Cutting ties. North Korea’s military said it will cut off road and railway connections to South Korea, according to a report by North Korean state media.

I wrote an article on the two wars raging in Eurasia. It was “idiosyncratic” in that, unlike other columns circling the mediasphere, it focused ...

One of Mexico’s defining challenges as a country is the stark economic divide between its northern and southern regions. This ...

There are two major wars being fought. One, between Ukraine and Russia, has been raging for more than two and a half years but has been roughly confined ...

At GPF we have a distinct method for looking at the world, and every day we see this model play out in real time, like in the current conflicts in the ...

International sanctions, disrupted logistics, rising prices and inflation expectations, and the difficulties of replacing banned imports with homegrown substitutes have placed heavy strain on the ...

Middle East escalation. Israel vowed to respond to Iran’s launch on Tuesday of about 180 ballistic missiles at Israel. Though many of the rockets were intercepted, some escaped Israeli air defenses, ...

Weak performance. Russia’s services purchasing managers’ index fell to 50.5 points in September from 52.3 in August. Though not quite in contraction territory, it is still at a three-month low amid ...

Ratcheting up. Israel launched rare airstrikes in the center of Beirut early Monday, escalating the conflict with Hezbollah. Days after killing Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, the Israeli military ...

The European Union’s economic growth rate slowed in the second quarter, though the bloc’s gross domestic product was 0.2 percent higher compared with the previous three-month period. The EU’s largest ...

Ecuador is grappling with a 1,000-megawatt energy shortfall due to poor maintenance of existing dams, failure to secure new power generation contracts and the worst drought in 61 years. In response, ...

A day after Iran launched some 200 ballistic missiles at targets across the country, Israeli officials on Oct. 2 announced plans for major retaliation, potentially against Iranian oil production and ...