Russia in Africa: Is it becoming a key player?
By Kumar Malhotra From BBC Russia’s recent activities in Sudan and the Central African Republic have been the subject of intense speculation. That’s because along with renewed economic ties, private Russian military contractors are reported to have been active in…
US and China must step off ‘path to disaster’, warns Jeffrey Sachs after storm of criticism over Huawei defence
By Keegan Elmer From South China Morning Post Economist defends comments on tech giant saying the US is targeting it as part of a ‘reckless’ attempt to contain its rival Sachs faced firestorm of criticism on Twitter and says he…
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OPINION: 12-14: ALBA-TCP summit begins in Havana
By Jolly Green Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and other leaders arrive in Cuba to attend the Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our America (ALBA). The Alba was created 14 years ago on December 14, 2004, by…
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Climate change: Five things we’ve learnt from COP24
By Matt McGrath BBC News Delegates to the UN climate conference in Poland have reached agreement on how to implement the 2015 Paris Climate Accord, which comes into force in 2020. What are the key points to come out of…
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‘A huge mess’: Failure at COP24 climate talks would be ‘suicidal’
By John D. Sutter From CNN Katowice, Poland (CNN)The heads of state for some of the main countries causing climate change — the United States, the UK, Germany, China, Canada and India among them — are not present here in…
Explained: how the US uses anticorruption laws and sanctions to police the world
By Finbarr Bermingham From South China Morning Post The cases of Patrick Ho and Sabrina Meng Wanzhou show the extraterritorial reach of US authorities The conviction of former Hong Kong minister Patrick Ho in a New York court and the…
Will Donald Trump and Xi Jinping rekindle their ‘great chemistry’ at the G20 summit?
By Catherine Wong From South China Morning Post Issues such as the trade war may ultimately hinge on how well the Chinese and American leaders get on during their talks in Argentina this weekend The volatile US president has blown…
Texas oil surge threatens OPEC
The map lays out OPEC’s nightmare in graphic form. An infestation of dots, thousands of them, represent oil wells in the Permian basin of West Texas and a slice of New Mexico. In less than a decade, U.S. companies have…
11 moments from the international space stations first 20 years
By Deven Coldewey From TechCrunch It was November 20, 1998, when an unprecedented international coalition of astronomers, engineers and rocket scientists saw years of collaboration come to fruition with the launch of the International Space Station’s first component. Since then,…
Russia domestic abuse: ‘My husband chopped off my hands’
From BBC In December 2017, Margarita Gracheva’s husband took her into a forest and cut her hands off with an axe. Her case has highlighted activists’ fears that the softening of Russia’s laws applying to domestic violence may be emboldening…
