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Protesters demonstrate against poor economic conditions in Tehran, Iran, on December 29, 2025.
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What We’re Watching: Protests in Iran, Saudi-UAE feud escalates in Yemen, Peruvian shamans deliver their top risks

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US President Donald Trump speaks with Chinese President Xi Jinping at Gimhae Air Base in Gimhae, South Korea, on October 30, 2025.
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Top risks of 2025, reviewed

Revisiting the top geopolitical risks of 2025
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Revisiting the top geopolitical risks of 2025

US President Donald Trump announces tariffs on US trading partners at the White House in Washington, DC, USA, on April 2, 2025.
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The top geopolitical stories of 2025

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​Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako visit a kindergarten in Tokyo on May 21, 2024.
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Hard Numbers: Japan’s birth rate sinks to record low, Executions set to double in Iran, Sudan’s soccer team provide rare moment of joy, & More

Pro-democracy protesters carry portraits of North Yemen's late president Ibrahim al-Hamdi.
What We're Watching

What We’re Watching: Yemeni ministers back rebel group, US surveillance planes fly over Nigeria, Myanmar to hold elections amid civil war

In the latest twist to Yemen’s decade-long civil war, a group of government ministers declared support for the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC), a rebel group that broke the war’s deadlock earlier this month by seizing control of the oil-rich Handramout region.

Israel is still banning foreign media from entering Gaza
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Israel is still banning foreign media from entering Gaza

Despite a ceasefire in Gaza, Israel is still not letting foreign journalists in to independently verify what’s happening on the ground, CNN’s Clarissa Ward tells Ian Bremmer on GZERO World.

​A Boeing 737 Max 8 with Afghans on board lands at Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) on December 16, 2025.
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Hard Numbers: Germany clears path for Afghan refugees, China’s population predicted to plummet, Brazil’s Congress seeks to cut Bolsonaro’s sentence, Nigeria appeals DRC’s World Cup eligibility

People gather outside the Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport to decry President Trump's travel ban on 19 countries which went into effect this morning.​
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Hard Numbers: Trump adds to travel-ban list, China lowers tariffs on EU pork, Alaskan rivers turning orange and red, Panama Canal deal hits impasse

5: US President Donald Trump added five new countries – Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan, and Syria – to the list of nations banned from traveling to the US.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., USA, on Dec. 5, 2025.
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Hard Numbers: Canada’s Carney faces spelling backlash, US unemployment hits four-year high, Iran shows off its missiles, Japan-China spat means pandas are coming home

​Chief Superintendent of the police force's National Security Department Steve Li Kwai-wah speaks at the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts building after the verdict in the national security collusion trial of pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai, in Hong Kong, China, on December 15, 2025.
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Hard Numbers: Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai faces life imprisonment, Half of Israelis oppose Netanyahu pardon, Flash floods in Morocco, Romania protests corruption

​Buildings lie in ruins amidst the rubble in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on December 8, 2025.
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Hard Numbers: Gaza needs to clear out tons of rubble, Trump to hold final-round Fed chair interviews, Canada to incentivize highly-skilled immigrants, The Taliban doesn’t like “Peaky Blinders”

Egyptians head to the polls to elect a new parliament during the first round of the Egyptian parliamentary elections in Giza, Egypt, on November 10, 2025.
Analysis

Egypt’s Undemocratic Election - And Why the West doesn’t care

Egyptians are voting this month in parliamentary elections that aren’t expected to change who’s in charge, but could allow President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to rule beyond 2030.

​Honduran presidential candidate Salvador Nasralla in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on December 4, 2025.
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Daylight and complaints in Honduras’ election, Eurovision boycott, ICE arrests, India interest rate cuts

​Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomes US envoy Steve Witkoff during a meeting in Moscow, Russia, on April 25, 2025.
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What We’re Watching: Another glitch in Russia-Ukraine talks, UK Labour Party to raise taxes to record levels, Tensions spike in Syria’s third-largest city