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Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.

This story was originally published by U.S. Right to Know , a nonprofit newsroom and public health research group. Twenty years ago , the Gates and Rockefeller foundations launched the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), promising agricultural transformation...

Activism, Africa, Business & Economy

There is a particular kind of political amnesia that can overtake movements in difficult times. We remember the victories but forget the arguments that preceded them. We remember the marches but forget the years of patient organizing that made them...

Activism, Arts & Culture, Books

Timothy Regan has substantial experience in analog/ mixed signal design and its supporting EDA technologies. His career began in linear engineering at Texas Instruments. He then worked as an applications specialist for both GE-Calma and Valid Logic Systems. After that, he...

CEO Interviews, migration and retargeting, Timothy Regan

Togo-sponsored resolution calls to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland The UN general assembly will vote on Friday on a resolution for the world to formally phase out the traditional Mercator map of the globe...

Africa, United Nations, Togo

Ukraine's defensive capability continues declining both on the battlefield and within Ukraine’s own defense industry. In August, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense adopted only three new systems, fewer than in the previous month. The trend is clearly favorable for Russia. The...

World

India’s authorities plan to introduce, from July 1, 2027 a regulation requiring developers of solar and wind energy projects to have battery storage installed at the sites in a bid to better manage the renewable energy output and reduce curtailments....

News

Healthy rangelands are built through long-term commitment, local leadership and sustained investment. Credit: Shutterstock By Samson Kuraru NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 4 2026 (IPS) Across the Kenya-Tanzania rangelands, communities have long understood a reality that the global community is increasingly recognising: healthy rangelands support...

Africa, Climate Change, Combating Desertification and Drought

China is buying ninety percent of Iran’s oil exports, settling transactions in renminbi, and hiding the rest beneath layers of shell companies. This is not defiance. It is a demonstration, conducted in plain sight, of exactly how far American economic...

Economy, Analysis, China

Iran pursues various tactics to bypass the U.S. blockade, which President Trump reimposed in the middle of July after the deal to make a deal collapsed, according to Iranian Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad. “The oil industry has not sat idle...

News

Subash Tamang, rescued from the Bhotekoshi flood, is under treatment at Kathmandu Trauma Center; three of his family members are still missing. Credit: Sunita Neupane/IPS By Sunita Neupane KATHMANDU, Sep 4 2026 (IPS) That day, Subash Tamang was mining sand along the banks of...

Active Citizens, Aid, Asia-Pacific

Children accompanied by their mothers receive routine vaccinations during a vaccination session at the Bunia health center in Ituri province in the Democratic Republic of Congo. By Shreya Komar UNITED NATIONS, Sep 4 2026 (IPS) While Uganda announced the end of its Ebola...

Africa, Aid, Headlines

Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict The U.S. restarted major strikes on Iran this week, hitting missile, radar, and other military installations along the southern coast and on Larak Island. Iran retaliated against U.S. positions across the Gulf and Jordan, and also...

News

Trump says the U.S. has effectively reopened the Strait of Hormuz, with 18 million barrels of oil reportedly crossing under American protection on Tuesday, close to the roughly 20 million bpd that moved through before the war. The problem is...

News

October WTI crude oil futures are trading at $91.80 Thursday night, up $8.36 or 10.02% for the week so far. The contract traded as low as $84.11 early in the week before reaching $93.14, its strongest level since late July....

News

European benchmark natural gas prices on Friday headed for their fourth consecutive weekly gain as the re-escalation in the Middle East dampened hopes that LNG flows from the Strait of Hormuz could normalize soon. The front-month price at the Dutch...

News

Xi’s Cairo visit marks a strategic shift in the geopolitics of the Middle East. By strengthening its partnership with Cairo and promoting the concept of “regional autonomy,” China seeks to replace Western influence with a new architecture of security and...

China, Egypt, Politics

The first photographs of Nicolas Maduro inside an American detention facility surfaced this week as he waits for a trial that will not begin until June 2027. On the same weekend, Venezuela’s interim government confirmed something that got far less...

Energy, Chevron, oil

Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. Bessent gives orders to Japan’s Katayama and UedaScott Foster reports that US pressure on Japan to strengthen the yen and...

Global Risk-Reward Monitor

Argentina’s President Javier Milei threatened to impose sanctions on oil companies drilling near the Falkland Islands, after reiterating his claim that the territory under British control is Argentine. The Falklands are “historically and legally” Argentine, Milei said in a televised...

