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An attack on an energy facility which was shut down for four days last month was carried out by hackers linked to the Iranian regime. The cyberattack, which is believed to be the first time Iranian-affiliated hackers have successfully infiltrated...

Events in the Middle East regularly put Israel at the center of the world's media attention. It is portrayed sometimes as the attacking side and sometimes as the defending side; sometimes as a US ally following Washington's lead, and sometimes...

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said he would be pleased if the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) expelled Armenia from the alliance. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded that if Armenia wants to leave, it should do so itself. What is...

Natural gas prices in Europe need to jump by December for European storage to fill up with enough inventory for the coming winter if the Strait of Hormuz crisis persists and keeps spot LNG prices in Asia elevated, according to...

Cloud-based EDA has been around for awhile now, so at #DAC2026 I met with Vikram Bhatia, Executive Director of Synopsys Cloud to see what’s new with their offering. His background includes stints at Sun, IBM, Microsoft, HP, Oracle and NetApp....

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's push to bolster international support and receive additional air defenses continues on August 24 as the so-called Coalition of the Willing meets to discuss ways to pressure Russia to halt its invasion months ahead of another...

An Integrated Approach to National, European and Global Resilience The healthcare sector worldwide is facing an increasing threat from cyberattacks. Between 2022 and 2025, the European Repository of Cyber Incidents (EuRepoC) rec­orded a total of 351 significant attacks on healthcare facilities....

Amid the ongoing fuel crisis in Russia, authorities are rushing to ease concerns that the shortages are worsening. Russia has been suffering from a gasoline and diesel crunch since the spring, when Ukraine intensified its drone attacks at Russian refineries,...

Gunmen ‌attacked worshippers in Dekara village on Friday taking women, children and older people An armed group has posted a video showing what ⁠residents said were about ⁠600 women, children and ​older people abducted in an attack on a mosque in...

Iran has blacklisted 45 oil, LNG, LPG and product tankers using the Strait of Hormuz, threatening fines, detention and cargo confiscation as Tehran retaliates against Washington’s looming “economic D-Day.” The list includes vessels owned by shipping companies tied to two...

Norwegian oil and gas firms Equinor and Aker BP have made a gas and condensate discovery close to the operating Balder field in the North Sea, the Norwegian Offshore Directorate, the regulator of the industry in Norway, said on Monday....

SiFive is bringing RISC-V closer to mainstream datacenter deployment with the BigSky SF-2U870, an enterprise-grade development server designed for hyperscalers, semiconductor companies, software vendors, and ecosystem partners. Announced in Santa Clara on August 24, 2026, alongside Hot Chips, the rackable...

Our intrepid team covers a lot of ground in this episode: the increasing fluidity of the battlefield, drones and air defense, the biting Black Sea campaign, the causes and aftermath of the firing of Ukraine’s popular defense minister, why Ukraine...

The Norwegian government is asking the country’s Supreme Court to overturn lower-court rulings that invalidated the development permits of three new oilfields in Norway’s North Sea. The case was brought to court three years ago by environmental organizations Greenpeace Nordic...

Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala has threatened to approach the courts to halt his testimony before the Madlanga Commission after his senior counsel, Annalise van den Heever, fell ill and could not attend Monday’s proceedings. Matlala told the commission that he was not...

The collapse of multiculturalism in Ceuta works in Russia’s favor, as it could trigger the fall of Europe’s Russophobic governments. Sanchez Uses Rubber Bullets Against Migrants in Ceuta Spanish police used rubber bullets in Ceuta to contain migrants attempting to leave a...

Ebola is a disease that spreads through communities, so we need to listen to communities if we want to halt its spread Each time we travel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), we go first to listen. In Bunia,...

Japan’s nationwide day-ahead electricity price soared by 20% in one week to settle on Monday at the highest level since January 2023, as gas supply disruptions from the Middle East and an intense heatwave pushed up prices and consumption. The...

Britain’s decision to provide Ukraine with classified information on British-made components used in SCALP long-range cruise missiles has triggered a sharp response from Moscow, with the Kremlin accusing London of deliberately prolonging the war and warning that its latest support...

