Chinese President Xi Jinping gave a speech laying out China’s new, softer foreign policy that has been developing over the past month. For the sake of the US, the world, and especially China itself, let’s hope this is a trend that sticks.

Taiwan’s pro-China KMT suffered a huge blow in local elections. The impact may be felt far beyond Taiwan’s shores.

A Canadian carbon capture and storage system, the first of its kind, is only viable because of oil production.

The €9 million loan to the National Front reported a few days ago may just be the first tranche of a much larger sum.

A new process allows scientists to grow coral in the laboratory at 25 to 50 times the natural rate in the wild, giving us a fighting chance to restore important reef systems.

Are the EU’s leaders waking up to the reality that kicking the can down the road is all but guaranteeing a ‘lost decade’ for the continent?

After years of fighting in Syria, Hezbollah has sent combat advisers to Iraq. The terrorist organization may have overreached, which could be a boon for the Lebanese Army.

Are his increasingly conspiratorial rants turning the Turkish President into the Chavez of the Middle East?

This is a significant development. Putin’s hand in shredding European unity is much weaker in Germany itself is united in its resolve to oppose him.

Egypt remains what it was: a republic that is neither a monarchy nor a liberal democracy in which power, ratified by plebiscites and managed elections, rests on the support of the army and the security forces.