Key updates in North Korean tense situation
Apr 17, 2017 07:22 am UTC| Commentary
The situation remains tense in the Korean Peninsula as the US aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson remains in the Korean waters in order to deter threats from North Korea. The US president Donald Trump has said that the US is...
Apr 17, 2017 06:42 am UTC| Commentary
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed a narrow victory in a constitutional referendum which is designed to abolish the post of the Prime Minister and hand over more powers to the President. The details of the...
Erdogan claims victory in key Turkish constitutional referendum
Apr 17, 2017 05:51 am UTC| Commentary
Turkish incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed a narrow victory on Sunday night in Turkeys historic referendum on changes to the constitution that will hand over more powers to the President. Though the final...
Venezuela has lost its democratic facade
Apr 17, 2017 02:12 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Although the Venezuelan government has become increasingly authoritarian since the early 2000s, last week was the first time it openly attacked democracy. On March 29, the Venezuelan Supreme Court, controlled by the...
Syria is a mess, but the solution is complicated too
Apr 17, 2017 01:58 am UTC| Insights & Views
A week has passed since US President Donald Trump rained 59 Cruiser missiles down on Al Shayrat airfield north of Damascus, in retaliation for the Syrian regimes use of chemical weapons against its own citizens. But we are...
Why Russia and the US struggle to understand each other's behaviour
Apr 14, 2017 02:28 am UTC| Insights & Views
The Trump administrations surprise missile strike on Syria raised many more questions than it answered and the the most pressing are those related to the future of the USs relationship with Russia. The signs are not...
Global Geo-political Series: Tillerson-Russia meeting – post meeting conference: Rex Tillerson
Apr 13, 2017 11:55 am UTC| Commentary
In the previous three articles, we shared and reviewed the opening remarks from the Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and the US Secretary of state Rex Tillerson and it was clear from the opening remarks that this...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight