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U.S. President Donald Trump has promised to impose strong economic measures on Iran, following remarks by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that unprecedented sanctions will be announced soon. Bessent is scheduled to hold a press conference at 2 p.m. EDT on...
More than 2,000 people have died from Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since the first case of this epidemic was recorded in May. The Guardian's global health correspondent, Kat Lay, spoke to CDC Africa's Yap Boum II...
A social media post by U.S. President Donald Trump about the Keystone XL oil pipeline generated interest during U.S.-Canada trade talks. Keystone XL was a proposed crude pipeline, about 1,900 km (1,181 miles) long, intended to transport 830,000 barrels of...
Every single day, my mother and I played a cat-and-mouse game of who could love and adore my father more than the previous day. Was it fair to say that I won most of the time? For whatever reason, for...
Islam Times - Ray Dalio’s latest comments about reducing exposure to US bonds and turning towards gold and Bitcoin go beyond investment advice. They are a warning about confidence in the world’s most important financial asset. The warning comes as...
On the fifth anniversary of the Taliban’s return to power, Afghanistan has become a “graveyard of human rights.” The guns have largely fallen silent, but a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding—and the Western community, driven by geopolitical expediency, is complicit. Five...
Al Shara aka Al Jolani, Sunni Terrorist For a quarter century the United States has told the world, and itself, a simple story about its role in the Middle East. On September 11, 2001, it was attacked by Sunni jihadists, and...
Sometime ago I was asked to address a number of issues which contrasted Western and Eastern positions. My sense was the questions were framed mostly from the western perspective. My goal was to suggest that there are alternatives to conflict. The...
The Rhine has slightly risen from its mid-August record low (when Kaub’s water level gauge – at the river’s decisive chokepoint – was below 10 cm), but the relief is mostly optical. Barges still cannot carry normal loads through it,...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s scaling-back of joint military exercises with South Korea is the latest impulsive and thoughtless decision in an accumulation of foreign policy insults that is leading to the U.S.’s abandonment of the world’s democratic community. These include...
By Jama Ayaanle Feyte, Journalist, Horn of Africa Security Expert and Political Analyst The controversy surrounding Somalia’s new Speaker of Parliament, Abdikadir Mohamed Nur—popularly known as Jama —shows no signs of subsiding, despite the Somali Ministry of Foreign Affairs issuing a...
By Abdirahman Abdillahi Ibrahim Agriculture is one of the foundations of livelihoods and food security across Somaliland. Yet farmers face a persistent and often underestimated threat: insects, plant diseases, invasive weeds, rodents and other organisms that can damage crops before they...
Order a heavy-duty gas turbine from GE Vernova today and it won’t arrive until 2031. That’s the company’s actual production schedule, confirmed on its July 22 earnings call, and it’s the fact sitting underneath every AI data center power plan...
Somaliland has called on Cyprus and Greece to reconsider their stance regarding recognition of Somaliland, following contact between Somalia’s new Speaker of Parliament, Abdullahi Mohamed Nur, and the Turkish-backed Northern Cyprus, which claims to have seceded from the Republic of...
Donald Trump is accidentally overseeing a massive buildout of the country’s renewable energy capacity and infrastructure. Not only are investments in renewable technologies soaring to new highs, the national energy grid is rapidly transforming to accommodate an increasingly solar- and...
The question is no longer whether Saudi Arabia will respond to the Houthi blockade but what kind of response it can sustain. Riyadh has been building Yemeni militia troops for seven months and is forced to make a decision it...
For six months the entire conversation about oil logistics has been about one strait, and you can hardly blame anyone for that. Hormuz has been effectively closed since late February, when the war between Iran and the U.S. and Israel...
Recent events in the Spanish city of Ceuta, where tens of thousands of migrants from African countries flocked in late July 2026, have starkly highlighted the problem of the biological risks posed by uncontrolled migration. Currently, the European Union has...
Photo by Vicky Hladynets on Unsplash Let’s play a little game. Let’s say that you and 1,000 other people were told by aliens that you were being transported in a year’s time to a world terraformed to be just like Earth...
Southeast Asia needs to invest heavily in upgrading and modernising its transmission networks if countries across the region hope to deploy larger quantities of renewable energy over the next decade. With investment in green energy growing ever higher, the grid...
The second iteration of the joint air exercise Eagles of Civilization 2026 commenced on the Egyptian lands in August 2026, involving the Egyptian and Chinese air forces. The exercise included advanced Chinese air combat systems, such as heavy fighters like...
Once upon a time, I landed in a mental hospital after having a nervous breakdown in my early twenties when I lived in Johannesburg, and my brother who longed to belong found a new group of friends and started to...
Good things are happening! A city plans to bottle subway hell, canoes beat out copper mines, crabbers cut the cord, and we celebrate a victory with a border wall fighter. You Love To See It is a benefit of a Lever...
