Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
Central Asian states are facilitating a rail shipment of Chinese goods destined for Iran, according to Uzbek railway officials. The precise contents of the freight train are uncertain. The block train, consisting of 55 container cars, crossed from China’s western...
Aliko Dangote launched Africa's largest share sale on Monday, offering 4.1 billion shares of his Nigerian oil refinery at 525 naira each. The offer runs through Oct. 13 and would raise $1.6 billion if fully subscribed, or as much as...
Editor’s note: Since Matt Stoller first published this essay on his Substack on Friday amid the mounting AI crisis , Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for slowing the development of powerful AI models, while OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has...
CAST has introduced TCPIP-100G, a synthesizable intellectual-property core that implements a complete TCP/IP stack in hardware for ASICs and FPGAs. The core is designed to transmit and receive at up to 100 Gbps without depending on a host processor. That...
Elon Musk recently warned that “turbines are sold out through 2030,” saying SpaceX and Tesla would probably need to make turbine blades and vanes internally. SpaceX is preparing a factory in Bastrop, Texas, to tackle that casting bottleneck, and Musk...
The flash floods that swept through Nepal on August 26 came from a glacial crash, 40 miles from Kathmandu, the country’s capital. A gigantic chunk of ice, half a kilometer thick , broke off a glacier and fell down a...
Chevron is looking at expanding its natural gas business and opportunities in Argentina, the Mediterranean, Africa, and Australia, as it aims to offer diversified LNG supply to its customers, Freeman Shaheen, President of Global Gas at Chevron, told Reuters on...
The United States and China each have initiatives racing to shape the future of artificial intelligence, and Kazakhstan may have to choose a side. As the only country to have joined both the American-led Pax Silica initiative and China's World...
A total of 6,307 individuals were apprehended by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Michigan from the start of 2025 through early August 2026. But once taken into custody, what exactly happens to them is harder to follow. Based on a...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump tried to maintain power following his loss in the 2020 election by exerting pressure on state election officials to, in some cases, “find” the votes . Loyalist Republicans in Congress then attempted to deny Joe Biden...
I grew up watching science fiction. I wasn’t much of a reader until I was in the Navy; then I made up for lost time. Again, science fiction. Photo by Igor Omilaev on Unsplash The doom of mankind coming from artificial intelligence...
As the United States has struggled to secure its four primary objectives in the Iran war — achieving regime change, dismantling long-range ballistic missiles, eliminating nuclear enrichment, and halting Tehran’s support for regional proxies — U.S. officials have rolled out...
The left’s winning streak in Democratic primaries has sparked panic among party centrists. As more Democrats warm to democratic socialism, they correctly intuit that their grip on the party is finally, at long last, slipping. This panic was evident last week...
Product realization depends not only on reaching the next engineering state, but on preserving the relationships between states from intent through qualification, release, and lifecycle learning. Semiconductor development is usually described as a sequence of activities: architecture, design, fabrication, packaging,… Read...
Heightened shipping threats from Ukrainian attacks and a shortage of tankers have pushed the freight costs for Russia’s crude oil exports from the Black Sea to record highs. In the week to September 6, the key tanker rate for shipping...
Ansarallah-led government forces have liberated the entire west coast of Yemen from Saudi-backed forces, triggering an Israeli media meltdown. Meanwhile, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have taken out a series of US assets and began firing new-generation electro-optical missiles...
Syria raised diesel prices 40% and gasoline prices by as much as 28% on Saturday, and protesters blocked the highway linking Damascus to Aleppo and burned tires along the road to Turkey within 24 hours, the widest unrest since Bashar...
In the 1980s and earlier, Africa’s attempts to use import substitution as a stepping stone towards an industrialised status failed miserably, mainly because of fragmented, tiny markets. Can the same approach now succeed under the unique opportunities offered by the...
The East-West Pipeline in Saudi Arabia, which delivers oil to the shores of the Red Sea, has been an important workaround to the choking of tanker traffic by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz, the only exit for tankers from...
BRICS has yet again demonstrated its paramount importance as an institution by gathering the significant economies of the world and strengthening the multipolar world. Introduction The 18th BRICS Summit took place in New Delhi on September 12–13, 2026. BRICS has...
TODAY’S NUMBERS: $108 (Brent crude) · 4.98% (US 10-year Treasury yield) · $4,330 (Gold) Oil is pricing a wider Gulf war, yields are pricing the Fed hike war-driven inflation now demands — and gold, the classic war hedge, is losing...
The Upcoming Ballot for the Ninth State Duma So far, 2026 is not proving a good year for the Putin regime. The front line in Ukraine is barely moving, Ukrainian drones and missiles are striking targets deep inside Russian territory, the...
St Barts is one of many UK institutions whose benefactors were involved in the trafficking of enslaved Africans Inside the Great Hall of St Bartholomew’s North Wing, alongside stately portraits of the apostle from whom London’s oldest hospital takes its name...
Samtec is using two major 2026 industry events to make a clear engineering argument: faster accelerators alone will not determine the performance of next-generation artificial-intelligence infrastructure. The copper and optical links connecting chips, packages, boards, racks and data centers must...
