News headlines this week warned that Russia is recruiting mercenaries to scale up its operations in Ukraine. Some 16,000 fighters from Syria and other Arab states have already volunteered, joining the hundreds of Russian mercenaries that were already reportedly operating in Ukraine. The whiff of guns-for-hire was seen as a …

Just before midnight on Monday, Peruvian President Pedro Castillo appeared on television to declare an unprecedented state of emergency for Lima, the capital. All the city’s residents, he said, were to stay indoors for 24 hours, beginning just two hours after his announcement. The controversial decision, which would later be …

Der österreichische Bundeskanzler Karl Nehammer besucht Wladimir Putin – eine Mission ohne Erfolgsaussicht. Die kleine Republik Österreich gefällt sich schon lange in dem vor allem von heimischen Politikern gepflegten Image, eine “Brückenbauerin”, eine diplomatische Größe im Konzert der Großen zu sein. Was immer Bundeskanzler Karl Nehammer beflügelt haben mag, sich …