Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham is expected to approve the development of the Jackdaw natural gas field in the North Sea before the end of the month, the BBC reported, citing unnamed sources. The Jackdaw project, along with Rosebank, was initially...
As Chinese exports keep surging, Western tariffs increasingly blur the line between defending fair competition and protecting industries from superior global competitors. The European Union has threatened “harsher measures” as it approaches an October 2026 deadline to conclude a deal...
A U.S. campaign to squeeze Iran’s economy by blocking its oil exports and tightening sanctions is increasingly putting pressure on Tehran, according to three senior Iranian sources cited by Reuters. Washington has intensified economic measures in an effort to force...
On Aug. 25, at the People’s Palace in Damascus, Mazloum Abdi announced the dissolution of the Syrian Democratic Forces, which he had commanded for a decade. Speaking first in Arabic and then in Kurdish, he said the force had joined...
Emirati ADNOC is still loading liquefied natural gas in the Persian Gulf despite the latest exchange of strikes between the United States and Iran, Bloomberg has reported, citing satellite imaging data. The data showed one tanker docked at ADNOC’s Das...
India’s economy grew 7.8% year on year in the April to June quarter, beating economists’ expectations of 7.1%. The strong performance was supported by investment, manufacturing and consumer demand. However, the unexpectedly high figure has triggered debate over whether India’s...
Most people around the world have probably come to know the American aircraft carrier in much the same way: through US Navy publicity films, Hollywood blockbusters, television news and political debates. For decades, these images taught us what an American...
Once again the EU demonstrates its helplessness. Besides, the Germans are experts in cheating in these matters. Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and former planner and advisor at the US State Department’s Office of Counter...
Crude oil prices extended their climb today and are set for a sharp weekly gain as the war in the Middle East continues with little chance of peace. At the time of writing, Brent crude was trading at $95.55 per...
More than a week after the devastating August 26 flood in Nepal, rescue teams are searching damaged hydropower projects for people who may still be trapped inside tunnels. An engineers’ WhatsApp group has become an important source of real time...
By James Alix Michel VICTORIA, Seychelles, Sep 4 2026 (IPS) There is an older wisdom, quieter than the noise of our times, that whispers a simple truth: we are not the architects of nature, only its guests. Long before there were nations,...
The opening moves of a future US-China war over Taiwan may be made not across the Pacific but hundreds of kilometers above it, as both sides race to seize the orbital advantage that underpins modern military power. The US and...
The meeting between President Vladimir Putin and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the sidelines of the SCO Bishkek summit laid a new foundation for constructive bilateral ties. Russo-Turkish Relations Take On New Tradition of Effective Growth At the summit marking...
This statement was originally published on mediarightsagenda.org on 18 August 2026. The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice has ruled that access to the Internet is a right within the right to freedom of expression and is necessary for the achievement of...
As the US prepares to mark 25 years since Sept. 11, 2001, Donald Trump has removed top Al Qaeda figures from the US list of designated terrorists. Among those he delisted was Abdullah Muhaysini, a Saudi cleric who recruited child...
This article, which originally appeared in Arab Digest, is republished with permission. Last week, Syria’s Kurds entered a new stage in their struggle for political recognition. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) formally announced their dissolution as part of a complicated...
Tucked away in the funding package passed by Congress this week is a provision that extends the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) through the end of 2028. The two-year extension of AGOA — a preferential trade deal that offers eligible...
The eerie silence of the ocean When people think of the South China Sea, they usually picture deep blue waters, peaceful waves over beautiful coral reefs, and busy shipping lanes filled with massive cargo ships. However, this calm surface often...
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced today that the European Union has “officially joined” the American sanctions campaign against Iran — Operation Economic Outcast — and framed Tehran’s choice in the usual absolutes: complete global isolation and a subsistence economy,...
The Trump administration just announced it intends to let Wall Street investment advisers pour campaign cash into the coffers of politicians who control access to trillions of dollars in workers’ retirement savings. President Donald Trump’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said...
Togo-sponsored resolution calls to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland The UN general assembly will vote on Friday on a resolution for the world to formally phase out the traditional Mercator map of the globe...
Turkey declared mid-August by presidential decree the establishment of two marine parks beyond its territorial waters. The first marine park lies in the northeastern Aegean Sea, covering a maritime area between the Greek islands of Lemnos and Samothrace, west of...
By: Jens Kastner Taiwan officials inspect a wartime military trial exercise. Photo from Taiwan’s Military News Agency The Taiwanese military frequently reveals its soldiers’ full Chinese and English names to local media, putting it at odds with the counter-intelligence practices in places...
While many mainstream commentators blanch at the characterization of the United States as an empire, the hard data show that it is today impossible to seriously dispute. The U.S. military operates between 750 and 800 bases around the world, located...
There is a point in the decline of republics when the problem is no longer that government breaks its own laws. Governments will always behave unlawfully. The deeper problem comes when the constitutional machinery designed to prevent those acts stops...
