Global Voices

RISC-V has momentum. The industry knows it. The harder question is: who can actually deliver when and where it matters? A Shift That Changes the Stakes On March 24, 2026, Arm made something explicit: it is now a silicon company....

China’s AI-driven intelligence support to Iran is turning the war into a deniable, data-driven proxy conflict in which battlefield advantage increasingly depends on information rather than force. The Washington Post reported over the weekend that Chinese private technology firms are...

South Korea will send five Korean-flagged ships to the Saudi Arabian Red Sea port of Yanbu to help establish alternative oil supply routes to avoid the disruption in the Strait of Hormuz , a ruling MP said...

Iranian officials on Monday warned US President Donald Trump that his name will be “etched in history as a supreme war criminal” if he follows through with his threat to wage total war on Iran’s civilian infrastructure, including bridges and power plants. Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s...

Harsh weather is nothing new in Kenya but the country’s climate is showing clear signs of getting hotter and drier The day is hot and dry but the soil underfoot is soft. “After four months of drought, we received the first...

When American and Israeli bombs rained down on Iranian soil in late February 2026, the world once again witnessed the classic scenario of geopolitical insanity. But behind the official statements about the nuclear threat lies a cynical truth: this is...

WEST BANK, (PIC) Israeli settlers carried out a series of attacks across the occupied West Bank over the past 24 hours, including raids, assaults on Palestinian civilians, religious rituals, and the burning of property. Settlers performed Talmudic prayers in the al-Maleh Baths...

Iraq's state oil marketer SOMO has asked its customers to submit crude oil lifting schedules within 24 hours, a document reviewed by Reuters showed, following media reports that Iran has exempted Iraq from any restrictions on transit through...

The Iran war has resulted in the highest level of regional conflict seen since America’s 1991 Operation Desert Storm against Iraq, with more than a dozen countries targeted by Iranian drone or missile barrages. Intense missile defense operations by the...

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation police have continued to close the Aqsa Mosque for the 38th consecutive day, preventing Muslim worshipers from entering it, amid strict security measures in the Old City of Jerusalem and at the entrances of the...

The head of the intelligence organisation of Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was killed on Monday in a "terrorist attack by the American-Zionist (Israeli) enemy", Iranian media said, citing a statement by the Guards. Majid Khademi ,...

As great powers like the United States pursue frameworks that impose growing security, political, and economic burdens on smaller states, middle and small powers face mounting pressure to reassess their interests. Countries like Pakistan must draw on historical experience to...

As a child, Dominique Bikaba, was displaced by a new national park in the DRC. Now he is helping to secure land for wildlife and Indigenous groups against the backdrop of ongoing fighting Mist hangs low over the forested slopes of...

GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 72,302 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Monday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...

BEIRUT, (PIC) At least eight people were martyred and 55 others injured in Israeli airstrikes targeting multiple areas in Lebanon, as Hezbollah announced it had carried out 23 attacks on Israeli targets since early Sunday. According to the Lebanese National News Agency,...

The war between the United States and Iran has become not only a military crisis in the Middle East but also a turning point for the transatlantic alliance, exposing deep divisions between Washington and its European allies. When Donald Trump...

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) forced a Palestinian citizen to demolish his own house in the east Jerusalem district of Silwan, south of the Aqsa Mosque, on Sunday morning. According to local sources, Israeli police officers stormed ath-Thori neighborhood...

With US bombs raining down on Iran and Tehran’s leaders responding by hitting targets across the Persian Gulf and restricting transit through the Strait of Hormuz, it is fair to suggest that the present moment represents a low in relations...

Iran and the United States have received a plan to end hostilities that could come into effect on Monday and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a source aware of the proposals has said. A framework to end hostilities has been put...

If you’re feeling fed up with the way things are in the world, then, no matter your politics, you are experiencing an emotion people have felt for millennia. Perhaps you feel helpless. Maybe you feel like the character in the...

Classical maritime strategy has long shaped our perception of the Bay of Bengal. For decades, naval analysts measured regional influence by counting ships, tracking submarine capabilities and debating the logic of the “String of Pearls.” But a more consequential transformation...

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnaped three Palestinian children from al-Khalil and injured two young men during a raid in northern Jerusalem on Sunday evening. According to local sources, Israeli forces kidnaped two kids from the family of al-Julani...

It finally happened. According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, China invested US$1.03 trillion in research and development in 2024—surpassing the United States’ $1.01 trillion for the first time in history. After two decades of double-digit annual growth...

I was once warned not to eat my neighbor’s flowers. It was not as though I was grazing in the garden next door; however, we were an atypical community living in a foreign country for a project, and we were...

Islam Times - The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps [IRGC] Navy confirmed that the Strait of Hormuz has undergone irreversible strategic changes and will never revert to its former status, particularly for the United States and the “Israeli” entity, as Iranian...

But before I do that, here’s a roundup full of short takes and stories about AI. First, though, an episode of Econ 102! Officially, the podcast is over, but we still occasionally do a reprise episode. This one, fittingly, is...

In this interview, Daszak responds to the inaugural “Scientific Freedom” lecture held at the National Institutes of Health under the sponsorship of NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, chosen for that position by vaccine denialist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. because he...