By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE, UPI Editor at Large
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- The latest military clash between Israel and the Palestinians has relegated the emergence of a Palestinian state to desert mirage.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
LONDON, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- With a lot of major events grabbing attention, one big story not in the forefront is Japan, which could be gestating the next global disaster.
By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE, UPI Editor at Large
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Hurricane Sandy’s message was loud and clear: This is just the beginning of unpredictable but ever more destructive storms.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
LONDON, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Driven by bad wheat and a serious collapse the Siberian harvest, world wheat prices and are once more flirting with those panic prices of 2007 and 2008.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
BERLIN, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel tells a regional party congress in Pomerania they should expect the euro crisis to grind on "for another five years or more."
By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE, UPI Editor at Large
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- A.Q. Khan, Pakistan's hero who sold nuclear weapons secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya, has his own political party to promote his presidential ambitions.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
ZURICH, Switzerland, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- It should come as no surprise to Americans that most Europeans are hoping that Obama wins re-election. This is not because he has been good for Europe.
By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE, UPI Editor at Large
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney have totally different views on the future of U.S. defense.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
ZURICH, Switzerland, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Chancellor Angela Merkel's German government has reportedly decided that it will do what is required to keep Greece in the euro but are giving up on keeping Britain the European Union.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
FRANKFURT, Germany, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Economic analysis has been dominated by the Keynesians, who want more government stimulus spending, and the followers of Hayek, who insist on cutting public spending. But perhaps we should be listening to the French.
By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE, UPI Editor at Large
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- The cost of foreign wars -- $1.6 trillion over the past 11 years in Iraq and still climbing in Afghanistan – has short-changed major domestic priorities.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
FRANKFURT, Germany, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- The complexity of the way the euro has been coming apart at the seams is now matched by the even more highly charged way that the states of Europe seem to be following suit.
By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE, UPI Editor at Large
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- An undeclared cyberwar is under way. The U.S. commander of USCYBERCOM says the cyberwar threat has grown in 10 years “from exploitation to disruption to destruction of computer networks.”
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Some very smart people in Europe believe that the bitter medicine of austerity not only can work but that it is working.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
ZURICH, Switzerland, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- It may be the darkest hour before the dawn but the economic news from Europe could hardly be more depressing for European Central Bank head Mario Draghi.