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Five years after Indian Point’s last reactor shut down, Albany rediscovered the appeal of electricity that runs around the clock without burning fossil fuels. Governor Kathy Hochul wants 5 gigawatts of new nuclear capacity, with at least 1 GW developed by the publicly...

US President Donald Trump has spent his second term threatening takeovers of various other countries, from Canada and Cuba to Greenland, and on Monday he shared on social media a map that fueled fresh fears of his imperialist “Donroe Doctrine.” The map on Trump’s Truth Social platform shows the US flag over not...

For more than a century, Pan-Africanism gave Africa a powerful political vocabulary of unity, solidarity, dignity, and liberation. This ideology emerged from a continent determined to reclaim control over its destiny after colonial exploitation and domination. But what happens when...

Rosneft has shipped the first crude oil cargo from the Vostok Oil project in Eastern Siberia, despite sanctions targeting Russia’s energy industry and the exit of Western business partners. At peak capacity, the project is expected to produce between 50...

Latest Analysis from Arab Center Washington DC: Reading Palestinian Polls—and Misreading Palestinian Politics By Yousef Munayyer Yousef Munayyer is the head of the Palestine/Israel Program and Senior Fellow The latest poll from the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research...

The biggest U.S. legacy automakers look to turn the losses from their underutilized electric vehicle battery capacity into a new profitable business to seize the soaring demand for battery storage energy systems. GM and Ford, which, due to poor demand,...

Islam Times - Former Pentagon chief Leon Panetta has warned that Washington’s war against Iran is on course to become another failed US military aggression in West Asia, similar to Iraq and Afghanistan, as the United States struggles to break...

The woman who knocked at my door wore a pair of cheap white sunglasses. She asked for something to eat. Then another woman came, and she knocked at my door and said that she was from the Patriotic Alliance. She...

The investigations published by The New York Times and The Washington Post should not be dismissed as another collection of allegations emerging from Sudan’s opaque civil war. Taken together, they present the most substantial publicly available evidence yet that elements...

I've been writing for more than a decade and a half about a broad category of metals often nowadays dubbed "strategic" because they are crucial to high-tech applications such as solar photovoltaic panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles, flat screens, semiconductors,...

Russia will remain a key crude oil supplier to India, Russia’s Ambassador to India, Denis Alipov, said in an interview with Asian News International, in which he also criticized the planned U.S. legislation to slap tariffs on countries importing Russian...

On Tuesday at #DAC2026 I attended the exhibitor presentation, Synopsys: How Silicon Startups are Addressing the AI Memory Gap . Vikram Bhatia from Synopsys introduced the two presentations from Wenbo Yin, SVP of IC Design at TetraMem and R. Scott...

Copper is riding its longest weekly winning streak since 1994, and the physical market underneath the rally keeps getting thinner. Benchmark prices on the London Metal Exchange notched a 10th straight weekly gain through last Friday, trading near $14,300 a...

In recent years, the space around Kaliningrad has been getting tighter. Poland is building fortifications along the Russian border, Lithuania is restricting transit under the sanctions regime, NATO is strengthening its presence in the Baltic, and Western military officials are...

China has paused approvals for new battery storage factories amid a review of existing and planned capacity, Chinese financial news outlet Cailianshe reported this weekend, citing industry sources. The temporary suspension of approvals of plants that have not started construction...

Germany's political landscape shifted sharply to the right on Sunday, September 6, as the Alternative for Germany (AfD) won a record result in the state election in Saxony-Anhalt. The party secured 43.8 percent of the vote, more than twice the...

Back on June 4, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Russian leader Vladimir Putin were all smiles amid the ceremonial groundbreaking for the construction of Uzbekistan’s first cluster of nuclear reactors, to be built by Russia’s nuclear entity Rosatom. “I am...

The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have found themselves at the center of a major crisis following news investigations by leading U.S. media outlets that exposed their involvement in developing and deploying chemical weapons in the ongoing conflict against the Rapid...

