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Moroccan players showed support for Palestine by celebrating with Palestine's flag. photo: Collected/Twitter

Not just a game: Why sports and politics cannot be separated

No matter how hard we try to separate politics from sport, we only seem to entangle ourselves further. There’s no better stage to see this in action than the current FIFA World Cup. Qatar had...

Olga hugs her boyfriend Vlodomyr as they say goodbye prior to Vlodomyr’s deployment closer to the front line, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at the train station in Lviv, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach/File Photo

Ukraine shocked the world in 2022. Will it win the war in 2023?

FILE PHOTO: Qatar's Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani attends a meeting with Russia's President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the 6th summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-building Measures in Asia (CICA), in Astana, Kazakhstan October 13, 2022. Sputnik/Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Pool via REUTERS

Qatar's maverick ruler eyes soft power win with World Cup

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan shake hands during a news conference following their talks in Moscow, Russia March 5, 2020. Pavel Golovkin/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

Erdogan plays up diplomatic gains with eye on elections

European Union flags fly outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium on 19 September 2019/ Reuters

As relations with China grows cold EU seeks to boost ties with India

William R Rhodes, left, Stuart P M Mackintosh, right. Sketch: TBS

Does the G20 have a future?

Blake Herzinger. Sketch: TBS

Washington should chill about China’s Cambodia case

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres at the Kremlin in Moscow on April 26. VLADIMIR ASTAPKOVICH/SPUTNIK/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES/Foreign Policy

The West vs the rest

Illustration: TBS

Is the US gradually losing the Middle East to China?

The Israeli Iron Dome missile defense system (left) intercepts rockets fired by the Hamas movement toward southern Israel from Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on May 14. ANAS BABA/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES/Foreign Policy

Will 2022 bring more war and chaos?

Thousands of Indian farmers escalated protests to revoke controversial new agricultural laws, clashing with police and storming key landmarks. Photo: Bloomberg

Riots, power shifts and rulers for life. What is next for global politics?

In Asia, China’s long game beats America’s short game

In Asia, China’s long game beats America’s short game

Ukrainian and U.S. state flags fly in central Kiev, Ukraine September 25, 2019. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

Ukraine, US to hold joint military drills