By Rich Lowry*

(Opinion) The increasingly evident de facto alliance between Russia and China makes the war in Ukraine look like just another front in a wider clash of civilizations.

In his infamous mid-1990s book of that title, Samuel Huntington briefly contemplated such a partnership:

“Russia and China united would surely weigh in the balance a

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By Sabrina Martin

A new scandal surrounds Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro, who was forced to ask the Prosecutor General’s Office to investigate his son and older brother due to rumors linking them to drug trafficking.

“Due to the information that is rumored in the public opinion about my brother Juan Fernando Petro Urrego and my eldest son N

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Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro indicated during his speech Saturday, Mar. 4, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that his mission in the country “is not over.”

“At this moment, I thank God for my second life and the mission of being president of Brazil for a while (…). But deep inside me, I feel that this mission is not

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By Eli Vieira

The most recent edition of the Index of Academic Freedom (ILA), prepared by researchers from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany and three other institutions, shows a stagnation of academic freedom in 152 of the 179 countries analyzed and a decline in 22 of them, including Brazil.

Only in five small countries was there an

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By Horst Teubert and Dr. Peer Heinelt

NATO will selectively expand cooperation with Japan and work more closely than before with the East Asian country through its traditional forces in cyber defense and space.

The world has reached “a historic turning point” where the “balance of power in the Indo-Pacific is shifting rapidly,” according to a joint s

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The International Atomic Energy Organization (IAEA), the UN nuclear watchdog, announced emergency negotiations with Iran after finding uranium particles enriched to 83.7% purity at its Fordow nuclear plant.

“On January 22, 2023, the agency took environmental samples…at the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP), the analytical results of which showed t

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