Bottom line: Documented Ukrainian graft becomes diplomatic leverage on its own schedule, independent of its dollar value — the 2024 $40 million case and 2025’s NABU/SAPO law both proved that. This time, the reformer who was closing the exact loophole...

The global power of most Middle Eastern countries remains dependent on their oil and/or gas output, so it is little wonder they try to maximise this, either by pushing production higher or by pretending it is higher, or by forecasting...

The prices of crudes from Canada, South America, and Africa have jumped in recent weeks as Chinese oil import demand is rising from a decade-low, benchmark prices rally, and Middle East supply remains disrupted. The Djeno crude from Congo, one...

TODAY’S NUMBERS: $97.19 (Brent crude, a six-week high) · $5.85 (US retail diesel, a record) · 4.79% (US 10-year Treasury yield) War in the Gulf is repricing oil and diesel, while a hot jobs report keeps a Fed rate hike...

The Trump administration has revived its diplomatic drive to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, as US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner traveled from Moscow to Kyiv in a high-profile effort to lay the groundwork for another round of negotiations....

Despite serious geopolitical challenges, the intensification of confrontational trends globally, and the overall deterioration of the international situation, India is successfully and worthily conducting an active chairmanship of this major and authoritative association of Global South states. On September 12–13,...

The renewed rally in crude oil and LNG prices and the higher freight costs are pressuring the marketing margins of India’s oil and gas sector, which has to contend with the fallout of the Iran war on global oil and...

It was around seven o’clock in the evening when we arrived at a church in the city of Hama, Syria, to attend the wedding of a friend. As guests gradually filled the courtyard, music began to echo through the building....

Saudi Aramco's 400,000-barrel-per-day Jizan refinery was hit in a new attack Monday, threatening a major Red Sea refining hub while Saudi Arabia is moving more oil west to avoid the Strait of Hormuz. The Financial Times reported that the facilities...

Iran said Monday that it is preparing to sign an agreement with Oman establishing a new shipping corridor through the Strait of Hormuz under Iranian control, with vessels required to coordinate with Tehran to enter a new restricted maritime zone...

India’s average crude import price soared to above $100 per barrel at the end of last week and is set to further rise this week as international crude prices rallied amid intensified hostilities in the Middle East. The so-called Crude...

The Kremlin said Monday that it does not rule out restarting trilateral peace talks between Russia, Ukraine and the United States, although it stressed that there is currently no agreement on when or where negotiations could resume. The comments followed...

Indonesia is once again dominating headlines across Southeast Asia as dense plumes of toxic haze drift into neighboring skies. Latest satellite monitoring data from the Ministry of Forestry’s SiPongi system confirms that over 202,000 hectares of forest and land have...

After International Energy Agency executive director Fatih Birol labeled the ongoing global energy turmoil the “biggest energy security threat in history” in April, events over the summer vindicated his warning. The United States authorized the grid operator Southwest Power Pool,...

Oil prices could surge to as much as $120 per barrel if attacks on shipping in the Middle East intensify, according to Goldman Sachs. “Events over the last few days do suggest that the risk of shipping disruptions broadening and...

Half a dozen empty liquefied natural gas carriers are en route to Qatar in what may be a sign that QatarEnergy is preparing to restart loadings, Bloomberg has reported, citing ship-tracking data from Kpler. The data showed six tankers with...

Torrential rain causes widespread damage; while north-west South Africa hit by thunderstorms and central-southern US faces oppressive heat Typhoon Saudel brought days of torrential rain to Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian and Guangdong provinces in south-east China last week. The city of Putian,...

Iran says it will announce a new restricted zone in the Gulf and publish maps for a new shipping corridor through the Strait of Hormuz in the coming days, adding another layer of tension around one of the world’s most...

Editor’s note: This is the tenth article in a limited series celebrating American defense technologies born from wartime and their effects on broader national security, politics, and society. This series will run for several weeks to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary,...