Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
Less than two months after his government hosted the NATO summit — which was framed as proof of Turkey’s pivotal role in transatlantic security — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has proposed full Turkish membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, an...
Russia has formally rejected Germany's ambitions to obtain a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, citing Berlin's failure to adhere to international agreements and its current military trajectory. The position was detailed by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during a...
TotalEnergies expects its oil and gas production to grow by more than 3% every year until 2030 due to start-ups of new low-cost projects currently under development, the French supermajor said in its 2026 strategy and outlook on Monday. Overall...
US President Donald Trump wanted his summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington last week to demonstrate the strength of their personal relationship and show that direct diplomacy could keep competition between the world’s two largest economies under control....
A man carries his family’s food ration from a WFP distribution point to his shelter in Camp 11, Balukhali, Bangladesh, on September 24, 2026. Credit: Mohammed Zonaid/IPS By Mohammed Zonaid COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh, Sep 28 2026 (IPS) For Mohammed Dullah, recent cuts in...
One of my fundamental beliefs about the world is that Ramez Naam ought to blog more. Ramez is one of the world’s greatest futurists — he predicted the solar and battery revolutions long before these were widely understood. If you were reading Ramez in...
Thanks to diversified import capabilities, Germany doesn’t face a gas supply shortage despite record-low levels of natural gas in storage sites, according to one of the biggest German gas importers, VNG. “Compared to 2022, the system is much more robust...
This paper is a reflective scholarly essay written from the author’s position as a doctoral candidate and scholar-practitioner. It draws on personal academic experience and established literature on scholarship and learning communities, and it is addressed to a broad audience...
Trump’s speech at the 81st General Assembly shows that warmongering USA may accelerate in practice. Whether other nations respond appropriately is a separate matter. Trump’s Military Threat at the UNGA While the UN Charter, the document that established the United...
Nine years growing up in a tent robbed me of my freedom and childhood. But my generation is determined to fight for a better future – one that we must be involved in shaping Nine years ago, I was forced to...
NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, Adm. Pierre Vandier, returns to the studio to discuss how the alliance is continuously adapting to a new era of warfare driven by software, data, and uncrewed systems, and where it still lags. He explains...
The last Conservative government passed the Legacy Act, which shut down many routes to justice for victims of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Inquests were stopped, even when British soldiers fired the fatal shots. Labour’s manifesto pledged to pass a Troubles Bill...
I spent more than 20 years in U.S. Army air defense, much of it in cramped control stations where the difference between a successful engagement and a catastrophic loss came down to the soldier at the console. The radar did...
Two North Korean soldiers captured while fighting for Russia against Ukraine have arrived in South Korea, raising questions over how they will be investigated, protected and resettled, as well as the legal basis for their transfer. The soldiers repeatedly expressed...
Powerus, a US defense company with ties to President Donald Trump’s sons, drew scrutiny after signing a memorandum of understanding this month with the Pakistani Army and offering Islamabad access to Ukrainian drone technology, sparking debate over the deal’s potential...
Is Ankara a culinary capital? Most people would answer this question with a definitive “No!” But is that really the case? Ankara is often a misinterpreted city, not revealing itself at first glance. You have to be born there or...
Islam Times - The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps [IRGC] has issued a statement marking the second anniversary of the martyrdom of Hezbollah Secretary General His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, declaring that his pure blood has become a "fountain of power"...
The Washington summit agreed on very little. What it confirmed matters more: the terms of America’s commitment to Taiwan are increasingly being set in leader-level bargaining with Beijing, not by repeal but by postponement. By the usual measures, last week’s...
On 16 September 2026, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed Law No. 15,506, creating Brazil’s National Policy on Critical and Strategic Minerals and a council attached to the presidency to coordinate it. This was barely two weeks after the...
In mid-September, the Kremlin was signaling that negotiations could resume. Putin had said the trilateral talks with the United States and Ukraine would be unlikely before the State Duma elections, but that Russia would be ready to resume contacts after...
A contentious civilian nuclear agreement between the US and Saudi Arabia has ignited a sharp debate over Middle Eastern security, laying bare the escalating friction between American nonproliferation objectives and the kingdom’s strategic ambitions. This month, The Washington Post reported...
China said on Monday that a two-month extension of its trade truce with the United States would give both sides more time to assess the implementation of their existing arrangements and discuss further steps to resolve economic and trade disputes....
Helen Clark, Chair of the Board of Partners for the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH), moderates the event "Financing for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health in a Time of Austerity", hosted by the Global Leaders Network. Credit:...
Taiwan must deepen cooperation with democratic partners on drone development as unmanned systems become increasingly important to modern warfare, President Lai Ching-te said on Monday, as the island steps up efforts to strengthen its domestic defence industry. Speaking in Chiayi...
By CIVICUS Sep 28 2026 (IPS) : CIVICUS discusses the role of art in climate and rights struggles in the Brazilian Amazon with Tom Wheeler, executive director and co-founder of Treesistance. Treesistance is a platform operated by the Netherlands-based Sinchi Foundation that partners...
