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NEW YORK: Donald Trump has never met a geopolitical catastrophe he couldn't rebrand as a development opportunity. His latest venture—the risibly titled "Board of Peace" for Gaza—is perhaps his most audacious grift yet: a scheme to dress up territorial control as portfolio management, to transform military occupation into a construction contract, and to trick the world's rising powers into providing diplomatic cover for what is, stripped of its gold-plated branding, a straightforward imperial project.

Greenland has become a focal point of international tensions yet again, as US President Donald Trump repeated arguments that Washington must control the territory for national security reasons and has refused to rule out using military force to acquire it. Trump also announced that he will impose tariffs on those countries that had sent troops to Greenland in recent days for a Danish-led reconnaissance mission aimed at strengthening its security.

NEW YORK: The debate gripping Western capitals sounds familiar: should governments tax the wealthy more aggressively to fund strained budgets? From London's abolition of non-dom status to California's proposed billionaire levy, the political momentum is unmistakable.

LONDON: The “billionaires’ decade.” That is how charity Oxfam describes the 2020s, having published research pointing to the extreme — and accelerating — concentration of wealth in Britain and worldwide.

The annual summit of World Economic Forum began in the Alpine hills of Davos in Switzerland on January 19 with the European leaders and the businessmen rattled over the confrontationist approach taken by the U.S. President Donald Trump on Greenland annexation. After imposing 10 per cent tariff on the EU countries taking position against Trump, the President now has threatened to hike this to 25 per cent.

NEW YORK: US President Donald Trump’s threat to take over Greenland did not come wrapped in diplomatic language or buried in briefing papers. It arrived bluntly, as his foreign policy often does: Greenland, he said, was too important to be left where it was. The Arctic island — vast, sparsely populated, strategically located — should be under American control.

Global value chains have entered an era of structural volatility, according to a World Economic Forum report released today, forcing companies and governments to reevaluate how and where they invest and produce. The report finds that nearly three in four business leaders now prioritize resilience investments, with 74% viewing resilience as a driver of growth.

LONDON: US tariffs on Britain, punishing us for symbolic defiance of Donald Trump’s designs on Greenland, expose how pointless is the so-called “special relationship,” and how empty claims that NATO is an alliance for mutual defence.

The militias associated with the Syrian government are conducting attacks on the Kurdish districts of Sheikh Maqsood, Ashrafiyah, and Beni Zeyd in Aleppo. The violence in Aleppo is the most severe since Syria's Islamist authorities assumed power. The recent outbreak of violence occurred two days subsequent to a high-level meeting in Damascus between a Syrian Democratic Forces delegation and Syrian government officials, which concluded without reaching an agreement, according to sources familiar with the discussions.

NEW YORK: A shock and awe. The phrase is apt in describing what Israel has done in the occupied West Bank almost immediately following the events of October 7, 2023, and the start of the Israeli genocide in Gaza.