The whole point of sailing within twelve miles of the artificial islands was to send a clear signal, so that signal had better be clear.

As threatening rhetoric and stepped up police actions in Burundi worry the West, it looks like China and Russia might stand behind the government in the name of “sovereignty.”

Merkel’s party falls in new poll as the refugee crisis continues.

Swedish officials are pouring cold water on green optimism ahead of looming Paris climate talks.

The Turkish President announces that he will move into an old Ottoman palace in Istanbul.

The regime isn’t as graphic as ISIS—but Syrians won’t forget its depredations.

Due to some tinkering, a new UN climate model seems to revive a goal that was once thought dead.

The world isn’t a safe space, and trying to close your eyes to that will only make it more dangerous.

The German car manufacturer didn’t just cheat on nitrous oxide emissions—it also fudged carbon numbers.

Goldman Sachs—whose 2001 report coined the term and set off more than a decade of feverish speculation about the decline of Western economic dominance—has dropped its BRICS portfolio.