This article originally published by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom ProPublica is republished with permission. On May 24, Donald Trump Jr. was celebrating in the Bahamas, as scantily clad dancers in stilettos and sailor caps performed for him and his guests....
Gulf states called off Monday's planned meeting with Iran on reopening the Strait of Hormuz the same day Yemen's Houthis fired dozens of missiles and drones at Saudi Arabia's King Khalid airbase in Khamis Mushait, calling it retaliation for more...
Public offering of Aliko Dangote’s Nigerian oil refinery business could swell his net wealth by two-thirds The fortune of Africa’s richest person could swell by two thirds to nearly $60bn (£44bn) after his refinery in Nigeria listed publicly in the continent’s...
A defunct German software wiki became a message board this spring for a swarm of OpenAI’s own agents . They posted roughly 18,000 times, pooling techniques for working around their restrictions and notes on routing traffic through Tor. This episode...
Enslaved African people were seared with hot metal brands bearing the royal crown, according to research by historians who have documented the monarchy’s centuries-long involvement in Britain’s slave trade. The kings and queens most heavily involved were those who ruled after...
Dr. Samaiya Mushtaq’s book “A Beautiful Patience: A Memoir of Marriage, Motherhood, and a Mission to Gaza” pulls readers into the story of her husband, Dr. Mahmoud Sabha , who went to Gaza on multiple medical missions – and takes...
Former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci is set to hear a verdict on Wednesday at a war crimes tribunal in The Hague over allegations linked to his role in the Kosovo conflict of the late 1990s. Thaci, who denies wrongdoing, rose...
Three years of research has uncovered 13,000 people who invested in Britain’s trafficking of enslaved Africans The Register of British Slave Traders is the product of three years of research by a team of historians into all known investors in Britain’s...
As recurrent drought pushes communities from southern Angola into northern Namibia, those crossing the border are finding that movement brings a new set of risks. Amnesty International researcher Dr Mandipa Machacha speaks to Jamila Versi about climate displacement, colonial borders...
U.S. technology stocks came under pressure on Monday as investors reacted to growing warnings from leading AI executives that the rapid development of increasingly powerful models may need to slow because of safety concerns. Nasdaq 100 futures led losses before...
Women seeking to break barriers in trail running took center stage at the second Kaçkar by UTMB in northeastern Türkiye, where athletes from around the world tackled demanding mountain trails across 4K, 20K, 50K and 100K races in a test...
China and the United States are competing to lead the development of increasingly powerful artificial intelligence systems, but both countries are also confronting a growing concern: what happens if advanced AI becomes capable of acting beyond effective human oversight? Recent...
The number of commodity vessels observed to have transited the Strait of Hormuz crumbled to single digits this weekend, and risks to supply from the Middle East soared after Saudi Arabia shut down the key East-West pipeline it uses to...
A year after U.S. tariffs pushed companies to diversify production away from China, some businesses are discovering that replacing the country’s manufacturing ecosystem is more difficult and expensive than expected. The shift reflects the limits of the “China plus one”...
A report Rebuild Trust: Rigged Economies, Fractured Societies and the Case for Change found that people everywhere believed the system was rigged. Credit: Earth4All By Umar Manzoor Shah SRINAGAR, India, Sep 14 2026 (IPS) An international survey released by Earth4All has found a...
What Turkey’s Africa Engagement Reveals about Its Defence-Industrial Model Turkey’s defence engagement in Africa is often read through the lens of geopolitics, drone use, and conflict dynamics. Yet the deeper story is industrial and strategic. Africa remains central to Turkey’s defence-export...
For decades, the United States’ nuclear weapons enterprise has wrestled with an institutional paradox. On one hand is the imperative to make the complex more “responsive” to global tumult and technical surprise, able to field new weapons quickly in reaction...
The recent spike in crude oil prices will likely result in a fresh rate hike by the Fed this week, according to data from CME Group, cited by The National today. As much as 90% of respondents from trading circles...
The space economy has surpassed $600 billion in annual value, with some projecting it will reach a trillion by the 2030s. Jonathan Panter is joined by Joseph Yaffe (Cowboy Space), Brian Weeden (The Aerospace Corporation), and Dan Wald (Booz Allen)...
Major powers are increasingly trying to shut out their rivals. Russia invaded Ukraine in part to prevent the latter’s further integration with the West. The United States is restricting China’s access to advanced semiconductors and encouraging allies to do the...
An AfD election poster with the message: “Youth come to us”, reminiscent of both Nazi and Communist propaganda. By Jan Lundius STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Sep 14 2026 (IPS) During summer months there is a certain news drought. Nevertheless, this year social media has been...
The Middle East needs alternative export routes for liquefied natural gas that bypass the Strait of Hormuz, Oman’s Minister of Energy and Minerals said at Gastech today. LNG exports from the Persian Gulf have collapsed since the start of the...
Register of British Slave Traders reveals how deeply the trafficking of Africans was embedded in the country’s politics, economy, institutions and culture Two obstacles have prevented us from appreciating the significance of the slave trade in British history. The first arose...
Alain Antil, Director of the Sub-Saharan Africa Centre at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), is in conversation with Hichem Ben Yaïche . He talks about Rwanda’s soft power, Russia’s Africa strategy and the fraught situation in the Sahel. What...
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