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The public health emergencies in 2022 and 2024 saw the virus reported in 145 countries, but in the new cases children appear particularly affected A fresh outbreak of mpox in Guinea Bissau – the country’s first – means the virus formerly...

Vessel traffic at the Strait of Hormuz remains well below recent averages as Iran and Oman discuss a temporary shipping corridor in the key chokepoint that could lead to a kind of ‘interim’ reopening. Only five commodity vessels moved in...

In Ghana, a grassroots movement is championing nutritious, homegrown, climate-resilient produce, rather than western imports After three years at catering school, Abiro Wisdom was certain of one thing – he did not want to go into catering. At least not the...

While the West seems to specialize in deciding which elections are valid, “free and fair,” and worthy of recognition, it also seems to specialize in turning a blind eye when their handpicked puppet dictators suspend elections and rule as tyrants....

Japan is today set to announce an energy import diversification plan that will include stipulations about support for pipelines in the Middle East aimed at diverting export oil flows away from the Strait of Hormuz. The plan also features a...

Islam Times - The bitter experience of Iran’s occupation in September 1941 showed that neutrality without the backing of power is no guarantee of security. Today, Iran is relying on its people, indigenous capabilities, national cohesion, and defense and diplomatic...

Every crisis in the Middle East returns the world’s attention to the same stretch of water. When tankers are seized, or missiles fly near the Persian Gulf, oil prices move, insurers reprice risk, shipping reroutes, and the United States repositions...

Three Indian refining companies and “a global energy major” will stop using tankers included in a black list that Iran issued earlier on Sunday in response to U.S. sanctions, Reuters has reported, citing unnamed sources. The list includes 45 vessels...

Ukraine celebrated this year’s independence day on August 24 in the presence of key allies and amid the unfolding of another major corruption scandal. It all started when Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s defense minister until his dismissal as part of a...

NEW YORK — The moment the US debt crossed US$40 trillion, it stopped being a number and became a gravitational force — one powerful enough to bend Asia’s bond markets, currencies and policy priorities. Officials in Tokyo know this better...

Crude oil prices dipped earlier today following news reports about Iran and Oman renewing their talks about joint management of the Strait of Hormuz, as those reports were taken to mean the waterway could soon reopen for normal traffic. Reuters...

Canadian Prime Minister Carney has announced the suspension of Canada-United States trade talks, citing “last-minute changes” made by American negotiators that “were unfair, uneconomic and called into question the reliability of any deal.” Within hours, President Donald Trump’s new Section...

South Korea is betting extraordinary sums on artificial intelligence. President Lee Jae-myung has backed an 800 trillion won (US$578 billion) semiconductor expansion involving Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, promoted a new chip hub in the country’s southwest and joined Korean...

India’s interest in joining the French-led Future Combat Air System (FCAS) program reflects a convergence of strategic necessity, where India needs a credible path to next-generation airpower, while France needs a financially and industrially viable partner to sustain its sixth-generation...

Japan’s national pension fund and its pension system in general face serious challenges that have recently been aggravated by an attempt to politicize the allocation of investments meant to secure the long-term welfare of the nation’s citizens. Japanese Finance Minister...

Donald Trump’s chaotic isolationism is pushing Mecca to bury America. From Africa to the Caribbean theater, the American withdrawal leaves the field open to new Eurasian coalitions, consecrating the humiliation of Washington. Even as Iran announces to the world its...

Islam Times - According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, senior US military and intelligence officials had warned Donald Trump about the serious consequences of an attack on Iran before the war began. But a war that was...

Islam Times - Hezbollah Secretary General His Eminence Sheikh Naim Qassem will deliver a televised speech on Friday, August 28, 2025 at 8:30 p.m. Beirut time, during a commemorative festivity on the occasion of the birth anniversary of the Holy...

Wars in the 21st century aren’t fought only with missiles and soldiers anymore. Increasingly, they’re fought through banking systems, shipping lanes, semiconductor controls and currency clearing networks. The battlefield has quietly expanded from territory to economic architecture. And what’s happened...

