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A strong commercial space industry is an important partner for the U.S. government, as it contributes to building more robust space and defense capabilities and facilitates innovation more broadly. As competition between the United States and China heats up, both...
Amid a thicket of hopeful rhetoric surrounding the construction of a trans-Afghan pipeline that would carry natural gas from Turkmenistan to South Asia, tangible signs of progress are hard to find. The pipeline, known as TAPI (Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India), has been on...
The failure of the US military despite trillions of dollars to defeat Iran Medea Benjamin is co-founder of Global Exchange and CODEPINK: Women for Peace Nicolas J. S. Davies is an independent journalist and a researcher with CODEPINK. Cross-posted from Scheer Post According to...
At #DAC2026 I met with Vamshi Kothur at Tuple Technologies to see how their cloud infrastructure products help IC design teams get their chip designs to market more quickly without the overhead of big IT and CAD teams. Tuple was...
The influence of fear on the behaviour of states. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: Office of the President of Ukraine I’ve been wondering whether there’s anything useful to say at the moment about the wider aspects of the...
Brent crude futures held near recent highs of $90 a barrel before fading to around $87 early Thursday morning, as traders awaited progress toward reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Stalled US-Iran negotiations and tightening global fuel supplies continued to support prices and concern...
A closer look at the work of the Adam Smith Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Last week, the 19 th Congress of the World Association of Political Economy...
Porsche is reportedly preparing to phase out production of its flagship Taycan electric sports car by 2030, marking a major setback for the German automaker’s once-aggressive electrification strategy. Germany’s WirtschaftsWoche reported Thursday that Porsche management and its works council have...
While the situation around the Strait of Hormuz remains difficult to predict, there is now some clarity on another of Iran's maritime fronts. Tehran has unexpectedly launched the ratification process for the 2018 Convention on the Legal Status of the...
This is a web version of The Lever ’s daily email newsletter. 🔥 ICYMI in The Lever : Font sizes might screw over your next vacation. 👇 Further down in this newsletter: - How Democrats’ “center” is hunting down socialists. - The human costs...
The UK economy grew 0.4 per cent between April and June, official data has revealed, in a sign that businesses and consumers have so far weathered the worst shocks of the war in Iran. The growth figure from the Office...
Progressives experienced a split in two closely watched Democratic primaries Tuesday, as voters in Minnesota and Wisconsin produced sharply different results in contests that represented competing visions for the party’s future. In Minnesota, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan decisively won the Democratic U.S....
Photo by Maria Lysenko on Unsplash Every time Democrats take power, they immediately act like this is the beginning of a thousand years of Democratic rule. It seems they can see no universe in which the pendulum might swing away from...
Ukraine struck another major Russian refinery Thursday, hitting Gazprom's Neftekhim Salavat complex in the Urals as Kyiv intensified attacks that have already forced Moscow to curb fuel exports and even import gasoline. The attack caused a fire at the 200,000-barrel-per-day...
This article was originally published at Barn Raiser Media . This Saturday , at their summer meeting in Austin, Texas, members of the Democratic National Committee will likely get a chance to vote on whether the party should ban the use...
CÚCUTA, Colombia — Between 1964 and the signing of the Havana Accords in 2016, fighting among the Colombian military, right-wing paramilitaries and left-wing guerrillas killed more than 450,000 people. That war, which involved relatively cohesive ideological sides, is beginning again,...
For months now, traders and market analysts have had to weigh two opposing scenarios for oil prices—the ongoing war and severely disrupted oil flows at the Strait of Hormuz and hopes that a U.S.-Iran deal would free up millions of...
Our Q&A discussions are a lot of fun, and we’re grateful to everyone who submits their questions. If you missed any of our live shows, the full streams are available here on Substack. This week’s Q&A is tonight at 7:00 p.m....
On 31 July 2026, OpenAI disclosed that it had disrupted a Cambodia-based criminal operation using ChatGPT to support investment, romance, gambling, and law-enforcement impersonation scams. The suspected network created false identities, translated conversations, generated images of forged documents, and adapted its messages...
Romania on Thursday began shutting down its only remaining operating nuclear reactor as record-low water levels on the Danube have forced nuclear power shutdowns in central and eastern Europe in recent weeks. Nuclearelectrica has launched the process to disconnect the...
Once Africa’s most revered pop brotherhood, the dynamic duo P-Square has now been reduced to a music-business case study. Peter Okoye’s fresh video series revived allegations over royalties, catalogue access and financial records, while older brother and former manager Jude Okoye...
Football is accustomed to comeback stories, but Chinedu Ozor’s unfolded far beyond the pitch. The Katsina United defender collapsed during a pre-season friendly against Niger Tornadoes at Muhammadu Dikko Stadium and was rushed to hospital, where he was reportedly pronounced dead. Condolences...
The world's leading autocracies -- China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea -- are increasingly drawing on one another's resources, military capabilities, and geopolitical leverage to withstand Western pressure. For Washington, the strategic dilemma is no longer simply whether the four...
Climate change, especially erratic rainfall, is a threat to cotton production, the foundation of the entire textiles value chain, in Africa. But a range of novel solutions offer hope for the sector to not only survive but thrive, writes Ben...
South African influencer and dancer Limpopo Boy (real name Matome Thoka Robert) is trending for the wrong reasons. A supposed private and intimate video of him and Matilda Matshidiso was posted to his Instagram Story on the 9th of August 2026....
