Global Watch: Yemen’s war surges back as UN races to contain a widening Red...
What Happened.
The United Nations has launched an intensified diplomatic effort to prevent Yemen’s rapidly escalating war from expanding further across the region, with UN...
Global Watch: UN warns refugee protection system is nearing failure as 8.3 million risk...
What Happened.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has issued an unusually stark warning that its global refugee-protection system is approaching a breaking point,...
Global Watch: Myanmar airstrike on crowded Rakhine market kills at least 50
Global Story Watch — Myanmar airstrike on crowded Rakhine market kills at least 50
What Happened.
A Myanmar military airstrike on a crowded market in western...
Global Watch: U.S. military exits Iraq, ending a two-decade presence
What Happened.
The United States is completing the withdrawal of its remaining forces from Iraq, ending a military presence whose origins reach back to the...
Global Watch: Congo’s Ebola outbreak passes 8,000 cases as containment falters
What Happened.
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has crossed a major threshold, with government data showing 8,067 confirmed infections and...
Global Watch: Ethiopia’s Tigray peace deal collapses as major offensive opens a new war
What Happened.
A major new conflict has erupted in Ethiopia after forces from the northern Tigray region launched a large-scale offensive against the federal government,...
Global Watch: Trump publicly rejects Iran’s seven-day Hormuz peace proposal
What Happened.
President Donald Trump has now personally confirmed that the United States rejected Iran’s proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and halt fighting...
Global Watch: Saudi Arabia activates joint defense framework as Houthi attacks widen the Yemen...
What Happened.
Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan are preparing an urgent meeting of their military chiefs under the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement to determine how...
Global Economy Watch: Global Bond Selloff Pushes the World’s Cost of Capital to Crisis-Era...
What Happened
A significant escalation is underway in global bond markets. The benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury yield reached 5.145% on September 24, its highest level...
Global Watch: Pakistan strikes 10 targets inside Afghanistan as cross-border conflict escalates
What Happened.
Pakistan has launched air and drone strikes against 10 locations inside Afghanistan, a sharp escalation in the increasingly direct military confrontation between the...
Global Watch: Ethiopia’s Tigray peace deal collapses as rebels declare a new war
What Happened.
The four-year peace between Ethiopia’s federal government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front has broken down into open warfare across Tigray and the...
Global Economy Watch: Energy Crisis Is Turning Into a Global Government-Debt Problem
What Happened
The energy shock has entered a new phase: governments around the world are increasingly absorbing the cost themselves. The number of countries directly...
Global Watch: Houthis push into Yemen’s highlands after seizing the Red Sea coast
What Happened.
Iran-aligned Houthi forces are now attempting to seize strategic high ground in southern Yemen after their rapid capture of the country’s Red Sea...
Global Watch: Al-Qaeda affiliate kills more than 100 Malian soldiers as pressure mounts on...
What Happened.
The al-Qaeda-linked Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) has inflicted one of the most devastating defeats suffered by Mali’s military during its long insurgency,...
Global Watch: Ethiopia’s main armed movements form alliance to overthrow Abiy government
What Happened.
Seven Ethiopian armed groups have formed a new nationwide alliance whose stated objective is to remove Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government and establish...
Global Watch: Ukraine launches largest drone attack on Moscow of the war
What Happened.
Ukraine launched an extraordinary overnight drone assault against Russia, with Russian authorities reporting more than 1,000 Ukrainian drones sent across Russian territory and...
Global Watch: Saudi Arabia confirms Houthis fired ballistic missile at Riyadh
What Happened.
Saudi Arabia has now officially confirmed that Yemen’s Houthis launched a ballistic missile toward Riyadh early Saturday, resolving a major uncertainty surrounding the...
Global Watch: Russia holds first national parliamentary vote in occupied Ukrainian territories
What Happened.
Russia is holding its parliamentary election inside four Ukrainian regions it claims to have annexed—Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia—for the first time since...
Global Economy Watch: Europe Joins the Rate-Hike Cycle as the Energy Shock Turns Into...
What Happened
The global interest-rate reversal has broadened sharply into Europe. Euro-area inflation accelerated to 3.3% in August from 2.9% in July, and financial markets...
Global Watch: Russia launches major assault on Ukrainian cities as proposed energy truce unravels
What Happened.
Russia launched a large overnight missile-and-drone assault across Ukraine on September 17, striking Kyiv, Odesa, Sumy and other regions with ballistic missiles, cruise...
Global Watch: Yemen displacement surges past 125,000 as humanitarian crisis accelerates
What Happened.
More than 125,000 people have now fled their homes in Yemen as Houthi forces advance along the Red Sea coast, according to the...
Global Watch: Indian and Pakistani warships collide in first direct military confrontation since last...
What Happened.
An Indian Navy warship and a Pakistani naval vessel collided in international waters in the northern Arabian Sea on September 15, prompting India...
Global Watch: U.S. secretly met Houthis as Yemen war widened around Saudi Arabia
What Happened.
U.S. officials met senior representatives of Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis at the U.S. Embassy in Muscat, Oman, over the weekend, five sources familiar with...
Global Economy Watch: Diesel Shortage Is Becoming a Global Economic Problem
What Happened
The energy shock has moved beyond crude oil into the refined fuel that keeps much of the physical economy running. Asian diesel refining...
Global Watch: Yemen displacement passes 100,000 as war widens across the Red Sea
What Happened.
The renewed war in Yemen has now displaced more than 100,000 people inside the country, with thousands more fleeing across the Red Sea...
Global Economy Watch: WTO Warns the Global Trading System Is Entering a Dangerous New...
What Happened
The World Trade Organization has issued one of its strongest warnings yet about the erosion of the rules-based trading system. In its new...
