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This film explores how the Spanish empire built its global dominance by fusing military conquest, religious conversion and imperial wealth.

The United States has realised it cannot keep “trying to police the whole world”, argues Victor Gao, the vice president of the Center for China and Globalization in Beijing.

More rockets have been launched as China continued its massive live-fire exercises off Taiwan. Beijing named the drills Justice Mission 2025 and they are widely seen as a show of force as China seeks to assert its claim that Taiwan is part of its sovereign territory. The drills come on the heels of an $11 billion arms deal between the United States and Taiwan. And although the US was not mentioned, Beijing called the drills a 'stern warning' to 'external forces'. So will these tensions be contained?

Yet another attempt to end a century-old border dispute between Cambodia and Thailand. Fighting is escalating, forcing hundreds of thousands of civilians to flee their homes on both sides of the border Now the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is taking the lead in attempts to end the violence and reach a peace deal. All this comes after an attempt by US President Donald Trump to end the war failed. Foreign ministers from the two countries are set to meet in the coming days, in the hope of reaching what Thailand has called a 'true ceasefire'. But without any let-up in the long-running conflict, what will it take to bring it to an end?

The United States is reviving a policy first set out in the 1800s that treats Latin America as its strategic sphere of influence. As Washington expands maritime operations in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, critics warn of legal violations and rising regional instability.

Beyond armies and violence, France built its empire through language, schooling and cultural influence. This film explores how assimilation became a method of rule and a source of resistance.

Israel has carried out the biggest land grab in the occupied West Bank since the signing of the Oslo agreement more than three decades ago. The current right-wing government has accelerated the confiscation of Palestinian land to build new illegal settlements -- cutting deeper into Palestinian territory. At the same time, Israeli settler attacks are increasing in frequency and intensifying. For many Palestinians, this means all hopes of a peace are dashed -- and with them, the prospects of an independent state. So, what are Israel's plans in the occupied West Bank? And what are the implications of its policies?

There are yet more signs that the US is disengaging from the global order established after World War Two. President Donald Trump has ordered his administration to pull out of more than 60 agencies, half of them part of the United Nations. Trump argues that being member of these organisations is contrary to his country's interests. The Secretary of State went as far as saying they're useless or wasteful. This move has prompted global outrage, with the UN saying its 'responsibility to deliver’ will not waver. So, where does this all leave the multilateral global order?

It all began more than a decade ago. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were the pillars of a coalition created to fight the Houthis who had taken control in Yemen. Over the years, that mission failed. Then the UAE set out to pursue its own long-term interests, by supporting and arming a group called the Southern Transitional Council in the south of Yemen. But Riyadh stepped in to disrupt what it saw as a national security threat, after the council took control of areas close to its borders. The UAE was given 24 hours' notice to withdraw, that it agreed to. What does all this mean for the future of Yemen?

Phil Lavelle speaks with Nayna Gupta, Policy Director at the American Immigration Council, to unpack how ICE operates, the legal questions surrounding its authority, and how its actions affect both undocumented immigrants and Americans.