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The US and China are two great powers of the world, but their sources of power vary significantly, according to a Ray Dalio analysis (Great Power Index 2024) that identified eight basic pillars that measure a nation's types of strength. These...

The law of retaliation (an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth) seems to dominate the conduct of the two main powers in conflict in the Middle East. Both the authorities in Tehran, which ordered 180 ballistic missiles to be sent to Israel on...

The member states of the United Nations (UN) pledged at the end of last week to create a better future for humanity faced with the multiple challenges of wars, poverty and climate change, by adopting the so-called "Pact of the Future"....

Despite many countries switching from fossil fuels to cleaner ones, global coal consumption will reach an all-time high of 164 Exajoules (EJ) in 2023, according to a Visual Capitalist analysis highlighting coal's role in the energy mix...

The United States topped the list of countries with the highest military spending in 2023, dedicating $916 billion to the military, according to statista.com.

Global energy consumption has significant regional variations due to differences in levels of industrialization, climatic conditions, population density and access to natural resources, as well as differences in energy policies and economic...

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The NATO summit, an event taking place these days in Washington and marking the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Alliance, will not give Ukraine an answer regarding its request to join that organization, but it would strengthen the...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will attract, in 2024, the most millionaires, i.e. high-net-worth individuals (HNWI), while China and Great Britain will lose the largest number of such people, according to the latest Henley Private Wealth...

Europe dominates the world ranking of competitiveness for the current year, with six economies from the region being in the top ten positions, three of which are even in the top five places (Switzerland, Denmark, Ireland), according to the...

Statements over the past two years by Russian President Vladimir Putin regarding the use of the nuclear arsenal as the last weapon to defend the territory of the Russian Federation found their counterpart in yesterday's statement by Jens...

South Korea and China are the countries that have made the most progress in the race to industrial automation in recent years, and China's huge investment in industrial robotics has made it one of the most automated nations on the planet in...

American low-cost airlines JetBlue Airways Corp. and Spirit Airlines Inc. announced this week that they will no longer challenge the court ruling that blocked their planned $3.8 billion merger, according to The New York Times. The decision, given...

If Ukraine loses the war and comes under the influence of the Kremlin, Russia will have the ability in a period between 5 and 7 years to attack NATO member states, Iulian Chifu, the president of the Center for Conflict Prevention and Early, told...

The CIA is competing with China for the use of new technologies in espionage, especially since the Asian republic poses the greatest threat to the United States in the long term, says CIA chief William J. Burns...

The world map is filled with red dots, marking places where armed conflicts of various sizes are taking place. In addition to these, there are also "orange' zones where tensions are escalating, and direct confrontation seems imminent....

The Ukrainian counter-offensive has stalled due to the lack of ammunition for the artillery, according to an analysis posted on the Swiss website watson.ch.

In the midst of two active, potentially world-changing conflicts in the Middle East and Europe, the US is hoping to find at least some common ground with China, as Beijing's foreign minister began a three-day visit to Washington yesterday ....

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un yesterday offered Russian President Vladimir Putin his country's "full and unconditional support" for the Russian Federation's "sacred struggle" to defend its security interests and said...

For Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, is a frequent person. If in most countries of the world, democratic states, including Western democracies demonized in recent years by the leader from the Kremlin, Kim Jong-un is perceived...

A wave of Western companies left Russia immediately after the invasion of Ukraine by the Moscow-led military, and those that have not yet are scrambling to leave because of the financial and reputational damage they are suffering. But as time...

I think I'm going to start keeping a list. There I will drop, to be remembered, the most aberrant statements made by current politicians. And there are plenty of them. But I already know what will be at the top of this list. A statement made...

Coreea de Nord ar fi cheltuit până la 650 de milioane de dolari în acest an pe teste de armament, sumă ce ar fi putut fi folosită pentru combaterea penuriei alimentare, conform unui studiu publicat astăzi, citat de AFP, conform Agerpres....

160 de profesori universitari, jurnalişti şi scriitori, între care Gabriel Liiceanu şi Andrei Pleşu, au semnat un apel la solidarizare cu jurnalista Emila Şercan, transmite G4Media.ro.

History only covers a little over 5000 years in the evolution of the world. Slow at first, it has picked up pace to a dizzying speed, and the major changes are no longer taking place over a man's lifetime, but in just a few decades, and...

The biggest challenge for the world right now is to find a way out of the Covid-19 pandemic, with a focus on avoiding new epidemic waves after social distancing measures are loosened, says Andre Cappon, founding president of CBM Group of New...

Prior to the pandemic, one of the main concerns of the entire world was the military. According to a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), last year, the biggest amount ever was spent globally, respectively 1.9...

• Claudiu Cazacu, XTB România: "United States companies have posted results that even exceeded the analysts' expectations, which were already for 2-figure profit increases"  

The reunion scheduled today between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un is taking place in Singapore due to the relative neutrality and the security this city-state provides. Singapore is one of the few countries that still hosts a North-Korean embassy,...

Definitely, pilgrims and locals claim that Jerusalem has a geography, meaning that the city would be compatible with the cardinal points and that is why Palestinians, Israelis and people overall, including those of the UN, EU and the US, speak...

Reporter: Your Excellency, why do you think the current US administration perceives the Islamic Republic of Iran as an enemy country?

The reception of president Klaus Iohannis in the White House in a working visit has been analyzed as a state one, following the good agreement that the two leaders had. Even though characteristic aspects of such a meeting were not present in the...

Noi imagini din satelit arată că sistemul nord-coreean de lagăre, unde deţinuţii sunt supuşi la muncă forţată, tortură, înfometare, viol şi crime, se extinde, relatează postul CNN, citat de News.ro.

Senatul Statelor Unite a adoptat miercuri noi sancţiuni contra Coreii de Nord, ca reacţie la al patrulea test nuclear al Phenianului, informează Reuters şi AFP.

The domestic defense industry can be revived, if a series of measures intended to lead to increased competitiveness and efficiency are considered, says Aurel Cazacu, general manager at Criabo Defense&Security. Yesterday, he told us that...

Reporter: Europe has been heavily shaken by the economic crisis. Is the European project still sustainable?

Two major foreign investors are courting Salrom for revitalizing the graphite mine in the county of Gorj. Amid the latest research in the field, the graphene obtained from the common graphite has created a veritable technological revolution, as...

Russia is trying to return to a position of international monopoly in the energy sector. Russia's global ambitions are expressed in its Energy Strategy drawn up for the period until 2030, which the government approved on November 13th, 2009....

1. The following large scale projects, concerning the infrastructure intended to increase the reliability of the supply and transit of the Russian energy resources, have been implemented: