Diplomacy & Crisis News

President Lee Jae-myung criticized the DP for slowrolling his agenda, and pro-Lee supporters’ anger toward party leader Jung Cheong-rae has snowballed.

Nature provides essential inputs to the economy through ecosystem services. In Asia and the Pacific, accelerating biodiversity loss is eroding these services, increasing vulnerability to shocks, and creating new risks for investors and governments.

European governments present themselves as global defenders of human rights. Yet for many dissidents fleeing repression in Central Asia, Europe has become not a refuge, but another link in the chain of persecution.

Three factors shape when protests restrain democratic erosion—and when they don’t.

The murky trade deal – like all aspects of Taiwan-U.S. relations – has become a battleground issue between the pan-Green and pan-Blue camps.

Renewing the African Growth and Opportunity Act would protect U.S. jobs and economic power.

Encroachers belong to different communities, including local groups in some instances, but many are Muslim immigrants from erstwhile East Pakistan and Bangladesh.

L'hypothèse d'une adhésion de l'Ukraine à l'Union européenne dès janvier 2027 s'invite dans les négociations de paix — au risque de bouleverser en profondeur les règles de l'élargissement européen, notamment pour les Balkans.

- Articles / Courrier des Balkans, Albanie, Questions européennes, Elargissement UE, Blocage UE, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Macédoine du Nord, Serbie, Monténégro

La Slovénie est déjà en campagne pour les législatives du 22 mars. La droite menée par le vétéran « trumpiste » Janez Janša accuse le gouvernement de centre-gauche de Robert Golob de mener une expérience « socialiste ». Ce dernier compte sur ses mesures sociales pour emporter un second mandat. Décryptage.

- Articles / Slovénie, Politique, Courrier des Balkans, Jansa

Cinq tonnes de marijuana empaquetées dans des centaines de boîtes en carton : voici ce que la police a trouvé dans l'entrepot de la société Florakom, près de Kruševac... Celle-ci appartient à un cadre du SNS au pouvoir, très proche du ministre de la Défense, Bratislav Gašić.

- Le fil de l'Info / Vucic, Serbie, Défense, police et justice, Courrier des Balkans, drogues

Last week, the IHSG Composite Index plunged by 8 percent, wiping out an estimated $80 billion in market value.

After surviving an impeachment attempt last year, Sara Duterte has once again been accused of corruption and betraying the public's trust.

A human rights group representing the Chin ethnic minority last month submitted a legal complaint in Dili accusing the military of a litany of abuses.

New Delhi has vowed to stop purchasing Russian oil in exchange for reduced U.S. tariffs.

Trump announced the deal in a social media post on Monday.

“Here we are once again, thinking that business can transform political relationships,” said one formerly Moscow-based risk analyst.

PLA-linked research indicates a concerted attempt to develop lethal, autonomous drone swarms specifically for urban warfare, with Taiwan in mind. The results could be catastrophic.

And here’s how to make U.S.-European energy ties even more resilient.

Looking back at the past decade, positive measures were significantly outweighed by the brutal violence exacted by drug policies in the region.

Even with controlled access to H200 chips, China will continue to incentivize the growth of domestic chipmakers.