Faced with allegations coming from all sides, the forthcoming United Nations report on Sudan will need to demonstrate impartiality and provide evidence to support its conclusions. The forthcoming report by the United Nations Security Council Panel of Experts on Sudan will...
HEBRON, West Bank / PNN / For residents of Khirbet Umm al-Khair in the southern Hebron Hills, fear has become part of daily life. Repeated attacks by Israeli settlers, along with efforts to pressure residents and drive them from their land,...
HEBRON, West Bank /PNN/ In towns across southern Hebron, particularly Deir Samet, Idhna and areas along the western border, the burning of electronic waste has become a persistent source of smoke and choking fumes, weighing on residents' daily lives and raising...
HEBRON, West Bank (PNN) — About 20 kilometres northwest of Hebron, the Palestinian town of Surif rises among mountain peaks, carrying stories passed down through generations. Here, stones are more than silent rocks. They stand as living witnesses to a long...
People fighting to contain rapidly growing outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo describe the obstacles and dangers they face Every day, Sophie Mwadawa Kabundo goes to her job as a nurse at an Ebola treatment centre in the north-east of...
Hebron / PNN / Demolitions of Palestinian homes and structures continue in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, one of the areas most affected by demolition and displacement policies. The demolitions have targeted inhabited homes, residential tents, water wells and agricultural structures,...
The ceasefire between Pakistan and Afghanistan resembles a ghost. It exists on paper but peace remains missing on the ground. Along the Durand Line, a 19th century colonial cartograph that Afghanistan has historically disputed, mistrust continues to deepen. Pakistan sees...
China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN), a Chinese state-owned energy company, is blacklisted by the US for stealing nuclear secrets. In South Korea, CGN runs five power plants, with a total generation capacity of 2.2 gigawatts (GW). The South Korean government...
An explainer of why the price of oil is nearing crisis level after all these months 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 Terrorism....
Afreximbank and Gebeya are launching the CANEX Create-thon for African creators in music, video, and video games. The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), through its Creative Africa Nexus (CANEX) programme, is launching an initiative to support African creators, in partnership with Gebeya....
Land can be surrendered only once. A security guarantee can be reconsidered whenever a government changes or another war demands Washington’s attention. This becomes the centre of the latest American effort to end the war in Ukraine. Steve Witkoff and...
Attempts to shield Israel against campus criticism took two blows this summer with a whistleblower and leading opposition politician questioning a government taskforce formed early in Donald Trump’s second term to combat campus antisemitism. Whistleblower Haley Van Erem, who resigned...
The Israeli government is running advertisements on a popular podcast hosted by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), raising questions about whether the staunchly pro-Israel lawmaker is indirectly receiving campaign funding from a foreign country. Radio and podcast giant iHeartMedia has syndicated Cruz’s...
Trump’s foreign policy rests on a single approach: apply maximum pressure and force rapid capitulation. The assumption is that American military and economic power is so overwhelming that targets have no possible choice but surrender. When that does not happen, Trump...
Scott Bessent says he doesn’t understand why oil is going up. On Thursday, hours after announcing that Washington would keep its naval blockade and hit Iran with the toughest sanctions in history, the Treasury Secretary watched crude climb and told...
Islam Times - A new report from Washington casts doubt on the official account of Karoline Leavitt’s departure: Trump’s spokeswoman was identified as the main suspect in a confidential investigation into leaks about US weapons shortages and the damage caused...
On Saturday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry announced that a navigation map had been agreed upon in diplomatic talks with Oman. The Iranian spokesman emphasised that the agreement had been reached despite US “obstruction” and efforts to “hinder” the talks. Further,...
Speculation that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will run for president has been growing louder. Much of the buzz has been effusive, as in The Guardian ’s assessment that “it is hard to imagine anyone who better personifies a rebuke of the octogenarian...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Ghana’s Foreign Minister Samuel O. Ablakwa, after an intensive strategic consultation aimed at raising bilateral relations from vision to commitment, have agreed on a pack of measures for normalizing relations between the Confederation of...
China's energy strategy has largely shielded it from the fallout of the war in Iran and the resultant closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a vital artery for global oil and gas trade. However, the country's newest five-year plan for...
Countries around the globe are racing to become the world’s first geologic hydrogen hotspot. A few years ago, the United States Department of Energy released a bombshell report that estimated that there are trillions of metric tons of natural hydrogen...
Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. ***IranU.S. strikes on Iranian soil tapered off in August after frequent exchanges throughout July. The hiatus seems...
Almost three years after the Gaza genocide began, the European Union is still being helpful to Israel and its weapons industry. A fresh example of the help being offered involves a “security research” project scheduled to begin in September. The Israel Innovation...
The extreme heat experienced across Europe in recent weeks has caused widespread disruption to nuclear power plants. Governments across the region have been forced to take extraordinary measures to keep nuclear facilities operating, but some are failing to meet their...
Iraq wants to more than double its oil production within six years. First, it needs OPEC to let it. Baghdad is targeting output of between 8 million and 10 million barrels per day, up from roughly 4 million bpd before...
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