Russia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
Read the full storyWith the Black Sea a shooting gallery, Russia and Ukraine are both rerouting grain through Baltic ports — and Turkey is trying to broker a ceasefire for civilian ships. The world's breadbasket is being redrawn by drones.
Read →Russia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
Read →Four years after a war that killed hundreds of thousands, Ethiopia is fighting in Tigray again — and this time the internet went dark first. The peace was a pause, not an ending.
Read →One closed valve has cut Libya's biggest oilfield by two-thirds. In a world already short of oil, the Petroleum Facilities Guard just reminded everyone how fragile the margin is.
Read →One week before Brazil votes, prosecutors are trying to keep gang-linked candidates off the ballot — while the two frontrunners accuse each other of being the cartels' best friend. Democracy, with body armor.
Read →Fifty-six dead in India, fourteen in Nepal, seventy thousand evacuated — and the rivers are still rising. South Asia's monsoon is no longer a season; it's a siege.
Read →The EU wants to triple its data-center capacity while labeling how much water and power each one drinks. The AI boom meets the continent's oldest anxiety: running out of everything.
Read →Nine months ago the OECD expected inflation to converge and AI to save growth. Now it sees sticky prices, an AI capex bubble, and trade policy as pure unpredictability. The adults in the room just lowered their voice.
Read →India and OPEC just held their seventh energy dialogue in New Delhi. The subtext: the world's fastest-growing oil customer is done being a price-taker.
Read →Mexico's birth rate halved in five years. France now buries more than it births. Humanity may already be below replacement fertility — and nobody planned for it.
Read →Bomb disposal teams, evacuated homes, arrested men — at RAF Fairford, the airbase that hosts America's bombers in England. Nobody will say yet what it was.
Read →The Bank of Japan raised rates to 1.25% — and the yen dropped 2% into the 157s. When tightening weakens your currency, the textbook is on fire.
Read →Brent north of $105, the Fed raising rates for the first time in three years, and a pipeline in flames. Monetary policy is tightening into a shock it cannot control.
Read →Morocco holds the phosphorus, Russia and Belarus the potash — and a severed pipeline in Ukraine redrew the nitrogen map. The global food system rests on two axes of concentrated power.
Read →One Dutch company prints the machines; one Taiwanese company prints the chips; China refines the graphite inside the batteries. Three single points of failure.
Read →Copper smelter fees collapsed to historic lows. Western miners ship raw ore east because domestic smelters cannot afford to run. Resource security was never about the hole in the ground.
Read →Twenty million barrels a day through one strait. Spare capacity, shadow fleets, and the insurance math nobody in the West wants to do out loud.
Read →mBridge, CIPS, UPI, PIX: the parallel settlement rails are already installed. Nobody is demolishing the dollar. They are making it unnecessary.
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