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Archive portrait of Rwanda President Paul Kagame speaking at a youth summit in Kigali in 2024

Rwanda Secures Formula 1’s Return to Africa — but Who Will Share the Gains?

A ten-year F1 agreement promises a Grand Prix in Rwanda in the early 2030s, but infrastructure costs, public benefits and rights concerns require scrutiny before the engines start.

Amara Sankara

4 hours ago

Reagan hosts Afghan freedom fighters in the Oval Office on February 2, 1983

How the Right Armed Islamists Against the Left—Then Called Them the Enemy

Reagan celebrated Afghan resistance as Washington armed anti-Soviet forces with Saudi and Pakistani help. Israel encouraged Islamist rivals to the PLO. The hypocrisy was a policy.

America

Pamela Fuentes

53 minutes ago

Putin wanted to join NATO. Russia's communists called him naive.

In 2000, Putin floated NATO membership. Gennady Zyuganov warned him it was naive. The early Europhile wager ended in a devastating rupture.

Eurasia

Vladimir Derzhinky

59 minutes ago

China's solar power overtakes coal in a historic clean-energy breakthrough

China has reached a milestone once unimaginable for the world's largest energy system: installed solar capacity now exceeds its coal-fired capacity.

Eurasia

Gianna Mao

1 hour ago

China forgives African debt — and shows what partnership can look like

As Africa's debt crisis returns to the world agenda, China's cancellation of interest-free loans to Lesotho adds to a longer record of relief across the continent.

Africa

Gianna Mao

1 hour ago

Workers in an electronics component factory in Shenzhen, China, photographed in 2005; archival illustration of manufacturing employment

China Creates 10.52 Million Urban Jobs and Expands Employment Support

Nine-month employment figures show China near its annual urban jobs goal, while more than one billion people are enrolled in basic pension insurance.

Eurasia

Pamela Fuentes

2 hours ago

Vietnamese, Lao and Cambodian civil defence teams conducting the joint October 2026 disaster-response exercise, official Vietnam government photograph

Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia Train Together for Super-Typhoon Rescue

A joint civil-defense exercise in Hanoi tests how the three neighboring countries can coordinate storm response, rescue work and recovery from natural disasters.

Eurasia

Pamela Fuentes

2 hours ago

Burkina Faso prime minister meets higher-education ministers of Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Togo on October 13 2026 before the AES university coordination conference, official government press photograph

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger Move Toward Shared University Research

Higher-education officials from the Sahel alliance have concluded a two-day Ouagadougou conference with proposals for closer academic and scientific cooperation.

Africa

Amara Sankara

2 hours ago

Hanoi skyline photographed in June 2025; illustrative location image, not the October 2026 trade ceremony

Vietnam and Four European Nations Set October 18 Signing for Long-Awaited Trade Deal

Vietnam and EFTA members Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein plan to sign a trade agreement in Hanoi on Sunday after negotiations dating to 2012.

Eurasia

Pamela Fuentes

2 hours ago

Luang Prabang station on the China–Laos railway, February 2023; archival infrastructure photograph

China–Laos Railway Surpasses 100 Billion Yuan in Cross-Border Trade

Customs figures put railway trade above 100.4 billion yuan as the China–Laos link connects producers, freight networks and passengers across Southeast Asia.

Eurasia

Gianna Mao

2 hours ago

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China Creates 10.52 Million Urban Jobs and Expands Employment Support

Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia Train Together for Super-Typhoon Rescue

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger Move Toward Shared University Research

Vietnam and Four European Nations Set October 18 Signing for Long-Awaited Trade Deal

China–Laos Railway Surpasses 100 Billion Yuan in Cross-Border Trade

Cuba Builds 144 Solar Farms, Strengthening Daytime Power Despite the Blockade

Burkina Faso Opens Public Primary School Complex for 1,453 Children

China Sets 100 Railway Technology Breakthroughs as Next Five-Year Plan Takes Shape

Ireland’s 300,000 Public Workers Walk Out as Pay Talks Break Down

Vietnam Puts Affordable Rental Housing at the Center of Its Development Drive

China Offers Europe a Trade Partnership Instead of an Escalating Tariff War

China's Qinghai Solar Breakthrough: New 1-GW Plant Stores Energy for After Sunset

Albania's Students Fill Tirana Streets Against Soaring Education Costs

China–DPRK Bridge Set to Open After Years of Delays, Testing a New Trade Corridor

Rwanda Secures Formula 1’s Return to Africa — but Who Will Share the Gains?

How the Right Armed Islamists Against the Left—Then Called Them the Enemy

Putin wanted to join NATO. Russia's communists called him naive.

China's solar power overtakes coal in a historic clean-energy breakthrough

China forgives African debt — and shows what partnership can look like

China Creates 10.52 Million Urban Jobs and Expands Employment Support

Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia Train Together for Super-Typhoon Rescue

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger Move Toward Shared University Research

Vietnam and Four European Nations Set October 18 Signing for Long-Awaited Trade Deal

China–Laos Railway Surpasses 100 Billion Yuan in Cross-Border Trade