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In Moscow, the illuminated signages of all but a few US brands have dimmed. Unlike its peer Burger King, McDonald's has closed over 847 branches across Russia. Major companies like Apple, Boeing, Adidas, the Marriott Hotels, and Citibank have followed suit. The political climate has reached…

In his stirring address to Congress on Wednesday, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine asked the United States for more help as his nation defends itself against a brutal and unjustified Russian invasion. Invoking the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the World Trade Center, Mr. Zelensky said simply, …

Ukraine is once again at the center of a potentially global conflict. World War I, as the historian Dominic Lieven put it, “turned on the fate of Ukraine.” World War II, according to the legendary journalist Edgar Snow, was “first of all a Ukrainian war.” Now the threat of a third world war hinges…

We have started seeing leaks in the media that the US administration is considering removing the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps from its foreign terrorist organization blacklist in return for Iranian assurances of reining in the IRGC, which, in turn, is also in return for reviving the 2015…

The world stands in shock at a dangerous juncture it hasn't seen in decades. This not an exaggeration. The war has returned to Europe by a permanent member of the UN Security Council. The images of the Russian war on Ukraine has raised numerous difficult questions. Will we be confronted with the…

Global electronics suppliers looking to diversify their manufacturing footprint beyond China are taking advantage of growing demand for sophisticated components used in electric vehicles to shift production closer to their customers overseas. It’s a smart move that could allay fears that the supply…

After a confusing month, it is now clear what strategies are playing out in Ukraine: We’re watching Vladimir Putin’s plan B versus Joe Biden’s and Volodymyr Zelensky’s plans A. Let us hope that Biden and Zelensky triumph, because Putin’s potential plan C is really scary — and I don’t even want to…

Another great migration is underway. At least two and a half million Ukrainians have fled Russia’s merciless bombardment to countries across Europe, while roughly another two million have been internally displaced within Ukraine. It is a tragic upheaval: families have been split apart, homes…

Since the Cold War ended, Arab insults in particular, as well as non-Arab ones, have been hurled at the world’s unipolarity, that is, the fact that the US leads the world alone. China’s economic rise and Russia’s military rise, which was put on display in Georgie, Syria, and during two wars in…

The war in Ukraine is into its fourth week. Destruction continues. Civilian infrastructure and buildings are targeted. Civilian casualties are increasing. Around three million Ukrainians have fled their country. Russia insists that civilians are not being targeted and everything is going…

Russia insists that it’s going to bring the US astronaut home. The rest is just warmongering rumor. Mark Vande Hei, who’s about to break the American record for longest time in orbit, will depart the International Space Station as scheduled on aboard a Soyuz spacecraft on March 30 and land in…

Perhaps the saying, “There is no such thing as bad publicity,” holds true for controversial technology companies. New York-based Clearview AI has been criticized by privacy advocates for years because of the way it has scraped billions of images from social-media networks to build a search…