Moscow’s military parade will be less spectacular this year and some regions have even cancelled them.

“Only people who are not running in the next parliamentary elections have been selected” for serving in Slovakia’s upcoming technocratic government, led by an experienced economist free of party influence, President Čaputová announced.

To support entrepreneurship, policymakers should make business-friendly reforms, encourage integration of a common European market, and remove barriers to entrepreneurship in female-dominated fields.

From normalizing Assad, to reconciling with Hamas, to restoring Saudi Arabian-Iranian relations, the Near East is experiencing a thorough diplomatic re-alignment.

The parliamentarians voted against the government’s advice—advocating for a mere suspension—in favour of a pure and simple repeal.

Germany returned the Benin Bronzes last year with plans for a permanent museum in Nigeria financed by the German taxpayers. The plan now seems unlikely after the Nigerian president handed ownership of the artefacts to a local chieftain.

While Romanian and Spanish aircraft were placed on “pre-alert” by NATO as last Friday’s incident unfolded, an intervention was not deemed necessary.

The Commission plans to sanction Turkey and China, among others, but it’s unlikely such a bold move would muster enough support in the Council.

If the CCP has its way, China will soon be much more than a “near Arctic state.” It will be an Arctic superpower.

The irony of non-slaves seeking to profit from ancestral slavery via those who were never slave owners is difficult to ignore.

Speaking of the need among some people to repeat the mistakes of the past: the saga of Bud Light and its recent public-relations disaster is being amended with another chapter.

Sonya Yoncheva lacked that flame in crucial moments, though comparative listening across performances suggests that Maurizio Benini’s pedestrian conducting may well have been the culprit.