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On Tuesday they reset the Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds before midnight. How did they know that Germany would agree to give Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine on Wednesday?

Alliances are as old as civilisation. Older, actually: almost every hunter-gatherer band that anthropologists have studied, from the New Guinea highlanders to the Yanomamo in the Amazon

Alliances are as old as civilisation. Older, actually: almost every hunter-gatherer band that anthropologists have studied, from the New Guinea highlanders to the Yanomamo in the Amazon

When the two most senior military and intelligence officials in Washington make the same obvious error in public three times in three weeks, you have to wonder what they are really up to

The recovery of the city of Kherson is the third big victory for the Ukrainian armed forces in three months: first, the reconquest of all of Kharkiv Oblast (province) in September

Elon Musk is that rarest of things, a benign sociopath, and therefore a person of considerable value to the world. He has just made a mistake that could ruin his long-term plan, for his purchase of Twitter is almost bound to end in tears.

Italy is getting nervous. The United Kingdom's Conservative Party (aka the Tories) has now been led by four different prime ministers in only six years. Italy still holds the long-term record -- a new government every thirteen months since 1945.

I never thought I'd be writing a column in defence of Donald Trump, but a journalist has to go where the evidence leads. Over the years I have written columns in defence of Daniel Ellsberg, Mordechai Vanunu, Edward Snowden and Julian Assange.

There's an election in Italy next Sunday, almost exactly 100 years after Benito Mussolini's 'blackshirts' marched on Rome and brought the first fascist dictator to power.

The situation in Ukraine is really an example of a clash of civilisations; it can be seen as a clash between globalist and Eurasian civilisation."

On the 75th anniversary of Indian independence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised to turn India into a developed country within the next 25 years. If all goes well, that could actually come to pass

Nancy Pelosi's brief visit to Taiwan this week caused great if somewhat confected anger in Beijing, but the Chinese Communist regime was not her main target.

How would we know if the United States is deliberately starving Ukraine of weapons in order to force it into a compromise peace settlement that leaves some Ukrainian territory -- maybe even a lot -- in Russian hands?

Corruption isn't fought with slogans on TikTok," complained veteran Colombian presidential candidate Gustavo Petro. But social media can win elections, and a right-wing dark horse called Rodolfo Hernández,

It's easy to imagine Vladimir Putin coming into the shop marked 'Sweden', breaking some fine china accidentally on purpose, and growling: 'Nice little shop you've got here. It would be a pity if something happened to it.'

Last Sunday Vladimir Soloviev, the anchor of Russia's most popular current affairs show, 'Sunday Evening', was delivering his usual 'all is going splendidly' take on the war in Ukraine when he suddenly went off-piste.

Two weeks ago, the three biggest wars in the world were in Ukraine, Ethiopia and Yemen. Now truces have silenced the guns and the airstrikes in  two of the three.

French President Emmanuel Macron won the first round of the presidential election on Sunday, but he's still in trouble. He knew he would be. Here's what he said on Saturday.

I've never really believed the story climate crusaders tell to explain why so many people don't get the message. You know, the one where if you drop a frog into a pot of boiling water it will hop right out, whereas if you just turn the heat up slowly ...

The cost of being a whistle-blower is going up. When Daniel Ellberg stole and published the 'Pentagon Papers' in 1971, revealing the monstrous lies that the US government was telling the American public about the Vietnam war, he was arrested and tried ...

To those who obsessively followed the Covid websites over the past eleven months (including me, I must admit), one thing demanded an explanation above all: why were the worst death rates-per-million in the richest, most developed countries ...

Bertie Ahern, who was the taoiseach (prime minister) of the Irish Republic from 1997 to 2008, was a brilliant machine politician, not a nationalist or an ideologist.

The peculiar thing about the 'peace deal' between Israelis and Palestinians that was announced in Washington on Tuesday was obvious at a single glance.

There are so many heart-wrenching images of the senseless attacks on the civilian population of the Ukraine. One of these is the military personnel assisting elderly people and children across heaps of rubble