Global Economy Watch: Global Borrowing Costs Reach Their Highest Level Since the 2008 Financial...
What Happened
The global bond sell-off has crossed a broader threshold: the average 10-year government-bond yield across the G7 has reached 4.285%, its highest level...
Global Watch: Yemen displacement surges past 80,000 as Houthi offensive expands into Saudi Arabia
What Happened.
Fighting in Yemen intensified again on September 13, with Iranian-backed Houthi forces launching additional drone and missile attacks into Saudi Arabia while Saudi-backed...
Global Watch: Russia launches nearly 500 drones across Ukraine in one of the war’s...
What Happened.
Russia launched nearly 500 drones across Ukraine on September 12, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in a sweeping attack that killed at least...
Global Watch: Saudi Arabia says drones from Iraq struck its vital East-West oil pipeline
What Happened.
Saudi Arabia said on September 11 that drones launched from Iraqi territory struck its East-West oil pipeline, damaging the critical route Saudi Arabia...
Global Watch: Congo’s Ebola outbreak jumps across the country, raising fears of regional spread
What Happened.
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola outbreak has reached a seventh province after a confirmed case appeared in Sud-Ubangi in the country’s far...
Global Economy Watch: Houthis Reach Perim Island — Threatening the Red Sea Chokepoint Saudi...
What Happened
Houthi forces have now reached Perim Island inside the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, after taking nearby Dhubab and advancing rapidly down Yemen’s Red Sea...
Global Economy Watch: U.S. Diesel Breaks $6 a Gallon for the First Time
What Happened
The average U.S. diesel price has surpassed $6 a gallon for the first time on record, according to GasBuddy, after rising nearly 60%...
Global Watch: Israel says it has consolidated a security zone inside southern Lebanon and...
What Happened.
Israel said on September 10 that its forces have completed the consolidation of a self-declared security zone around the strategically important Ali al-Taher...
Global Economy Watch: Oil Jumps More Than 6%
Red Sea Risk Escalates as Houthis Advance Toward Bab el-Mandeb — Oil Jumps More Than 6%
What Happened
A second major Middle Eastern shipping chokepoint is...
Global Watch: Houthis Seize Strategic Port On Red Sea
What Happened.
Iran-aligned Houthi forces seized Yemen’s historic Red Sea port of Mocha on September 10, according to four Yemeni government military sources cited by...
Global Watch: Saudi-led forces launch broad Yemen air campaign after Houthi attacks
What Happened.
Saudi-backed forces launched dozens of airstrikes across Yemen overnight into September 9, after Houthi missile and drone attacks wounded 73 people and set...
Global Economy Watch: Europe Enters Winter With Its Lowest Gas Storage in 15 Years...
What Happened
Europe is approaching the winter heating season with natural-gas storage only about 66% full, the lowest level for this time of year in...
Global Watch: U.S.-Iran war expands as Washington destroys five tankers and Tehran retaliates toward...
What Happened. The U.S.-Iran confrontation escalated again on September 8, with the U.S. military saying it has now destroyed five Iranian oil tankers after...
Global Economy Watch: China’s Export Boom Accelerates — Deepening the World Economy’s Dependence on...
What Happened
China’s exports surged 25% year over year in August, accelerating from 23.9% in July, while imports jumped 28.2%. The standout was high-tech trade:...
Global Watch: Houthi attacks wound 73 in Saudi Arabia as Yemen’s war spills across...
What Happened. Iran-backed Houthi forces launched a wave of missile and drone attacks into Saudi Arabia early September 8, wounding at least 73 people,...
Global Economy Watch: U.S. Begins Directly Destroying Iran’s Oil Fleet — Escalating the Energy...
What Happened
The United States has crossed a new threshold in the Iran conflict by directly striking three Iranian oil tankers, including one near Kharg...
Global Economy Watch: Global Chip Sales Have Already Broken the Annual Record — With...
What Happened
The global semiconductor industry has crossed a striking threshold: worldwide chip sales through July 2026 have already exceeded the highest annual total ever...
Global Watch: Iran formally shifts toward preemptive warfare as Gulf conflict widens
What Happened. Iran’s military said Friday, September 4, that it is moving toward a doctrine of preemptive warfare, a significant departure from Tehran’s longstanding...
Global Economy Watch: Global Food Prices Jump to Their Highest Since 2022
What Happened
The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization reported on September 4 that its global Food Price Index rose 1.9% in August to 133.3...
Global Economy Watch: Norway’s Move Reinforces Global Shift Away from Government Debt
Norway’s $2.3 Trillion Wealth Fund Proposes an $80 Billion Cut to U.S. Treasuries — Reinforcing the Global Shift Away From Government Debt
What Happened
Norway’s $2.3...
Global Watch: Somalia’s Internal Political Struggle Erupts into Open Fighting in a Major Humanitarian...
What Happened. Somali government forces fought several hours of heavy battles on September 3 around Baidoa, the capital of South West State, after militias...
Global Economy Watch: U.S. Diesel Prices Hit a Record as a Global Refining Crunch...
What Happened
U.S. diesel prices have reached a record $5.82 per gallon, surpassing the previous peak set in 2022, as disruptions to Russian and Middle...
Global Economy Watch: Black Sea Grain Disruption Is Now Hitting Asian Food Buyers —...
What Happened
Asian wheat importers are now scrambling to replace delayed Russian and Ukrainian grain shipments, marking a significant escalation in the economic impact of...
Global Watch: UN Says Foreign Weapons and Mercenaries Intensifying Sudan’s War
What Happened. A new United Nations fact-finding report released September 3 says foreign weapons, military technology and fighters are materially worsening Sudan’s civil war,...
