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The tight global diesel market is set to further tighten in the coming months and keep fuel prices high, raising the prices of all goods and threatening the inflation targets of the central banks. Industry officials, who gathered at the...

India’s refineries have been running at 105% to 108% capacity utilization in the past six months as demand for diesel soars and international fuel markets tighten amid the ongoing Middle East crisis. Refinery capacity utilization in the world’s third-largest crude...

The Strait of Hormuz has become the central pressure point in the escalating confrontation between the United States and Iran. Before the conflict, roughly 20 million barrels of oil moved through the narrow waterway each day, equivalent to about one...

President Donald Trump and the Republican Party are taking an unusual approach to the 2026 midterm elections by holding a national Republican convention in Dallas, just weeks before voters head to the polls. Unlike traditional party conventions, the gathering is...

PARIS / PNN / France will end trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, joining 11 other countries that have made similar commitments, the French government said, citing the deteriorating situation in the West Bank. France said the West...

Iran’s threat to target American warships with an enhanced ballistic missile appears to mark a new and potentially more dangerous phase of the Middle East conflict, six months in. Tehran says its solid-fuel Qassem Basir missile enables it to “take...

When the US-Israeli war against Iran began, few in Beijing or Moscow likely expected Tehran to withstand military pressure from two of the world’s most capable powers. In the early days, US and Israeli air, intelligence and technological superiority were...

Malaysia’s ruling coalition has said that people convicted in high profile corruption and abuse of power cases should serve their full sentences, as reports emerge that former Prime Minister Najib Razak may be seeking another royal pardon. Najib has been...

On September 12, New Delhi will host one of the year’s most long-awaited events, namely, the 18th BRICS Summit. How has India’s presidency unfolded, what can we expect from the meeting, and why have experts started discussing the seemingly impossible...

As a naval shipyard commander, my mandate from Navy leadership is straightforward: return warships to the fleet as quickly as possible. Neither my shipyard nor many other public and private shipyards are consistently fulfilling that mission.Public shipyard availabilities — the scheduled periods...

The United States has accused Chinese artificial intelligence companies of systematically copying technology from American AI firms, escalating an already tense technology relationship between the world’s two largest economies. US law enforcement and intelligence officials allege that Chinese companies are...

Oil prices hit the $100 per barrel mark early on Wednesday in Asian trade as the ongoing crisis in the Middle East has diminished hopes of U.S.-Iran talks and a return to normal oil flows soon. As of early morning...

Radhika Desai is a prominent Marxist political economist known for her work on geopolitical economy—a framework analyzing international relations through the lens of capitalist contradictions and the economic role of states . She is a Professor at the Department of Political...

Collective-defense pacts are meant to make war less likely. Poorly designed ones can do the opposite. If allies make sweeping promises without the military integration, decision-making mechanisms, and escalation controls needed to carry them out, they may invite adversaries to...

Chinese independent refiners may be about to start reducing their processing rates as international oil prices rise and supply from major exporters such as Venezuela and Iran dries up as a result of U.S. foreign policy decisions. “Teapots are unlikely...

Israel has ordered the British consulate in East Jerusalem to close within 30 days, while British diplomats assigned to a US led Gaza coordination mission and diplomats based in Ramallah have reportedly been given only seven days to leave. The...

The global economy has entered the second half of the year with surprising strength despite two wars, sharply higher energy prices and persistent geopolitical disruption. Rather than triggering a broad slowdown, the shocks have so far been absorbed by an...

Pakistan is about to get some energy relief with tankers carrying Qatari LNG set to arrive in the country this month. The first cargo is seen arriving as early as Thursday, Bloomberg reported, citing ship-tracking data. Pakistan has been struggling...

Authors: Jade McCulloch and Sopheak Srey* Nearly a year has passed since fighting along the Cambodia–Thailand border first forced families from their homes. Renewed hostilities in December 2025 brought another, far larger wave of displacement before a ceasefire was reached later...

On September 1, a US airstrike hit a family compound in Kuhestak, southern Iran, as women and children gathered for a wedding celebration. At least five people were killed and dozens more injured. Associated Press reporters who visited the town...

Numbers of the exquisitely graceful species are falling amid loss of food supply and habitat Few birds are quite as elegant as the blue crane. As I watched a pair feeding alongside a busy road in South Africa, against the rather...

