The Cyprus affiliate of multinational accountancy firm Deloitte signed off on backdated paperwork for companies beneficially owned by Roman Abramovich, which helped the firms retroactively transfer billions of dollars in assets from Cyprus to the British Virgin Islands (BVI) to try to get around tightening tax and transparency laws, leaked …

The geopolitical aspects of Bab-al-Mandab extends way beyond any narrow view, both historically and contemporarily. So, before the next “maritime security initiative” arrives, ask the 4 main questions the brochure never answers Ethiopia lost its sea, Yemen’s highlands never accepted a master, and this month a Zaydi movement took the …

Iranian officials have confirmed top-level discussions about the country’s potential exit from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). What does this mean for the Middle East and for the world? Essence of the MatterIran, as Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei noted at a briefing, continues, as …

This phenomenon has been described by political scientists long ago. A recognition of this fact by someone who was close to former president Joe Biden is quite impressive. White House Press Secretary from 2022 to 2025, Karine Jean-Pierre, published an article in The New York Times on October 2 in …

The European Union still lacks an adequate understanding of the China it is negotiating with and of the world in which it now has to compete. Geopolitics and the Illusions of Power: Europe’s Refusal to AdaptIt is common for Europe to regard many of its economic problems as being China’s …

The eruption of mutual dislike between the two is of the worst order seen since their infamous dust-up in February 2025 For all the ferocity of Russia’s war in Ukraine, the great personal clash of this conflict is not between the entrenched protagonists, Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky – but …

De nouvelles images satellitaires intégrées à Google Maps révèlent l’ampleur des destructions dans la bande de Gaza et la gravité persistante de la crise humanitaire, près d’un an après l’entrée en vigueur du cessez-le-feu d’octobre 2025, rapporte le quotidien britannique The Guardian. or, Les images, prises en juin 2026, montrent …

Thousands of Palestinian workers were detained and tortured in 2023, yet questions about their fate remain unanswered, writes Hossam el-Hamalawy. Three years after Israel began its genocide in Gaza, the fate of Palestinian workers detained after 7 October remains unclear, though their odyssey of humiliation, torture, and, on occasion, murder …

Russian strikes are weakening the economy sustaining Ukraine’s war effort. Closing the growing funding gap will require more European support and politically contentious reforms in Kyiv. In Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine’s industrial heartland, the furnaces have fallen silent. The mining enterprises of international steelmaker ArcelorMittal stand idle, and other large businesses …

Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Syria’s post-Assad government have a contentious relationship formed in the bloody crucible of the Syrian civil war, when Hezbollah intervened against the Syrian opposition in 2013 in defence of the ailing regime of Bashar Al-Assad. However, a recent Reuters report suggests that the two sides have held …