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

Crude oil prices were on course for a sizable weekly gain today, as the Strait of Hormuz remains almost entirely paralysed and the Yemeni Houthis target tankers in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in the Red Sea. To make matters worse,...

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China’s memory chip industry has emerged as one of the biggest beneficiaries of the global artificial intelligence boom, transforming once loss-making manufacturers into powerful players with growing influence over pricing, supply chains and technological development. The rapid rise of companies...

AI Competition, Artificial Intelligence, China

Satellite image of the Red Sea, the Bab el-Mandeb strait being at the bottom right opening. Credit: Wikimedia/NASA By Maximilian Malawista UNITED NATIONS, Jul 24 2026 (IPS) With regional friction between Iran and the Gulf monarchies escalating, Houthi leadership in Yemen has proclaimed...

Armed Conflicts, Crime & Justice, Development & Aid

Investments in jobs, basic services and community infrastructure can reduce the pressures that drive displacement in Myanmar. Credit: UNDP Myanmar By Norimasa Shimomura YANGON, Myanmar, Jul 24 2026 (IPS) When asked what development looks like today, a community leader in Kalaw township points...

Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Editors' Choice

The American-Israeli aggression against Iran has significantly altered the global balance of power. The economic damage inflicted by these military operations is immense, and its effects are still being felt on world markets; eliminating the repercussions of the damage may...

Middle East, Politics, USA

From Pax Silica and WAICO to India’s open digital rails, Southeast Asia’s overlapping alignments could strengthen regional bargaining power—if interoperability turns diversity into agency. When President Prabowo Subianto and Prime Minister Narendra Modi met in Jakarta in July, they welcomed...

AI Competition, Artificial Intelligence, China

For decades, Iran has sought to diminish America’s military presence and political influence in the Middle East. Yet some ambitions carry within them the seeds of their own undoing. The very policies intended to push out the United States have...

Iran, Persian-gulf, Saudi-arabia

Mauritania, once considered a counterterrorism success story, sits at the edge of escalating violence. In the last year, Jamaat Nusrat al Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM), al-Qaeda’s affiliate in the Sahel, has expanded its operational presence in towns and villages along Mauritania’s...

Mali, Jnim, Al-qaida

CBS News reported recently that Pentagon officials were exploring the possibility of military action against Cuba. “Military planners have in recent weeks examined a range of options for possible action against the island, including an Army-led air assault involving thousands of...

Cuba-embargo, U-s-military, Caribbean

Coverage of the conflict between Iran, Israel and the United States has largely focused on battlefield developments, political statements and international diplomacy. However, another story has been unfolding on the streets of Iran. Despite fears of further military escalation dominating...

Middle East, Benjamin Netanyahu, Culture

By: Andy Wong Ming Jun Last week’s successful maritime strike carried out by US Central Command against Iran’s major Bandar Abbas Naval Base is a significant maturing step for US naval drone warfare capability, with the US Navy finally beginning to...

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In May 2026, OpenAI released a new math result that sent shock waves throughout the world of mathematical research. A major unsolved problem called the “unit distance conjecture” had just been resolved by generative AI. Since then, there’s been a...

Technology, AI math sollution, Block 2

For decades, U.S. support for Israel rested on one of Washington’s strongest bipartisan assumptions: that military assistance was strategically necessary and politically untouchable. But Gaza has weakened that consensus. Critics now see Israeli military aid as a misguided strategy and...

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If you communicate with people overseas – friends, family, coworkers – the federal government will likely never acknowledge it collected your communications. Unless, perhaps, you have a large cable TV audience and politicians willing to demand answers. That at least...

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U.S. and NATO leaders have waged a multi-year propaganda campaign to convince Western publics that Ukraine is a splendid democracy and that President Volodymyr Zelensky is an extremely popular elected leader who epitomizes those values. Multiple aspects of that carefully...

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Lithium prices have sunk to a five-month low as the return of previously idled mine capacity triggered fears of a massive market oversupply. Lithium prices on the Guangzhou Futures Exchange (GFEX), the most active lithium carbonate contract, fell to 136,800...

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The Trump administration is studying the deployment of offshore nuclear power generation, with the Marine Minerals Administration and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission agreeing this week to coordinate on any future developments. The announcement comes amid surging electricity demand driven by...

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Central Claim The US-Saudi nuclear deal is not so much an energy deal as it is Washington’s most significant admission yet that the non-proliferation architecture it has constructed since Hiroshima is not compatible with the post-Iran war Middle East geopolitical...

Nuclear Strategy, Analysis, Defense

Global unit shipments of PCs and smartphones were both down versus a year ago in the 2nd quarter of 2026, according to IDC. PCs were down 4.9% and smartphones were down 6.7%. Both PCs and smartphones showed growth in 2024...

Semiconductor Intelligence, Semiconductor Services, AI Processors

OPEC+ is expected to approve another production target increase when eight key producers meet on August 2, extending a months-long campaign to unwind voluntary supply cuts that have existed largely on paper since the Iran war upended Gulf exports. Reuters...

