United Nations How a U.N. Bid to Prevent Sexual Violence Turned Into a Spat Over Abortionforeignpolicy.com - Robbie Gramer The Trump administration pressured Germany into watering down a United Nations resolution aimed at preventing rape in conflict situations, forcing it …
Julian Assange For Ecuador’s Lenín Moreno, Evicting Julian Assange Is Only the Beginningforeignpolicy.com - Carlos de la Torre The Ecuadorian president is seeking to broadly reverse Rafael Correa’s legacy. After almost seven years of diplomatic protection, Julian Assange’s …
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka’s Perfect Storm of Failureforeignpolicy.com - Lydia Khalil The horrific terrorist bombings in Sri Lanka on April 21 killed more than 300 people and injured 500 more. Sri Lankan officials have identified a …
Islamic State (ISIS) Sri Lanka Attack ‘Is the Wave of the Future’foreignpolicy.com - Amy Mackinnon Among those least surprised, perhaps, by the Islamic State’s claim of responsibility for the Easter Sunday suicide bombings that killed at least 321 …
Islamic State (ISIS) The Islamic State’s New Afterlifeforeignpolicy.com - Elias Groll U.S. President Donald Trump has described the battlefield defeat of the Islamic State and its expulsion from Iraq and Syria as a signal achievement …
Catalonia Spain’s Political Deadlock Is Foreverforeignpolicy.com - Mark Nayler The country’s snap election on April 28, its third in five years, may just be the prelude to another down the line. In February, Spain’s embattled …
India India’s $7 Billion Electionforeignpolicy.com - Abheek Bhattacharya India’s six-week-long national election that started April 11 may be the most expensive the world has ever seen. The New Delhi-based Centre for Media …
Brazil Brazil’s Murder Rate Finally Fell—and by a Lotforeignpolicy.com - Robert Muggah One of the world’s most homicidal countries just registered the sharpest overall decline of lethal violence in its history. Brazil’s murder rate …
Iranian Trump’s Big Iran Oil Gambleforeignpolicy.com - Keith Johnson The Trump administration’s announcement Monday that it is ending waivers allowing several countries to keep importing Iranian crude is likely to push …
Bosnia & Herzegovina In Bosnia, a Migrant Way Station Is Becoming a Winter Prisonforeignpolicy.com - Dariusz Kalan BIHAC, Bosnia and Herzegovina—Zohaib Ali, a 22-year-old student from Pakistan, has attempted to cross into the European Union through the mountainous …
Japan Japan Pushes the Speed Limit on Trade Talksforeignpolicy.com - William Sposato Trade talks with the United States pose a problem for Japan, largely because the Japanese don’t really want to be there. On balance they are happy …
Saudi Arabia Riyadh May Have Unleashed More Change Than It Can Handleforeignpolicy.com - Firas Maksad In the wake of social and economic reforms, some Saudis are speaking out. A spring breeze blew through Riyadh’s Tahlia Street, a main thoroughfare in …
Chinese Communist Party Can China Deliver a Better Belt and Road?foreignpolicy.com - Jamie Horsley Beijing promises greener and fairer projects, but it has to keep its promises at home as well. China’s far-flung, ambitious Belt and Road Initiative …
Ukraine Ukraine’s Pretend President Now Faces a Real Testforeignpolicy.com - Alexander J. Motyl In his fight against corruption, Zelensky will face real challenges—not least from his own constituents. After a second-round vote this weekend, …
U.S. Army Security Brief: Terror in Sri Lanka, Zelensky Cruises to Victoryforeignpolicy.com - Elias Groll Good Monday morning and welcome to Security Brief. Please send your tips, comments, and questions to elias.groll@foreignpolicy.com. You asked. We …
Iran 64 Years Later, CIA Finally Releases Details of Iranian Coupforeignpolicy.com - Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian Declassified documents released last week shed light on the Central Intelligence Agency’s central role in the 1953 coup that brought down Iranian …
Bank of China This Banking Fraud Shows How Shady China’s Economy Remainsforeignpolicy.com - Matthew Lowenstein At the World Trade Organization, China regularly makes the claim that its private economy is a market system—one where supply, demand, and price …
Turkey Russia Has Won the Information War in Turkeyforeignpolicy.com - H. Akin Unver In recent weeks, Turkey’s long-standing bid to acquire Russian S-400 missile defense systems has received renewed media attention. As Presidents …
Ukraine Who’s Laughing Now: Zelensky or Putin?foreignpolicy.com - Justin Lynch KIEV, Ukraine—Volodymyr Zelensky laughed his way into Ukraine’s presidency by a staggering margin of nearly 49 percent, according to preliminary …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoPlay buttonUkraine Ukraine’s TV President Is Dangerously Pro-Russianforeignpolicy.com - Alexander J. Motyl After this weekend’s first round of voting in Ukraine’s presidential election, Volodymyr Zelensky, a popular actor, and Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine’s …
Delhi Delhi Crime and Punishmentforeignpolicy.com - Ira Trivedi Netflix’s hit show Delhi Crime documents the changes rocking Indian society—and not all of them are good. “There was nothing in his eyes. It was like …
Sri Lanka What’s Behind the Terrorist Attacks in Sri Lanka?foreignpolicy.com - FP Editors More than 200 people have been killed in simultaneous explosions at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka that also injured several hundred victims. The …
Here’s Why Colombia Opened Its Arms to Venezuelan Migrants—Until Nowforeignpolicy.com - Megan Janetsky In Tijuana, Mexico, after walking in a caravan for weeks in late 2018, Central American migrants were met with tear gas lobbed over the U.S. border, …
Politics Mongolia’s President Is Slicing Away Its Hard-Won Democracyforeignpolicy.com - Anand Tumurtogoo Mongolian President Khaltmaa Battulga started his career as a wrestler—and he’s just forced Mongolian democracy into submission. In a critical vote …
More Than 1 Billion People Are Hungry in the Worldforeignpolicy.com - Abhijit Banerjee For many in the West, poverty is almost synonymous with hunger. Indeed, the announcement by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in …
Sri Lanka Shot in Sri Lanka, Shelled in Syriaforeignpolicy.com - Dan Ephron On the podcast: War correspondent Marie Colvin documented the horrors of war until one of them took her life. American journalist Marie Colvin, who …
The New Face of the Dutch Far-Rightforeignpolicy.com - Thijs Kleinpaste Elections for the Netherlands’ provincial legislatures are usually a dull affair; last week, they turned into one of the greatest political upsets in …
Ukraine Putin Should Fear Ukraine’s Russia-Friendly Front-Runnerforeignpolicy.com - Alexander Baunov The Kremlin will soon wish it were still dealing with a Ukrainian president who so much resembled its own. In Ukraine, life really does imitate art. …
Eastern Ukraine Ukraine’s Runoff Election Is More Than a Contest of Personalitiesforeignpolicy.com - Daniel Twining It is hard for the country to move West with Russia on its back. Ukrainians on Sunday will choose their next president in a runoff vote. The …
Communist Party Corbyn’s Pet Stalinistforeignpolicy.com - James Bloodworth The start of Jeremy Corbyn’s bizarre rise to the summit of the Labour Party was set in motion when then-Prime Minister Tony Blair signed on to the …
