Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
Europe’s benchmark natural gas prices jumped by 4% at trade open in Amsterdam on Thursday, as the United States and Iran remain distant on how to end the war and put an end to the blocked LNG shipments at the...
Credit: Amanda Cotton / Ocean Image Bank By Gareth Johnstone and Jan Thomas Odegard OSLO, Norway, Sep 24 2026 (IPS) As Norway undertakes Vendepunkt , or “Turning Point,” its reflection on the future of Norwegian development policy, it is critical that oceans remain...
A tarmac welcome, a paused Taiwan arms package and a trade truce that conveniently outlasts the midterms. Trump’s White House summit with Xi Jinping will produce few agreements, but it reveals exactly who is setting the terms. On a blustery...
The UK government’s new sanctions on Israel have resulted in zero arms export licences being revoked or suspended, it can be revealed. Earlier this month, Ed Miliband announced a fresh range of measures against Israel including a ban on trade with...
More than a year after a peace deal was signed, violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is forcing people south to Tanganyika, where camps are already home to hundreds of thousands living in dire conditions A cry of panic...
The number of commodity vessels observed to have moved in and out of the Strait of Hormuz remained stubbornly low on Wednesday and below the 10-day moving average as the United States and Iran remain distant on how to end...
HARGEISA, 24 September 2026 — The two Houses of the Republic of Somaliland’s Parliament have adopted a joint resolution endorsing President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi “Irro’s” diplomatic mission to the United States and calling for Somaliland’s admission to the United Nations....
Artificial intelligence is emerging as one of the defining concerns of Pope Leo XIV’s papacy, with the Vatican warning that the technology could reshape society in ways that governments and institutions may struggle to control. The Vatican’s concerns predate the...
Credit: IAEA IAEA’s 70th General Conference highlights growing strains on safeguards and nuclear security as attention shifts to the first review of the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty. By Katsuhiro Asagiri VIENNA, Sep 24 2026 (IPS) The international nuclear order is facing another test as...
The U.S. government is ready to support Argentina’s key LNG project by lending up to $6 billion to the project led by Argentina’s energy group YPF in partnership with Italy’s Eni and Emirati energy firm XRG. As part of a...
Prediction market platforms allow people to bet on real-world events like politics, culture, economics, war, and sports. Their defining feature is the buying and selling of contracts. They operate on a peer-to-peer model in which participants buy and sell contracts...
By James Alix Michel VICTORIA, Seychelles, Sep 24 2026 (IPS) After decades in which the high seas were too often treated as a distant frontier—vast, ownerless and beyond meaningful protection—the High Seas Treaty entered into force on 17 January 2026. It was a...
Chinese investment has long been a cornerstone of development policy for many Southeast Asian nations. From roads and buildings to green energy that helps countries keep up with global environmental regulations, Beijing’s investment has created significant development opportunities. But it...
Beirut / PNN / Plastic pollution is costing Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia between US$1.7 billion and US$5.5 billion every year in net terms, according to a new report by Greenpeace Middle East and North Africa (MENA). If current plastic trends continue,...
In her dual role as Türkiye’s first lady and chair of the U.N. Advisory Board of Eminent Persons on Zero Waste, Emine Erdoğan has highlighted the urgent threat of the global environmental crisis in a video message delivered at the...
Dr. Agnes Kalibata, speaking at the opening ceremony of the Africa Food Systems Forum in 2019. Credit: Wikimedia Commons By Agnes Kalibata NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 24 2026 (IPS) I was born in Rwanda, but my family soon became refugees in Uganda during the...
Artificial intelligence is widely expected to transform businesses and reshape the labor market. But its biggest economic consequence could extend beyond companies and workers: AI driven productivity gains could also give heavily indebted governments a way to improve their finances....
Known as the ‘energy bars of the sea’ the fish are a key food source for many species, but closing fisheries to allow numbers to recover would cost millions It began on 28 July, when fishers near Saldanha Bay on the...
Indian state refiners are ramping up their production of liquefied petroleum gas amid a seasonal jump in demand as the country enters festive season and imports from the Middle East remain strangled. So far in September, local production of LPG...
“If one is to judge by the fire and ardor with which this book is sought after, it is the most excellent of all books. Never were so many copies printed of any work; never were so many editions made...
The irony in all of this, which I am now researching is that the calls for ‘individual freedom’ which characterised the rise of neoliberalism and the messaging that captured political support for the reconfiguration of the state has manifest in...
Traumatic brain injury became the signature wound of the post-9/11 wars because the battlefield changed. Improvised explosive devices changed the nature of American combat injuries. But the medical and legal systems that followed — including the Department of Veterans Affairs’...
Countries in Southeast Asia are still building natural gas-fired power plants despite the price inflation in gas caused by the Middle East war. Asian countries are also building more LNG import capacity, Global Energy Monitor reported. The net-zero think tank...
