Iran’s population today exceeds 93 million— and is hosts six million Afghan refugees. In the event of regional war, both ...

India’s climate diplomacy—selectively engaging with UN Framework Convention on Climate Change processes while separately mobilizing finance, technology, and market access for decarbonization without ...

Tariffs have had a particularly noticeable effect on Americans’ perceptions of the cost of food. The CFR-Morning Consult survey asked Americans how concerned they are about affording a range of ...

From Beria to Biden: Pushing DEI to targeting protesting parents, and anti-Catholic bias to pushing the Trump-Russia ...

The Spanish newspaper El País spotlighted the profound deterioration of everyday life in Cuba with a front-page report titled ...

The Russian economy is stuck in what might be described as negative equilibrium: holding itself together while steadily ...

In the early hours of February 24 2022, standing on the freezing roof of a hotel in Kyiv, the idea that Russia would launch a full-scale assault on Ukraine, despite a troop buildup on the border, ...

By Ekaterina Maksimova MOSCOW, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Restaurants and cafes are closing down in Russia at the fastest pace since the start of the war in Ukraine four years ago as consumption stalls even ...

Many Russians try to ignore the war, which began four years ago this week—but that is getting harder. There is no sign of an impending breakdown, political or economic. But even Vladimir Putin’s ...

Kyrgyzstan’s GDP grew by 11 percent in 2025 and around 9 percent in 2024, with the World Bank projecting a cool down to 6.5 ...

MOSCOW, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Russian households' inflation expectations, an important gauge for monetary policy, fell to 13.1% ...

Four years into its full-scale invasion, Russia controls about 20% of Ukrainian territory, where an estimated 3 million to 5 million people live.