Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
On August 26, the Himalayas seemed to move. An enormous mass of ice and rock broke loose near the Nepal-Tibet border, plunging into the Lhende Khola River and unleashing a wall of water, mud, boulders and debris down the mountain...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip /PNN / In a swimming pool in the central Gaza city of Deir al-Balah, children who have lost limbs are learning more than swimming skills. They are taking part in an effort to rebuild their confidence, cope...
This article first appeared in Pacific Forum and is republished with permission. Read the original here. There are multiple interpretations of where the India-China relationship stands today. Is there a thaw? Are the two sides gradually moving toward a reset?...
GAZA STRIP / PNN / For Shorouq Saadallah and her family, displacement has meant more than leaving home in search of safety. For the past eight months, the family has been living in a displacement camp near a garbage dump, where piles...
Central Claim The diplomatic traffic through Tehran this week, Qatar, Pakistan and Oman all visiting in seven days, has generated the appearance of momentum toward reopening the Strait of Hormuz. The substance tells a different story. Iran is not negotiating...
In the wake of setbacks over Iran, stalled Middle East diplomacy, and hollow peacemaking claims, Donald Trump is scrambling for any foreign policy win he can claim—real or manufactured. His latest gambit? A disastrous last-ditch push to drag Russia into...
The war propaganda machine in the US is a ceaseless, multifaceted contraption that includes legacy media, the educational system and the entertainment industry. A nation does not eviscerate tens of millions of “enemy” civilians without first laying a meticulous foundation...
As rescue and recovery efforts continue in the areas that were flooded along the border between Nepal and China on Wednesday, the danger of a second flood is building as a barrier lake has been formed by a landslide dam...
There is, once again, something both depressing and hilarious about Washington’s search for a Trump foreign-policy doctrine. Well over a year into Trump’s second term, the exercise has resumed with the same misplaced confidence that animated it in 2017: op-ed...
If you or someone you know is struggling, the Veterans Crisis Line is available 24/7: call 988 and press 1, text 838255, or visit VeteransCrisisLine.net. I was going to do an article about the corruption of the Trump family, but I...
“Theory is a net. Only those who cast, can catch.”- Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1959) In assessing Israel’s nuclear deterrence and escalation doctrine, one element remains consistently overlooked. This element concerns US-Russian differences regarding “nuclear firebreak theory.”...
In the race to secure the Democratic ticket for Massachusetts’ upcoming Senate race, Rep. Seth Moulton has put out a not-so-subtle call for ads targeting “voters under 40” highlighting that he’s “one of Massachusetts’ rising progressive stars” and a “next...
On August 29, more than 5,000 Indian Americans will fill Madison Square Garden for an event called “Universal Oneness Celebrations.” The keynote speaker is Mohan Bhagwat, chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, or RSS as Indians call it. It is...
This statement was originally published on lesotho.misa.org on 23 August 2026. When a state handshake grants instant credibility to an outlet that answers to no one, who is truly to blame when the next viral lie takes root? By Nicole Tau Every journalist...
This statement was originally published on zambia.misa.org on 13 August 2026. SECOND PRESS STATEMENT BY THE ZIKO LATHU CONSORTIUM AND THE GLOBAL PLATFORM NETWORK AS ZAMBIA VOTES – DELIVERED ON 13TH AUGUST 2026, AT THE GLOBAL PLATFORM Good afternoon distinguished colleagues of...
Over the last two years, the EU and UK have emerged as leading actors in imposing sanctions on Russia. But people like Maria Demertzis, Professor at the European University Institute in Italy, have raised questions around the effectiveness of the...
An analysis of the coming energy crisis Steve Jermy is a Commodore (Rtd) Royal Navy. Naval commander, offshore energy CEO, strategic thinker Cross-posted from Steve Jermy’s substack “Mor Gallos” Photo: Screengrab 1. Executive Summary Introduction – this strategic analysis: forecasts an emerging and prolonged global...
Politics tries to hide it but the only morality it is interested in these days is greed and avarice. It is this which has done endless damage and only a moral campaign can challenge it. Robin McAlpine is head of strategic...
US President Donald Trump’s ‘Economic D-Day’ is following home as the daunting reality of America’s dwindling Strategic Petroleum Reserves becomes inescapable. In this episode of The Target, Mint Press News’ Robert Inlakesh explores the latest revelations to emerge regarding “beyond...
Here’s a realistic scenario how the next serious crisis around digital sovereignty will play out. It will not be a conventional cyberattack. An AI agent, pursuing an assigned objective, will identify another AI system as an obstacle and attempt to...
The massive data center capacity scale-up underway has focused attention on the scale of water required for these facilities to operate. Rystad Energy estimates that without water-saving measures in place, global water consumption by data centers could rise to 644...
The U.S.’ designation of U.K.-based activist collective Palestine Action as a global terrorist group is part of a wider project, concocted by far-right pro-Israel strategist Sebastian Gorka, to criminalize left-wing or pro-Palestine dissent against Trump’s rule. MintPress exposes this plan. The...
His foreign policy is roiling markets and spiking US Treasury bond yields, which touches everything in the American economy Karthik Sankaran is a senior research fellow in geoeconomics in the Global South program at the Quincy Institute Cross-posted from Responsible Statecraft Photo: Wikipedia Over...