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The face of EDA is changing. For forty years, this industry has focused on optimizing algorithms for design, verification and implementation of chips. That work has delivered some ground-breaking innovations. Logic synthesis is a good example. There are so many...

Agentrys, AI, EDA

Artificial intelligence is a double-edged sword for the energy sector. The rapid buildout of data centers to support widespread integration of large language models in virtually every economic sector imaginable, from our energy grids to your electric toothbrush – yes,...

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Public opinion on Israel is shifting rapidly , but there was little evidence of that at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing Wednesday. The Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee's discussion of "The Next Phase of the Abraham Accords" largely...

Abraham-accords, Israel-palestine, Us-israel

In 2024, Max Bergmann wrote, “NATO Missed a Chance to Transform Itself,” where he argued NATO’s leadership needs to facilitate a strong European pillar of the alliance through structural reforms in European institutions. Two years later, we asked Max to...

Members, Rewind and Reconnoiter

Global insurers had just shaken off the ESG push from earlier this decade when the Middle East conflict upended oil and gas upstream project coverage. The world’s lowest-cost oil and gas producing region became a war zone at the end...

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Latin America and the Caribbean has the world’s most expensive healthy diet. Credit: Max Valencia / FAO By Máximo Torero ROME, Jul 23 2026 (IPS) Hunger is falling across most of Latin America and the Caribbean. The region’s next challenge is harder: ensuring...

Food and Agriculture, Headlines, Latin America & the Caribbean

New legislation could kill the freedom to criticize the Jewish state The country that once was the United States of America is now, in its 250 th year, led by a president whose ignorance of history and policy is so profound...

Commentary & Analysis

Kazakhstan should, in theory, be one of the major beneficiaries of Russia’s growing isolation from global energy markets. Its crude is unsanctioned and European refiners need alternatives to Russian barrels. Yet instead of gaining a clear geopolitical advantage, Kazakhstan has...

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On Tuesday, as American aircraft struck Iran for a tenth consecutive night, Iran’s interior minister Eskandar Momeni flew to Islamabad . He was carrying a direct message from Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. When he arrived, he sat down with Pakistan’s...

War & Peace, Iran, iran war

The Question Islamabad Has Not Answered On the night of 16 March 2026, Pakistani warplanes struck a walled compound in Kabul’s ninth police district. Afghan officials say more than four hundred people died. The United Nations mission in Afghanistan has...

South Asia, India, Pakistan

There is major potential to develop hybrid renewable energy projects on existing hydropower sites, according to a new report by the think tank Ember Energy. We often think of renewable energy projects as standalone operations rather than resources that can...

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As the war in Ukraine trudges through its fifth year, deaths there now outnumber births at a nearly four-to-one ratio. According to figures published by the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice this week, Ukraine recorded 73,292 births and 259,853 deaths in the...

Russia, Diplomacy, Ukraine

R. James “Jim” Woolsey, a major Iraq and GWOT promoter and neoconservative Democrat, passed away Tuesday at 84. Woolsey served briefly as CIA director but rose to much greater prominence as a consistent promoter on television and in the Wall Street...

Iraq-war, Global-war-on-terror, Bush-administration

“Thirty-Year Sentence for Transporting Zines Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Free Speech,” an Intercept headline ( 6/26/26 ) shouted days after a federal court sentenced eight anti-ICE protesters to a combined 450 years in prison. The case stemmed from a July 4, 2025,...

Activism, Column, Courts & Law

Photo by Steve A Johnson on Unsplash The American left tends to include a lot of groups that, frankly, shouldn’t be all that tight. In particular, Muslims and the LGBT crowd. Islam has very harsh sentiments toward gays and lesbians, and Islamic...

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Humanitarian support keeps families buying food, shops trading and clinics open when crisis hits, says Abdullahi Nur Osman Foreign Office figures showing that the UK will almost halve bilateral aid to Somalia by 2029 ( Report, 16 July ) come as...

Foreign policy, Aid, Somalia

“Sheep in the Box,” the latest film by Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, opens with a title card informing us that we are “sometime in the not so distant future.” In this unspecified moment, Otone (Haruka Ayase) and Daigo (Kensuke Komoto)...

Arts & Culture, Film, Opinion

British politics is in a convulsive state. After 14 years in power, the Conservative Party has lost public support, and the Tony Blair version of the Labor Party is out of gas. Centrist Keir Starmer has just resigned to make...

Column, Europe, Opinion

Bronco AI builds AI agents for chip design and verification. Our goal is to get teams from spec to RTL-freeze as fast as possible by surfacing the nastiest bugs sooner and fixing them faster. Our agents work the way strong engineers...

Bronco AI, EDA, Events

The last EU agreement about the latest sanctions package against Russia is being presented by Brussels as another demonstration of European unity and determination to sustain economic pressure on the Kremlin. Since February 2022, sanctions have been one of the...

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