Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
Green hydrogen was supposed to be a silver bullet solution for decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors like shipping and steelmaking. It was the buzziest technology out there – and then it fizzled out completely. But after years of languishing in labs without...
Photo by Hannah Olinger on Unsplash These days, if we find an interesting bit of information we want to refer to later, we bookmark it in our browser or tag it in the book we’re reading, digital or otherwise. But in 1390,...
The European Commission (EC) has informed EU governments that they should waive penalties for oil and gas companies that breach its methane emissions law for the next three years, owing to pressure from the United States government to scrap the...
In celebration of the 99th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), established in August 1927, the PLA commemorates its founding on August 1st each year (remembering the Nanchang Uprising of 1927). This anniversary is marked...
By: Salman Rafi Sheikh The US-Saudi nuclear agreement is not really about reactors. It’s about rules and Washington deciding its own rules are negotiable. That decision will ripple through the region soon after the first Saudi reactor breaks ground. Riyadh is calling...
Subscribe to our Lens on Sudan newsletter here . With Washington’s revised ceasefire initiative drawing cautious engagement from Khartoum and diplomatic activity around Sudan intensifying, much of the week’s political maneuvering both abroad and at home revolved around preparing for a...
GENEVA / PNN/ UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory Francesca Albanese said that “armed Israeli groups are escalating their deadly attacks against unarmed Palestinians in the West Bank,” referring to attacks carried out...
NABLUS, occupied West Bank / PNN / Nablus Governor Ghassan Daghlas said Israeli military operations and attacks by Israeli settlers across the governorate have killed six Palestinians and left dozens injured or detained over the past two days, describing the developments...
‘I can’t tolerate this life,’ said the 24-year-old in his last voice message to his relatives. Attacked by the military, a rebel army and criminal gangs, Siraz Ullah risked all for a better future The fear was audible as he spoke,...
From September 1 to 4, 2026, Vladivostok, Russia, will host the 11th Eastern Economic Forum, organized by the Roscongress Foundation, the largest organizer of international public and business events. Traditionally, this event is attended by Russian President V. Putin, representatives...
The West Africa Religious Affairs Symposium, held in Accra last week, was easy to overlook if one expected a conventional military conference. It was not about weapons systems, battlefield tactics, or counterterrorism operations in the narrow sense. Yet the gathering...
With Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey reviving global interest in Homer’s epic world, the Troy Museum in the northwestern province of Çanakkale is inviting visitors to explore an experimental reconstruction of an ancient vessel that offers a rare insight into the...
Mamdani’s declaration that he will not arrest Netanyahu is, as a factual matter, a reversal. As a candidate, he pledged to arrest Netanyahu if he came to New York, and as recently as July 18 he said in an interview...
Islam Times - Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar on Friday called for dialogue and de-escalation to end the renewed conflict between the United States and Iran, telling his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi that Washington and Tehran...
Jazan Oil Refinery We are seeing a major escalation in the Red Sea in the undeclared war between AnsarAllah and Saudi Arabia and this may spill over to the war the US is waging on Iran. As I write this the...
The Houthi threats remain in the stage of statements and have not yet translated into an actual closure of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. However, markets are closely monitoring developments with caution, because the mere possibility of disrupting this strategic passage...
Crop prices just hit a three-year high, indicating major downstream pain soon to come at the supermarket. There are two major factors leading to high crop prices and a potential global food crisis: heat waves and intensifying conflict in the...
It’s called the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress—China’s newest law under President Xi Jinping, passed on March 12, 2026, and in effect since July 1, 2026. The law contains 65 articles, many of which have raised concerns among Tibetans...
Ireland’s football matches against Israel are due to take place later this year but activists are campaigning to stop them Read Article HERE Republic of Ireland fans display a banner saying ‘Show Israel the red card’ during the recent World Cup qualifier...
In May 2026, Chief Justice of India Surya Kant stood before a courtroom and described unemployed youth activists as cockroaches and parasites. He almost certainly did not intend to name a movement. Within weeks, Abhijeet Dipke had founded the Cockroach...
For years, Saudi Arabia's strategic answer to any disruption in the Strait of Hormuz has been remarkably straightforward. If volumes via the Persian Gulf were threatened, the answer was to pump west through the East-West Pipeline to Yanbu on the...
Islam Times - In a warning addressed to people living in countries hosting US military forces, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps [IRGC] accused the United States of violating the agreement to end the war, escalating attacks against civilians, and using...
Africa is set to make history as it hosts the World Public Summit for the first time, with Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, welcoming global leaders and changemakers from July 29–30, 2026, for the landmark gathering under the theme “New World: Africa...
As the price of gold has hovered around $4,000 an ounce in recent weeks, the men in the small-scale mines north of the village of Soykechar in Uzbekistan have watched every bounce and slide. They pull up apps on their...
