COMMENT: How Europe can win the digital nomad race

Record levels of immigration are dominating political debate in the world’s wealthiest countries. But there is a latent trend, still bubbling under the surface, which might soon occupy the minds of Western policymakers: emigration.

Rising waters will prompt “catastrophic” mass migration, says study

Even if global heating stays at today's level, the world could be headed for unstoppable sea level rise and mass migration, scientists have warned in a stark new report in the journal Communications Earth and Environment.

Rising waters will prompt “catastrophic” mass migration, says study

COMMENT: Vying for influence in Southeast Asia – Russia VS America

Although both nations have engaged with the region historically and continue to do so in the present day, their roles, influence, and staying power differ markedly.

Trump U-turns on $5bn offshore wind farm off New York in return for gas deal

The Trump administration has reversed its decision and is now allowing oil giant Equinor’s under-construction $5bn Empire Wind 1 project to proceed off New York.

Trump U-turns on $5bn offshore wind farm off New York in return for gas deal

The Trump administration has reversed its decision and is now allowing oil giant Equinor’s under-construction $5bn Empire Wind 1 project to proceed off New York.

Data centre power use expected to increase 20-fold in next five years

The first data centres consumed as much power as 20,000 homes, but the largest today use the same amount of power as100,000 homes, and are on track to burn up 5mn households' worth of power by 2030 – the same amount of power that Japan consumes.

EVs to account for one in four car sales this year

Global electric vehicle sales are expected to more than triple by 2030, reaching 45mn units annually, driven by expanding markets in China and strengthening policy support in advanced and emerging economies, according to the IEA.

EU approves seventeenth sanctions package

The European Union approved the seventeenth package of sanctions against Russia on May 20, further tightening restrictions in response to Moscow’s refusal to agree to a ceasefire.

Russia pushes to grow its influence in Africa’s nuclear future

Russia, under sanctions from the West over the war in Ukraine, is using nuclear partnerships to grow its influence in Africa.

Serbia negotiates new long-term gas deal with Russia

Serbia has increased efforts to diversify its energy sources but remains heavily dependent on Russian gas.

Tensions in the Baltic Sea: Russia detains oil tanker that left Estonian port

Russian authorities detained a Greek-owned oil tanker, Green Admire, on May 18 after it departed from Estonia’s Port of Sillamae en route to Rotterdam, and was transiting Russia’s territorial waters along a previously agreed shipping corridor.

Russia’s consumer price inflation at 10.2% in April

Inflation and the resulting high interest rates continue to be the principal concern of Russian policy makers.

The world is getting darker, absorbing more sunlight, which is accelerating the Climate Crisis

The world is getting darker as the ice melts and that means it is absorbing more and more sunlight, which is accelerating the process.

COMMENT: Europe must choose either to accept 15% of Russian gas supplies or zero

The European Commission on May 6 unveiled a brief roadmap outlining how it plans to achieve the EU objective of eliminating all remaining Russian energy imports by 2027.

United States has image problem in Central Asia

Public perceptions toward Washington rapidly swing from positive to negative.

Russo-Ukraine Istanbul ceasefire talks break up without result

The first direct meeting between the Kremlin and Bankova for negotiations since the start of the war in Ukraine in Istanbul on May 16 ended in failure with little progress being made.

Brazil and Russia edge closer on nuclear deal

Brazil and Russia are expected to advance cooperation on small modular reactor (SMR) technology, Brazil’s Minister of Energy Alexandre Silveira said after a visit to Moscow with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Putin slaps Zelenskiy in the face, skipping the Istanbul meeting, sending a low-level delegation in his place

Russian president Vladimir Putin was a no-show at direct talks he proposed with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and sent a low-level delegation instead that didn't include a single minister, in what has been called a “slap in the face”.

Slow Kazakhification of Russianised lands falls flat in Kazakhstan’s north

“We're moving poor people who are unemployed, to regions where they'll be poor,” says sociologist.