The trade war between Washington and Ottawa is a reactionary conflict involving two capitalist ruling classes striving to advance the predatory imperialist interests of their respective nation-states. The real division is not between Canada and America, but between the working...

The Trump administration on Monday launched what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called an “economic D-Day” against Iran—a campaign of secondary sanctions aimed at every country, bank and company that trades with Tehran, above all China, which took roughly nine-tenths of...

For decades, the assumption underpinning global politics was simple: American power, however imperfect, anchored the system. Allies might occasionally foster frustrations surrounding US unilateralism but stayed close to Washington because the alternative, a world without a clear anchor, seemed riskier....

By: Tim Daiss The disruption of liquefied natural gas (LNG) flows through the Strait of Hormuz has exposed an uncomfortable reality for Taiwan. Its energy imports remain acutely vulnerable to events thousands of kilometers from its shores. However, the more troubling...

Strip away the diplomatic briefings, Congressional hearings and the endless cable news loops about centrifuges, regional proxies and cyber attacks, and you hit a raw unvarnished nerve. What truly disturbs the United States about the Islamic Republic is not its...

After decades confined largely to laboratories, nuclear fusion is beginning to attract the kind of money and industrial planning normally reserved for technologies expected to make it onto the grid. Global private investment in fusion hit a record $4.48 billion...

Three days after a prominent artificial intelligence investor and his wife donated $1 million to a political action committee boosting Nevada Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo’s reelection campaign, Lombardo publicly endorsed the state’s booming data-center buildout. A week later, the PAC...

The reported move of Amit Gupta, Jeff Dyck, and Ryan Silk from Siemens EDA to Synopsys matters because this is more than a routine transfer of experienced executives and engineers. Together, the three represent a concentrated body of expertise in...

In this issue: - PRC response to “Economic D-Day” - The Zhong Caiwen articles - Cadre accountability for environmental damage - Formaldehyde Kimchi? - Corruption investigators still looking at PLA Rocket Force The Feed: Business, Economy and Trade - Politics and Law - Foreign and Defense...

As Russia remains occupied with its war in Ukraine, Iran focuses on defending its territory against U.S. and Israeli attacks, and China maintains its involvement in both conflicts under the bar that would trigger direct conflict with America, Washington is...

Lance Hacking, Intel Intel Core Series 3, code-named Wildcat Lake, is a mainstream client system-on-chip derived from the Panther Lake-based Core Ultra Series 3 architecture. Its design objective is not maximum feature density, but broad deployment of current-generation CPU, graphics, AI,...

U.S. refineries have been running at full speed for months to make up for lost fuel supply from the Middle East. Fuel exports from the United States have been breaking records. This may be about to change, and not because...

Bloomberg's continuous front-month uranium futures contract (UXA1 Comdty) briefly surged above $100 a pound in late January, driven by tightening supplies, renewed government support for nuclear power, and rising electricity demand from the AI infrastructure boom. Uranium futures then retreated...

Seven crude carriers were moored at Iraq’s Persian Gulf export facilities on August 24—a sharp increase from recent weeks. The carriers had a combined carrying capacity of roughly 13 million barrels, according to satellite imagery analyzed by Bloomberg. TankerTrackers.com separately...

Norway has started production from the second stage of the Troll Phase 3 development, accelerating 55 billion cubic meters of natural gas from the Troll West reservoir and helping sustain high gas deliveries to Europe from one of the continent’s...

Andy Burnham has suggested tax rises could be on the cards in the looming Autumn Budget, warning he “won’t be unrealistic” over the state of the public purse. The Prime Minister quickly pledged to give people “breathing space” and ease...

In Episode 2 of the Muslim Money Matters mini-series, brother Adam Taufique breaks things down to the basics! What’s the difference between financial literacy and Islamic financial literacy? How should you start managing your money? Is it all just a...

A full-scale trade war has erupted between the United States and Canada, with consequences that could have significant implications for Russia. The U.S.-Canada trade war turns personal In short, U.S. negotiators failed to reach an understanding with Canada over new tariffs on...