Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
Saudi Arabia spent weeks finding ways around the Strait of Hormuz. Now it is starting to send tankers straight back through it. Saudi Aramco resumed crude loadings from its Ras Tanura and Juaymah terminals inside the strait last week, ending...
Despite apparent financing difficulties hovering over the construction of nuclear reactors in Uzbekistan, the Russian nuclear agency Rosatom has announced it is developing a training program for Uzbek technicians who will eventually operate the plant. Rosatom specialists need to develop...
With college costs reaching new highs, The Princeton Review ranked schools based on how much financial aid is awarded and how satisfied students are with their packages. At several of the schools near the top of The Princeton Review’s list,...
Latvia's demand for massive funding from the EU budget is causing bewilderment and concern in Brussels over a potential wave of countries lining up for handouts. Latvia Wants Money to Maintain a Frontline State Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs said Latvia needs €7...
At Lürssen’s Berne yard on the Weser River, Floating Dock 10 holds a superyacht that isn’t going anywhere. The Dilbar — 156 metres long, with a 25-metre pool and two helipads — has sat there since 2022, frozen under EU...
At the OCP APAC Summit in Taiwan , August 11–12, 2026, Applied Materials’ Subi Kengeri framed artificial intelligence as the semiconductor industry’s largest inflection point. AI demand is accelerating the industry toward one trillion dollars in annual revenue, but the...
Brent and WTI futures remain below $100 a barrel on Tuesday morning, partly suppressed by governments releasing strategic oil reserves into global markets. But the more serious issue is building downstream, where the Russia-Ukraine war, strikes against energy infrastructure, and...
The political decline in Uganda didn’t happen suddenly. It developed gradually, characterized by the tight, tense pace of a repressive state machine clashing with fragmented opposition. No one shows this widespread tension more clearly than Kizza Besigye, a doctor turned...
This is a web version of The Lever ’s daily email newsletter. 🔥 ICYMI in The Lever : This Senate candidate has a data center problem . 👇 Further down in this newsletter: - The plutocracy running the White House. - Who’s purchasing Spirit...
Chinese exports of solar cells and panels dropped in July as the removal of the local export tax rebate as of April 1 continued to depress exports for the third straight month. China’s solar equipment exports declined by 21.4% last...
The United States is interfering in the Brazilian presidential elections, pressuring the Brazilian electorate into voting for right-wing candidate Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of disgraced former president, Jair Bolsonaro. If that does not work and President Lula da Silva secures...
On Tuesday, Israel bombed a Syrian airbase that Turkish officials have been helping to renovate, marking the latest escalation in the Israeli government’s effort to beat back Turkey’s influence in Syria. The strikes, which reportedly damaged an airstrip and a storage...
If you want to understand how the Supreme Court became the sinkhole of ideological extremism and corruption it is today under the leadership of Chief Justice John Roberts, you have to go back to the beginning and examine the institution’s...
Television network CNN aired a report showing a Patriot air defense system launcher. According to the report, the launcher had been abandoned in a forest near Kyiv because Ukrainian forces had run out of interceptor missiles for it. But, as...
Photo by Vitaly Gariev on Unsplash Ibram X. Kendi is a name that most of you are familiar with, so when I tell you that he has thoughts on the death of Jason Arday, you probably have a good guess as...
Tehran has imposed a series of equations on the US-Israeli alliance, using covert and asymmetric warfare tactics, that may have just set in motion a series of regional shifts. In this episode of The Target stream, Mint Press News’ Robert...
This story was originally published by ProPublica . The U.S. recently reached a grim milestone: As of July 23, more measles cases have been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2026 than in any year since 1991....
Last week news broke of a sweeping undercover investigation by the Department of Homeland Security in Minnesota early this year to infiltrate and surveil meetings and obtain the financial records of nonprofit groups and two of the country’s largest labor...
By chaining bilateral naval exercises across a widening circle of partners — Russia, Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and now Indonesia — Beijing is not assembling an alliance. It is manufacturing the impression that a Chinese warship’s presence near every regional...
Brent at $90.94 looks almost civilized. Jeff Currie thinks that is exactly the problem: everyone is staring at crude while the real energy shock is already showing up in the fuels people actually buy. “Nobody on the planet earth consumes...
For nearly eight decades, East Asia’s security architecture rested on a predictable premise: Japan would remain a strictly defensive fortress, constrained by Article 9 of its 1947 constitution and its historical Senshu Boei (exclusively defense-oriented) doctrine. That foundational assumption has...
Britain faces a simple choice. While we still need oil and gas, do we produce more of it here, supporting jobs, investment, energy security and lower production emissions, or do we import more from overseas, which costs more and involves...
The daily rate for chartering a supertanker to pick up crude oil from within the Persian Gulf and deliver it to China has surged this week to the highest level in two months as exporters seek vessels to deliver oil...
Benin, like a handful of other Sahelian states, is a major producer of cotton, but virtually all the production is exported to Asian and Western countries to be converted into higher-value products including fabrics. But an ambitious project centred on...
DAC 2026 proved that agentic AI design flows are here to stay. The news was conveyed both by familiar companies who we’ve seen at DAC many times before as well as new entrants to the show and the industry. Many...
