Category: Geopolitics

French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday (Nov 18) called for a Franco-German push to make Europe a stronger and more confident global player that could prevent “chaos” on the world stage. The relations between France and Germany, since 1871, according to Ulrich Krotz, has three..

Thousands of internally displaced people flee site in Alindao, in latest violent incident in the Central African Republic. Dozens of bodies have been found after an attack on CAR refugee mission. The Central African Republic (CAR), which got independence from France in 1960, has always..

The Maldives new president, Mohamed Solih, has promised an “India first” policy in the Maldives. Modi assured Solih of India’s firm commitment to assist the Maldives to achieve sustainable social and economic development. The Republic of Maldives is a South Asian country located in the Indian Ocean..

A French finance ministry has told that both France and Germany have agreed on and will lay out plans for a new budget for the eurozone ahead of a trip by Emmanuel Macron to Berlin on Sunday. The annual European Union budget is a large sum in absolute terms, but only about 1 per cent…

The US army will withdraw hundreds of troops conducting counterterrorism operations across Africa over the next several years, the Pentagon has said. Currently, about 7,200 US military personnel are based in dozens of African countries. Counter-terrorism (also spelt counterterrorism) incorporates the practice, military…

Britain could be on course to reverse its biggest political decision in four decades by possibly holding a second referendum to overturn the 2016 decision to leave the union. However, Mrs. May, who insists there will be no new vote, was sticking to her Brexit plan with the apparent support of two pro-Brexit cabinet…

Hundreds of migrants arrive at the southern US Border mere days after US President Donald Trump signed a new regulation that restricts the entry of asylum seekers to the United States. Tens of thousands of Hondurans and other Central Americans have migrated north in recent years, fleeing…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected a “newly developed high-tech tactical” weapon, state media said on Friday, without specifying what kind of weapon was tested. The relationship between the US and North Korea has always been fractious. During the war between North and South Korea in 1950, US…

Russia’s sovereign wealth fund has signed agreements with companies from Singapore on investment projects in Russia totalling more than $1 billion. The contracts were sealed at the Russia-ASEAN Summit in Singapore. A sovereign wealth fund comprises pools of money derived from a country’s…

Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain faced down hard-line critics and won the support of a divided cabinet for a plan to quit the European Union, preserving her push to avert an economically damaging rupture with the bloc in March 2019. On June 23rd, 2016, Britain narrowly voted to leave the European…