Reprinted with permission from Trita Parsi’s Substack. A final deal between the United States and Iran is slipping further out of reach. Since the Memorandum of Understanding collapsed in July, the prospects for reviving it have deteriorated by the day....
For decades, Venezuela has been one of China’s most important partners in Latin America and the largest recipient of Chinese government funds in Latin America, with Beijing lending Caracas tens of billions of dollars and accepting oil as repayment. Chinese...
The United States and Japan are racing to build a new global supply chain for critical minerals, backing the effort with fresh government subsidies and industry support – but slow government-to-government dealmaking and simmering geopolitical disputes threaten to blunt their...
The Pentagon has reportedly extended Middle East deployments of American troops, fighter squadrons, and warships into next year as the deadly, expensive, and deeply unpopular Iran war drags on with no end in sight. The Wall Street Journal reported late Wednesday that Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth...
U.S. President Donald Trump told oil producers and refiners that he wants lower gasoline prices, immediately, at a meeting at the White House this week. As gasoline prices remain above $4 per gallon on average across the United States and...
We recorded this week’s episode of Sharp China earlier today - China's Global Strategy; Tragedy on the Nepal-Tibet Border; A 19-1 Vote at the G-20; TikTok Dodges Congress - and will come out at 5AM ET Friday, and will be...
Big Tech is betting trillions of dollars on artificial intelligence, with a lot of that to be spent on building the data centers that would power large language models. Stock markets are reflecting this in Big Tech stocks, but that’s...
Plessey Semiconductors manufactures monolithic MicroLED displays for near-eye augmented-reality systems, where pixel pitch, brightness, uniformity, and defect density directly determine usable yield. Its process integrates device design, epitaxy, wafer fabrication, bonding, and production in one facility. The displays… Read More The...
The daily benchmark measuring the cost of shipping raw materials across major global maritime routes is breaking out to a nearly three-year high this week, as Bloomberg reports that typhoons are squeezing the supply of Capesize vessels just as mining...
Heavy trucks were supposed to be the place where batteries stopped working. Electric cars could manage school runs and commuting, critics conceded. But long-distance freight needed range, rapid refueling and maximum payload. Batteries would be too large, too heavy and...
GAZA (PNN) — By Islam Al-Mazloom In a tent among the displaced, a piece of cloth can become a curtain, an empty can of peas a puppet, and a narrow street or small square a stage. Here, Palestinian artists are reinventing...
On August 26, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two Palestine advocacy groups—Palestine Action and Masar Badil—along with an anti-fascist group, Autistici/Inventati, designating them as Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) organizations. These designations seek...
Freedom Edge 26’s nuclear-capable bomber component, paired with unusually explicit official language about North Korea’s “nuclear and missile threats,” is not deterrence signaling aimed at Pyongyang — it is compensatory reassurance aimed at Seoul and Tokyo, timed to offset the...
It was a relatively subdued Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit for Chinese leader Xi Jinping. He departed the host city Bishkek having made few attention-grabbing headlines. There were no big announcements or viral moments, unlike at 2025’s SCO summit on Xi’s...
Abductions are resurging and may be spreading to new areas – with young children among the victims. A military response alone won’t work Early last month, Nigeria’s government announced the largest single-day hostage rescue in its history, with the freeing of...
War has always been a brutal engine of medical innovation, running on a feedback loop: Civilian breakthroughs are adapted for the battlefield, while battlefield necessity pushes advances back into civilian care. We asked three experts to identify the innovations from...
China’s oil consumption fell 9% year over year in the second quarter as expensive crude accelerated the use of electric cars, trucks, rail and industrial equipment. The decline helped cut China’s carbon dioxide emissions by 1% during the quarter, according...
This is a web version of The Lever ’s daily email newsletter. 🔥 New on Lever Time : Susan Collins isn’t out of the woods yet . 👀 Watch: AOC tells The Lever about her 2028 calculus . 👇 Further down in this...
The drone strike that hit a gasoline tank at the Zawiya refinery in August was more than a security incident. Zawiya is Libya’s largest operating refining facility, and the National Oil Corporation warned that continued attacks could force operations to...
Dr. Karishma Manzur challenges the Democratic establishment in New Hampshire with an insurgent progressive senatorial campaign. Manzur aims to restore the true meaning of ‘public service.’ Transcript Chris Hedges: Dr. Karishma Manzur is a medical scientist with a PhD in biochemistry and molecular...
Preamble Hardware-assisted verification (HAV) platforms, including hardware emulators and FPGA-based prototyping systems, are the two dominant methodologies for validating long workloads on complex System-on-Chip (SoC) designs before tape-out . HAV sits within a broader continuum of verification engines : simulation …...
Money organized through finance is a bet on, and a catalyst for, a particular vision of the future. Arjun Jayadev teaches Economics at Azim Premji University and is a Senior Economist at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. J. W. Mason is...
Brazil's Congress passed a bill Wednesday letting the government block foreign takeovers of mining companies and scrutinize who gets access to the country's mineral reserves…the thing is, though...Brazil still can't turn its rare earth ore into a single magnet, and...
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