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For the first four months of the war between the United States and Israel and Iran, oil traders remained largely bearish. The overwhelming expectation was that the war would end soon—even as July rolled around—and oil flows out of Hormuz...

Authors: Janvi Singhi and Kanav Sharma* BRICS is moving into a more meaningful phase in its evolution. Its larger membership, considerable resources, population, and markets position it as a voice for the global south. Nevertheless, the fact that the BRICS...

Sharing its eastern border with Iran, its northern border with Turkey, its western border with Syria and Jordan, and its southern border with Saudi Arabia, Iraq is arguably the single most geopolitically important country to the U.S., China, and Russia...

Are you a student, worker, or grassroots activist organizing for Palestinian freedom in your school, workplace, or city? Palestine Legal is just one call away from supporting you with: KNOW YOUR RIGHTS AND ACTION PLANNING You or your organization are thinking about organizing...

The United Kingdom, France, and Canada joined forces on Tuesday to ban imports of goods and some services from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, where settlers and soldiers are assailing, displacing and killing Palestinians at an unprecedented rate with the backing of Prime Minister...

Samsung’s Hot Chips 2026 presentation, “HBM Base Die: How HBM Will Evolve Using Advanced Logic Processes,” argues that the base die beneath a High Bandwidth Memory stack is about to become far more than a communications layer. Traditionally, an HBM...

Beyond its historical roots as a day to honor the achievements and contributions of workers, Labor Day has emerged as one of the largest retail sales weekends of the year in the U.S., second only to Black Friday. People usually...

Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum, only for War on the Rocks members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight into how...

Ramallah /PNN / The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said 84 violations were recorded against Palestinian journalists in August 2026, including the death of a journalist in Israeli custody, the shooting injury of another, as well as arrests and field assaults, describing it...

Dreams are often about identity, because we’re figuring out who we are and what we need, and the beliefs and perspectives we hold,” says Wallace. “If you feel unfulfilled, undervalued or not the person you want to be in waking...

China's central bank bought more gold in August than in any single month since 2023, and the metal still can't hold above $4,400 an ounce. The People's Bank of China added 650,000 troy ounces, roughly 20 tonnes, to its reserves...

A federal appeals panel appeared inclined Tuesday to let Washington, D.C.’s restrictions on natural gas in certain new buildings stand. The case turns on the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, or EPCA, which gives the Department of Energy authority to...

Trump’s new head of monetary policy, Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh, recently announced the U.S. central bank doesn’t yet know how artificial intelligence will impact the economy, but he believes it “will leave us much better prepared for tomorrow.” Warsh, a...

The United States has imposed sanctions on a Turkish investment bank and two subsidiaries, accusing them of helping Iran move oil revenue and providing access to the international financial system as Washington intensifies its campaign to squeeze Tehran. The US...

China, Russia and Kazakhstan are mulling the development of a new northern trade route which would use the Irtysh and Ob rivers to open access for the export of Chinese goods from Russian Arctic ports at the base of the...

Chevron plans to double the number of drilling rigs it operates in Venezuela under a five-year expansion that targets roughly 600,000 barrels per day of production. CFO Eimear Bonner said Tuesday that Chevron will add rigs under new contract terms...

Source: Jonathon Evans and Polychronis Xekalakis, “NVIDIA Vera CPU,” Hot Chips 2026 . Performance figures are NVIDIA claims, and several results were based on preproduction or unofficial testing. NVIDIA’s Vera CPU is a server processor designed specifically for agentic AI, where...

A planned nuclear cooperation deal between the United States and Saudi Arabia won't include the toughest inspection regime the U.N.'s atomic watchdog has to offer, but it's going to come close on the activities that matter most. That's the picture...

Canada’s Trans Mountain pipeline hit full capacity for the first time in June, and the company running it already has another 300,000 barrels per day of capacity planned. Most of those new barrels are expected to head across the Pacific....

The global list of crude oil exporters will expand with Uganda early next year as the African country is moving closer to first oil from a project whose crude will flow through a new pipeline to Tanzania's coast. Landlocked Uganda,...

Oil prices surge toward $100 as Houthi attacks, U.S. strikes on Iranian tankers and renewed Middle East tensions rattle markets. Europe’s Gas Prices Surge as Storage Fears Return - European natural gas prices have jumped to €75 per MWh ($25.5...

Gold used to spike on every Gulf war headline because the same buyers set both its price and its ownership. In 2026 those are two different groups — central banks accumulating on a multi-year de-dollarization logic, and Western speculators trading...

One of the reasons why the price of oil failed to soar during the "actively kinetic" phase of the Iran war, when shipments through Hormuz were effectively halted and the world faced a shortage of about 10-15 million barrels of...

The Chinese perspective intersects with and complements the vision of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to establish a waterway linking the Mediterranean Sea to Lake Victoria. This would facilitate maritime traffic for buying, selling, and trade, which would benefit China’s...

As vehicles evolve into software-defined, increasingly autonomous platforms, video processing is becoming part of the safety-critical computing chain. Camera feeds support functions ranging from surround-view monitoring and driver assistance to object detection and automated driving. If the hardware processing those…...

Suez Canal's revenue jumped by 42% in July from the same month last year as the number of oil tankers passing through the Egyptian gateway to the Mediterranean surged amid threats to shipping in the southern Red Sea and the...

China has been increasing its emphasis on science and technology research as a key priority, including by directly integrating the strategy for international scientific engagement into its broader framework for national power and technological self-reliance. The post China’s Evolving Strategy for...

“What do you want for your mahr?” is a question that piques dread in some, glee in others. Mothers advise their daughters to hide money from their husbands. Men wonder if it’s really true that “her money is her money,...

Global fuel markets are very tight and inflexible, despite the higher flows out of the Persian Gulf in recent weeks, Russell Hardy, chief executive of the world's biggest independent oil trader, Vitol Group, said on Tuesday. "It's pretty, pretty tight...

Muslims and Islam are increasingly becoming subjects of political campaigning ahead of the November 3, 2026 US midterm elections, as Republican candidates in several states use issues surrounding extremism, national security and Islamic law to attack Democratic opponents. In Michigan,...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said U.S. peace envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner presented several “decent” and potentially worthwhile ideas during weekend discussions aimed at ending Russia’s war in Ukraine. The U.S. envoys travelled to both Russia and Ukraine, holding...

China’s crude oil imports rose for the second consecutive month in August as refiners turned to additional non-Middle Eastern supply and boosted overseas fuel shipments amid eased export restrictions. China imported 37.93 million tons, or 8.93 million barrels per day...

At 25, Michael Walters had already endured unsuccessful lymphoma treatments in New Zealand. A Melbourne hospital quoted up to US$600,000 for CAR-T therapy. He paid less than half that in Shanghai and learned on August 18 that his cancer was...