Copper is crucial to the global economy, and its importance is only going up. Historically, copper has been vital in ...

Thaw in relations. During a meeting with Australia's prime minister on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Laos, Chinese ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Kazakh doubts. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said construction and operation of a future nuclear power plant in the country should be entrusted to an international consortium. The comment, ...

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, ...

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 ...

North Korea’s rubber-stamp legislature convened this week, tasked with amending the constitution to designate South Korea as a “hostile” country, remove clauses related to reunification and redraw the ...