For decades Gulf money has poured into luxury property markets, trophy assets and the world’s best-known financial centres. But increasingly it is heading to a former Silk Road hub, where ageing gas infrastructure, a rapidly growing population and economic reforms offer the opportunity to invest in a new energy system. Uzbekistan is the largest market for Saudi Arabian utilities group […]

Fighting between Taliban and the Freedom Front continued for a third consecutive day on Sunday in parts of the northeastern province of Badakhshan, local sources said, as both sides issued conflicting accounts of the battlefield and claimed to have inflicted heavy losses on each other. Residents told Amu TV that intermittent clashes continued overnight in the districts of Zebak, Yaftal […]

Taliban said on Sunday that Uzbekistan is seeking to accelerate the implementation of joint economic projects, following meetings in Kabul between senior Taliban officials and an Uzbek delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister Jamshid Khojayev. According to a Taliban statement, Khojayev said Tashkent wants to speed up projects already agreed upon with Taliban and begin implementing commitments made in the […]

Fighting between Taliban and the Freedom Front continued in parts of Badakhshan on Monday, according to local residents and sources within the Taliban, as clashes entered a second week. Residents and Taliban sources in the province told Amu TV that fighting continued for several hours overnight in different parts of Zebak district, which has emerged as the center of the […]

For over a century, the Western civil service model was hailed as the gold standard of modern governance. Today, especially in the US, we are witnessing loyalty replace merit and brazen corruption go unchecked. Drawing on China’s 2,000 years of bureaucratic history, Professor Fan Yongpeng argues that the system was a superficial transplant from the start and is now regressing […]

Il arrive dans l’histoire qu’un système paraisse si parfait qu’il devienne difficile d’en imaginer la fin. À l’époque où la Grande-Bretagne «dominait les mers», on pensait dans une grande partie du monde que la livre sterling n’était pas simplement une monnaie, mais le langage naturel du commerce lui-même. Depuis le milieu du XXe siècle, les États-Unis parlent du dollar américain […]

Le 12 juillet 2026, dixième anniversaire du soi-disant «arbitrage de la mer de Chine méridionale» des Philippines, non seulement le gouvernement chinois est intervenu pour clarifier les faits et dénoncer une fois de plus le «comité d’arbitrage de la mer de Chine méridionale» comme une farce illégale depuis son origine, mais des universitaires chinois ont également démontré, d’un point de […]

The thesis of “shared responsibility” between Nazism and Communism, promoted by European institutions since 2019, and the sustained vote of Germany, Japan and Italy against the UN resolution on the glorification of Nazism reveal the same strategic purpose: to question the legitimacy of Moscow as the founding power of the post-war order. On June 30th in Minsk, Russian diplomacy leveled […]

Preparing for an AI Cyber Crisis In April, Anthropic disclosed that its newest frontier AI model, Claude Mythos, could find and exploit security vulnerabilities in software better than “all but the most skilled humans.” By way of example, the company noted that the model had uncovered a flaw that had gone undetected for 27 years in a secure operating system […]

Special forces thwarted the ‘normal rules’ and were disconnected from rest of British army, witnesses said Damning evidence of the culture of Britain’s special forces, from their training camps in Herefordshire to the battlefields of Afghanistan, was released on Tuesday. It was disclosed by the judge-led inquiry set up in the wake of detailed reports of unarmed civilians executed in […]