Islam Times - Washington and Beijing agreed to extend their trade truce by two months, through January 10, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday, as US President Donald Trump welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington for a three-day...
This article is the result of my conversation earlier today during my flight from Istanbul to London. I was sitting next to a FEDEX pilot who was on his way to Paris via London. I asked him about aviation fuel...
A battlefield dominated by fully autonomous drones capable of selecting and engaging targets without human intervention sounds like a dystopian sci-fi plot. And while that scenario has not yet arrived, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine has moved modern warfare...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned that countries cannot be expected to move at the same pace on climate action while major gaps persist in access to financing and technology, putting the question of climate finance at the center...
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 drive Iran...
Look around you, and you’ll see rare earth elements at work. A phone vibrates because a magnet moves a weight. Its screen was polished with cerium powder. Its connection to the rest of the world crosses oceans on cables amplified...
Credit: Matt Palmer / Unsplash This guest post is authored by V. Ram Ramanathan , Durwood Zaelke , and Marcelo Suárez-Orozco and is informed by a presentation that Ramanathan is set to give at the Vatican on September 26. By V. Ram...
Credit: United Nations By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Sep 24 2026 (IPS) The world’s ongoing arms race is threatening to extend beyond planet earth—and spillover into outer space. The US has deployed weapons in space and will use them to defend American forces, Air...
As world leaders gather in New York for the annual United Nations General Assembly, US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are meeting in Washington, creating a striking contrast between traditional multilateral diplomacy and direct great power engagement....
Crude oil prices took a dip today amid reports that there was willingness for peace in the Middle East on both sides of the conflict. The dip partially offset gains made earlier in the week, keeping oil benchmarks elevated. At...
As Trump chose the path of barbarism, threatening to annihilate the Islamic Republic and dismantling international institutions, Lula took the UN pulpit to defend another path: diplomacy, dialogue and civilisation, and questioned a foundational idea of International Relations. The main...
Few things better illustrate how charged the American debate over China has become than the reaction to Jennifer Kavanagh’s recent proposal for a radically different U.S. military posture in Asia. Kavanagh, a senior fellow at Defense Priorities, has argued that Washington...
“The war with Iran needs to end and end quickly.” These were the unexpected words spoken Monday by former congressman and current Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers, who The Nation’s Jeet Heer has described as “not just an ardent supporter...
This article is co-published in partnership with The Intercept For the first time, the Pentagon budget topped $1 trillion and private contractors now receive more than half of all the tax dollars flowing to the Pentagon. Few have profited from this privatization...
On September 22, 2026, Russia’s Africa Corps fired a Ukraine-war-model Molniya kamikaze drone at al-Qaeda-linked fighters besieging its position near Dioura, in Mali’s Mopti region, the latest skirmish in a campaign that has already cost 13 Russian and Malian lives...
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When Xi Jinping’s plane touches down at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday, he arrives to a reception built for maximum contrast with his last encounter with Donald Trump. This is Xi’s first state visit to Washington in eleven years, and...
By: Dharendra Wardhana and Danifansen Simanjuntak A couple in northern Laos walk on the dam of the Nam Ou 1 hydropower plant invested in by PowerChina. Photo from Xinhua Southeast Asia has become one of the most consequential arenas to witness the...
The suicide bombing and gun attack that killed dozens in northwest Pakistan on September 18, 2026, highlighted the fragile security situation in the South Asian country. But it also shone a light on the complex and evolving extremism landscape there...
The Donald pulled no punches at the UN today. It was all hell and brimstone on the Iranian War file. Once again, and perhaps for the 15th time, he promised to “annihilate” a nation that arose originally upwards of 2,700...
The Trump administration came perilously close to launching another bombing campaign against Yemen this weekend. According to a September 20 New York Times report, US commanders had approved their targets, American troops were loading bombs onto warplanes, and an attack...
Nearly a decade ago, the Canadian Oil Patch recorded a major asset sale and consolidation wave as oil majors exited the oil sands in favor of higher margins in U.S. shale oil as well as environmental concerns amid the ESG...
In this issue: 1. Xi arrives in DC 2. Propaganda ahead of Xi’s visit 3. PRC nuclear weapons 4. PLA Daily editorial on Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli 5. 2025 Outbound investment over $200 billion The Feed: Business, Economy and Trade - Politics and Law -...
The world is currently facing persistent value conflicts, with the diversity of civilizations under threat. Growing isolationism, a rise in protectionism, a downtrend of intercultural dialogue mechanism efforts from existing powers, and the inefficacy of world institutions to uphold the...
The White House on Wednesday denied that the Administration is considering a ban on U.S. diesel exports, clarifying comments from President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent a day earlier that appeared to leave the door open to restrictions...
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