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. ***IranThe U.S.-Iranian ceasefire agreed in April began deteriorating — and the Memorandum of Understanding signed on June...
This statement was originally published on cipesa.org on 8 July 2026. As African societies become increasingly digital, governments are grappling with the balance between the protection of citizens from online harms while preserving the fundamental freedoms of free expression, access to...
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 13 July 2026. President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani, on July 9, 2026, granted presidential clemency to two opposition Members of Parliament (MPs), Mariem Mint Cheikh Dieng and Ghamou Achour Salem, who were...
The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States fell this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday, bringing the total rig count in the US to 587, up 45...
The U.S. midterm elections are all but guaranteed to be chaotic and contentious, but no matter what their results portend for 2028 and beyond, recent moves by the president of Nicaragua offer a cautionary example for anyone worried about the...
Leaks reveal failed journalist Paul Mason secretly advised ex-Prime Minister Keir Starmer, his Defence Secretary and now-Chancellor John Healey, and top aides on important security matters. Mason’s belligerent pronouncements on the need for Britain to “deter” Russia through a massive...
On the eve of the announcement, official sources in South Korea declared a major shift in the country's approach toward its northern neighbor. Whereas Seoul had previously maintained that North Korea's unconditional denuclearization should come first, the new priority is...
Saudi Arabia, which at the start of the Iran war redirected virtually all crude exports through its East-West pipeline to Yanbu on the Red Sea, has seen crude exports from Yanbu crumble by 41% to about 2.39 million barrels per...
The dual disruption of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb is tightening global oil flows, raising transport costs and fueling expectations of $100 oil. Friday, July 24, 2026 The double blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb has turbo-boosted...
The Board of Directors of the Bank of Russia voted at its July 24 meeting to lower the key interest rate by 25 basis points to 14%, according to the regulator's official statement. This marks the tenth consecutive meeting at...
For years, Washington treated economic sanctions as the Goldilocks instrument of foreign policy: tougher than diplomacy, safer than war, and cheap enough to impose without asking much of the American public. That formula is beginning to break down. Sanctions can...
Beijing has imposed strict restrictions on a number of European corporations, a move that could delay weapons deliveries and increase the cost of military assistance to Ukraine. China Responds to EU Sanctions with Mirror Measures Against European Defense Companies China's Ministry of...
A man walks past a sign reading 'unjustly persecuted' featuring journalist José Rubén Zamora, former CICIG lawyer Claudia González and Maya leaders Luis Pacheco and Héctor Chaclan in a Guatemala City, 12 May 2026. Credit: Johan Ordóñez/AFP By Inés M. Pousadela MONTEVIDEO,...
The following story is co-published with Freddie deBoer’s Substack . This morning as I took my daily walk with my son I was listening to the latest episode of The Big Picture , the Ringer’s colossus of a movies podcast, and...
NABLUS / PNN / Israeli settlers attacked several Palestinian villages in the Nablus and Ramallah areas on Friday, under the protection of Israeli forces, amid warnings of further assaults in the coming hours and days, Palestinian officials and local sources said. The...
Photo by Constantinos Kollias on Unsplash I haven’t talked a lot about Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey here, in part because while I have some issues with the casting—and how it’s fine to take European stories and make them “diverse” but, to...
Indian refiners are in search of crude supply from as far as Angola in Africa and Venezuela in South America as their term supplies from the Middle East are trapped again and unable to reach India as planned. Some of...
On July 22 , the House of Representatives approved the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), H.R. 8800, for fiscal year 2027, which includes a provision expanding defense cooperation and integration between the United States and Israel. The vote was 216-212, largely along...
This story was originally published by The 19th . The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) has taken a step beyond most other women’s sports leagues by requiring genetic sex testing for female athletes. Despite being targeted at transgender women, this policy has the...
Last month, the Boston Celtics traded 29-year-old superstar Jaylen Brown to their division rival, the Philadelphia 76ers. A former NBA finals MVP and vocal activist who is arguably a top-five player in the league, Boston settled for an overpriced, injury-prone,...
´US, a key player in narcotics trafficking. In some ways, life during the US occupation was even worse´ An Interview with Afghan Journalist Awaaz Armani Torn Afghanistan, facing the most severe humanitarian crisis in the world for decades. More than half the...
While many were waiting for U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to acknowledge that the so-called Spirit of Anchorage had faded, another prominent member of the American elite was enthusiastically investing in the creation of humanoid combat robots. Somewhat surprisingly,...
Syria is expanding energy and infrastructure cooperation as it seeks economic recovery and greater regional relevance. Damascus is also rebuilding state institutions, including graduating 1,000 new air force cadets. The post Syria focuses on energy deals, works to revive infrastructure and...
Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. Japan’s nuclear taboo is slowly unravelingScott Foster reports that Japanese officials are increasingly willing to debate nuclear weapons, nuclear sharing...
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