Venezuela helped create OPEC. More than six decades later, it is considering walking away, and Washington appears perfectly happy to hold open the door. Caracas is weighing whether to leave the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, Bloomberg reported Friday,...
Kazakhstan is trying to keep the Kremlin at arm’s length amid Russian efforts to lean on Central Asian states for help in bolstering Moscow’s staggering war economy. Ukraine’s ongoing drone campaign has inflicted severe damage on Russia’s energy infrastructure and...
Chinese media and intelligence are closely following the exodus of the American Central Intelligence Agency CIA personnel, particularly the months-long wait for new retirees to receive their financial entitlements. The agency is facing what it describes as an unprecedented number...
More Gulf oil is moving again. Getting it out now costs a fortune. Earnings on the benchmark Saudi Arabia-to-China supertanker route surged to a record $647,000 per day on Thursday, according to Baltic Exchange data cited by Bloomberg. That is...
This story is a partnership with Drilled , an independent global newsroom focused on multimedia climate accountability reporting. Reporting for this story was funded in part by the Center for Media and Democracy. Strike up a conversation in Mandan, North Dakota, at...
The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States stayed the same this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday, with the total rig count in the US staying at...
Vladimir Putin’s upcoming visit to the Kyrgyz capital could become a turning point for the largest Eurasian association, which is preparing for a radical transformation of its role on the continent. SCO Is Not NATO — But It Could Become Something...
In the second quarter of 2026, the EU recorded a trade deficit of €21.8 billion, as goods imported from non-EU countries (€701.8 billion) exceeded exports (€680.0 billion). This is the first trade deficit registered since the second quarter of 2023,...
Why is meat so expensive? Who’s pouring herself a cup of ambition? And who is Hasan Piker anyway? The answers to these questions and many more can be found in LeverMind , our weekly news quiz testing your knowledge of the...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres (at podium) briefs reporters on the status of the Ebola virus outbreak. Credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten By Shreya Komar UNITED NATIONS, Aug 28 2026 (IPS) Following 42 consecutive days without a new confirmed case, The Africa Centres for Disease...
By CIVICUS Aug 28 2026 (IPS) CIVICUS discusses Sweden’s new migration laws with John Stauffer, legal director and deputy executive director of Civil Rights Defenders, a Swedish civil society organisation that acts as a civil rights watchdog at home and supports human...
Natural gas prices in Asia and Europe jumped on Friday as the market digested reports that Qatar has extended the force majeure on its LNG deliveries into November amid still blocked transits through the Strait of Hormuz. In Asia, the...
Chinese Huawei Technologies Company has submitted a formal bid to the Egyptian government to establish advanced artificial intelligence (AI) data centers for various government sectors, including the military, security, and surveillance sectors, as well as the creation of a national...
“Don’t leave home without sunscreen!” “No tan is worth the risk!” “Protect the skin you’re in!” If you haven’t heard these sun protection slogans, you’ve certainly heard a litany of others. The current dermatological guidelines decree the sun’s rays as...
This article was originally published in Mondoweiss . On a large rock under the midday summer sun, Abdul Karim Hassan, 63, sat exhausted by fatigue and grief, staring toward his two sons’ houses on the hill of Ras al-Ain in the...
Lake Chungará and Parinacota volcano in northern Chile Credit: Gerd Breitenbach, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license By Céline Delacroix OTTAWA, Canada, Aug 28 2026 (IPS) This week is World Water Week , the annual conference of governments, business, and civil...
Oil holds near $90 despite sweeping Iran sanctions as uncertainty over Hormuz transits keeps markets on edge. Friday, August 28, 2026 The US announcement of ‘toughest sanctions in history’ against Iran did relatively little to push oil prices away from...
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JENIN, West Bank /PNN - An Israeli airstrike killed three Palestinians on Friday in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, including a man the Israeli military said was a Hamas operative, according to Israeli and local sources. The Israeli military said...
Photo by Pix Tresa on Unsplash A while back, I talked about the kind of spread I wanted. It’s part of something I call Project Ithaca, just to have a name for it in my mind. I picked the name a...
Ukraine’s forces struck the Slavneft-YANOS oil refinery in Yaroslavl, Russia, early on Friday, with drones causing a fire at the facility, the Ukrainian General Staff said, as Ukraine continues to pound Russia’s refining infrastructure in a bid to worsen the...
TODAY’S NUMBERS: $6.8bn (Danantara’s remittance to Jakarta’s budget) · 20% (Saudi PIF’s new overseas-investment ceiling, down from 30%) · 5.65% (Danantara’s average bond yield). Money built to leave state treasuries is being told to stay home. Bloomberg reported Friday that...
Britain has played itself into the role of a would-be global and maritime power. Its desire to reclaim the great status it once enjoyed has driven London into such enormous expenditures that Britain has decided to bring Germany into the...
Even before the Collective West launched a direct military war against Russia, Russia had already won the war: its army, its economy, and its people. By Peter Hanseler via ForumGeopolitia.com Hard Factors Russia’s Many Enemies If one wants to determine which side will prevail...
Police hunt two suspects after historic 200-carat piece is snatched from Austrian museum during opening hours Austrian police are hunting two men alleged to have stolen a 200-carat platinum necklace encrusted with 673 diamonds that was on loan to a museum...
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