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

Leaked emails reviewed by The Grayzone show both a current and former MI5 director secretly lobbied for the British government’s move to label the IRGC a terrorist entity as well as the UK’s adoption of the draconian National Security Act....

Intelligence, UK, CONTEST

In February 2026, the United States and Israel initiated a war in the Middle East against Iran. Since then, the warring sides have oscillated between strikes, a fragile ceasefire, and the blocking of the Strait of Hormuz. Open hostilities resumed...

Members, War on the Rocks Webinars

While the dust is settling and facts emerge, it is clear that the latest attack on Saudi Aramco's Abqaiq oil-processing complex is rapidly becoming one of the most consequential energy developments of 2026. The event should not be assessed on...

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This week, the Navy retired a littoral combat ship only halfway through its lifespan. The USS Fort Worth , a surface combatant ship which cost $400 million to build, entered service in 2012. It was originally meant to serve until the...

Littoral-combat-ship, Procurement, Defense-budget

Choosing an Arctic cruise to Svalbard means comparing operators whose actual ice access, passenger capacity, and wildlife programming vary more than their brochures suggest. Polar bear sightings, walrus colonies, and ice-edge cruising depend directly on hull capability and itinerary design...

Travel & Leisure, Arctic, Cruises

ExxonMobil and Chevron made a combined $26.5 billion in the second quarter after producing more oil, refining more fuel, and selling all of it into a market scrambled by war. Washington is investigating why gasoline costs so much. Chevron reported...

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Kyrgyzstan’s election to a two-year term on the United Nations Security Council came after a diligent campaign to gain support for its candidacy. It means a Central Asian state will have a seat on the UN’s most powerful body for...

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A container port in Bukit Merah, Singapore. Credit: Unsplash/CHUTTERSNAP By Maximilian Malawista UNITED NATIONS, Jul 31 2026 (IPS) East Asia and the Pacific’s (EAP) maritime system has powered the region’s rise as the world’s largest trading and manufacturing center, but the infrastructure supporting...

Asia-Pacific, Development & Aid, Economy & Trade

For quite a few years, John Cooley has hosted the Troublemaker Panel at DAC. The event consists of a panel of senior executives from the EDA industry. John Cooley asks his readers for “edgy” questions to ask the panelists and...

EDA, Events, amit gupta

Yet again, we are being told that there are special economic laws that mean that there are perfect and imperfect tax rates. The theory concerned is highly flawed, and it isn’t even showing the thing that it is claimed to...

National Politics, Tax, Article

How do we explain the self-defeating and self-harming policies of Western states? Pascal Lottaz is a Swiss academic in Japan, Associate Professor at Kyoto University, working on neutrality in International Relations. He also runs the YouTube show “Neutrality Studies” , where...

Geopolitics, Article, Pascal Lottaz

Ukraine has struck one of Russia’s biggest refineries, Lukoil’s Volgograd processing facility, the Ukrainian forces said on Friday as they resumed attacks on Russian refining capacity. The Volgograd refinery, which has the capacity to process 300,000 barrels per day (bpd)...

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Brent is set for an 8% weekly loss, but ongoing disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea continue to support oil prices near $90 a barrel. Friday, July 31, 2026 Oil prices are set for an 8%...

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This statement was originally published on cipesa.org on 23 July 2026. The past few years have witnessed a growing urgency for frameworks that regulate and harness the development and implementation of new and emerging technologies, especially Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI). At...

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Iranian-designed drones have wreaked havoc for Ukrainian forces battling Russian troops as Moscow took Tehran's technology and ran with it, supercharging production and deploying drones in devastating droves in its all-out war against Kyiv. As far as Ukraine is concerned,...

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Photo by Eloi Motte on Unsplash Dr. Anthony Fauci is probably rethinking his previous views on fame. He’s still famous, but he’s finding that fame can be a double-edged sword. Sure, everyone knows who he is, but it also means that...

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“Jimmy” opens Friday at the IFC Center in New York City. The Barry Jenkins-produced “Jimmy” imagines James Baldwin’s 1948 arrival in Paris as a 24-year-old aspiring writer. Running barely more than an hour, the black-and-white feature by writer-director Yashaddai Owens combines...

Arts & Culture, Film, Opinion

When President Donald Trump promises Ukraine a license to manufacture Patriot missile systems, it comes as little surprise when Boeing declines. The same logic applies to ExxonMobil, Chevron and other energy giants that refuse to invest in Venezuela's vast oil...

World

In mid-July, Hugging Face, the open-source platform where developers host and share AI models, had to deal with an attacker it’s not used to facing. It was not a hacker, or a group of attackers. Rather, it was an AI...

Labor, Trade, & Finance, AI, China

This story was originally published by ProPublica . On the northeast edge of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, nearly 1,100 people gathered in late June for the International Bridge Walk across the long span that links two cities with the same name: Sault...

Business & Economy, Courts & Law, News

This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . As tech companies have built hundreds of hyperscale data centers to power the artificial intelligence boom, they have triggered conflicting predictions over how these facilities...

Business & Economy, Environment, News

ADNOC is changing the pricing formula used for its flagship crude grades. The oil giant said Friday it will move away from its ICE Futures Abu Dhabi-based pricing methodology, which prices crude off the Murban futures contract two months ahead...

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Shell has agreed to sell its wholly-owned subsidiary BG Cyprus Ltd to MOL Group of Hungary for $720 million, as the UK-based oil and gas supermajor targets to grow its LNG value chain. Shell on Friday announced the agreement with...

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CoWoS-S and CoWoS-R are two versions of TSMC’s Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate advanced packaging platform. Both technologies are designed to combine high-performance processors, chiplets and high-bandwidth memory, or HBM, within a single package. This shortens the electrical connections between computing and memory components,…...

3D IC, AI, Semiconductor

On June 18, Manuel Marrero Cruz, the Cuban prime minister, unveiled a 176-point program to radically restructure the Cuban economy. Marrero appealed to his audience at the National Assembly of Popular Power with the argument that “socialist planning does not...

Labor, Trade, & Finance, Cuba, Economic Reform

The mutually beneficial corruption arrangement between the rival Haftar and Dbeibah camps that has kept Libya from returning to civil war could be undone by a third force usually left out of political calculations: the citizens of Libya. For nearly...

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Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict A drone attack reached Egypt’s Mediterranean gas infrastructure for the first time in the war. At least two drones struck the US-owned Energos Winter floating storage and regasification unit and a second gas-processing vessel at Damietta...

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September WTI crude oil futures were trading at $84.12 late Thursday, down $6.35, or 7.02%, for the week. With Friday’s session still ahead, the weekly result is not final. But the week’s main story is clear: crude sold off hard...

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