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As Russia faced Western outrage over its invasion of Ukraine, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was quietly being welcomed back to the club of Middle Eastern leaders in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) last week, his first foreign trip in more than a decade of war aside from forays to key backers Russia and Iran. With world attention focused on eastern Europe, the geopolitics of the Middle East are being redrawn from multiple directions. Key players are embracing new ambitions and alliances in the face of what is seen as a weakened US, rising China and a Russia that is building relations

LONDON — As Russia faced Western outrage over its invasion of Ukraine, Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad was quietly being welcomed back to the club of Middle East…

As Australia and New Zealand last week pressed ahead with plans to ease border restrictions, Hong Kong this week introduced its toughest measures yet against COVID-19 and authorities in China locked down the aluminum-producing city of Baise, pushing the price of the metal to its highest levels in 14 years. After two years battling the COVID-19 pandemic, and with the global vaccination campaign against it under way for more than a year, some parts of the world are trying to shrug off the disease, with the UK and the US increasingly reopening their societies, despite the highly contagious, but o...

As the world reopens, China faces tough COVID choices

The same US "intelligence community" that brought us 'weapons of mass destruction in Iraq' and 'Trump-Russia collusion' claimed in November that Moscow is preparing to invade Ukraine any day now. The harder Moscow denied it as 'fake news', the...