Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
Analysis
Last month, during a panel discussion at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s (CBCF) Annual Legislative Conference , Angie Nixon started in on a critique of capitalism. For a moment, it sounded like she was going…
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The Enduring Human Appetite for Myth The human impulse to reshape history is as old as civilization itself, predating the internet by millennia. From the chronicles of ancient scribes to the pronouncements of rulers and…
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The signing of the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 by President Trump on 18 September gives him a huge economic lever to effect massive political change in what is effectively a turbocharged…
Development & Aid
OECD PISA education performance: change in scores between 2009 to 2025, and 2025 scores. By Isabel Ortiz and Antonia Wulff BRUSSELS / GENEVA, Oct 5 2026 (IPS) The results of the OECD PISA 2025 report point to the marked…
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Indian state-owned refiner Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) prepares to issue a $3-billion bond to finance its share of a major offshore oil development in Brazil, as Indian companies move to expand in…
Belief & Religion
Five years after the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan and the U.S. withdrew its troops, the group is now asking for something that once seemed almost unthinkable: the diplomatic and economic return of the United…
Photo by Phil Hearing on Unsplash When people questioned the outcome of the 2020 election, they were automatically labeled conspiracy theorists, and we were told that there was no way anyone could steal an election…
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Reports of a possible attack on Saudi Arabia's Petro Rabigh refining and petrochemical complex north of Jeddah emerged on Monday, although Saudi authorities have so far not confirmed that an attack took place. Iran's…
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Record-high fuel prices and a record number of newly available affordable models have pushed electric vehicle sales in the European Union to an all-time high this year, Transport & Environment, a European advocacy group…
Business & Economy
This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . The Trump administration came close to fully dismantling the federal government’s regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from…
Activism
When Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin declared in September that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents could serve warrants on individuals at polling places this fall, officials in Denver, a liberal city…
Activism
Behind this election’s dominant issue of affordability lies the record concentration of wealth at the top of America. The richest 0.001% of Americans — a handful of extraordinarily wealthy men — now controls more of the…
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The United States is contemplating a significant shift in its military posture, potentially redeploying forces from Europe to the Western Hemisphere to intensify the fight against Latin American drug cartels. Defense…
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Today, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments about whether a lawsuit filed in state court in Colorado seeking damages from two major oil companies for the climate-change related damage inflicted on Boulder County…
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The Earth and Mars emerged from nearly the same cosmic "cradle," but they were assembled in fundamentally different ways. This is the conclusion reached by authors of a new study published in Nature Astronomy, who have…
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Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser warned Monday that the world has lost nearly 3 billion barrels of gross oil supply since the Iran war began, equivalent to roughly half the crude and products that normally would have moved…
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is heading to Iceland, Greece, and Portugal on October 5-8 for talks on security, defense, energy, economic cooperation, and technology as NATO allies face growing security concerns over…
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Despite reports of surging oil flows out of the Strait of Hormuz, tensions in the Middle East remain high as the fresh Saudi-Houthi escalation threatens to unravel recent success in restoring oil exports. This weekend…
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Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert is quoted in an article in the Guardian about Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s increasing influence on AI dominance. “For the last 20 years, democracy has been in decline,” says…
Opinion
Reflecting on the UK’s long, hot summer, Clayton Goodwin finds a welcome new era of racial harmony mixed with right-wing bile. Which will prevail? London and, indeed, the whole of the United Kingdom has been hot this…
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I have watched Pakistan-Afghanistan relations long enough to distrust easy headlines, and last week’s news produced a few of them. At the Center-2026 (Tsentr-2026) war games in Russia’s Chelyabinsk region, Taliban…
Human Rights
In recent weeks, media coverage has amplified warnings from corporate CEOs and whistleblowers claiming that artificial intelligence (AI) poses an existential threat to humanity . The central argument emerging from the…
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The share of Saudi crude in South Korea’s oil imports dipped below 30% for the first time since 2021, as the resource-poor G7 economy moved to diversify supplies amid the Middle East crisis. In the period January to…
Technology
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Paul Krugman is the greatest econ writer in the world, and also a legendary economist. But I sometimes feel that he has a blind spot when it comes to the value of new technologies. In 1998 he famously wrote: The growth…
