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

Russia has warned NATO that it could use nuclear weapons if the Western alliance attempted to isolate Kaliningrad, sharply escalating tensions between Moscow and the military alliance over the heavily militarised Russian territory on the Baltic Sea. In a diplomatic...

World News, Defense, Russia

Two races were held at Fuji Speedway last weekend: the six-hour FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) and the Race Against Dementia led by champion driver Sir Jackie Stewart OBE, who returned to Japan 60 years after winning the Fuji 200...

Northeast Asia, Alzheimer's Disease, Formula 1 Racing

TOKYO — Anyone betting that inflation risks are fading should look at the US Treasury market. The sharp selloff in Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) suggests the world’s biggest bond market is growing less convinced that price pressures are contained. Investors...

Finance, Block 1, Bond Vigilantes

Seaweed farmers tend their crop off Zanzibar, where rising sea temperatures are putting pressure on a vital coastal livelihood, according to the new Copernicus ocean report. Credit: Zuberi Mussa/IPS By Kizito Makoye DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Sep 30 2026 (IPS) Fatuma Makame learned...

Africa, Biodiversity, Climate Change

Britain’s economy grew faster than previously estimated in the second quarter of 2026, strengthening its position as the fastest-growing Group of Seven economy during the first half of the year but setting up a tougher test for the government ahead...

World News, Britain, Economics

This story was published in collaboration with the Investigative Reporting Lab at Yale . I grew up walking the boardwalk in downtown Wilmington, North Carolina, peering into the froth of the Cape Fear River. The name came from 16th-century mariners who...

Environment

For years, relations between Washington and Beijing seemed stuck on an escalation treadmill. Every quarter brought new semiconductor restrictions, naval jockeying in the South China Sea or retaliatory tariffs, locking the world’s two preeminent powers in an apparently irreversible downward...

Opinion, Trump-Xi summit, US-China AI Dialogue

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has described violence against women as a “national shame” after the discovery of another woman’s body intensified public anger over the country’s persistent gender-based violence. Eleven women’s bodies have been found in Ekurhuleni, a municipality...

World News, Gender Equality, Human Rights

In January, this article series opened with a blunt question: Economic statecraft is back, but is America ready?Driving the question, in part, was the fact that the United States had not yet articulated (at least overtly) a strategy for economic...

War by Other Ledgers, Congress, Defense Industry

The global investment boom is no longer being driven by artificial intelligence alone. Governments are preparing to pour trillions of dollars into defence, creating a powerful new link between military spending, AI and technology while raising fresh concerns about inflation,...

Economy, Defense, Economics

When Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan agreed to a mutual defense pact in August, it was principally seen as a political commitment. The “Mecca alliance,” as it was dubbed, stipulated that an armed attack on one would be treated as...

Middle East, Bab el-Mandeb Strait, Block 2

Crude oil prices ticked higher today, after dipping on Tuesday, following reports that President Trump has no intention of easing sanction pressure on Iran, which has decimated exports from one of OPEC’s biggest producers. At the time of writing, Brent...

News

Quitting smoking initiates bodily regeneration within 20 minutes, yet complete organ function recovery may take up to a decade. Russian Ministry of Health data indicates that tobacco smoke causes not only inflammation but also fibrosis, an irreversible scarring of tissues. The...

Health

A Sierra Leonean nurse detained, handcuffed and flown to Ghana. An Iranian dissident sent to Central African Republic . A Cameroonian deported to Equatorial Guinea. This is the face of the Trump administration’s policy since 2025 – striking deals with 35...

US immigration, ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement), Ghana

US forces are withdrawing from their remaining bases in Iraq, raising concerns that their departure could create a security vacuum, strengthen Iranian-backed Shi’ite militias and give the resurgent Islamic State an opportunity to regroup. The withdrawal, completed on Wednesday, was...

Middle East & Africa, Iraq, Middle East

Media personnel watch a digital screen showing leaders of member states gather for a family photograph during the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi on 13 September 2026. Credit: Arun Sankar/AFP By Samuel King and Inés M. Pousadela BRUSSELS, Belgium / MONTEVIDEO,...

Active Citizens, Armed Conflicts, Civil Society

China has accused Taiwan’s government of distorting World War Two history, escalating a dispute over which side can claim the legacy of China’s wartime resistance against Japan. Beijing’s Taiwan Affairs Office said on Wednesday that Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party...

