Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
Good things are happening! Conservationists score two teaspoons of triumph, workers pour a tall glass of solidarity, attorneys general assemble for vital healthcare, and buffalo regain their home on the range. You Love To See It is a benefit of a...
As artificial intelligence, digital platforms and rapidly evolving technologies reshape the way societies receive and share information, strategic communication is becoming an increasingly important pillar of diplomacy, governance and national resilience. This was the focus of a high-level panel discussion held...
GAZA/ PNN/ The death toll from Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip has risen to 73,783 Palestinians, with 174,738 others wounded since Oct. 7, 2023, according to Palestinian medical sources. The sources said Gaza hospitals received the bodies of 10 Palestinians killed...
The Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2026 National Research Foundation (NRF) Awards went to two extraordinary and veteran scholars, Professor Jonathan Jansen and Professor Helen Rees. This accolade is awarded to individuals considered to have made extraordinary contributions of international standard...
The National Security Agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the FBI rarely sign the same document. On September 8 they jointly named six Chinese firms, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI, for industrial-scale distillation of American...
The 2026 National Research Foundation (https://www.nrf.ac.za/) (NRF) Awards honoured South Africa’s top researchers and scientists at a prestigious ceremony held on Thursday, 3 September 2026, at the Boardwalk Hotel and Casino in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape. This year’s event was held...
As India hosts the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, its policy of multi-alignment is under crucial scrutiny: whether New Delhi can achieve a balance between strategic autonomy and a real commitment to the Global South, or whether BRICS is...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip / PNN / Gaza’s chambers of commerce, industry and agriculture held a dialogue Thursday titled “In Gaza, an Economy Struggles to Survive,” bringing together representatives of international organisations, the private sector and local institutions to discuss the...
A phrase has been circulating in Pakistani official messaging this year: the UAE relationship is moving “from enduring brotherhood to strategic partnership.” It is marketed as an upgrade. Look at the calendar and it reads more like triage. This is...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip /PNN - Report by Rasha Ahmad - In Gaza, where years of conflict and destruction have disrupted nearly every aspect of daily life, a garden designer is turning his talent into an effort to create moments of...
HEBRON / PNN / Farmers in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, are facing increasingly difficult agricultural and economic conditions amid settler attacks, restrictions on access to farmland, water shortages, rising production costs and limited marketing opportunities for local...
Sky News published a video this month that opens on a rigged explosive device and a pickaxe under a stark title card, “Inside the Taliban’s Museum of Death.” Three seconds pass before a voice explains anything. By the time special...
For much of modern history, the Arctic was protected by geography. Thick ice, brutal weather and distance kept it away from the busy arteries of global trade. That protection is fading. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s visit to...
On September 11, 2001, the world watched as the World Trade Center, the twin towers that represented US global dominance, were struck by hijacked US commercial jetliners and came crashing to the ground. Nearly 3,000 people were killed, from high-powered executive to...
Islam Times - Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi on Friday ordered the formation of an investigative council and dismissed the commander of military operations in Maysan province after Saudi Arabia claimed that drones striking its East-West pipeline had been launched...
Iran’s reported combat debut of a new anti-ship ballistic missile marks a potentially consequential shift in the Gulf conflict, where increasingly sophisticated targeting networks could turn US naval superiority into a more contested — and more escalatory — proposition. Iranian...
Twenty-five years on, it’s worth asking not what happened on September 11, 2001, but what Washington decided it meant — and whether those conclusions were the right ones. The attacks themselves were a genuine trauma and a genuine crime. But...
Islam Times - The Ansarullah advance toward Mokha and Mayyun has turned Bab al-Mandab into a new chokepoint in the war—a point where an actor that appears militarily weaker can raise the cost of passage without fully closing the route,...
Islam Times - An informed security official has disclosed documented information about the activities of networks linked to Emirati capital to purchase land and property in parts of southern Syria and southern Lebanon, saying that the timing of these transactions...
Every few months, somewhere in the world, a state expels or threatens to expel a category of foreign nationals, and the exchange that follows is almost scripted. The state cites its sovereign right to control its borders. A human rights...
Brent is sitting a touch above $104 this morning, down slightly from yesterday's surge. The Strait of Hormuz, which used to move something like a fifth of the world's oil and LNG before the war, has been effectively shut since...
After more than a decade of war, the Houthis have achieved what a superpower-backed coalition spent ten years and tens of billions of dollars trying to prevent. They now sit astride the Bab al-Mandeb strait, one of the world’s critical...
The White House is considering using the Defense Production Act to add U.S. refining capacity, with American refineries already running at 98% capacity and diesel prices above $6 per gallon for the first time. The proposal was discussed during President...
With the heightening of the current geopolitics, many African governments have increasingly welcomed economic, diplomatic, and security ties with Russia. And noticeably, Russia’s engagements in Africa rely on irregular means to expand its influence—reliance on military offerings has often become...
