Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
Quadric has extended its Series C financing to $46 million through a second close led by the International Finance Corporation, the private-sector investment arm of the World Bank Group. The transaction raises Quadric’s total capital secured to approximately $90 million...
A public dispute at the United Nations Security Council has unexpectedly brought together countries with sharply opposing geopolitical interests while raising new questions about the future of relations between Paris and Washington. During a Security Council meeting, U. S. diplomats walked...
When U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Manila in mid-July for regional diplomatic talks, the trip was framed as a direct sign of American commitment to Pacific security. Before the week was out, however, a Chinese coast guard...
Investment in defence tech start-ups has reached a record high this year as the world’s biggest arms companies step up spending on new military technology. New figures from Dealroom show defence contractors including BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin and Airbus have...
For generations , the United States has been a global advocate for freedom, democracy and the rule of law. Today, however, the world is calling on the United States to uphold those same principles at home. Last month, the International Trade...
The following story is co-published with Matt Bivens’ Substack newsletter, The 100 Days. Over his decades as Iran’s religious and government leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had consistently rejected nuclear weapons. Khamenei ruled that these ridiculously violent explosives, with their promise of...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky landed in Washington with a bang Tuesday, just days after Ukraine carried out a missile strike against an Iranian cargo ship in the Caspian Sea. The attack appears to be part of Zelensky’s effort to win over...
When I was in high school, we were told that we needed to go to college. If we didn’t, we’d miss out on significant lifetime earnings. It didn’t matter what we majored in, you see, just that we went. Tilting At...
The European Union could save a lot on LNG imports by 2030 if it achieves its heat pump, solar, and wind installation targets…so much so that the bloc could save twice the gas it imports from Qatar, the Institute for...
This story was originally published by Sentient . For years , Bayer and the biotech giant it purchased, Monsanto, have faced allegations that glyphosate , the active ingredient in its popular herbicide Roundup, causes cancer. The saga has resulted in over...
Trump's latest comments cooled oil prices, but talks over ending the Strait of Hormuz blockade could prove far more consequential. Hedge Funds Pile Back into Oil as Chokepoint Risks Return - The signing of the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding triggered...
Reliance on banking apps and e-wallets has surged in recent weeks in Gaza, despite the strip’s lack of the infrastructure needed to support such a shift. While vendors see digital transfers as a solution to Gaza’s cash shortage crisis, unreliable internet...
The spike in oil prices and slowing private investments have been weighing on India’s economic growth, which is now seen at 6.6% in the fiscal year to March 2027, a full percentage-point drop from the 7.7% GDP growth in the...
Modern conflicts are not just waged by state sponsored armed forces. In the last two decades there has been a rapid growth in the international recruitment of Private Military Companies (PMCs), used for everything from protecting top-level diplomats from harm...
Arteris has expanded its partnership with Arm to deploy Cycuity Radix hardware security assurance technology across additional next-generation Arm central processing unit (CPU) programs. The expansion follows five years of collaboration and successful use of Cycuity Radix on select Arm...
Amid renewed escalation between the United States and Iran, an unusually visible dispute has emerged within the U.S. government over the aims and limits of the confrontation. Recent remarks by Vice President J.D. Vance moved that divide from the margins...
The anti-government protests in Libya over power cuts and high electricity bills over the past few days escalated on Tuesday, with protesters entering the Mellitah Oil and Gas complex and threatening to halt gas and fuel supplies for both the...
By: Thai Scam Watch Although military rule in Thailand officially ended years ago, its footprint in the boardrooms of the country’s biggest state-owned companies is less well known, with interventions into the economy and in particular the vast state-owned enterprise (SOE)...
More than half a dozen empty supertankers are currently en route to Egypt’s Sidi Kerir port to pick up Saudi crude as the world’s top crude oil exporter is re-routing – again – its export tactics to avoid the new...
Artificial intelligence may not create a new kind of terrorism, but it makes existing tactics cheaper, faster and easier. That is the central argument of a July 2026 report from the U.S.-based think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies....
Iran looks to accelerate infrastructure projects at its main oil export terminal at Kharg Island, amid on-and-off threats by U.S. President Donald Trump to either bomb or seize the island. The Islamic Republic is speeding up the completion of development...
HEBRON, occupied West Bank (PNN) – As attacks by Israeli settlers and occupation forces continue to escalate across the occupied West Bank, Palestinian women are paying a disproportionate price, facing physical injuries, psychological trauma and growing economic hardship while carrying the...
The prospect of regime change in Iran has once again entered international debate as exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi intensifies his campaign to position himself as the face of a post Islamic Republic Iran. Speaking to Western governments, engaging with...
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has launched a renewed diplomatic effort to revive Cyprus peace negotiations, holding separate meetings with Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders before planned joint talks aimed at ending nearly a decade of political deadlock....
Eni and TotalEnergies have taken the final investment decision to develop the Cronos gas field in deep waters offshore Cyprus, in the Mediterranean country’s first hydrocarbon development expected to bring first gas to market in 2028. The Cronos project, operated...
