Yemen’s crisis has been aggravated significantly by a US measure that appears, at first glance, unrelated: the designation of the Houthis as a Foreign (…) →

Havana has been in Washington’s sights even more in Trump’s second term, with the president making repeated threats to ‘take’ the island. On 29 January 2026, three weeks after successfully demanding that the Venezuelan authorities left in place after President Nicolás Maduro’s abduction cease all oil deliveries to Cuba, he declared that the island constitutes ‘an unusual and extraordinary threat … to the national security and foreign policy of the United States’. Any country that supplies (…) →

Europe’s crystal meth trade is changing. In the Czech Republic a long-established cottage industry has given way to industrial-scale ‘kombilabs’, as international organised crime groups push into a growing (…) →