Taiwan

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

Ammar Mohammed Mahmoud Mohammed, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Republic of the Sudan to the United Nations, addresses the Security Council meeting that heard reports of the Secretary-General on Sudan. Credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten By Oritro Karim UNITED NATIONS, Jul 27 2026...

Africa, Armed Conflicts, Crime & Justice

Four days before the State Department released its new report on Cuban influence, the Trump administration launched what the White House called a global campaign against “Radical Left terrorism” . Officials said far-left extremism would be treated with the same...

Democracy & Governance, Cuba, espionnage

By Kanav Arora, ML Researcher at ChipAgents Most hardware teams already understand why formal verification matters. It can expose corner cases that simulation may never reach and establish critical behaviors across the modeled state space. The unresolved question is not whether formal...

AI, ChipAgents AI, EDA

Three years of declining hunger have answered one question: Progress is possible. The question now is whether governments will scale what works before conflict, climate shocks and financial retreat erase it. Credit: Isaiah Esipisu/IPS By Máximo Torero ROME, Jul 27 2026 (IPS) Here...

Food and Agriculture, Global, Headlines

The European Union is moving toward a new strategy for imposing sanctions on Russia, a shift that could expose deeper divisions within the bloc and fuel institutional tensions over the decision-making process. The 21st sanctions package against Russia may become the...

World

The UK’s net zero push risks leaving the country with higher electricity bills and more susceptible to blackouts, according to a leaked report commissioned by the national grid system. The report, produced by energy consultancy firm Cornwall Insight for the...

News

The following story is co-published with Joe Cirincione’s Substack and adapted from an article published July 25 by MS NOW. The billions of dollars the Saudi monarchy has gifted President Donald Trump ’s family have paid off. Trump has caved to...

Column, Courts & Law, Middle East

This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . Could the oil industry be held responsible for fueling the extreme heat that led to a woman’s death? That’s the question at the heart of a...

Activism, Business & Economy, Courts & Law

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Photo by Sasun Bughdaryan on Unsplash Not everything is of equal importance. That’s just a simple fact of life. For example, if it comes down to making it to a casual lunch with a friend or taking your spouse to the...

News

CARACAS — The country that in 2008 heard then-President Hugo Chávez say , “Go to hell, damn Yankees,” as he expelled the U.S. ambassador, today watches hundreds of U.S. soldiers patrol the streets of La Guaira, which was devastated by...

Americas, Economic Justice, Global Voices

The Florida school calendar makes a hash of enjoying the end of July. Soon, I will have to log on at midnight to register for after-school care in the hours before the waitlist barrier comes down. The preseason PTA meeting...

Activism, Column, Courts & Law

Ann Wu is Co-founder & CEO of Silimate. Before Silimate, Ann designed several generations of custom silicon at Apple, helped manage inference ASIC programs at Meta, and led product strategy and execution at Celestial AI. Ann has a M.S. in...

EDA, Silimate, Akash Levy

The Trump administration is weighing whether to extend access to some Chinese rare earth materials beyond the January 1, 2027 cutoff after U.S. producers acknowledged they cannot build sufficient domestic processing and magnet capacity before the deadline, Reuters reported on...

News

The debate over who will replace the recently retired founder of the Japanese progressive party Reiwa Shinsengumi Yamamoto Taro has brought a previously low-key citizen activist Ishii Reiko to the forefront in Japanese politics. Ishii Reiko, a woman who rose...

Democracy & Governance, Ishii Reiko, Japan

Chinese authorities are monitoring the demonstrations against US President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, viewing them as a reflection of the erosion of Western legitimacy, and are strategically exploiting them to fuel anti-American and anti-Israeli rhetoric. This is...

Intelligence, China, front

The fuel crisis in Russia has started to ease in recent days as some refineries have restarted operations, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Sunday. “The situation is gradually stabilizing, a number of oil refineries became operational again....

News

In part two of their conversation, Generation Jihad’s Bill Roggio, FDD CMPP Senior Director Bradley Bowman, and FDD Senior Analyst Cameron McMillan ask a tough question following months of kinetic warfare with Iran: What’s the Pentagon’s readiness for the next...

Generation Jihad, Long War Journal, china

The Houthi threats to shipping in the Red Sea and its chokepoint, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, have forced at least one oil tanker carrying Saudi crude to Asia to choose the much longer route through the Suez Canal, the Mediterranean,...

News

Given the acute shortage of affordable power in most of Africa, the continent needs all the sources it can tap, from oil and gas to renewables like wind and solar. Now, it can also, reports Laurent Soucaille, develop small nuclear...

Economy

For a long time, the classic 18th-century song “Rule, Britannia!” by English composer Thomas Arne, with lyrics by Scottish poets James Thomson and David Mollett, effectively served as the United Kingdom’s second national anthem. Its refrain, “Rule, Britannia! Britannia rule...

Guest Contributor

JAKARTA – Bank Indonesia Governor Perry Warjiyo’s abrupt resignation marks a watershed moment for Southeast Asia’s largest economy. Coming midway through his second five-year term, Warjiyo’s departure — tendered for personal reasons and quickly accepted by President Prabowo Subianto —...

Southeast Asia, Bank Indonesia, Bank Indonesia Independence

Tanker traffic through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait slumped to a multi-month low on Sunday amid Houthi attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure on the Red Sea coast. Only 11 tankers carrying commodities transited the Bab el-Mandeb chokepoint between the Red Sea...

News

In Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip, children received polio vaccines as part of the vaccination campaign conducted by UNICEF and its partners in 2025. Credit: UNICEF/Mohammed Nateel By Shuli Wong UNITED NATIONS, Jul 27 2026 (IPS) On Monday July 20, a team...

Aid, Armed Conflicts, Education

Finding the perfect property in Cyprus can quickly become stressful. With thousands of listings to sort through, buyers may encounter outdated ads or unreliable agents. Choosing the right search platform can save both time and money. This ranking looks at...

Finance, Cyprus, Economics

Student-made posters and artwork line the streets of Jantar Mantar, capturing messages of resistance and hope. Aishwarya Bajpai/IPS By Aishwarya Bajpai NEW DELHI, Jul 27 2026 (IPS) On July 25, after 50 days of protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan...

Asia-Pacific, Central Asia, Civil Society

European natural gas prices plunged by 8.6% at the open in Amsterdam on Monday as the United States paused strikes on Iran over the weekend and Tehran signaled a halt to retaliatory attacks across the Middle East. Hopes of de-escalation...

News

Xi addresses China and the world in rare public speech on AI H.Seidl Mon, 07/27/2026 - 10:02 picture alliance / Xinhua News Agency | Xie Huanchi Comment Jul 27, 2026 3 min read Xi addresses China and the world in rare public speech on AI In his speech...

News

Taiwan produces the world’s most advanced semiconductors, yet the island’s own military is only in the opening stages of adopting artificial intelligence systems. This mismatch bears directly on Taiwan’s ability to deter Chinese aggression.Beijing is pushing to develop and field...

Cogs of War, Artificial Intelligence, Military Innovation

Modern terrorist attacks no longer end when the shooting stops. Increasingly, a second battle begins immediately afterward: the struggle over who receives credit. In an era of encrypted communications, instant messaging and digital propaganda, attaching an organization’s name to an...

South Asia, Abdul Hakeem Kakar Assassination, Baloch Insurgency

The Japanese government may approach foreign banks to help finance pledged investments in U.S. natural gas production that are part of Tokyo’s trade deal with the Trump administration, agreed last year. “If financing from foreign banks materialises, it should further...

News

Government move follows months of drought and crop failures in Karamoja, with 1.5m people facing malnutrition Uganda has launched emergency food relief distribution after at least 19 deaths from hunger were reported in an area of prolonged drought in the east...

Global development, Uganda, Hunger

China is likely to have increased its crude oil imports this month, with the daily average at 7.8 million barrels, according to calculations by Kpler, as cited by Bloomberg. Refiners have been buying more Russian crude and have seen more...

News

The Philippines came into the 2026 ASEAN chairmanship with the strongest possible hand on the South China Sea. It held the pen on the communique. It had built new domestic legal infrastructure and secured bilateral partner commitments. The ASEAN Foreign...

Southeast Asia, ASEAN, ASEAN Consensus

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) wants to sentence five more Palestine activists as terrorists for committing criminal damage, it can be revealed. Brendon O’Hagan, Amanda Kelly, Hmeera Atiqnisar, Mohammed Malik, and Alma Yaniv were convicted of criminal damage last month for...

Archive, Middle East, Barclays

Main image: John Barnes leaves three Argentina defenders in his wake and crosses for Gary Lineker to score England’s lone goal in the 1986 World Cup quarter final game In the second part of his piece on the future of football,...

Opinion

China’s expanding zero-tariff access for 63 lower-income countries — 53 of them African — is far more than a developmental courtesy or a technical adjustment of customs schedules. It is a deliberate geostrategic lever in Beijing’s long-term competition with the...

Trade, Africa Demographics, Block 3

The image topping this piece is a reminder that the wars in Ukraine and Iran are not necessarily separate conflicts. The US remains at the center of both and there is the potential for spillover. Ukraine’s drone attack on the...

Larry C. Johnson

When Hong Wang and Yu Deng received Fields Medals at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia on July 23, they became the first citizens of the People’s Republic of China to hold mathematics’ highest honor in its 90-year history....

China, Block 2, China Fields Medals

Refugees fleeing violence in Ethiopia's Tigray region cross the Tekeze River into Sudan in November 2020. Credit: UNHCR/Hazim Elhag By Elizabeth Tan GENEVA, Jul 27 2026 (IPS) Seventy-five years after the Refugee Convention was opened for signature on 28 July 1951, it remains...

Development & Aid, Environment, Featured

The Burmese people continue to suffer as the brutal civil war in Myanmar heads toward its sixth year. The conflict was recently brought home to America with China’s arrest of Min Zin, an American citizen who heads the Institute for Strategy...

China, Trump-administration, Civil-war
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