The eighth annual conference convenes Iraqi and international policymakers, business leaders, experts, and civil society to ...

Andy Burnham’s new government faces the same dilemmas as its predecessor in responding with limited resources to a volatile ...

Explaining the link between heatwaves and climate change, the impacts of extreme heat, and what governments and cities are doing to adapt. Image — Residents are collecting drinking water from a tanker ...

In 2025, over 20 million electric vehicles were sold worldwide – more than one in four of all new cars bought that year. As sales rise, the demand for lithium, nickel, cobalt, copper and other ...

The Houthi Red Sea blockade against Saudi Arabia, announced on 20 July, marks a dangerous new phase in the crisis affecting global maritime trade. There are already reports of attacks on Saudi ...

The climate crisis has seldom been dramatized so vividly as in the summer of 2026. Apocalyptic fires, widespread droughts and drained rivers in Europe made clear a worsening situation that even the ...

Come and listen to first-hand analysis from Chatham House experts who will examine how the midterms might reshape US politics ...

Without accompanying reforms, the risk is that President Tinubu’s plan only makes Nigeria’s army bigger but not better.

But from that moment on Trump and Netanyahu have struggled to reach a consensus. Trump started his term with a plan to ‘relocate’ Palestinians from Gaza to Libya and a promise there would be ‘all hell ...

Egypt may yet join Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan in their mutual defence pact. But for now, Cairo is continuing its cautious approach as it seeks to avoid taking sides.

This new era is difficult for the UK, an open economy highly integrated into global trade and traditionally dependent on predictable, rules-based commerce. Leaving the European Union means it is no ...

A ceasefire that is rushed or poorly defined could provide Russian forces with an opportunity to regroup and rearm, while enabling the Kremlin to continue exerting pressure through other means – ...