Snapshots

As election season heats up the rhetoric in Israel, a long-range rocket attack from the Gaza Strip has prompted swift retaliation that could ignite a wider regional conflict.

The European Union has given the United Kingdom a couple of options and a few more weeks to decide what it wants to do. With the British government and Parliament deadlocked, anything could happen.

The European Union is growing increasingly exasperated with the actions of some of its members, yet there's only so much it can do in response.

A U.S. recognition of Israeli claims on land it captured in 1967 could open the door for other territorial disputes to be settled by force.

Wary of alienating independent-minded Morocco, Saudi King Salman has called his North African counterpart in the hopes of righting their relations.

President Jair Bolsonaro has no intention of slowing his anti-corruption efforts, sparking fear in many legislators and widening the already significant gap between Brazil's presidency and its Congress.

The British prime minister's best-laid plans for Brexit could go to waste, as the EU says it would grant a short deadline extension to the country only if its parliament passes an agreement it's already rejected twice.

After ushering through the Binladin Group's restructuring, the government now has part ownership of the family-owned firm, pushing it to align with Riyadh's reform goals.

Resistance among Brazilian business interests and lawmakers could short-circuit the president's moves to partner with Washington at China's expense.

In its haste to find concessions to offer the United States, Beijing has finally pushed through a new foreign investment law. But many of the key issues remain either unresolved or ambiguous.

Recent data show that a hoped-for economic recovery could be slow to manifest, a scenario that would decrease the president's re-election chances and possibly enable a populist government to return.

The attack was intended to motivate others to carry out similar attacks against not just Muslims but anyone who supports multiculturalism and globalism.