West African country reports 46 suspected cases in outbreak declared in July, amid fears virus may be spreading undetected More than half of the mpox cases reported in Guinea-Bissau have been among children, local authorities have said, almost two months since...

Pakistan has stepped into a delicate diplomatic role as tensions between Washington and Tehran enter a potentially dangerous new phase, with Army Chief Asim Munir visiting Iran on Monday for talks aimed at promoting regional peace and stability. His visit...

Norway plans to continue exploring for oil and gas in its Arctic waters in the Barents Sea regardless of whether the European Union supports or lifts a moratorium on Arctic drilling, Norway’s Energy Minister Terje Aasland told Reuters. Norway, not...

The rupture between Russia and Europe cannot be understood solely as a geopolitical fracture. It rests on an older divergence between the Orthodox East, heir to Byzantium, and the Latin West, reconfigured after the collapse of the Western Roman world...

This exclusive Cogs of War interview is with Brandon Tseng, the co-founder and president of Shield AI and a former Navy SEAL, whose company builds the Hivemind autonomy software, the V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon synthetic reality and simulation...

China has spent years modifying civilian ferries to launch amphibious armored vehicles, developing specialized equipment to move forces ashore without conventional port facilities, hardening dozens of air bases, and rapidly expanding the missile forces that could be used to deter...

Exxon is in the running for Shell’s U.S. chemicals business that could fetch $8 billion, the Financial Times reported today, citing unnamed sources familiar with developments. The U.S. supermajor is competing with LyondellBasell, Apollo Global Management, and the Kuwait Petroleum...

U.S. refiners are facing an unprecedented test as they operate near maximum capacity to capitalise on extraordinary profits created by the Iran war, but the strategy carries a growing risk: the harder refineries are pushed, the greater the possibility of...

Mildred Okwo’s earnest film about the conflicting romantic wishes in a Nigerian family struggles to connect with its promising premise It’s a stretch for this Nigerian romcom to bill itself “the first Nollywood-Bollywood collaboration” based on the fact that it features,...

Tanker traffic via the Strait of Hormuz remained weak over the weekend, with fewer than 20 vessels traversing the chokepoint as Iran and the United States traded threats again. Some 13 tankers passed through the strait on Saturday, with only...

I never knew Birol Altınkılıç in person, but I knew of him far enough to be writing these words in his memory. The news of the sudden loss of Birol Altınkılıç spread quickly through gastronomy circles in Türkiye, almost at...

Nikolai Patrushev’s visit to Brazil demonstrates that Moscow is not isolated and that Brasília is resisting renewed U.S. strategic pressure in Latin America. Russia and Brazil are quietly expanding cooperation in naval operations, maritime logistics, shipbuilding, fisheries, trade, and technology,...

Anthropic has just published the results of a protein design campaign. Fifteen targets, a written brief and an instruction to design small proteins that latch onto them. The model succeeded against fourteen. Between 22.6% and 35.1% of its designs bound...

Politicians don’t often find themselves on packages of cookies. Nor do their bags tend to go viral, sparking a fashion craze. But few politicians are quite like Japan’s first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi. Since she took office in October,...

On Friday I sent out a piece entitled “The US does not understand air power, does Ukraine?” It caused a little stir. People have called it the anti-Wildberries campaign, which I suppose is partly right. However, the key thing was...

Here’s a realistic scenario how the next serious crisis around digital sovereignty will play out. It will not be a conventional cyberattack. An AI agent, pursuing an assigned objective, will identify another AI system as an obstacle and attempt to...

Oil prices fell by more than 2% in early Asian trade on Monday as traders took profits and markets awaited details of a new U.S. sanctions package against Iran. At the time of writing, WTI futures were trading at $85.18...

In early August, a Pentagon official stood in front of reporters and conceded something the department almost never says out loud: the world’s best-funded military cannot out-produce a country under invasion. Travis Metz, deputy director of the Defense Innovation Unit,...