2026-10-26 12:17WORLD REPORTWorld Report: Research DigestTwo elections this week defined the global democratic landscape in opposite directions. In Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won reelection, defeating Senator Flávio Bols…2026-10-26 03:01WORLD INTELGeopolitical World Intel: Research DigestThe single most consequential diplomatic story of the week is Vladimir Putin's proposal for a trilateral summit with Donald Trump and Xi Jinping at next month's APEC meet…2026-10-26 03:01WORLD REPORTWorld Report: Research DigestThe week's world report is dominated by two elections that represent opposite political trajectories. In Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won a historic fourth term, def…2026-10-25 18:01WORLD REPORTWorld Report: Research DigestThe world this week is telling one story through a dozen different channels: people are running out of room to absorb the costs piled on them by wars, inflation, and clim…2026-10-23 18:00WORLD REPORTWorld Report: Research DigestThe world in October 2026 is experiencing what UN Secretary-General António Guterres called an 'El Niño of war' - conflicts that are not only intensifying but expanding a…2026-10-23 03:00WORLD REPORTWorld Report, Research DigestThe UN Secretary-General's October 22, 2026, statement framing the global situation as an "El Niño of war" (conflicts intensifying and expanding in a way that, like the c…2026-10-22 18:00WORLD REPORTWorld Report, Research DigestThe world in late October 2026 is coming apart at the seams in ways that are starting to connect. UN Secretary-General António Guterres, speaking to reporters in New York…2026-10-22 03:00WORLD REPORTWorld Report, Research DigestThe world beyond the great-power and Middle East conflicts in October 2026 is a planet under simultaneous stress from multiple directions that rarely get equal billing: a…2026-10-21 18:00WORLD REPORTWorld Report, Research DigestThe world in October 2026 is a planet of overlapping emergencies that no single news frame can contain. The UN General Assembly in September gathered 130 heads of state a…2026-10-21 03:00WORLD REPORTWorld Report, Research DigestThis digest's catch-all section is dominated by two stories that are both, in different ways, about the breaking point of governance under pressure. In France, what began…2026-10-20 23:15WORLD REPORTWorld Report, Research DigestThe dominant world story this week (and one that deserves attention separate from the Ukraine and Middle East wars), is France's explosion of cost-of-living protest viole…2026-10-20 18:00WORLD REPORTWorld Report, Research DigestUN News (Oct 16, 2026): Less than a month before the UN climate conference COP31 opens in Antalya, Türkiye (November 9-20), representatives of three successive summit pre…2026-10-20 03:00WORLD REPORTWorld Report, Research DigestUN News (September 15, 2026): The 2026 UN Global Risk Report finds that geopolitical tensions and large-scale war are now seen as among the most pressing and interconnect…2026-10-19 18:00WORLD REPORTWorld Report, Research DigestUN News (Oct 16, 2026): UN Secretary-General António Guterres issued an appeal in Yerevan, Armenia, ahead of the opening of COP17 (the UN Biodiversity Conference), for go…2026-10-18 18:00WORLD REPORTWorld Report, Research DigestUN News (Oct 12, 2026): The risk of famine is growing in parts of Sudan already torn apart by war, as a severe El Niño drought makes life even harder in Greater Darfur an…2026-10-18 16:58WORLD REPORTWorld Report, Research DigestUN News (Oct 16): Houthi attacks on Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport this month killed 17 and wounded 333; strikes on Saudi civilian and energy infrastructure a…
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