For years, “Free Palestine” and “No War on Iran” belonged mainly to marches, campus rallies, and the margins of congressional debate. In 2026, those slogans are beginning to acquire something Washington respects more readily: electoral consequences. The clearest evidence comes from...
Tanker traffic at the Strait of Hormuz has become even more erratic than before, with vessels meandering and U-turning, unsure how to proceed amid escalating security threats and Iran’s insistence of control over the chokepoint. The Amara fuel tanker, which...
Chinese President Xi Jinping, who faces enemies on many fronts, needs all the friends he can get as he seeks a fourth term. This is why Xi is handing out exceptional honors to two late Chinese leaders, President Jiang Zemin...
Right for people of African descent to return to continent is key pillar of global push for reparatory justice from colonisers Supporting the right for people of African descent to return to the continent has become a key pillar of the...
Three months before the Russia-Africa summit, Moscow is already preparing to host Africa for the third time after Sochi (2019) and Saint Petersburg (2023). Even as the West promises to isolate the Kremlin, the diplomatic calendar this summer tells a...
Power generation costs in Pakistan surged by 38% in July from a year earlier as the country paid the highest spot LNG prices in four years amid the supply disruption from the Middle East. The costs to generate electricity last...
Indigenous Peoples' organisations have called for better support for their meaningful participation at COP 17 and across this year’s Rio Conventions gatherings. Credit: Anastasia Rodopoulou/IISD/ENB By Naureen Hossain UNITED NATIONS, Aug 18 2026 (IPS) Indigenous communities have long advocated for the environment through...
The Iran-aligned Houthi group on Tuesday claimed it had targeted Saudi Aramco’s Jazan oil refinery on Red Sea coast in southwest Saudi Arabia, in what was the third Houthi attack at the facility in the past two weeks, amid escalating...
Since civil war first reached her village in 2003, Samira has been displaced seven times, enduring devastating losses and injuries along the way Every morning, she spreads small piles of rice and spices on an aluminium tray in the market of...
A potentially very strong El Niño is emerging as a major risk for global agricultural markets, threatening to disrupt rainfall, raise temperatures and expose some of the world’s most important tropical crops to severe weather stress. The U.S. Climate Prediction...
Benjamin Netanyahu was handed an exit from Gaza, but he chose an election instead, ensuring his stay in power outlasts both war and peace in Gaza. Silence, Then Surrender to the Right For eight days after Donald Trump’s Board of...
SBI7 Secretariat in a huddle. Credit: IISD/ENB | Danny By Stella Paul NAIROBI, Aug 18 2026 (IPS) Despite record participation in global biodiversity reporting and planning processes, countries remain off track to meet the world’s 2030 biodiversity goals, according to discussions that concluded...
Russia’s latest warning to Britain over the supply of drones to Ukraine highlights how Western military assistance is increasingly moving beyond conventional support and into capabilities that directly affect targets inside Russian territory. Moscow’s threat of “consequences” therefore underscores a...
China exported 6.7% more fuel last month than it did in June, although on an annual basis fuel exports dropped by 12.9%, Reuters reported today, citing Chinese customs data. In absolute terms, Chinese refiners exported 4.65 million tons of refined...
Bethlehem / PNN / The Aida Social Youth Centre, in cooperation with Palestine News Network (PNN), has concluded a training course under the “Young Citizen for Podcasting” programme, held over two and a half months to train a group of children...
Operation Epic Fury made clear that AI is now at the heart of American warfighting. Central Command used Claude through Palantir’s Maven Smart System platform to generate and prioritize roughly 1,000 targets in the first 24 hours of the campaign,...
Yes. The US South Korea relationship has not broken down under Donald Trump, but it has become more transactional, cost focused and strategically uncertain. The latest decision to scale back joint military exercises highlights a broader evolution in which Washington...
On June 26, 2026, the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro, through its specialized firearms, ammunition, and explosives unit, raided a clandestine workshop in Rio das Pedras, on the city’s west side. Investigators said the group used a 3D printer...
Islam Times - A security official with Iraq’s Kataib Hezbollah, Abu Mujahid al-Assaf, said the Islamic Resistance would only discuss its weapons with a government that secures the complete withdrawal of US forces from Iraqi land and airspace, guarantees they...
When does a company sell its product at a deliberately low price? The honest list is short. First, when the product is inferior, the low price serves as an apology to buyers willing to trade features for savings. Second, when...
Libya needs between $36 billion and $40 billion in foreign investment to expand its oil industry and raise output to 2 million barrels daily by the early 2030s, the Financial Times has reported, citing National Oil Corporation chairman Masoud Suleman....
Peacekeepers from Italy serving with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on a foot patrol with the Lebanese Armed Forces along the Blue Line in south Lebanon. Credit: UN Photo/Pasqual Gorriz By Oritro Karim UNITED NATIONS, Aug 18 2026 (IPS) Since...
Europe’s increasingly extreme weather is creating a fiscal problem that governments can no longer treat as a series of isolated emergencies. As wildfires, floods and other climate related disasters become more frequent, the cost of rebuilding damaged infrastructure, supporting affected...
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