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As European gas prices soar and governments worry about their effect on a spiralling cost of living, Russia on Wednesday offered what it said could be a swift solution: rapid certification of its recently completed Nord Stream 2 pipeline that will pump Russian gas directly across the Baltic Sea to consumers in Germany and beyond. ...

LONDON — As G7 leaders discussed ways to get as many people as possible out of Afghanistan this week, the EU and NATO nations most likely to receive Afghans –…

LONDON — As U.S. President Joe Biden defended his actions in Afghanistan on Tuesday, Russian and Chinese state media were using chaotic scenes in Kabul to…

LONDON — On Wednesday, Aug. 4, as news broke that a prominent dissident from Belarus had been found hanged in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, authorities in…

LONDON — On April 24, a suspected unmanned drone struck an Iranian oil tanker off the Syrian port of Baniyas, reportedly killing at least three people and…

China Daily, August 7, 2017. Tim Beal is a retired New Zealand academic who has written extensively on Asia with a special focus on the Korean Peninsula. Recent publications include the entry on Korea for The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism (New York: Springer, 2019). He has also written some chapters for a forthcoming collection: Immanuel Ness and Stuart Davis, eds., Sanctions as War: Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy (Leiden: Brill, 20...

APPS-DRONES/ (COLUMN, PIX):COLUMN-New era of robot war may be underway unnoticed: Peter Apps

LONDON — In March 2020, as COVID-19 locked down the world, what may have been the first autonomous drone attacks in history were taking place on a largely…

APPS-DRONES/ (COLUMN, PIX):COLUMN-New era of robot war may be underway unnoticed: Peter Apps

When Roman Protasevich realised his flight from Greece to Lithuania was being diverted to Minsk last Sunday, witnesses said the Belarusian dissident journalist became "super scared". He was afraid he would face the death penalty.