Cold War

Bitcoin’s drop below $79,000 was driven by a sharp swing in global risk sentiment after the U.S.–China summit ended without progress and fresh Middle East tensions rattled markets. Key Takeaways On May 15, bitcoin briefly dipped to $78,611 after the deadlocked U.S.-China summit rattled investors. The flash crash triggered a…

China’s president, Xi Jinping, has warned of “clashes and even conflicts” with the US over Taiwan after meeting Donald Trump in Beijing. Xi’s remarks, published by China’s foreign ministry after his two-hour meeting with Trump on Thursday morning, said Taiwan was “the most important issue in China-US relations”. China is…

April 17, 2026 The infamous paramilitary assault remains a cautionary Cold War history. (Jackie No-Name) Sixty-five long years after the Kennedy White House launched a CIA-led paramilitary invasion at the Bahia de Cochinos, the specter of that failed attack haunts the current crisis in US-Cuba relations. Almost daily the Trump…

Armed Conflicts, Civil Society, Crime & Justice, Democracy, Global, Headlines, Human Rights, IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse, TerraViva United Nations Opinion Credit: 279photo/iStock by Getty Images. Source: IMF WASHINGTON DC, Apr 16 2026 (IPS) - War is again defining the global landscape. After decades of relative calm following the Cold…

Published on :  12 Apr 2026, 12:10 pm Key topics: Shift to Mali Empire focus displaces Cold War and Russian Revolution in senior grades Draft framing “de-centres” Europe and embeds ideological prompts like ubuntu worldview 8 in 10 Grade 4 learners cannot read for meaning, limiting curriculum debate Sign up…

A new statistical analysis of archival sky surveys from the early Cold War has found that mysterious, short-lived bursts of light in the night sky were more likely to appear around the time of above-ground nuclear weapons tests and to increase alongside reports of unexplained aerial phenomena (UAPs). Four exposures…

Chow Yun-fat, Aaron Kwok, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Louis Koo Lead Ensemble in ‘Cold War 1994,’ Unveiled at Hong Kong FilMartRead More

OTTAWA — For the first time since the end of the Cold War, Canada is spending roughly two per cent of its GDP on national defence — a key NATO alliance benchmark Ottawa previously failed to meet. OTTAWA — For the first time since the end of the Cold War,…

ANC Eastern Cape provincial secretary Lulama Ngcukayithobi has scored a massive victory in his cold war with ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula, whose authority has come under direct assault. This is after the Eastern Cape High Court intervened decisively, issuing an order that does not merely pause a political event—the provincial…

The Cuban Communist Party has shown an astonishing resilience over six decades in power. Whether it's the United States trade embargo to counter Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution, or the widespread starvation of the "special period" that followed the breakup of its Cold War patron, the Soviet Union, both US hostilities…