Category: 2. World

Even the most stubborn optimist would concede that 2025 was a tough year for climate action. In the U.S., national climate goals were weakened or eliminated; greenhouse gas emission limits repealed; fuel-efficiency standards gutted; methane emission…

They went from the palace to the big house.

Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, can reasonably expect two things to happen as they get accustomed to their new day-to-day life at…

The report by the UN human rights office, OHCHR, documents what it describes as a decades-long system of discrimination that has sharply intensified since at least December 2022.

‘Systematic asphyxiation’ of rights

Volker Türk, the UN High…

Unifor joins the national and international labour movement and its allies in strongly condemning the recent actions taken by the U.S. Trump Administration against Venezuela.

This is a flagrant violation of a country’s sovereignty and…

This year, we decided to finally relinquish our state-of-the-art scoring algorithm to a less interested party. But lest things get out of hand, the authors have outsourced this thankless task to an ECFR colleague: Chris Herrmann,…

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced he will hold talks with Denmark next week amid concerns over America’s desire to acquire the Danish territory of Greenland.

Marco Rubio’s statement to reporters following a closed-door briefing with…

While White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the two sides had struck a deal, Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA said in a statement that negotiations over oil sales were ongoing within the framework that exists between the two…