Why Central Asia Focuses so Much on Railways

It's extremely difficult to imagine how this will unfold without inflicting even further excruciating suffering on civilian population in Gaza. And there are already satellite images that show that whilst many have fled Gaza City ahead of the operation, many have remained in shelters and tents. And there is a cost aspect to it as well in terms of what it means to be uprooted once more and finding safety and refuge in the cost of purchasing a tent to house your family... The IDF has already said that it could take weeks if not months to... To control Gaza City and then to clear it, which is a rather ominous word."

When we lose jurisdictions, we [the west] lose oversight, impact and power, which in the end threatens our collective financial security.”

Putin is effectively stringing people along... they, at the moment, have successfully staved off serious or expanded US efforts against them because they are calculating they can outlast the Ukrainians."

The dependency on US companies stands in direct contrast to the UK’s desire for sovereign tech capabilities…Without US funding, the UK cannot fulfil its own tech ambitions.

Decertification is an outdated foreign policy that risks alienating longstanding allies of the US in Latin America.

Israel’s strikes on Hamas leaders in Qatar will almost certainly slow − if not scupper − what little chance remained of a ceasefire in Gaza.