Officials say all seven people onboard killed, including Telemundo executive and Ecuador intelligence chief Seven people, including five Americans, were killed when a safari helicopter crashed on Wednesday morning in a remote part of northern Kenya, according to local police and...
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Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
Afshon Ostovar, one of the leading experts on Iran and the host of the members-only podcast The Iran Reckoning, is joined by War on the Rocks membership editor Kerry Anderson for a state-of-play conversation on the conflict between the United...
Passersby take part in a pickup football game organized by civilian search collectives on Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma during the World Cup, July 2026. © 2026 Jorge Peniche/Human Rights Watch By Jorge Peniche Aug 19 2026 (IPS) Weeks have gone by...
Trafigura Group and several other traders delivered more than 20,000 tons of copper into LME warehouses on Tuesday, the biggest one-day build in on-warrant stock since April, and the squeeze that had gripped the London market for the past week...
Hebron / PNN / In the Old City of Hebron, some traditional Palestinian crafts continue to resist decline, maintaining a fragile presence despite rapid change and a shrinking workforce. Among them is handmade glassmaking , a centuries-old craft passed down through...
Kyrgyzstan has provided some clarity on the source of the recent blackout that impacted four states in Central Asia, while vigorously denying blame for the cascading outage. Power outages were first reported in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek during the...
The Trump administration’s ‘America first’ approach has contributed to the scale of the crisis now unfolding in one of the world’s poorest countries For months health experts have warned that the scale of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of...
American star Kanye West's upcoming concerts in Russia have sparked political controversy, but they have done little to change the attitude of a grateful audience toward the artist. Does Kanye West Love Hitler? American rapper Ye (Kanye West) is officially coming to...
ALBAWABA- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Israel would not tolerate a Turkish military presence in Syria that it considers a threat to its security, following Israeli airstrikes on a Syrian military airbase and a sharp deterioration in...
Gaza – By Wael Oweida Football academies in the Gaza Strip, once a cornerstone for nurturing young talent, are struggling to survive amid widespread destruction and severe shortages, even as they continue to offer a rare outlet for children affected by...
The world’s largest battery-electric aircraft has completed its first flight using just $5 worth of electricity, with Heart Aerospace’s 25,000-pound X1 demonstrator flying for 27 minutes and putting a megawatt-scale electric propulsion system through its first airborne test. Heart Aerospace’s...
The entire pacific and cosmopolitan spirit if the nineties is exposed as an ideological cover to service interests of the rich Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His latest book, The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism...
Having lost the military war against Iran, the US is about to lose the economic war with its “ Operation Economic Fury ” offensive Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and former planner and advisor at...
Michael Roberts – Is economics changing?
Full ArticleMacroeconomics remains divorced from what is going on in the real economy Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Photo licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license Source:...
Key Takeaways from the webinar: Multi-agent intelligent assistant systems of the future will be architected to automate and augment SoC design and security verification and redefining semiconductor innovation, reshaping design, verification and security for the next generation of trusted silicon. The ESD...
Jelena Vidojević in conversation with Paul Stubbs Jelena Vidojević is a political scientist and co-founder of the New South Institute. She is also the editor of the ‘ Missing Voices: Critical Thinking in Times of Polycrisis’ series . Paul Stubbs is a...
Romania spent more than 2 million euros this month detonating rocks and sinking barges in the Danube, trying to shove enough water toward the Cernavoda nuclear plant to keep its reactors cool. It didn’t work. On Aug. 13, Nuclearelectrica began...
🗳️ This is Midterm Madness , the only newsletter you need to stay up to date on election news. Key race updates, money trails, numbers that cut through the spin, and campaign moments that say more than official talking points...
Saudi Aramco will supply full contractual crude volumes to at least three European refiners in September, offering deliveries from Egypt, Saudi Arabia and through ship-to-ship transfers off Malta as the war disrupts the kingdom’s normal export routes, Bloomberg reported on...
For months, Bangladesh and India had been attempting that favorite diplomatic maneuver, the “reset,” a word suggesting that international relations, like an obstinate Wi-Fi router, can be repaired by switching everything off and starting again. There was certainly plenty to...
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 4 August 2026. On August 1, 2026, Moussa Mara, Mali’s former prime minister and current president of the opposition party Yéléma, was released from prison after serving a one-year jail sentence. He was charged...
Jury refuses to convict seven Palestine Action ‘organisers’ for Israeli arms factory raid
Full ArticleJurors in an eight-week trial of Palestine Action activists who allegedly planned a raid on an Israeli-owned arms factory were discharged on Wednesday. It came after they told the court they had been unable to reach verdicts for seven of the...
Hezbollah have blunted yet another Israeli attempt to seize the strategic Ali al-Taher Hills in southern Lebanon, falling into a costly ambush – meanwhile, Iran issues a threat that it will not stand idly by and could soon escalate unless...
This statement was originally published on misa.org on 17 August 2026. Executive overview The general elections of 13 August 2026 served as a defining crucible for Zambia’s democratic integrity and the endurance of its civic institutions. Although the technical execution of the...
Is Donald Trump Good for the Korean Peninsula?
