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Growing divisions between the Global South and the Global North on climate diplomacy are on stark display at COP28.

The popular backlash against a mine in Panama shows that the processes supporting the green transition must be sustainable—and green.

A wide gap would need to be bridged between Israel and Hamas in order to reach any sort of long-term cease-fire, let alone a peace deal.

One might argue that Biden’s attendance at a high-profile conference like COP28 has a mainly symbolic significance, but it’s not meaningless.

It would be easy to write off this deal as merely symbolic. But it is significant on humanitarian, political and practical levels as well.

The path from Maidan to the invasion of Ukraine was not predetermined. But different decisions could have led to a different outcome.

Milei’s win is a cultural backlash, a true cry of desperation by Argentina’s population, and a clear disavowal of the Peronist movement.

It’s not clear that Israel’s operations have accomplished any significant military objectives. Time may be running out for Israel to do so.

Competition is baked into the U.S.-China relationship. But this meeting suggests the two countries will be able to manage their competition.

The court recognized that the Rwanda resettlement scheme callously disregards human rights and undermines international rules and norms.

APEC’s membership includes not only important U.S. regional allies, but also key U.S. partners from across Latin America and Southeast Asia.

Foreign secretary is not necessarily a bad fit for David Cameron, as he was previously well-regarded on the world stage.

The deal extending amnesty to Catalan separatists will prove to be another case in which Sanchez comes back from the political dead.

Attacks on U.S. forces and retaliatory U.S. strikes indicate that a regional expansion of conflict is already occurring in the Middle East.

Chile’s two efforts to rewrite the country’s constitution have come to define Boric’s 20 months in office and in many ways suffered from similar faults.

The EU now faces enormous pressure from member states to reform its migration policies and better distribute the burden of housing migrants.

Domestic politics in the U.S. and China have fueled mutual antagonism, preventing progress on the relationship’s underlying sticking points.