News

Current and former leaders from across the continent argued that achieving Africa’s ambitious continental goals will require a far greater focus on implementation, accountability and institutional capacity. Lennox Yieke reports. The African Mindset Forum, hosted by the African School of Governance...

Society, African Mindset Forum, Events

NEW YORK – America’s trade deficit just widened to US$88.6 billion, its largest since March 2025 — and the political reflex in Washington is almost certain to be more, not fewer, tariffs and trade restrictions. The irony is that the...

Trade, AI Boom, Block 2

The Trump administration has reportedly pressured several major U.S. space companies to reconsider attending a high profile international space summit in Paris organized by French President Emmanuel Macron. SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke Space and Starcloud canceled their planned attendance shortly...

World News, Climate Crisis, France

Following the Beijing summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in May this year, their governments offered strikingly different public accounts of the meeting. Beijing’s official readout called Taiwan “the most important issue” in the relationship...

Opinion, China Invasion of Taiwan, Taiwan

When Vladimir Putin takes the stage at a major public event, little is left to chance. Speeches, questions and answers are usually choreographed down to the smallest detail. Putin’s appearance at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on September 3...

Point of View

Prime Minister Andy Burnham is expected to approve the development of the Jackdaw natural gas field in the North Sea before the end of the month, the BBC reported, citing unnamed sources. The Jackdaw project, along with Rosebank, was initially...

News

As Chinese exports keep surging, Western tariffs increasingly blur the line between defending fair competition and protecting industries from superior global competitors. The European Union has threatened “harsher measures” as it approaches an October 2026 deadline to conclude a deal...

Trade, Block 2, China EVs

A U.S. campaign to squeeze Iran’s economy by blocking its oil exports and tightening sanctions is increasingly putting pressure on Tehran, according to three senior Iranian sources cited by Reuters. Washington has intensified economic measures in an effort to force...

World News, Economics, Iran

Emirati ADNOC is still loading liquefied natural gas in the Persian Gulf despite the latest exchange of strikes between the United States and Iran, Bloomberg has reported, citing satellite imaging data. The data showed one tanker docked at ADNOC’s Das...

News

India’s economy grew 7.8% year on year in the April to June quarter, beating economists’ expectations of 7.1%. The strong performance was supported by investment, manufacturing and consumer demand. However, the unexpectedly high figure has triggered debate over whether India’s...

Finance, Economics, India

Most people around the world have probably come to know the American aircraft carrier in much the same way: through US Navy publicity films, Hollywood blockbusters, television news and political debates. For decades, these images taught us what an American...

Opinion, Block 2, Pattaya

Once again the EU demonstrates its helplessness. Besides, the Germans are experts in cheating in these matters. Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and former planner and advisor at the US State Department’s Office of Counter...

Economics, EU-Institutions, Geopolitics

Crude oil prices extended their climb today and are set for a sharp weekly gain as the war in the Middle East continues with little chance of peace. At the time of writing, Brent crude was trading at $95.55 per...

News

More than a week after the devastating August 26 flood in Nepal, rescue teams are searching damaged hydropower projects for people who may still be trapped inside tunnels. An engineers’ WhatsApp group has become an important source of real time...

World News, flood, Nepal

By James Alix Michel VICTORIA, Seychelles, Sep 4 2026 (IPS) There is an older wisdom, quieter than the noise of our times, that whispers a simple truth: we are not the architects of nature, only its guests. Long before there were nations,...

Africa, Biodiversity, Climate Action

The opening moves of a future US-China war over Taiwan may be made not across the Pacific but hundreds of kilometers above it, as both sides race to seize the orbital advantage that underpins modern military power. The US and...

Military, Block 2, Electromagnetic Weapons

A preliminary expert report into the collision between the cargo ship Tuğberk İmamoğlu and the tanker Alsu off Istanbul’s Silivri has pointed to malfunctions in the vessel’s electronic navigation systems and shortcomings in the crew’s allocation of duties, as search...

Türkiye

The meeting between President Vladimir Putin and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the sidelines of the SCO Bishkek summit laid a new foundation for constructive bilateral ties. Russo-Turkish Relations Take On New Tradition of Effective Growth At the summit marking...

Politics, Russia, Turkey
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