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

Iranian crude oil cargoes readily available to Chinese buyers have nearly dried up following the reinstated U.S. blockade on Iran’s oil exports, suggesting that independent Chinese refiners, the biggest buyers of Iranian crude, may have to turn to alternative supply...

News

On 23 August, it will be 100 days since the Bundibugyo strain was first reported. How did it became the DRC’s most deadly outbreak and what must be done to stop it becoming the world’s largest? Almost 100 days ago, Africa’s...

Global health, Global development, Ebola

Traffic police take statements from road crash victims at a health facility in Morogoro Region, Tanzania. The country's Basic Emergency Care (BEC) programme is strengthening the capacity of frontline health workers to provide life-saving treatment during the critical moments following...

Africa, Development & Aid, Featured

Iran Prepares for Tougher U.S. Economic Pressure Iran says it must strengthen its economy and reduce its vulnerability to foreign pressure as Washington prepares to impose what U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent described as the toughest sanctions ever imposed on...

World News, Economics, Iran

Jeffrey Sachs’s unexpected appearance on a little-known Armenian talk show is not a coincidence but a symptom of deeper processes at work. Why would a world‑class economist suddenly speak about the South Caucasus? The answer, likely, lies in the shifting...

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Locations

When the things around him begin to vanish, Bashir searches desperately for an explanation. This is part two of a two-part story. Read Part 1 * * * Cosmic Joke The afternoon was pleasantly cool, yet sweat poured down his face. He wiped his...

#Culture, #Life, featured

Two rocks surrounded by coral, with a total land size of less than 10 square meters (approximately 108 square feet) at high tide, are the entire basis on which Japan claims a 150,000-square-mile exclusive economic zone, an area nearly the...

Commentary, Indo-Pacific, International Law

When the UK allowed Ukraine to use British-supplied Storm Shadow cruise missiles against targets inside Russia in late 2024, Moscow predictably accused London of escalating the war and threatened retaliation. Russia’s latest warnings over Kyiv’s use of British-made drones that...

Ukraine War, AR3 drone, Block 2

“You cannot be at mental peace always. You will be worried. So even my family — they are scared all the time, and they were anxiously praying [for] the vessel [to] come out of this area safely.” While Captain Chirag...

Commentary, Military Personnel Policy, Navy

NEW YORK — Of all the indignities South Korean President Lee Jae Myung expected to face in 2026, being run over by Donald Trump probably wasn’t one of them. The tire marks are fresh, too, as the US president throws Lee’s...

Northeast Asia, Block 1, Donald Trump

First gas from Australia’s Beetaloo shale basin is scheduled to start flowing next month, with initial production of 37 million cu m, Reuters has reported, noting hopes that the country could replicate the U.S. shale gas success story. The Beetaloo...

News

Supporters of the Cockroach Janta party rally against the Minister of Education in Kolkata, India, 24 July 2026. Credit: Debarchan Chatterjee/NurPhoto via AFP By Andrew Firmin LONDON, Aug 21 2026 (IPS) India’s strongman leader, Narendra Modi, has just been forced to do the...

Active Citizens, Asia-Pacific, Civil Society

When China agreed to suspend its sweeping new rare earth export controls in November 2025, Washington and Beijing appeared to have stepped away from another major escalation in their trade confrontation. The measures announced last October were suspended until November...

Semiconductors, China, Economics

Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS, addresses the General Assembly 2026 high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS. The meeting discussed the implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the political declarations on HIV/AIDS. Credit: UN Photo/Manuel Elías By Shuli Wong UNITED NATIONS,...

Aid, Armed Conflicts, Financial Crisis

The Trump connected Polymarket is likely helping gamblers with inside military information cash in on wars the president wages. According to Reuters, a report by the Anti-Corruption Data Collective, found that 152 “exceptionally successful” Polymarket wallets otherwise known as “Orcas”may have...

Polymarket, Trump, Trump-sons

For the last several months, relations between Ukraine and Poland — one of Ukraine’s main supporters in its war with Russia — have been unusually strained. The trigger for renewed mutual recriminations was the decision in June by Ukrainian president Volodymyr...

Poland, Stepan-bandera, Wwii

Congressional Republicans have seized upon news that the US national debt reached $40 trillion to bash what they described as “unaffordable socialist policies” and out-of-control spending. But economists and policy analysts say Republican policy decisions – from massive tax cuts for the rich to disastrous...

United States, Block 2, Middle East wars

According to an exclusive report from POLITICO, Xi Jinping’s planned September visit to the United States has reportedly been shortened to just one day. If accurate, this would suggest that the outcomes and hard-won trust built during the two leaders’...

Americas, China, Economics

Donald Trump’s Board of Peace published a 15-point roadmap for Gaza in late July in which Hamas would hand its weapons to a committee of Palestinian technocrats, certified by an international verification body, and Israel would withdraw from the strip...

Opinion, Gaza peace process, Middle East

A Trump-Kim summit would be a spectacle like no other. A carnival extravaganza with the Korean Peninsula holding center stage, and every handshake, expression, seating arrangement, and stray remark dissected by troupes of North Korea pundits across the world’s news...

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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has hailed a new offshore oil discovery by Petrobras (NYSE: PBR) near the mouth of the Amazon River as a "passport to the country's future", continuing his support for controversial oil and gas...

News

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...

News

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...

News

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 2, 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...

News

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...

News

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...

News

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...

News

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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