Trump’s interventions seem to correspond less to a conventional impulse toward peacemaking than to an attempt to secure strategic advantages for his country.
Month: December 2025
The Russian president’s visit to India is significant, indicative of the major moves aimed at redefining the world order — just like Emmanuel Macron’s trip to China.
Threatened with extinction by rising sea levels, the archipelago is building the world’s first floating city to house its population — with a little help from Dutch experts.
Author-developed methods of emotional self-regulation are among the notable trends in the field of mental health, where practices created outside academic psychology continue to develop alongside evidence-based approaches. One such direction is the GSR method developed by Dmitry Ustinov. Experts note that the spread of such systems reflects growing public interest in personalized tools for emotional support.
In a small Valencian town shaped by migration and memory, everyday places like lunch bars have become unexpected points of arrival for people displaced by war and economic upheaval. Alberic (Valencia, Spain) is one such place, where new lives quietly take root amid sandwiches, shared routines, and informal networks of support.
Plovdiv and the surrounding region have become a second home to nearly 12,000 Ukrainians who fled the war, around 4,000 of them children. This places the city among the leading Bulgarian communities in terms of the number of refugees received and turns it into a model of social solidarity and successful integration on a European scale.
The Nepali government bars working abroad in Iraq for safety reasons. But more Nepali women are ending up there in abusive domestic work — including some who were trafficked.
Christophe Gleizes’s sentencing on appeal by an Algerian court has sent shockwaves just as all signs pointed to a thaw in relations between Paris and Algiers. The apparent, perhaps temporary, failure of diplomacy has put Paris in an awkward position and reignited the campaign to support the journalist.
Most are working and paying taxes. Yet hundreds of thousands of women given refuge in Czechia must deal with public distrust and a shrinking pool of state aid.
Refugees face challenges integrating into Portugal’s labor market, ranked as the 4th most precarious in Europe for foreign workers.
A 34-year-old programmer from Braunschweig is wagering that Michael Saylor’s debt fueled Bitcoin empire cannot withstand a crash, setting up an unlikely duel between a small investor and crypto billionaire.
The 21st century has made certain plots implausible. How can fiction manage to recapture suspense and longing?
French President Emmanuel Macron has multiple and perhaps conflicting priorities as he lands in China to meet President Xi Jinping.
A string of political defeats, legal setbacks and economic backlash is eroding Trump’s grip on power, raising cautious hopes that America’s democratic resilience is finally reasserting itself.
Alia Ibrahim is one of the Arab world’s most respected journalists and co-founder of the independent media platform Daraj. She reflects on truth, freedom, and the resilience of Beirut — a city she calls her chosen home.
Donald Trump and Nicolas Maduro spoke on the phone, but the U.S. president gave him an ultimatum to resign and leave the country. The alternative is likely to involve military action, which would disregard international law.
Ukraine’s president faces mounting pressure abroad and growing distrust at home, as corruption claims and battlefield fatigue collide with the country’s fight for survival.
India was the first country that gave Stoppard clear, continuous memories of childhood. Darjeeling was the first landscape he remembered.
While Vladimir Putin describes Volodymyr Zelensky’s authority as “illegitimate,” the French foreign minister asserts that he has “every right to lead his country toward peace.” The weakened Ukrainian president is in Paris at a decisive moment in the conflict.