It’s a bold and provocative move. Will China take the hint or try to stare the President down?

Boris Nemtsov, the Russian opposition figure assassinated right outside the Kremlin earlier this year, is speaking from beyond the grave: a report he had been researching at the time of his death, on Russia’s involvement in Ukraine, was released today by his colleague Ilya Yashin.Russia has anywhere between 8,000 and 10,000 troops in eastern Ukraine—a sizable percentage […]

Uh oh: the supercomputers necessary to power our best climate models are energy consuming (and planet-wrecking) monsters.

Burundi’s president’s bid for a third term in office has set off a political crisis that is sending the country into violence and that has already driven some 50,000 people to flee. The crisis appears to be political, but in a region with a legacy of Hutu-Tutsi violence, things could get ugly in a hurry.

Lessons for Moscow: heavy-handed, bullying tactics in your neighborhood won’t win you any points in your near-abroad.

A charismatic, Soweto-born GQ-listed preacher is the new face of the South African opposition.

Analysts were shocked to find out that North Korea’s nukes could fit on top of missile warheads. Now, they’re shocked again to find out that North Korea’s missiles, possibly nuclear tipped, could fit on its submarines.

The humanitarian war in Libya just keeps yielding more excitement.

American shale helped set off the crash in crude prices, and now it’s prepared to prevent a rebound.

A Thai crackdown has left people smuggling boats floating offshore as thousands of refugees suffer.