geopolitics

A tight formation of panettone streams past me on a conveyor belt. There must be what, 300 pieces? 400? They move too fast to count, perfectly aligned, marching toward a giant resting area before heading into the packing line.

Col. Wayne Sanders (Ret.) of Bloomberg Intelligence examines the role being played by Yemen’s Houthis against Iran’s Gulf state neighbors and the importance of Oman to the US in the Middle East. (Source: Bloomberg)

Okinawa political shift clears way for Japan defense buildup near Taiwan

Government must increase investment by two-thirds to deliver planned reservoirs, prisons and schools

Criminals are switching from using vast fraud compounds with hundreds of workers to one or two people working on sophisticated models

It is an unintended feature of President Donald Trump’s Plan B for defeating Iran — economic strangulation — that the more successful the policy becomes, the more risk the men who run the Islamic Republic are willing to accept to fight it. Judged on that metric, the American blockade and sanctions a

Beijing signals growing concern over how rapid advances in technology could be used against the country

Video shows a low-flying Israeli quadcopter maneuvering between residential buildings in eastern Gaza City.

Oman says Hormuz talks with Iran and Gulf states are postponed 'in the interests of consensus'.

Fighting is intensifying in Yemen as Houthi fighters advance toward Saudi-backed government-held areas.