Global development
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After Guardian investigation uncovered drone strike that killed 12 civilians and injured many more, seven-year-old Abdiqadir Salah underwent vital operation in Mogadishu On the rickshaw ride to the hospital, Marian Haji…
Archive
Britain’s domestic intelligence agency MI5 faces difficult questions at an inquiry into the 1989 murder of solicitor Pat Finucane, now under way in Belfast. Loyalist paramilitaries shot Finucane – a 39-year-old defence…
Middle East
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This is a brief designed to locate all the fuses under nearly all the explosive checkpoints, surrounding the chokepoint of grief, called Bab al-Mandab. For five centuries the Red Sea’s front door has been sold as…
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Japan does not plan to carry out additional releases of crude oil from its national reserves, a senior government official said on Monday, even as the G7 group announced on Friday a 100-million-barrel release from…
National Politics
The eruption of a mass housing movement in the past 10 days has put social class back on the agenda of Spanish politics and completely altered the dimensions of a high stakes General Election on 29 November. Ben Wray is…
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--- October is Islamic History Month in Canada! Islamic History Month is more than just a token formality: it’s an opportunity to do real da’wah, both within the Muslim community and outside of it. Hassam Munir talks…
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TULKARM/PNN/ Palestinian man Raafat Khairy Abu Khalil, 45, died on Sunday afternoon while being detained at the Israeli military checkpoint of Ennab, east of Tulkarm. The Palestinian Red Crescent told WAFA that its teams…
Bethlehem / PNN / Between October 3 and 4, Israel deported four solidarity activists, three from the United States and one from Germany.They were supporting the community of Jamma’in at the start of the olive harvest…
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LNG traffic at the Strait of Hormuz appears to be ticking up despite increased threats to shipments in the chokepoint in recent days. At least three LNG carriers have transited the Strait of Hormuz outbound since the end…
Northeast Asia
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Hydrogen-powered passenger cars have been left far behind by electric vehicles and hybrids, but the hydrogen truck market is growing and new technology developed for auto racing is keeping hopes for hydrogen cars alive…
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The G7 announcement of a release of 100 million barrels of crude oil and diesel has pressured down middle distillate refinery margins, which had hit record highs last month. The start of stock releases over the next four…
Active Citizens
Social Democratic Party leader Magdalena Andersson speaks at the Social Democrats’ election night party in Stockholm on 13 September 2026. Credit: Jonas Ekstromer/TT News Agency/AFP By Andrew Firmin LONDON, Oct 5 2026…
Military
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Indonesia is buying the weapons of a modern military at a pace rarely seen in its recent history. Rafale fighter jets are entering service, and the country has contracted for 48 KAAN fighters from Turkey. The navy has…
Cogs of War
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For eighty years, the Western alliance has anchored its strength in moral legitimacy, shared values, and the resulting credibility to shape international norms. NATO’s durability through the Cold War rested on more than…
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Saudi Aramco has raised oil prices for European-bound cargoes in November but has cut prices for Asian buyers to the lowest in six years, Reuters reported today, noting analysts had expected price hikes. According to the…
Commentary
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On Oct. 1, 2026, Beijing celebrated the 77th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China and the beginning of the end for the U.S. Air University’s China Aerospace Studies Institute. The institute was…
Opinion
Africa’s own seed performance data show strong policies and weak delivery. The Africa Seed Summit in Eswatini must close that gap. A farmer in rural West Africa could be forgiven for assuming her government has done…
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OPEC+ agreed on Sunday to keep its oil production quota for next month unchanged from this one, in line with expectations, after it unwound its production cuts earlier this year in a bid to offset the deepening supply…
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Sol Plaatje University (SPU) was established in 2013 and commenced its academic programmes in 2014 and plays an important role, both locally, in the Northern Cape, and nationally. The University Council governs the…
Health
One of the biggest health deficits across Africa is the currently unacceptably low levels of immunisation. These are exposing millions, especially children and other vulnerable groups, to deadly diseases that are…
Economy
Cotton has long been one of Africa’s most important agricultural commodities, supporting millions of rural jobs and generating vital export revenues. Yet the continent captures only a fraction of the wealth generated by…
Southeast Asia
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In June 2026, Indonesia’s Deputy Minister of Communications and Digital Nezar Patria put Indonesia’s share of ASEAN’s digital economy at around 40 percent, a figure that varies with the source and definition used, yet…
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Crude oil prices fell in early trading, though Brent remained above $100, after a report from Kpler revealed that flows out of the Strait of Hormuz are now above pre-war levels. The same firm made headlines last week…
China
Late last month, Japan’s defense ministry made an unsettling announcement. A U.S. ground-based missile system, known as the Typhon and capable of firing Tomahawk missiles, would not return to the United States after…