use items continue to strain ecosystems…

The Kremlin’s declaration that Venezuela “must be guaranteed the right to determine its own future without destructive external interference, particularly of a military nature,” issued after American forces captured President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores, was already freighted…

Once again, we have witnessed the United States openly flout international law by bombing Caracas and abducting the Venezuelan president. The accusations of drug trafficking and weapons possession against Nicolás Maduro and his wife are nothing more than a pretext…

(Group pushes for regulatory and consumer vigilance to break the unlawful trade of contraband cosmetics with mercury) 4 January 2026, Quezon City.  The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition today released a list of 13 skin lightening products found in 2025…

Guwahati : As the year 2025 bids farewell, it emerged as a deadlier year for journalists since the beginning of the century, after 2024. At least 165 media professionals were killed in 31 countries, where 2024 witnessed 179 journo-casualties around…

Abstract This paper advances a structural hypothesis on the behavior of declining hegemonies and their impact on the reconfiguration of the contemporary international order. It argues that when a power simultaneously loses productive, technological, and normative primacy, with no short-term…

(Moscow Bureau) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has sharply criticised the near absence of African media presence in the Russian Federation, arguing that this gap undermines the development of a positive and balanced Russia–Africa relationship. Speaking at the plenary…

I listened to the January 3 press conference with a knot in my stomach. As a Venezuelan American with family, memories, and a living connection to the country being spoken about as if it were a possession, what I heard…

2025 came to a close in an atmosphere of anxiety: attack in preparation against Venezuela, looming danger of world war, threat of global economic collapse, soaring prices and an assault on hard-won freedoms in so-called democratic societies. 2025 is also…