World Brief

After the Wagner Group’s weekend insurrection, Moscow’s political frailty seems to be at an all-time high.

By barring leading opposition candidates, Guatemala is toeing the line between a democratic election and autocratic practices.

Israeli settlement expansion and West Bank raids are provoking increasingly deadly cycles of retaliation.

President Xiomara Castro’s crackdown on armed gangs has met fierce resistance from those who control the streets.

Voters await postponed constitutional referendum results while the country’s junta kicks out the United Nations’ peacekeeping mission.

The delegation of African leaders was met with a missile barrage on Kyiv and made little progress in talks with Zelensky.

European economists are putting the pedal to the metal to slow inflation while the U.S. Federal Reserve hits the brakes.

The AI Act instills greater privacy standards, stricter transparency laws, and steeper fines for failing to cooperate.

The bloc’s secretary-general is ready to pass the torch after almost a decade leading the world’s most powerful alliance.

The training exercise is meant to demonstrate the alliance’s capabilities and solidarity against Russia.

Such a facility could enable Beijing to monitor emails, phone calls, satellite transmissions, and shipping traffic along the southeastern United States.

The British prime minister wants to convince Washington to let his country lead on global AI policy.

From Quebec to Ukraine, nowhere on Earth is untouched by climate change’s catastrophic reach.

It’s unclear which side is responsible for the breach, but both Russia and Ukraine are facing dire consequences.

Modi faces backlash for prioritizing new high-speed trains over fixing faulty tracks.