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South Korea has reportedly agreed to invest $22.3 billion in a gas-fired power plant in Texas as part of its trade deal with the Trump administration. The investment would be South Korea’s first under the trade deal, Reuters noted in...

Arms trafficking in the Caribbean has soared in recent years, with many states now ranking firearms trafficking as the number one public safety and security threat. As new methods of arming individuals and gangs emerge across the Caribbean, gun violence...

China’s WZ-X points to a future in which stealth, endurance, surveillance and strike converge in a new class of unmanned aircraft built for sustained operations across the vast distances of the Pacific. This month, The War Zone (TWZ) reported that...

China’s humanoid robot industry has moved beyond flashy demonstrations of robots running, boxing and dancing. A Reuters review of more than 100 Chinese military procurement notices, academic studies, patents, government records and defence industry materials found that China’s military is...

They fled a brutal civil war to reach safety in Egypt, but now many Sudanese women and girls are falling prey to sexual exploitation Sudanese women who fled to Egypt to escape the war in their country are facing increasing levels...

Somewhere between the White House press briefing and the smoke rising over Khan Younis lies the gap that defines the current phase of the Gaza war. The ceasefire announced on 10 October 2025, hailed by US President Donald Trump as...

Figs mean summer — they represent the summer heat, where the sweet scent of fig trees mingles with the chirping of crickets and the singing cicadas. The scent of fig leaves on sleep-inducing lazy afternoons and the indescribable honey-like taste...

Western coverage of Chinese artificial intelligence still tends to treat the competition as a model contest: can a Chinese company match the best American system? China is certainly in that race. But it is also pursuing a quieter route. Chinese...

China’s endorsement of Egypt’s right to protect its water and food security marks a significant diplomatic development in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) dispute. It does not amount to a formal rejection of Ethiopia’s dam, but it gives Cairo’s...

Oil prices edged higher in early Asian trade on Monday following another weekend of escalation in the U.S.-Iran war. At the time of writing, WTI was trading at $92.14 per barrel, up 0.72% on the session, while Brent had risen...

One problem with following innovation is that the extraordinary now arrives disguised as the weekly. A frontier model trained on more than 100,000 GPUs, several leading AI services stumbling in the same morning, a camera-chip company redesigning itself around edge...

Vučić’s threat to divert the Ibar River is not a Kosovo policy — it is manufactured leverage aimed at three audiences at once: Brussels, where Serbia’s own accession has stalled while Ukraine and Moldova pull ahead on the EU’s own...

Islam Times - After 286 days on deployment and months of continuous time at sea, sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln arrived in Pattaya, Thailand, where a series of alleged crimes and misconduct has triggered a new scandal for the...

Islam Times - Trump calls the war with Iran a “military conflict” and “small potatoes” and, in an attempt to mislead American public opinion ahead of the November election, claims that the Strait of Hormuz is becoming less important and...

In a war, length is far more important than ferocity. Trying to keep a war from escalating might seem like a prudent thing (and academic theory, which simply does not understand history, says as much). However, clamping down on escalation...

By: Andy Wong Ming Jun US-South Korean bilateral ties have come under increasing strain, with months of political bickering now spilling into the operational sphere. President Donald Trump’s decision to scale back the annual Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise between South Korean...

The jury took just two hours. Tony Greenstein – Jewish socialist, anti-Zionist – had faced fourteen years under the Terrorism Act for three social media posts and a blog article opposing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The Crown called it “inviting...

American bombs are now falling on Tehran, and while Donald Trump ultimately pulled the trigger, administrations before him—Republican and Democrat alike—constructed the gun, and even loaded it. In 1995, US president Bill Clinton issued executive orders banning US investment tied...

Russia’s Northern Sea Route (NSR) is about to become a game-changer for Eurasian energy trade, and Europe’s January 2027 ban on Russian LNG is pushing Moscow to bring it to life sooner than planned. LNG will remain its foundation, while...

When a Treasury secretary reaches for Normandy to describe a sanctions package, the mission has already outgrown its sales pitch. Scott Bessent’s new Financial Times essay is more than a case for tightening pressure on Iran. He says American force...

An Oakland Institute analysis challenges claims that a large increase in mining is an unavoidable cost of replacing fossil fuels. Using International Energy Agency (IEA) data, Oakland calculated that wind, solar, renewable-power networks, grid batteries and electric vehicles accounted for...

In line with Russia’s state policy, International Bridge Awards was established to recognize entrepreneurial contributions and to foster dialogue on attracting special talents to Russia. The International Bridge Awards was established for talented and ambitious professionals from around the world,...

Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov commented on the meeting held at the Kremlin between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the special representatives of US President Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. "The conversation was substantive, constructive, extremely frank and based...

Priority number one is not the Ukraine-Russia war or the upheavalment (see genocide) in Gaza; however, there is a global disintegration of family life all over the world. Masses of people are forced by government legislation to be moved forcibly...

While electric car and truck sales have grown more slowly than expected in recent years, prompting governments to rethink clean fuel targets and automakers to slow the pace of EV production, electric motorcycles are becoming increasingly popular in certain parts...

Advanced semiconductor packaging has become essential to improving computing performance as conventional transistor scaling grows more difficult and expensive. Instead of manufacturing an entire processor as one large monolithic die, chipmakers can divide it into smaller chiplets and combine logic,...

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Cairo represents a major strategic step that is reshaping the balance of power in the Middle East and raising deep concerns for both the United States and Israel. The American and Israeli concern stems...

A regime change in Colombia’s federal government is poised to usher in an oil and gas renaissance in the South American nation. After a four-year ban on oil and gas exploration under the previous leftist president Gustavo Petro, a new...

Liam and Noel Gallagher of the band Oasis arrived at the Venice Film Festival via water taxi ahead of the documentary “Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger,” which highlights their reunion tour after years of feuding. When asked about Venice,...

Ramallah /PNN / The Central Elections Commission (CEC) and the Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR) announced today, Sunday, renewing the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in partnership with the Civil Coalition for Elections Support and Observation, during the 2026 Legislative...

Sander is an Applied-physics graduate from TU Delft. Worked at a semiconductor start-up during his studies, decided building a company would be the most interesting way to shape his career. In 2010, a TU Delft professor suggested combining light and...

Oman, a major oil and gas producer, plans to expand its renewable energy capacity as part of its energy diversification and green transition goals. The government recently introduced new national policies to expand Oman’s green energy and cleantech industries and...

The People’s Republic of China possesses a broad network of geopolitical and economic interests in the Horn of Africa, a region of vital importance to Chinese interests. This gives it significant and direct leverage over Ethiopia. While Beijing traditionally adheres...

The multipolar world has closely watched the importance of SCO’s 26th meeting of the Council of Heads of State, as it marked the “25 Years of the SCO: Together for Sustainable Peace, Development and Prosperity.” Introduction From 31 August to...

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It has not been much of a secret, but I am back in Russia with Judge Napolitano and a couple of other podcast luminaries, to participate in a series of academic seminars dedicated to finding a way for Russia and...