Travel restrictions are being relaxed around the world, so dust off your passport and head out on an autumn city break.

Sudan appears set on becoming the new Egypt, with its recent coup, which has dealt a near-fatal blow to the country’s chances of establishing a democracy in the coming years.

Clashes between political partisans on the streets of Beirut underline how a lack of accountability for the 2020 port disaster is feeding into revivified sectarian tensions.

Ahead of the 2021 United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, where many of these issues will be discussed, we would like to highlight the risks associated with some underrated natural hazards and their potential to worsen over time.

The Tigray War has further added to Ethiopia’s internal conflicts, which demonstrate the limits of the federal government to manage increasingly fraught scrambles among different communities’ for autonomy and scarce resources.

The incursions of Taiwan’s ADIZ by a record number of Chinese warplanes exemplifies intensifying geopolitical tensions in East Asia amid the China-United States (US) competition but does not signify imminent conflict.

The Yemeni Civil War and foreign intervention in it has claimed nearly a quarter of a million lives with little to show for it except worsening regional tensions and a humanitarian catastrophe.

As we approach the end of a tumultuous year, we highlight some of the key risks to look out for across the globe in Quarter 4.

Pyongyang is likely to continue nuclear and missile tests in the medium-term, until and unless a realistic, long-term and phased denuclearisation process is undertaken multilaterally.