World News, China, Defense

Member of Smallholder Farmer Alliance in Haiti with tree she is about to plant. Credit: A.F. Cortes/SFA By Hugh Locke NEW YORK, Sep 30 2026 (IPS) Years ago, standing in a small farmer’s field in Haiti, I began to suspect that we had...

Biodiversity, Climate Action, Climate Change

On the morning of September 24, Abdel Fattah Burhan should have been standing at the podium of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Instead, he was in Khartoum. The general who leads Sudan’s army and chairs its Sovereignty Council...

Rsf, Abdel-fattah-al-burhan, Uae

The Iraq War was already four-years-old when I walked down the ramp of a C-17 at Al Taqaddum Air Base in April 2007. The fact that I am writing these words is proof that I survived that deployment and a...

Iraq, Us-military, Baghdad

In 1927, Augusto Cesar Sandino began an insurgent campaign against the U.S. occupation of Nicaragua. Under orders from President Calvin Coolidge, the U.S. Marines had intervened in Nicaragua to settle a civil war between a conservative government and liberal rebels. In...

Nicaragua, Venezuela, Nicolas-maduro

Eurofighters Over Lielvārde This week, four German Eurofighters and several dozen ground crew arrived at Lielvārde air base in central Latvia. They were sent at Riga’s request to protect the country’s airspace through Saturday’s election. The deployment follows a spring...

Europe, Analysis, Defense

When governments talk about reducing dependence on the Strait of Hormuz, the discussion usually turns to pipelines in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. For Asian importers, that is only part of the story. The physical bottleneck is in...

Middle East, ADNOC, Asia Energy Imports

Every Senate Democrat but one voted to advance a resolution that would have forced the State Department to produce a report regarding violence against American citizens, as well as other Israeli violations of human rights, in the West Bank. With...

Congress, Congressional-democrats, West-bank

By: Toh Han Shih Xi Jinping was welcomed by Donald Trump at the White House in September 2026. Photo from China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs There was much friendliness and mutual respect between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping...

News

Islam Times - Trump speaks of victory, control of the Strait of Hormuz and Iran’s defeat. But market indicators, the war’s mounting bill, energy prices and polling in the United States paint a different picture — one in which the...

US

Islam Times - The proposal put forward by former government officials, regardless of whether one agrees or disagrees with it, serves as an important reminder for the country’s decision-making system: Iran’s nuclear issue has entered a stage in which decisions...

Iran

Washington is reportedly exploring a new diplomatic avenue with Moscow, one that moves beyond the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and centers on a potential prisoner exchange for sanctions relief. According to The Atlantic, former President Donald Trump has endorsed an...

World

“God help the Nation when it has a President who doesn’t know as much about the military as I do.” ~ President Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking to his White House Staff Secretary, Gen. Andrew Goodpaster These words are quoted in...

Uncategorized

For decades, the architecture of West Asia has rested on a comforting fiction: that Pax Americana could indefinitely manage the region through the policy of offshore balancing, security guarantees to autocrats and the supreme might of the U.S. military. That...

Uncategorized

Oil prices pulled back on Tuesday, reversing recent gains as investors weighed signs of export recovery by Middle Eastern producers against uncertainty surrounding the fate of the Iran war. Brent crude for November delivery fell 1.5% to trade at $103.72...

News

The principles of the Soviet mathematical school, once a hallmark of rigorous education in the USSR, are experiencing a resurgence in the United States, with American parents increasingly enrolling their children in specialized "Russian Math" programs. These supplementary classes, often...

Society

They’ve been shown to raise electricity bills, pollute drinking water, do little to boost local employment while threatening millions of jobs in a variety of industries, and top executives have warned that the technology they support could wipe out all of humanity by the end of the decade. But rather than take...

Technology, AI Data Centers, Artificial Intelligence

Sanctions are designed to impose economic costs that eventually generate political pressure for behavioral change. Yet Russia has absorbed years of unprecedented economic restrictions without experiencing a corresponding political backlash. Conventional explanations focus on the country’s macroeconomic buffers: accumulated foreign-exchange...

Emerging Markets, Economics, European Union

The US government on Monday finalized new lower vehicle fuel economy standards — reversing a push by the Biden administration to build more fuel-efficient vehicles. The move is broadly seen as helping sales of gas-powered cars and trucks at the...

News
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