MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin used his marquee keynote address at the annual Valdai Discussion Club to issue a stark warning regarding global security, asserting that escalating tensions between Russia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have brought nuclear-armed powers perilously close to the "point of no return." The speech, delivered in Moscow,…
BRATISLAVA — Decades ago, citizens of what was then Czechoslovakia watched helplessly as foreign armor rolled through their cobbled streets under the banner of collective security. Today, that historical trauma is reverberating across modern Europe. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has issued a stark and uncompromising warning, asserting that European leadership and the North Atlantic…
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — For decades, the standard medical playbook for managing Type 2 diabetes and prediabetes has relied on a foundational, seemingly unassailable dual prescription: take your medication and hit the gym. Millions of patients worldwide have been instructed to pair metformin—the world’s most widely prescribed oral medication for lowering blood sugar—with regular physical…
GLOBAL ECONOMY — The next major threat to the global economy may not emerge from oil markets or central bank interest rate decisions, but rather from the grocery aisle. In a comprehensive and sobering new analysis released by JPMorgan Chase, senior global economists have warned that the convergence of escalating geopolitical conflicts and extreme weather…