The AfD’s victory in Saxony-Anhalt is not a triumph of right‑wing extremism but a signal that German voters are tired of a system that spends billions on rearmament and Ukraine while forgetting its own citizens. For many Germans, voting for...

Washington will watch this week’s BRICS summit through the lens of China, Russia and de-dollarization — and miss the more consequential story: Asian priorities on development, technology, energy and connectivity are quietly reshaping what BRICS has become. India has long...

After SR Talks in Beijing yielded positive eight-point consensus, experts and analysts in India have welcomed the new-found optimism in relations with China. However, the opinion in China remains wary of India suddenly turning friendly. Some even view this ‘friendly’...

Key regions of the brain linked to movement, learning and emotions were affected and may lead to cognitive problems Babies born to mothers with anaemia have smaller brains, particularly in key regions linked to movement, learning and the regulation of emotion,...

Oil prices continued to climb towards the $100 mark in early Asian trading on Wednesday after the U.S. destroyed five more Iranian crude tankers and Iran targeted U.S. forces in Jordan. These attacks are just the latest phase of a...

Oil prices finally hit the $100 mark early on Wednesday morning after the U.S. destroyed five more Iranian crude tankers and Iran targeted U.S. forces in Jordan. These attacks are just the latest phase of a major escalation that began...

North Korea’s commissioning of the Kang Kon signals that its naval modernization is moving beyond fleet renewal toward a broader effort to reshape deterrence and strategic competition in Northeast Asian waters. On September 6, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un...

Last week I was in England at a symposium with many Europeans and others from around the world. The main takeaway? Nonstop gratuitous insults of Donald Trump, America, and Americans – underpinned by complaints that America is “undependable” and “unpredictable”...

Islam Times - Defying global threats and years of foreign bombardment, Ansarullah, widely known as the Houthis, has consolidated its position as an entrenched political and military power in Yemen. By maintaining control over the northern highlands while projecting asymmetric...

On 12 August, NATO’s ambassadors met in Brussels to respond to a fortnight of Russian drones and missile debris crossing into Polish and Romanian airspace. The Alliance’s statement was unambiguous about responsibility—Russia, it said, “bears full responsibility for the airspace...

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner wound up their visit to Kyiv on September 6 after visiting Moscow the day prior. The US special diplomatic duo met with Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky, respectively. Both offered solutions that the Russians seemed...

Asia’s long resilience to turmoil in the Strait of Hormuz is wearing thin. After months of burning through reserves and shielding consumers from the worst of it, the region’s oil importers are running out of room — and a shock...

A quarter-century has passed since the terrorist attack that killed almost 3,000 people in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. During the first seven years after that mass atrocity, Pentagon spending doubled. The aftermath of 9/11 was also a...

More than six months after the U.S.-Iran war began, shipping traffic at the Strait of Hormuz remains disrupted, and oil prices are once again closing in on the $100 per barrel mark. The U.S. and Iran remain deadlocked at the...

For the first four months of the war between the United States and Israel and Iran, oil traders remained largely bearish. The overwhelming expectation was that the war would end soon—even as July rolled around—and oil flows out of Hormuz...

Authors: Janvi Singhi and Kanav Sharma* BRICS is moving into a more meaningful phase in its evolution. Its larger membership, considerable resources, population, and markets position it as a voice for the global south. Nevertheless, the fact that the BRICS...

Sharing its eastern border with Iran, its northern border with Turkey, its western border with Syria and Jordan, and its southern border with Saudi Arabia, Iraq is arguably the single most geopolitically important country to the U.S., China, and Russia...

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The United Kingdom, France, and Canada joined forces on Tuesday to ban imports of goods and some services from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, where settlers and soldiers are assailing, displacing and killing Palestinians at an unprecedented rate with the backing of Prime Minister...

Samsung’s Hot Chips 2026 presentation, “HBM Base Die: How HBM Will Evolve Using Advanced Logic Processes,” argues that the base die beneath a High Bandwidth Memory stack is about to become far more than a communications layer. Traditionally, an HBM...

Beyond its historical roots as a day to honor the achievements and contributions of workers, Labor Day has emerged as one of the largest retail sales weekends of the year in the U.S., second only to Black Friday. People usually...