International

Tshisekedi Convenes a National Dialogue He Alone Controls, and Congo's Opposition Marches on Parliament

KINSHASA

Two days after President Félix Tshisekedi signed an ordinance creating the body that will organize his long-promised national dialogue, opposition supporters assembled across the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday to reject it, converging on the capital on the same morning that lawmakers returned…

A Deadline at Four O'Clock: Trump's Voter-Citizenship Database Reaches the Supreme Court Seven Weeks Before the Midterms

World Politics 

Background

At 4 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday 15 September, lawyers for the League of Women Voters and the…

“It May As Well Happen Now”: Trump Breaks Three Decades of American Neutrality on Irish Unity

Dublin 

Donald Trump did not fly to Ireland this weekend to talk about the constitution. He came for a golf tournament at a course he owns. But a single, unhedged answer to a reporter’s question at Farmleigh House in Dublin’s Phoenix Park on Saturday has reopened an argument that Washington has spent nearly…

Mogadishu Says the Door to Talks Is Open. Its Opponents Say the President's Term Already Closed

Mogadishu

Somalia's federal government has signalled that it remains willing to negotiate with the opposition over the constitutional dispute and the elections now expected in 2027, an offer that arrives after a year in which the same argument has repeatedly been settled with gunfire rather than words.

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A Bill for the Himalaya: Nepal Turns a Glacier Collapse Into the First Real Test of Climate Reparations

World Politics

Background

On the morning of August 26, 2026, part of the glacier sitting on the northern slopes of Langtang Lirung, a 7,200-metre peak inside Langtang National Park, broke away. The collapse triggered a debris avalanche that funnelled into the Bhotekoshi river valley and…

A Cheque With a Condition Attached: Trump Promises Every American Adult $5,000 — If Republicans Keep Congress

World Politics 

Background

The Republican National Committee did something this week that no American party committee had done before: it held a full-scale national convention in a midterm year. The two-night gathering in Dallas, staged on 9 and 10 September, was built to the template…