The Globalist

After this weekend’s stretch in Biarritz, we conduct a post-mortem of this year’s G7 summit. Plus, a look at why one Australian state is pulling the plug on a Chinese-funded education programme, the latest in aviation news and a quick flick through the stories hitting the headlines in Cairo.

The G7 are amassing in a corner of southwest France; we take a look at what they will (and perhaps won’t) be discussing. Plus: how China is ramping up pressure on Hong Kong, the Japan-South Korea trade spat that’s threatening national security and what Qantas’s new test of human endurance might entail.

A view from Berlin after Boris Johnson meets Angela Merkel. Plus: Australia’s participation in the Strait of Hormuz mission and why San Francisco is switching off the world’s oldest continuously operating webcam.

We dig into a new report that says China’s military power has surpassed that of the US in the Indo-Pacific region. Plus: Beijing’s role in mediating South Korea and Japan’s trade dispute and a flip through the morning newspapers in Zürich.

We head to Turkey for the latest on a crackdown on pro-Kurdish politicians. Plus: renewed political drama in Italy and we discuss the business headlines.

The latest on the row between Tehran and the West as Gibraltar allows an Iranian tanker to sail again. Plus: Hong Kong’s ongoing protests, the day’s papers and why Swiss children are walking themselves back to school.

An update on the political and social unrest in Hong Kong and we ask why Australia is struggling to address climate change at the Pacific Islands Forum. Plus: the latest headlines and global summer-playlist favourites.

Kashmir, Hong Kong and rising tensions between South Korea and Japan: why is the US taking a back seat? Plus: post-INF, we take a first look at what a new nuclear arms race might look like, get the latest in retail news and ask how Turkmenistan’s president came back from the dead.

We look at why Argentina’s surprise primary election results are shaking its economy, ask how China’s relationship with India will affect the crisis in Kashmir and discuss the impact of Hong Kong’s protests on the global aviation business.

After separatists seize the port city of Aden, we ask what’s next for the Saudi-led alliance and peace efforts in Yemen. Plus: what another strongman in south Asia could mean for Sri Lanka, we unpack the Russian opposition’s next moves and, with K-pop stars BTS taking a hiatus, we look at how other artists have made a comeback.