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

Global electric vehicle sales have surged this year following the oil supply disruption in the Middle East and the second oil price shock in four years. The accelerating EV adoption that began with the spike in oil and fuel prices...

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Agentrys believes that a purpose-built multi-agent system for chip design shouldn’t be a quarter-long project. Agentic AI systems are becoming quite popular to cut design time and increase quality for complex chip design projects. The challenge is finding the right...

Agentrys, AI, EDA

Solar power is far and away the world’s fastest-growing form of energy production, beating out every other form of energy on Earth in 2025. Despite a recent political pivot away from renewable energies in the world’s largest economy, solar power...

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China’s residential property prices kept falling this year as a surge in court-ordered auction homes flooded the market with steep discounts, deepening buyer wariness and stalling any signs of recovery in the world’s second-largest economy. Data from China Index Academy,...

China, Block 1, China Index Academy

Europe has discovered something unusual during the latest energy crisis: its emergency system actually works. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz removed or disrupted one of the largest flows of oil and gas in the world. Prices rose, shipping...

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Dark-money conservative groups and Big Oil interests have quietly mobilized behind a landmark Supreme Court case that could restrict when and how states and municipalities can seek climate damages from fossil fuel companies. At the center of the case is...

Supreme Court

China is buying more Russian oil to replace missing Iranian barrels. The problem for India is that some of those Russian barrels used to be its barrels. China’s seaborne imports of Russian crude are estimated at 1.25 million barrels per...

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Kazakhstan and, to a lesser extent, Uzbekistan and other Central Asian states are finding themselves caught in the middle of a deepening struggle between the United States and China for dominance of AI architecture and design. The brewing dilemma created...

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Apple customers in 110 countries received threat notifications recently alerting them to suspected spyware attacks targeting their devices, TechCrunch reports . Senior researcher John Scott-Railton says that the “scale and geographic diversity of public posts about receiving notifications are pretty unprecedented.” “For...

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Continental Resources is getting substantially bigger in the Permian Basin. The privately held oil producer has agreed to acquire FireBird Energy II, adding roughly 54,000 net acres in the Midland Basin along with 32,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day...

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Finland abandoned it’s socialist policies to embrace Russiphobia, join NATO and give billions of Euros to US and Israeli arms companies, thus furthering the interests of neo-liberalism and the Epstein Class Nate Bear is a journalist, a pr/comms man for corporates, money...

Economics, EU politics, Finance

Abhi Kolpekwar, VP & General Manager, Digital Verification Technologies at Siemens EDA met with me at #DAC2026 to provide the big picture on smart verification tools, something they call Questa One . Their verification tools are infused with AI to...

EDA, Siemens EDA, 2026DAC

The last act of death is not mortality but the erasure of memory. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau...

National Politics, Uncategorized, Article

The Russian Interior Ministry placed Michael Martens, a reporter for the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, on an international wanted list. The criminal case against him stems from remarks the journalist made during a press conference in Belgrade, which investigators...

World

The prediction markets were nearly certain: Francesca Hong would win Wisconsin’s Democratic primary for governor on Aug. 11. Polymarket put the upstart’s chances at 96%; Kalshi was only slightly less sure at 95.5%. Then the votes came in. Milwaukee County Executive...

Activism, Business & Economy, Column

Central Asian nation Tajikistan has requested from Iran to import Iranian oil and petroleum products as the fuel crisis in Russia has choked supply from Tajikistan’s largest fuel supplier, the Transport Ministry of Tajikistan said this week. At a meeting...

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The following story is co-published with Luke Savage’s Substack . Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries recently appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and fielded a question about “Medicare for All” from host Kristen Welker, who among other things noted his co-sponsorship of...

Activism, Column, Economic Justice

On the morning of Aug. 10 , a powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia, leaving nearly 300 people dead, 4,000 injured and potentially thousands more missing by the latest count. The crisis created an early test for new far-right...

Americas, Business & Economy, Column

Coal India, the world’s single largest coal producer, has applied to establish a trading office in Singapore to trade critical minerals and iron ore in what would be the company’s first trading office outside India, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing...

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For decades, the conventional narrative has been one in which renewables have been criticized for intermittency issues, whereas fossil fuels were the ones to provide energy security. The Iran war and protracted closure of the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz...

Energy News, energy security, Iran

Israeli forces raided homes in the town of al-Rafid, in Syria’s Quneitra countryside on August 15, and the operation drew almost no attention beyond Syria itself. Such raids have become so ordinary along the old disengagement line that they no...

Opinion, Benjamin Netanyahu, Block 2

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Indian steelmakers are reeling from a jump in coking coal prices this year that is squeezing their margins and delaying capacity expansion in the steelmaking industry, analysts and industry executives tell Reuters. India relies on imports for as much as...

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We’re very excited and really proud to announce that Apartheid Free Zone campaign has recruited more than 500 small businesses, unions, civil society and community groups, artistic collectives, sporting organisations, and many other spaces and places across Ireland. They join thousands...

Apartheid, Press releases

By: Toh Han Shih Evergrande Song and Dance Troupe Hui Ka Yan, the founder and former chairman of China Evergrande Group, once the largest Chinese property developer with a stockmarket valuation above $50 billion, was sentenced to life in prison on corruption...

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When Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif signed the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement on August 7, they bound each state to treat an armed attack on any one of...

War & Peace, Iran, Mecca Defense Pact

This is a collaboration with The American Prospect , a magazine about ideas, politics, and power . One of the top officials for an establishment-friendly political network playing a major role in Democratic primaries this election cycle also helms an astroturf...

Elections

Brent Crude futures prices topped $93 per barrel early in the morning in Europe on Thursday, hitting a three-week high amid fading hopes of U.S.-Iran talks as President Trump announced an “unprecedented” economic pressure campaign against Iran. In early morning...

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UN Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the wreath-laying ceremony to commemorate the 23rd Anniversary of the bombing of the United Nations Headquarters in Baghdad. Credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten. By Naureen Hossain UNITED NATIONS, Aug 20 2026 (IPS) World Humanitarian Day celebrates humanitarian workers and...

Aid, Armed Conflicts, Artificial Intelligence

U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened severe economic consequences against any country that provides Iran with financial, commercial or logistical support, expanding the economic dimension of a war that has already disrupted regional security and global energy markets. Trump said...

Economy, Iran, Security
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