“The agreement is about far more than just normalizing ties with Riyadh,” argue Nonresident Senior Fellow Saeid Golkar and Kasra Aarabi.
Criminal activity and money laundering is making efforts to protect indigenous people and nature far harder, writes Nonresident Fellow Rob Muggah.
"Yoon Suk-yeol likely pays closer attention to one metric above all else — his base support," writes Karl Friedhoff.
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Roger Cohen, Bobby Ghosh, Anton La Guardia join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.
Xi Jinping's visit to Moscow and meeting with Putin made clear that China-Russia relations will only grow stronger, Paul Poast writes.
Police, prosecutors, money-laundering experts, and others convened in Brazil to tackle drug and environmental crimes that are growing in scale across the Amazon.
"The UN’s performance leaves much to be desired, but it has made substantial contributions to world order," says Thomas Weiss.
"The idea of bargaining with Putin was already highly controversial, but now it is virtually impossible," Paul Poast writes.
Susan Glasser, Gideon Rachman, and Carla Anne Robbins join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.
By shining a light on the crimes Putin has unleashed on Ukraine, we are one step closer to a just world where accountability triumphs.
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