Asked earlier this week at a press conference about whether or not Hamas would lay down its weapons as part of the newly agreed-upon ceasefire deal, U.S. President Donald Trump said, “well, they’re going to disarm because they said they were going to disarm, and if they don’t disarm, we …

Bottom Line Up Front Over the past year, Russian authorities have intensified raids on migrant workers from Central Asia — actions widely viewed as a reflection of rising public Islamophobia and xenophobia and a key source of mounting tension between Moscow and the region. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) …

Protests continued in Madagascar for a third week in a row, led by Generation Z—people born between the mid-1990s and early 2010s—inspired by protests and demonstrations elsewhere throughout the Global South, including in Nepal and Kenya, which are also plagued by political instability and economic fragility. One of the drivers …