Vietnam’s effort to modernize Da Nang’s maritime infrastructure may look at first like another Asian port-development project, but it is considerably more important than that. The transformation underway along Vietnam’s central coast brings together three priorities that increasingly define Hanoi’s...
Nasdaq futures declined on Tuesday as investor concerns over artificial intelligence chip demand, rising corporate spending and intensifying Chinese competition weighed on technology stocks ahead of a crucial week of earnings from Wall Street’s largest companies. Chipmakers led the premarket...
The crisis of European democracy is caused by the fact that the political establishment has lost touch with society, replacing real political discussions with moralizing and branding any justified skepticism of citizens as “extremism.” Much of Europe’s political establishment has...
Japan is planning to join the rush to diversify oil export routes away from the Strait of Hormuz by investing in pipeline projects abroad, notably in the Middle East. Citing a document produced by the country’s economy ministry, Bloomberg reported...
Editor’s note: This is the sixth 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,...
Foreign governments and influence groups have splurged vast amounts of money taking British MPs abroad since the last election, Declassified can reveal. Israel , Qatar and Taiwan top the rankings, with charm offensives to promote the countries in Westminster. The Middle Eastern...
France is preparing for its fourth major heatwave of the year as soaring temperatures and prolonged drought continue to fuel one of the country’s worst wildfire seasons on record, with firefighters battling a massive blaze near Bordeaux that has already...
In the Pacific War, the U.S. Navy’s underwater demolition teams prepared the way for U.S. and allied amphibious landings on enemy-held islands. Through beach reconnaissance, obstacle breaching, mine clearance, and other missions, these teams paved paths for the first waves of amphibious assaults conducted by naval task...
In the speech announcing his invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin took only minutes to arrive at the original sin in his catalogue of Western crimes. Before Iraq, before Libya, before Syria, came Belgrade: “First a bloody...
U.S. President Donald Trump is set to host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Washington on Tuesday, as the wars in Iran and Ukraine enter critical phases that could reshape U.S. foreign policy and regional...
Saudi Arabia may raise the price of the crude it ships to Asia via the Suez Canal, Reuters has reported, to reflect higher shipping costs due to the Houthi maritime blockade in the Red Sea. The price hike could reach...
Morocco is all set to construct the first lithium iron phosphate battery factory. The building of the massive factory, funded by the AfDB and other sponsors, will be led by China’s Gotion High-Tech, one of the world’s leading battery manufacturers. Gotion...
Major central banks are confronting an increasingly difficult inflation landscape as multiple price pressures converge, raising questions over whether policymakers can continue treating inflation shocks as temporary. The U.S. Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan and the Bank of England...
A report by a coalition of NGOs accuses the IMF of a failure to change its damaging stance over the years and of working against the interests of the people of the South. A document produced by a coalition of NGOs...
Last Wednesday all the signs were pointing to a desperate action by the Trump administration to launch a ground operation inside Iran ostensibly to seize enriched nuclear material from an Iranian nuclear research facility. The report from the Wall Street...
The latest Ibrahim Index of African Governance indicates a broadly mixed picture on the campaign against corruption on the continent. The Mo Ibrahim Foundation’s 2026 Ibrahim Index of African Governance data brief on anti-corruption shows that Africa’s average anti-corruption score rose...
PAHO Director calls for expanded access to innovations such as oral and injectable PrEP, rapid testing, and HIV self-testing, while strengthening early diagnosis and timely treatment initiation to advance HIV elimination. Credit: PAHO By Pan American Health Organization RIO de JANEIRO, Brazil,...
U.S. President Donald Trump will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Washington on Tuesday as the wars in Iran and Ukraine enter critical phases, with both leaders seeking U.S. backing on major security challenges....
The Indian Ocean has reemerged as one of the world’s most consequential geopolitical theaters. Carrying nearly 80 percent of global seaborne oil trade and a significant share of international commerce, the region has become central to the strategic calculations of...
Funeral services for Sen. Lindsey Graham, who died suddenly on July 11 at the age of 71, will take place on Tuesday in Washington and Wednesday in his home state of South Carolina. Graham was known as an astute conservative politician,...
Back in 1975, reeling from the Arab Oil Embargo of 1973, President Gerald Ford signed the Energy Policy and Conservation Act. The law established the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) and framed it as a rainy day fund, made ready...
Massad Boulos — Trump’s Africa and Middle East envoy who is also the father-in-law to Trump’s daughter, Tiffany — has focused much of his diplomatic work in recent months on Libya , criss-crossing the country to meet with members of...
North Korea does not necessarily need to start a nuclear war to benefit from its nuclear arsenal. Instead, Pyongyang could use the increasing possibility of nuclear escalation to threaten South Korea, undermine its alliance with the United States, limit Seoul’s...
Global Voices aggregates news from independent sources around the world. Articles are filtered by sentiment to highlight constructive discourse.
Learn more about Global VoicesTrending keywords, sentiment trends and publishing activity from the last 30 days.
View Statistics