Some 40 percent of the world’s rubies lie in one mining concession in Mozambique, where a troubling pattern of violence and death contradicts the claim of “responsibly sourced.”
This year’s U.S. presidential election is pretty extraordinary. Who would have possibly predicted the stunning rise of Donald Trump and the shrewdly calculated provocations of ...
French President François Hollande just dealt a significant blow to the controversial EU-U.S. trade pact known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. A day ...
STUTTGART, Germany -- Seeking to stare down any future Russian aggression, the United States is looking to deploy more troops and sophisticated weapons to Europe, ...
[audio mp3="https://foreignpolicymag.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/160426_theerepisodex_mixdown.mp3"][/audio] On June 23, Britons will go to the polls for a monumental referendum on whether to remain part of the European Union or ...
President Barack Obama’s ambitious global trade agenda might go unfinished. Less than two weeks after Obama made his pitch to Europe for the Transatlantic Trade ...
The British weekly tradition known as Prime Minister's Questions (or more commonly PMQs), in which the prime minister is subjected to aggressive interrogation on camera ...
From Iran to Russia, Africa, and North Korea, the Obama administration has long relied on financial sanctions as a preferred weapon against U.S. adversaries. But ...
On Sunday, April 24, Serbia held snap parliamentary elections that many international observers depicted as a referendum on the country’s membership in the European Union. ...
Would a migrant rather die at sea, or be held indefinitely in a prison-like detention center? That’s the grim dilemma suggested by Australia’s former defense ...
As the sun rose over the banks of the Seine and the medieval, half-timbered houses of Rouen, France, on July 13, 2012, Hisham Almiraat opened his inbox to ...
The European Commission has Google in its sights. Last year, European Union trustbusters formally accused the U.S. tech giant of abusing its near-monopoly of Internet ...
In Germany and across Europe over the last few days, President Barack Obama sharpened his years-long sales pitch for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership ...
President Barack Obama made an unusually blunt foray into the domestic politics of one of America’s closest allies Friday, calling on Britons to vote to ...
Since Romania began participating in the beloved Eurovision singing contest in 1994, the poor, underdeveloped central European country has made it to the finals but ...
Two days after last month’s deadly terrorist attack in Brussels, Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon offered to resign over preventable security lapses he believed could ...
A Dutch court threw Russia an unexpected lifeline Wednesday in a $50 billion arbitration case, pushing a decade-long legal saga into further appeals that could ...
Lutz Bachmann, the founder of Germany’s far-right anti-Islamist movement, has practically made a habit out of appearing in court. Over the past few decades, the ...
Over the next few weeks, European leaders will be focusing on the United Kingdom, whose citizens will soon decide whether they want their country to ...
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The International Monetary Fund is using its ongoing spring meetings in Washington to up the ante with Greece and Europe. Late Thursday, IMF Managing Director ...
It's not hard to understand why the recent arrest of Mohamed Abrini, and the discovery that the March 22 Brussels bombings were originally intended for ...
The standoff over Greek debt is coming to Washington. As finance ministers from around the world arrive Friday for the International Monetary Fund’s spring meetings, ...
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said in an interview that Republican front-runner Donald Trump is threatening America's standing on the world stage and exploiting a ...
For the few people out there who think that the resignation of Ukraine Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk will stop the ongoing slide in Ukraine toward ...
Last month, CNN released video footage of Brahim Abdeslam and his younger brother Salah dancing in a nightclub alongside a blond woman, with whom Brahim, the report ...
For all the connectivity enveloping the world, how well do humans really know one another? That question is at the heart of photographer Tobias Zielony’s ...
[audio mp3="https://foreignpolicymag.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/160317_globalthinkers_mixdown.mp3"][/audio] In this week’s Global Thinkers podcast, photographer Tobias Zielony joins author Anna Badkhen to discuss the misconceptions plaguing the refugee crisis—both in Europe and in ...
The International Monetary Fund is growing more pessimistic about the direction of the global economy -- including the United States -- and warning that nations ...
After facing months of criticism for the slow pace of reforms and the abysmal state of the economy, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced his ...
The arrest of Mohamed Abrini, a key suspect in terrorist attacks in March in Brussels and November in Paris, is a long-awaited and much-needed break ...
On January 25, the five-year anniversary of Egypt’s 2011 uprising, 28-year-old Italian student Giulio Regeni left his Cairo apartment to meet some friends. He never ...
At the height of the Russian-Georgian war in August 2008, Polish President Lech Kaczynski led a delegation of Central and Eastern European leaders to Tbilisi ...
Beijing’s ambitions to build a modern-day “Silk Road” connecting China, Central Asia, and Europe took a big step forward Friday when Chinese state-owned shipping giant ...
In the weeks since terrorists struck the Belgian capital, authorities and journalists have wasted no time mapping out the links between the Brussels and Paris ...
President Barack Obama has scored a major victory in his quest to stop American companies from avoiding taxes by moving overseas. But his Treasury Department’s ...
Eurosceptics in the Netherlands narrowly defeated a referendum Wednesday on the fate of a European Union pact with Ukraine, a major blow to the sitting Dutch ...
One of the Brussels bombers was intimately familiar with the European Parliament building before he helped carry out last month’s coordinated attacks that killed more ...
Both Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders see eye-to-eye with Republican front-runner Donald Trump on one issue: They all oppose tax inversion, or ...