Yoon condemns NK provocations and calls for increased NATO security.

In a summit held on Wednesday in Vilnius, Lithuania, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol denounced North Korea's most recent intercontinental ballistic missile launch and requested a stronger collective response from NATO.

Yoon condemned the launch and urged the international commu...

Japan and NATO's interests are increasingly aligned, although their links are still only symbolic.

As China's global security and economic footprint grows, the participation of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in a NATO summit for the second consecutive year shows how Asia and Europe's strategic interests are increasingly convergent. However, since the relationship is still develo...

Sweden's NATO bid may have been derailed by Russian involvement in a Koran-burning incident outside Turkey's consulate.

Nothing could have happened at a worse time. When a far-right extremist burned a Koran outside the Turkish embassy in Stockholm, Turkey vowed to derail Sweden's NATO ambitions. On Friday, Ankara announced its decision on the NATO proposal by Sweden and Finland as a whole, saying that it would...

Warren has requested that the United States Patent and Trademark Office investigate Keytruda from Merck.

Senator Elizabeth Warren of the United States recently wrote to the head of the United States Patent and Trademark Office to express her concern that continued efforts to patent Merck & Co.'s (MRK.N) blockbuster cancer treatment Keytruda may constitute an abuse of the patent system.

The geneticist looked at a single drop of his blood and saw information that couldn't be gleaned from a whole vial.

Michael Snyder has an unhealthy preoccupation with his own anatomy. The geneticist from Stanford kept tabs on his own progress toward diabetes. In the current paper, he describes taking 14 blood samples per day for a week, for a grand total of 98 samples. Instead of taking vial after vial from hi...

Here are five things we learned from yesterday's discussion between Senator Marco Rubio of Florida and Representative Val Demings of California in the United States Senate

Florida Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and his Democratic opponent, U.S. Rep. Val Demings, met on the debate stage Tuesday night in a fiery matchup on the campus of Palm Beach State College. The word "lie" was thrown around a few times, along with plenty of other unpleasant language.<...

GOP Senator Tommy Tuberville spreads a racist narrative during a Trump rally, blaming Black people and criminality

At a campaign rally hosted by former President Donald Trump on Saturday night, Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville preached a racist narrative about Black people and crime.

Republican presidential candidate Terry Tuberville made the claim that Democrats want reparations for descend...

Five of 2022's most anticipated gubernatorial contests

Our gubernatorial handicapping shows that out of the 36 open seats, just five are even remotely competitive.

We haven't done a deep dive into the 36 gubernatorial contests scheduled for 2022 since early January, but our initial findings indicate that five of them are competitive eno...

Oil and gas provisions in the climate bill are a worthwhile trade-off

On July 27, Senators Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer stunned Washington by announcing that they had agreed on a climate package. The bill, known as the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, allocates $369 billion for climate action. The United States would take a significant step toward attaining the em...

To repair relations, the UAE is sending an ambassador to Iran: Gargash

The president's diplomatic adviser said on Friday that the UAE is trying to send an ambassador to Tehran as it strives to mend fences with Iran. He said that Abu Dhabi opposed the idea of taking a confrontational stance toward Iran.

Following assaults on tankers in Gulf seas and on ...

Chemicals & Pollinators

Recent studies in the fields of entomology and ecology have shown that pollinating insects are becoming extinct at a shockingly quick rate. This has resulted in the eradication of a significant number of plant and animal species that were essential to the maintenance of ecosystems but have since ...

As Russian strikes follow the EU's support for Kyiv, NATO warns of a long conflict in Ukraine

The conflict in Ukraine might linger for years, according to NATO's top officer, as Russia ramped up its attacks after the European Union approved Kyiv as a candidate for membership.

According to Germany's Bild am Sonntag newspaper, Jens Stoltenberg claimed that providing state-...

'Not a bellwether' vote in the capital

According to academics, Chadchart Sittipunt's victory in Bangkok's gubernatorial election and the Pheu Thai and Move Forward parties' gains in the capital's councillor elections only represent the political mood in major cities.

According to unofficial city council elect...

How NATO can put a stop to Russia's chemical-weapons danger

As fear grows that Russia may use chemical weapons in its conflict against Ukraine, NATO has expressed collective worry that such an escalation would "end in serious repercussions." The Alliance has also promised to strengthen Ukraine's protective equipment while also increasing its...

Serbia's Vucic treads a tightrope between the EU and Russia

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic was re-elected in a landslide win over the weekend, but the populist leader now faces a difficult balancing act between European Union goals and Kremlin goodwill.

According to the electoral commission, Vucic, a former ultra-nationalist turned pro-EU fi...

Could Russia deploy chemical weapons in Ukraine, and if so, how would the West react

In a news conference on Thursday, Joe Biden was asked twice if Nato would respond with military force if Russia used chemical weapons in Ukraine, a concern highlighted frequently in recent weeks by the US, UK, and others.

Russia is one of 193 nations that have signed an international co...

NATO, the G7, and the EU conduct crisis meetings as the Russia-Ukraine conflict rages on

Western leaders have convened in Brussels for the NATO summit, at which the leaders of the transatlantic defence alliance will agree to increase military deployments on Europe's eastern flank.

On Thursday, NATO, the Group of Seven, and the European Union will hold back-to-back emerg...

Officials from the United States and NATO are attempting to discern the state of discussions between Russia and Ukraine.

According to various individuals briefed on the issue, US and NATO officials think Russian President Vladimir Putin has not backed down from his original demands in discussions with Ukraine, and there is a significant dose of scepticism in Western capitals about how serious Moscow's participa...

The Senator to Object the Proposal of the Political Parties' Law

A change was proposed to the political parties’ law and it has caught under fire from the side of a senator and an academic as it was implementing the removal of restrictions that were imposed against a non-member, who was practicing control over a political party.

On Tuesday, sen...

US SENATOR WIENER ANNOUNCES THE REINTRODUCTION OF THE PET ACT

US Senator, Scott Wiener, announced the reintroduction of Senate Bill 879 today. The legislation is also known as the Prohibiting Extraneous Testing Act.

The PET Act aims at ending the suffering of household pets such as cats and dogs by prohibiting their use in toxicity tests for pesti...