Africa
EXCLUSIVE
UN Charter At 80: A New Multipolar Order or the Reshaping of Multilateralism?
At 80, the UN faces crises from Ukraine to Gaza. With veto paralysis and defiance of norms, multilateralism risks irrelevance.
BUSINESS
Sahel’s New Power Broker Speaks Nuclear
Russia signs nuclear deal with Niger, offering power plants and energy independence as France loses grip on uranium assets.
BUSINESS
Casablanca’s Urban Revolution: What Europe’s Cities Are Missing
Casablanca’s rapid urbanisation offers lessons for Madrid and Milan in transport, planning, sustainability, and social justice.
WORLD
US Eyes Mauritania-Israel Deal as New Sahel Foothold
As Western flags are lowered across the Sahel in Mauritania, Washington is eyeing a new kind of foothold, one built through peace than military bases.
EUROPE
Spain Overtakes Japan: Services Economy Writes New Economic History
Madrid's GDP per capita now surpasses Tokyo's for the first time as services boom, marking a seismic turn in the global economIc order.
Popular
Winter Storm Research Rewrites a Witch Trial Tragedy
As new research published in Smithsonian Magazine this week connects a 1617 Arctic storm to Norway's deadliest witch trials, climate historians reveal how weather shock fed decades of persecution.
Prediction Takes Politics: Prophets and Polymarkets Collide
As 11 Peruvian shamans predicted Nicolás Maduro's fall on 29 December 2025, crypto traders were placing similar bets online—five days before U.S. forces extracted the Venezuelan leader to New York.
Mladenov Takes Over Gaza Board After Regional Veto
Nickolay Mladenov becomes Gaza peace board head after Arab states blocked Tony Blair, raising questions about whose interests guide Washington's selection.
Abu Dhabi Rebuffs British Universities Over Campus Radicalisation
The world’s wealthiest patrons now view Western campuses as hazards, forcing a costly inversion of the traditional hierarchy that once defined global education.
Bury the Lead: MTV ‘Death’ and the Way We Read Now
As MTV continued broadcasting across the United States and most of Europe on 1 January 2026, millions of social media tributes mourned a channel that had never actually shut down.
