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When I lived in Bishkek 25 years ago, then-president Askar Akayev was so effusive in expressing his desire for Kyrgyzstan to ...

With the US operation in Iran triggering fresh arms races, Russia’s turn from multipolarity to imperial nostalgia highlights ...

Years of sanctions have substantially weakened the Iranian economy, as evidenced by Iran’s keenness to have them cancelled, ...

It happened so quickly. On Friday afternoon in Delhi, I was at my daughter’s school, waiting to pick her up and straining to eavesdrop on knots of parents and — this being Delhi — separate knots of ...

This article is an adapted extract from CAPTURED, our new podcast series with Audible about the secret behind Silicon Valley’s AI Takeover. Click here to listen. We’re moving slowly through the ...

It was 2014, and I was standing in the ruins of Donetsk airport, when a Russian-backed rebel commander launched into what seemed like an oddly academic lecture. Between bursts of artillery fire, he ...

In September, the Kenyan Court of Appeal ruled that Meta could be sued in Kenya, and that the case of 185 former Facebook content moderators, who argue that they were unlawfully fired en masse, can ...

LEFT: The wall of a school in Kharkiv that was shelled. RIGHT: Natasha has had to flee her home twice. In 2014, she was forced to leave Crimea for Kyiv and then again in 2022, she fled from Kyiv to ...

Kim Stanley Robinson, London, 2014. Will Ireland/SFX Magazine/Future via Getty Images. An avid sci-fi fan, Musk says he will send the first ship to colonize the red planet by the end of this decade.

Protestors in Tbilisi, Georgia holding a poster that reads, “Do not fear! We will win honorably.” May, 2024. Photo Leli Blagonravova. The very nature of Russian colonialism doesn’t fit the Western ...