Central Asian states mark the 20th anniversary of the Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty with a joint foreign ministers' statement Credit: Kazakhstan MFA By Katsuhiro Asagiri TOKYO, Japan, Sep 11 2026 (IPS) Twenty years after five Central Asian states signed a landmark treaty banning nuclear...
In a Thursday address at the GOP midterm convention that exalted President Donald Trump and demeaned his opponents as “extremists who openly hate our nation,” Vice President JD Vance hardly spoke about foreign policy. He did not mention the war in...
Credit: Conny Odengrund / Wiki Commons By Jordan Ryan Sep 11 2026 (IPS) Late in August I stood at Dag Hammarskjöld’s grave in Uppsala. It is a quiet place, a long way from New York and from the wars the United Nations exists...
The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States rose this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday, with the total rig count in the US rising to 591, up...
There is a sudden, alarming rise in experts warning of an apocalyptic ending for our AI adventure in only a few years. It is only one example of why we literally can’t let tech sociopaths control our society Robin McAlpine is...
Did Bidenomics work? Why can Republicans coordinate campaign funds? And what happens to incumbents that democratic socialists defeat? The answers to these questions and many more can be found in LeverMind , our weekly news quiz testing your knowledge of the...
We have already begun reading Finkelstein’s newest book GAZA’S GRAVEDIGGERS: An Inquiry into Corruption in High Places and it is a monumental work exposing the corruption and perfidy of the Westerm Liberal Authoritarian Class Norman Finkelstein is is an American political...
The UK may end up assisting Tel Aviv by reinforcing a preposterous distinction between ‘illegal’ Jewish settlements and a supposedly ‘law-abiding’ Israel Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and a winner of the Martha Gellhorn...
The AfD’s victory is the result of a far-reaching economic and political crisis. The Merz government is gambling with Russia, but this is the wrong path to take Sergio Cesaratto, former full professor of European Monetary Policy and International Economics at...
Houthi strikes threaten Saudi oil exports as Brent hits $105 and Middle Eastern crude soars to $120. Friday, September 11, 2026 Houthi strikes on Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure have alerted the oil markets to the possibility of seeing even less...
Social scientists often see the individual as a product of society. But never, never underestimate the impact of personality on society. Or at least, some personalities. The only other personality in recent history who has had as great an impact...
Supertanker rates on the Baltic Exchange's benchmark Middle East-to-China shipping route have surged to a staggering $800,000 a day. With US forces having destroyed five Iranian-linked tankers and Tehran threatening further escalation in recent days, prospects for near-term stabilization remain...
The following story is co-published with Denatured . (A version of this article was originally published at Salon.com on Sept. 19, 2001) Body No. 1 shattered all illusions of finding survivors. He was a curly-haired guy with a paunch and puffed red lips,...
Twenty-five years after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, on the surface it may seem that American foreign policy has followed a course filled with continuity. A quarter century ago, the U.S. launched the “global war on terrorism” in...
Photo by Siora Photography on Unsplash When a man does something horrific, particularly toward a woman, there will inevitably be a chorus of women who label all men the same. When men take issue with being lumped in with monsters, we’re...
The IEA just took another 1.4 million barrels per day out of its 2026 global oil supply outlook, and it no longer expects normal Gulf flows to return this year, according to a new agency report released on Friday. Global...
This story is from Floodlight , a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powerful interests stalling climate action. Sign up for Floodlight’s newsletter here . Across much of the U.S. , people have little way to know when the air they breathe...
Eurasia Publications announces the release of Economic Transition and Impact on the Energy Mix, the new expanded English edition by Yannis Bassias. The book continues the analytical path established in Cause and Effect, where the author introduced the principle that...
This statement was originally published on lesotho.misa.org The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA Lesotho) expresses severe outrage and unequivocal condemnation regarding the brutal abduction, interrogation, and physical torture of Newsday Media News Editor, human rights defender and a former Chairperson...
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is considering significant changes to its plans to build a massive 5-gigawatt AI data center in Abu Dhabi in partnership with U.S. tech giants, after Iran started targeting American air bases and U.S.-linked critical infrastructure...
The US-China G-2 concept is both normatively exclusionary and strategically constraining. The inherent limits of a G-2 framework—hierarchy, power structure, and systematic constraints—make it a non-starter in a multipolar reality. Here, I completely agree; the concept of a G2 is...
Claims have been circulating on social media that the United States has only about two weeks of oil left. The calculation appears to compare the 286.6 million barrels currently held in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve with roughly 20.7 million barrels...
According to the WHO, one in six people worldwide will be over the age of 60 by 2030. The number of people aged 80 or older is also likely to triple between 2020 and 2050. Over half of nursing homes...
Within the increasingly specialized field of peptide and metabolic signaling inquiry, AICAR has emerged as a particularly intriguing molecular subject due to its theorized relationship with cellular energy regulation, mitochondrial communication pathways, and adaptive biochemical signaling environments. Although often associated...
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