Decommissioning remained a major activity across the UK North Sea in 2025, with industry spending hitting a record-high of £2.6 billion, or $3.5 billion, the North Sea industry regulator said in a report on Thursday. Well decommissioning remains the single...
British taxpayers funded “therapeutic healing” for Israeli soldiers who fought in Gaza, Declassified can reveal. An Israeli organisation received the undisclosed sum via a UK charity, with 25% Gift Aid added on by the British government. Emails obtained by Declassified show how...
State-controlled Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Ltd (ISPRL) is finalizing feasibility studies for two new strategic petroleum reserves facilities as the world’s third-largest crude oil importer looks to boost its energy security. ISPRL, a government-owned special purpose vehicle, is finalizing a...
When ministers from seven key OPEC plus countries concluded their virtual deliberations on August 2, 2026 , and announced a scheduled production adjustment of 188,000 barrels per day for September, financial desks from London to New York instantly swung into...
A bill about the construction of a pipeline for liquefied natural gas has failed to secure sufficient votes in the state’s legislature, prompting a sharp reaction from Governor Mike Dunleavy who was behind the bill. “The Legislature’s decision to not...
Burna Boy, Wizkid and Davido have transformed Nigerian pop and taken Afrobeats global. But their rise has also fuelled a long-running contest over who can claim the title of Nigeria’s biggest pop star. Oris Aigbokhaevbolo traces a decade of breakthroughs,...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russians possess a “genetic code of winners” during a meeting with Sakhalin Region Governor Valery Limarenko, who briefed the president on support measures for participants in the special military operation and their families. Limarenko said he...
New Zealand’s petroleum and mining regulator has granted a 10-year petroleum mining permit in the onshore Taranaki region as the country looks to boost natural gas supply to the domestic market. The regulator, New Zealand Petroleum and Minerals (NZP&M), on...
Route-based Approaches between Protection and Control Route-based approaches promise a paradigm shift in international refugee and migration policy. Rather than treating individual country contexts in isolation, they shift attention to developments along key migration corridors. The analytical value is obvious, given...
Lady Justice Mumbi Ngugi, a judge of Kenya's Court of Appeal, at the inaugural Africa Family Law Network Conference held in Nairobi. Credit: EqualityNow By Chemtai Kirui NAIROBI, Aug 13 2026 (IPS) Women’s rights advocates, judges and lawyers have launched a coordinated campaign...
India turned into the world’s biggest coal power generation capacity builder, proposing as much as 638 million metric tons annually in new capacity last year. This was a surge from 329 million tons annually in new planned coal capacity a...
Khan Younis / PNN / Fidaa Mohammad Abdel Jawad – After hours of scorching sun and as sunset approached, a group of women quietly slipped into a secret tent covered with a white tarpaulin, its entrance a worn piece of cloth....
Given the relentless demand for computing power, electronic components are in scarce supply. Prices for certain memory chips, known as DRAM, have surged by more than 50 percent in a single quarter this year, and have roughly quadrupled since last...
The 1930 comic history, 1066 and All That, made famous the British habit of reducing national history to a sequence of memorable dates. The modern Royal Navy has its own unhappy version of that calendar. Since 1945, a series of...
For a fortnight beginning August 30, Tehran gets to feel wanted – first in Bishkek, at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, then in New Delhi at the BRICS summit, Iran’s leadership will sit among presidents and prime ministers who need...
South Korean private equity firm Hahn & Co plans to reshuffle the liquefied natural gas tanker fleets of its shipping companies SK Shipping and H-Line Shipping to create Asia’s biggest and the world’s third-largest operator of LNG carriers. Under the...
This article was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer-prizewinning investigative newsroom. A robot was on fire. Again. It was the summer of 2024, and the cutting-edge robots inside General Dynamics’ sweltering artillery factory near Dallas were catching fire with startling...
Downpours flood the streets of Dhaka. Credit: Farid Ahmed/ IPS By Mohammad Zaman DHAKA, Bangladesh, Aug 13 2026 (IPS) Dhaka’s recent and recurrent flooding is often treated as a natural disaster, but rain is only the trigger. The deeper causes are political, planning...
Popular Nigerian social media influencer and streamer, Peller (real name Habib Hamzat), is in the news, and the blogosphere is buzzing. The social media personality wed his girlfriend, Jarvis (real name Mamodu Elizabeth Aminata), on Saturday, 8 August 2026, and post-wedding,...
Sailing container ship. Credit: Unsplash/Kinsey Wang By Maximilian Malawista UNITED NATIONS, Aug 13 2026 (IPS) Global goods trade reached approximately USD 13.7 trillion in the first half of 2026, up 12.5 percent from the same period in 2025, while services grew 10.5 percent,...
Despite the ongoing stalemate in the U.S.-Iran talks and persistent risks to shipping in the Middle East, oil prices fell in Asian trading on Thursday, weighed down by cuts to 2026 oil demand forecasts from both OPEC and the International...
What Five Years of Directives Add Up To On August 10, 2026, Reporters Without Borders marked five years of Taliban rule with an assessment that Afghanistan has become, in the organization’s words, a prison for information. The report catalogs more...
The Guardian published an article on Wednesday reporting that multiple sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln have attempted to jump overboard as the ship’s deployment stretches into its ninth month and over 260 consecutive days at sea ....
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