These charts show how Trump is isolating the US on the world stage

By:Ashley Kirk · Alex Clark and Heidi Wilson

13 February 2026 at 02:00

Analysis shows that the world is moving closer to China, as Trump’s isolationism rears its head at the United Nations

Donald Trump’s return to the White House has accelerated a profound shift in the global order, according to new analysis.

A report from Focaldata, which analyses UN voting records, reveals how Washington’s “America First” agenda has started to redraw the geopolitical map in favour of China.

The Guardian view on Israel and the West Bank: the other relentless assault upon Palestinians | Editorial

The Guardian

By:Editorial

12 February 2026 at 14:05

A campaign of ethnic cleansing and ‘tectonic’ new legal measures are killing the two-state solution to which other governments pay lip service

Protecting archaeological sites. Preventing water theft. The streamlining of land purchases. If anyone doubted the real purpose of the motley collection of new administrative and enforcement measures for the illegally occupied West Bank, Israel’s defence minister spelt it out: “We will continue to kill the idea of a Palestinian state,” Israel Katz said in a joint statement with the finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich.

While the world’s attention was fixed upon the annihilation in Gaza, settlers in the West Bank intensified their campaign of ethnic cleansing. More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed there since October 2023; a fifth of them were children. Many more have been driven from their homes by relentless harassment and the destruction of infrastructure, with entire Palestinian communities erased across vast swathes of land.

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Nuclear Arms Control Era Comes to End Amid Global Rush for New Weapons

NYT: Science

By:David E. Sanger and William J. Broad

6 February 2026 at 12:48

Beijing, Moscow and shaken American allies are seeking new warheads as President Trump ends more than a half century of nuclear arms control with Russia.

President Trump meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in Alaska last year.

World’s First Treaty to Protect the High Seas Becomes Law

NYT: Science

By:Sachi Kitajima Mulkey

17 January 2026 at 07:12

Over two decades after negotiations began, the High Seas Treaty is designed to protect biodiversity in international waters by enabling conservation zones.

The High Seas Treaty represents the first time that the vast majority of international waters, which lie outside of any country’s jurisdiction and cover nearly half the globe, can be protected.

Under Trump, U.S. Adds Fuel to a Heating Planet

NYT: Science

By:Lisa Friedman

12 January 2026 at 05:02

The president’s embrace of fossil fuels and withdrawal from the global fight against climate change will make it hard to keep warming at safe levels, scientists said.

America’s greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of coal, oil and gas, which had finally started to decline, rose 1.9 percent after Mr. Trump returned to office.

What Is the UNFCCC and Why Is the U.S. Pulling Out?

NYT: Science

By:Somini Sengupta

7 January 2026 at 21:47

The Trump administration said Wednesday that the United States was withdrawing from 66 international agreements, including a major climate change treaty.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC, is the treaty that sets a legal framework for international negotiations to address climate change.

Trump Pulls U.S. Out of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

NYT: Science

By:Somini Sengupta and Lisa Friedman

8 January 2026 at 06:18

The action could make it more difficult for a future administration to rejoin the Paris climate accord, the agreement among most nations to fight climate change.

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