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Germany was supposed to have learned how to protect itself from energy shocks after the Ukraine war. But the Iran war has shown that gaps st...

The endangered monarch butterfly migrates thousands of miles across the Americas. A new Bluetooth-enabled smartphone app means you can follo...

The United States and Iran are threatening to target critical infrastructure as the war in the Middle East puts lives and livelihoods at ris...

In Lebanon, Iran ally Hezbollah has plunged into a battle with Israel that its rank and file has embraced as existential. Yet the regional c...

Although Japan’s prime minister navigated a high-stakes meeting in Washington this week, concerns remain about the reliability of the U.S. p...

After decades of conflict, Iraqis have enjoyed increased political stability and a promising future, even embracing a unified national ident...

In the Iran war, victory looks different for each side: The U.S. and Israel must decisively win, while the Iranian regime only has to surviv...

Millions of Haitians are internally displaced, including members of a Port-au-Prince artist collective still trying to make art despite unre...

Indians have the right to a speedy trial, yet it can take decades for cases to make it through the country’s overworked and understaffed cou...

Interest in studying Swahili – the lingua franca of much of East Africa – is booming in Egypt.

After nearly 2 1/2 years of intermittent war, with sirens, dashes to shelters, and sleepless nights – “this madness that is our new normal”...

Women are increasingly challenging social norms by forming farming cooperatives.

Iran has shown they can do a lot of damage to United States and Israeli assets – and regional allies in the Gulf – via missile and drone att...

Global oil prices have soared as one-fifth of the world’s supply normally transits the strait. 

The islands off Iran have become the latest focus of the war after a U.S strike destroyed military sites on Kharg Island. The string of isla...

The vast majority of the oil passing through the Strait of Hormuz was Asia-bound. Now, countries there are forced to make do with what they...

The war in Iran has shocked global energy markets, but it’s also putting precious water resources in the Gulf region under threat.

If the United States expected Iran to capitulate by now, it refuses to do so. Instead, it is pursuing a survival strategy of fighting on and...

Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu has been consistent in stating his Iran war aim: regime change. But can he declare victory without it? “An exit...

The Iran war shows that despite President Trump’s rejection of globalization, the world economy still relies on international links.

As U.S. and Israeli missiles fall on Iran, African students studying there on government scholarships are caught in the crossfire.

Now that the Syrian civil war is over, Sweden wants Syrian expats to go home. For those who’ve built a new life in Sweden, that’s not a smal...

After Fukushima, Japan shut down its nuclear reactors. Now, the country is returning to nuclear energy, seen as a reliable low-carbon option...

Jordanians are inviting stranded foreigners to break-the-fast evening Ramadan meals amid the stress of war.

“Peace does not fall from the sky,” according to Joseph Ben Kaifala, founder of the Center for Memory and Reparations.