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Sep 28 2026 (IPS) The 1944 Bretton Woods (BW) conference accepted the US demand to use the dollar to settle international financial transactions. This arrangement would require a US balance-of-payments deficit to issue enough dollars. Jomo...
Fearing a security vacuum if UN peacekeepers leave southern Lebanon when their mandate expires December 31, the Lebanese government is desperately seeking an extension of the United Nations Interim Force (UNIFIL) or the creation of a European-led multinational force to...
Michael Petruzzello, a lobbyist known for helping to rehabilitate Saudi Arabia’s image in the wake of 9/11, the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, and famine in Yemen, is now registered as a foreign agent of the Saudi-backed government in Yemen. According to...
The most dangerous religious deepfake may not look strange at all. It may show a scholar we have listened to for twenty years sitting in a room much like the rooms from which he has taught before. His voice carries the...
Islam Times - Iraq’s suspension of flights from Iran is more than an aviation decision. It is a test of Baghdad’s independence, its principles of good-neighborly relations, and the commitments voiced by Ali al-Zubaidi at the United Nations — a...
Islam Times - Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington was less a sign of an end to U.S.-China rivalry than an attempt to manage tensions between the two powers — a rivalry that extends beyond trade and technology to Taiwan and...
Two Documents, One Winter On 25 September, EU Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen wrote to every member state warning of “a price crisis linking to a supply crisis”. His remedies read like a 2022 revival: keep injecting gas into storage, shave...
Investigations correspondent Louisa Loveluck reports on the Trump administration’s secret deportation deals, sending thousands of migrants to ‘third countries’ across the world A Sierra Leonean nurse detained, handcuffed and flown to Ghana. An Iranian dissident to Central African Republic. A Cameroonian...
By: Khanh Vu Duc Vietnamese President To Lam at a private talks with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Photo from VNA Vietnam’s new Strategic Partnership with Canada is ambitious. The Joint Statement issued on September 24 covers everything from trade, digital technologies...
Over recent months, the straits of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb have become synonymous with geopolitical jostling. Whoever controls these narrow waterways governs the flow of maritime traffic from the Arabian Sea and the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean –...
‘Page Six Hollywood’ recently declared: “War of Open Letters Erupts Between Pro-Israel and Pro-Palestine Factions in Hollywood.” Only a few years ago, a headline like this would have seemed unthinkable. The article described an increasingly open struggle between pro-Palestine and...
Dear Members of Congress, In truly deranged remarks to world leaders at the UN, Donald Trump declared that “I have a big decision to make,” whether to negotiate a deal with Iran or instead to “annihilate the Islamic Republic” and...
The Trump Administration is touting the new oil order in Venezuela as a tremendous opportunity for reviving the industry in the world’s biggest crude oil resource holder. The U.S.-led restructuring of the sector kicked out Russian and Chinese companies out...
As US President Donald Trump publicly rejected Iran’s proposal for a ceasefire and reopening the Strait of Hormuz this weekend, the Iranian foreign minister reiterated that “there is no alternative to a negotiated solution.” “There’s always hope for diplomacy,” though the Trump-led United...
The Gulf is the region’s most serious security crisis in decades, Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani said during his address to the 81st UN General Assembly. However, it should have been a wake-up call to all...
On October 15 and 16, 2026, in San Francisco, PDF Solutions will hold PDF Solutions CONNECT , the premier event for Semiconductor Analytics and AI. This event starts at the end of SEMICON WEST 2026 in a location in close...
The next global energy crisis is just around the corner. If the past four years have taught us anything, it’s that an energy crisis can be brought about unexpectedly and by a number of factors – often in tandem. Changing...
The Red Sea’s changing security order has brought Somaliland new diplomatic attention. President Irro’s challenge is to turn that attention into lasting economic, political and security relationships before regional competition determines the terms. For much of its modern history, Berbera has...
Somaliland’s diplomatic outreach has entered a significant new phase following President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi Irro’s official visit to Washington. The visit reflects Somaliland’s efforts to position itself as a credible partner in regional security, economic development, and international investment. Discussions...
Vivek Raghuraman is co-founder and CEO of Mixx Technologies. At Intel, he led the first integrated silicon photonics transceiver to commercial release. At Broadcom, Raghuraman took two commercial generations of co-packaged optics through hyperscaler qualification in Meta’s environment. In 2023,...
“A fraction of proposed data centers will get built. Utilities are wising up.” That was the headline on a May 2025 Utility Dive article that explored the conundrum speculative data center requests pose for U.S. electric utilities. More than a...
By any standard of morality, Trump is depraved. But adorned with the power of the state, he descends to another level — the level of evil. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years...
The warning signs of the coming crash keep multiplying. An upward trend in interest rates amid falling bond prices could be the crisis-triggering factor. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Cross-posted from Michael...
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