Full ArticleIn a fit of pique, Donald Trump recently scaled back the big annual military exercise between the United States and South Korea. He would have canceled it altogether if the 11-day Ulchi Freedom Shield training hadn’t already started. The U.S....
Inflation has leaped up following the reset of the energy price cap, official data has revealed, marking the likely beginning of a long run of increases in price growth. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) put the consumer price index...
Finland, often known as the happiest country in the world, now has the highest unemployment rate in Europe , demand for food aid has exploded by more than 70%, and homelessness, which had been declining for more than ten years,...
Chinese intelligence, military, political, and strategic circles received the news of the meeting between Egyptian Intelligence Chief Major General Hassan Rashad and a Hamas delegation in Cairo on Sunday, August 16, 2026, headed by Khalil Al-Hayya, as a pivotal step...
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is halting all trade, financial, and commercial ties with Iran until further notice, after saying Tehran had fired ballistic missiles targeting its territory. Late on Tuesday, the UAE’s Defense Ministry said that “assessments revealed the...
Drinking water shortages are no longer a problem confined to arid regions. In the summer of 2026, signs of a water crisis began appearing in countries where rivers, lakes and developed infrastructure had created an almost guaranteed sense of water...
Pentagon Unleashes Fury on ‘America-Hating’ Media
Full ArticleOver the past week , Pentagon officials launched a broadside against reports of dire conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, which has been deployed in the Middle East for more than eight months. Less than 24 hours after Defense...
For decades, India-Israel defense relations were straightforward. Israel possessed military technologies, weapons systems and operational expertise that India wanted, while India offered one of the world’s largest defense and weaponry markets. That equation is now changing at warp speed. India...
Angie Nixon Notches Upset in Florida Senate Primary
Full ArticleThis story was originally published by The 19th . Florida Democrat Angie Nixon , a progressive who recently joined the Democratic Socialists of America, won Democrats’ nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in a stunning upset that gave progressives a win...
Panda-powered tourism fuels summer resort economy in southwest China town The Shenshuping Base of Wolong China Giant Panda Garden, operated by the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda (CCRCGP), is home to over 70 giant pandas. The...
The Last Stand of the Corporate Democrats
Full ArticleMost discussions about the Democratic Party in this election cycle focus on the remarkable rise of progressive Democrats (such as Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon, a democratic socialist who yesterday scored an upset win in the Democratic contest for the...
Let’s rediscover what it means to be African
Full ArticleThe Beninese lawyer Moudjib Djinadou runs a new think tank, the Itumò Institute. He has published a new essay, *L’Afrique renégate*. What have you learnt from your experience on the ground at the heart of African crises? I have faced humanitarian crises,...
President Vladimir Putin has ordered the reconstruction of damaged facilities at a fundamentally new technological level. Over the past month, Wildberries logistics facilities in several Russian regions have come under drone attacks. Putin instructed the government to introduce a programme for...
Madrid government changes stance after previously saying anyone who entered territory illegally would be sent back - Europe live – latest updates The Spanish government has U-turned and said it will allow 500 migrant children in Ceuta to relocate to the mainland. The...
Ukraine hit a refinery in Russia’s Bashkortostan region overnight in a drone attack that sparked a fire, as Kyiv continues to pound Russian energy infrastructure to reduce Russian fuel supply. One of the refineries in Ufa, in the Bashkortostan republic,...
A popular former defense minister whose dismissal last month sparked protests has delivered a videotaped address to Ukrainians in which he assailed wartime corruption, warned of a systemic crisis of governance, and said the country must find a way to...
Washington may be biting off more than it can chew: escalating over Hormuz could trigger a wider confrontation, undermine U.S. credibility, and expose the limits of American power. A Strait at the Center of a New Power Struggle Trump’s Hormuz...
Jason Arday — I’d interweave love into our society
Full ArticleMain image: Supporters leave flowers after taking part in a vigil for late Cambridge professor Jason Arday in Trafalgar Square in central London on August 17, 2026, following his death at age 41 on August 14. Arday, the ex-Cambridge professor...
The Ukraine war has become fertile ground for a dangerously misguided way of thinking about the dynamics between Russia and the West — one that, if left unchecked, will set the stage for a larger and more destructive confrontation in...
Canada has won a three-day reprieve from President Donald Trump’s threatened 50% tariffs, but a final trade deal remains hung up on Canadian auto exports, leaving Washington and Ottawa until Friday to settle one of their biggest remaining disputes, Reuters...
This late summer, Quadric is taking its vision for programmable, on-device AI to three of the industry’s most influential gatherings. From advanced processor design at HotChips to scalable deployment at the AI Infra Summit and physical AI at Embedded World...
UK household energy bills are set to further rise from October by 4% to their highest level since the summer of 2023, as the Iran war has tightened global gas supply and made gas restocking in Europe more difficult and...
The Five Eyes links the intelligence agencies of Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States through arrangements for sharing signals intelligence. The operation has its origins in the Cold War but expanded significantly after September 11. Edward Snowden’s...
Putin’s visit to Iturup demonstrated Russia’s confidence in its control over the Kuril Islands, exposing the failure of Japan’s attempt to combine territorial pressure, Western-aligned sanctions, and strategic containment of Moscow. Putin’s Visit Reinforces Russia’s Sovereignty Over the Kurils On...
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