On Angela Merkel's last Valentine's Day as chancellor, she thinks back to East Germany, 1987. He was a foreign agent, she a quantum chemist. What might have been?
US airstrikes in Somalia’s northern Puntland region have reportedly killed key figures in the Islamic State group, aka IS.
At least 700 people have been killed over the past week in Goma, the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, or DRC. Observers believe that M23’s war with government forces, which displaced 400,000 people in January alone, could quickly spiral into a regional war.
The website for the US Agency for International Development, aka USAID, went dark without explanation Saturday following President Donald Trump’s freeze on foreign aid and a cryptic post on X by Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: “Watch USAID tonight,” he wrote Friday.
The US president has imposed 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports and threatened to escalate further if the countries retaliated, which they have already done. Is Trump’s move legal? What’s likely to come next?
Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: Trump’s latest tariffs hit Canada hard—harder than even China. What’s behind this decision, and how are Canadians fighting back? Ian Bremmer breaks down the economic and political implications in this Quick Take.
Listen: In Davos, world leaders face a new reality: Europe must rethink its Trump strategy. Finnish President Alexander Stubb joins Ian Bremmer on the GZERO World Podcast to discuss.
The move throws a bomb into three of the world's biggest trading relationships, prompting retaliation. In short, the US has launched a trade war.
At Davos, the spotlight was on President Trump's caustic address, but it may have been Ukrainian President Zelensky's speech from two days prior that left a more enduring impact. Ian Bremmer breaks it down on Ian Explains.
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, a leader of the democratic opposition of Belarus, is seen here in Krakow, Poland, in 2022.
Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko has been in power for more than 30 years and just won another election widely regarded as rigged. Why are the streets of Minsk quiet? Exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who continues to advocate for democracy and increased Western pressure on the Belarusian regime from Lithuania, talked to GZERO’s Alex Kliment about the road ahead.