States rarely abstain from things that they have the power to do with ease, and modern IT makes pervasive surveillance an almost trivial matter.

New research links groundwater pollution with nearby fracking, but this isn’t the damning evidence against the controversial drilling practice that greens would have you believe.

China hit back at condemnation from ASEAN led by the Philippines by playing the victim, insisting that it’s Manila that has been conducting illegal land reclamation efforts.

New Russia-China energy agreements are running into trouble as the Chinese seek the best possible terms from the more desperate Russia.

China’s worries about the restive Muslim population in its western Xinjiang province have prompted a series of moves intended to counter extremism. But they’re not likely to work that way in the long run.

Recent Saudi moves show the Kingdom is making its displeasure known.

Even as Secretary Kerry excoriated Burundi’s president for seeking a third term as being unconstitutional, a constitutional court was ruling in the president’s favor.

Reports leaked out that the IMF will withhold billions of euros in bailout money to Greece unless EU creditors pursue debt relief for the country. Time is running out to avoid a Grexit.

Dilma Rousseff’s mentor and predecessor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is under investigation, as is her political fixer. With Brazil’s economy contracting, the investigations are weakening at the moment that her leadership is needed most.

Scientists have demonstrated a solution for one of quantum computing’s biggest problems. Are you ready for the next step in the information revolution?