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Elisabeth BrawForeign Policy |
On March 2, she was gone. The Belize-flagged, British-owned bulk carrier Rubymar sank in the narrow water lane between the coasts of Yemen and...
Understanding the conflict two years on. More on this topic You’ve heard plenty about Russia’s territorial expansion. But the Russians aren’t...
Understanding the conflict two years on. More on this topic Back in the early 2000s, when war in the West seemed unlikely, corporations, investors,...
U.S. President Joe Biden has taken steps to avenge the deaths of William Rivers, Kennedy Sanders, and Breonna Moffett, the three U.S. service members...
Whatever his personal flaws, Elon Musk has been a masterful business builder. Tesla and SpaceX are two of the more successful companies the South...
Yemen’s Houthi rebels—once a relatively obscure group—are suddenly dominating the Red Sea and threatening global trade, and Britain’s Royal...
2024 was only a few hours old when Iran dispatched a warship, the frigate Alborz, to the Red Sea. Its arrival was yet more bad news for shipping,...
So risky has the Red Sea become since Houthi militants started their attacks on shipping that, since late November, over 350 container ships—plus...
The year's best stories Oxford University Press’s word of 2023 was “rizz,” which the publisher defines as “someone’s ability to attract...
When the Houthis attacked the Israeli-linked merchant vessel Galaxy Leader on Nov. 19, it was clear that shipping had entered a new and dangerous...
On Dec. 9, China Coast Guard vessels fired water cannons at Philippine supply ships in the Scarborough Shoal, where the Philippine ships had arrived...
We’re used to Russian disinformation targeting, say, Volodymyr Zelensky or U.S. presidential elections. But smear campaigns of uncertain provenance...
The hunt is on to find the perpetrator of the sabotage on the Balticconnector pipeline between Finland and Estonia—especially since the same...
News, analysis, and background on the ongoing conflict. More on this topic Last week, in response to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, a major Taiwanese...
News, analysis, and background on the ongoing conflict. More on this topic As Israel bombs the Gaza Strip in response to Hamas’s deadly attacks...
In an extremely online age, insulting foreign governments is a superhighway to fame and notoriety. Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Hungarian...
There’s no guarantee it will work — but with so many crises and challenges pressing at the same time, trying to tackle them one by one is futile.
There are stern diplomatic letters—and then there’s the one received on Sept. 14 by Sweden’s foreign ministry, addressed to Foreign Minister...
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Greece’s mighty shipping sector has continued to earn good money shipping Russian oil. But Greek shipowners...