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End of an Era: Hope and Anxiety for the Kurds

In a stunning about-face, the Kurds via the PKK, lay down their guns... leaving hopes of peace and political questions hanging in the mountain air.

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STC Take Hadhramaut: Fragmentation Leaves No Winners 

Clashes in Hadramout expose Yemen’s deep fractures as tribes, the STC, and oil interests battle over autonomy, power, and survival.

Thailand-Cambodia Fighting Raises Questions for Winter Travellers

Airstrikes on the Thai-Cambodian border look alarming from afar, yet tourism ads still show turquoise bays. How should travellers read this contradiction?

National Security Strategy: The Era of Investment Power

Washington has stopped acting like a global policeman and started operating like a hedge fund, trading lectures for massive sovereign wealth deposits.

Moscow’s Calculus: Guns Fall Silent, Commerce Speaks

As Moscow sheds the weight of defunct military pacts, it ruthlessly prioritizes the economic engines that bind it to Europe.

Italy’s UNESCO Victory: Shared Mediterranean Food Gets a National Label

UNESCO has crowned Italian cooking an intangible treasure, but in a shared Mediterranean kitchen it raises a question: how far can one country claim what ends up on the plate?