Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Alrowwad Cultural and Arts Society has concluded a three-day youth summer camp focused on human rights, advocacy and media skills, drawing participants from across the occupied West Bank. The camp, titled “Here We Remain,” brought together adolescents...
Kevin Rideout, who was abducted by unknown assailants in Niamey, said to be in good health and in care of US officials An American missionary who was kidnapped in Niger in October has been released, his organisation has said According to a...
Every week, the shopping lists of Iranians become shorter as inflation soars and purchasing power plunges. “As things disappear from the dining table, fruit goes first, then dairy products, then anything considered non-essential,” a woman in the Iranian capital, Tehran,...
A gambling licence may appear like paperwork concerned with the gambling business and lawyers. Its impacts extend far beyond. Licensing rules affect revenue, business investment, consumer confidence, and government control over money flowing through digital platforms. Online gambling also raises...
India’s coal demand is set to jump to 1.6 billion tons in 2030, from about 1.2 billion tons now, due to higher electricity generation and industrial activity, Indian Coal Secretary Vikram Dev Dutt said on Friday. India, which is the...
ASML’s dominance was not born from a single invention. It emerged from four decades of systems engineering, supplier orchestration, and repeated bets on lithographic transitions that competitors judged too expensive. Founded in 1984 as a Philips–ASM joint venture, the Dutch...
North Asian refiners have increased buying activity to secure U.S. crude oil supply as an alternative to the Middle Eastern crude that may not make it outbound from the Strait of Hormuz as the U.S.-Iran stalemate continues and the chokepoint...
On April 27, 2026, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz launched the Trade Over Aid Initiative from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The initiative was built on Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s argument that government-to-government...
September WTI crude oil futures are trading at $81.19 late Thursday, up $4.11, or 5.33%, for the week. With Friday’s session still to come, the final weekly result remains unsettled. The message is clear. Traders spent the week rebuilding the...
Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict Yemen’s Houthis said they targeted Saudi Aramco’s Jazan refinery with two drones on Thursday, the second claimed attack on the Red Sea facility in less than a week and the third since July 25. Neither Saudi...
Syrian oil is clawing its way back, methodically. Onshore, the immediate issue is returning Syria’s existing oil production to Damascus. Most producing fields are concentrated in Deir ez-Zor and Hasakah in the northeast, territory Damascus lost during the civil war,...
Why the online enthusiasm for an “Islamic NATO” in the Middle East is largely premature? A Dividing Line The Mecca agreement has dominated headlines and social media. Commentators have rushed to label it “an Islamic NATO,” declared that “the Islamic...
Ust-Luga, the top Russian port for exports of oil and other commodities from the Baltic Sea, caught fire early on Friday following an overnight drone attack from Ukraine. A fire was detected at the port of Ust-Luga as a result...
An extreme heatwave in Europe has triggered a sharp rise in spot electricity prices, exposing critical vulnerabilities in the European Union’s energy system. At the same time, nuclear output in France and wind generation in Germany have fallen, creating a...
Hebron, Occupied Palestinian Territory (PNN) — In a village in the hills of southern Hebron, Palestinian women are transforming an ancient cave into a living space for preserving Palestinian heritage and strengthening women's economic independence, in what they describe as a...
How are Muslims handling money? This new mini-series from the MuslimMatters podcast is all about Muslims, money, and how on earth we’re managing it all (or aren’t!). From learning about credit card debt the hard way, to uncomfortable conversations with...
U.S. President Donald Trump is set to highlight falling violent crime rates on Friday as evidence that his law and order agenda is working, seeking to shift attention toward public safety as economic concerns weigh on his approval ratings ahead...
Not only is a growing number of tankers moving stealthily with transponders switched off at the Middle East’s two key chokepoints, but the time of the so-called dark mode movements has extended from just a few hours to a week...
Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. Germany’s spies get powers once reserved for policeDiego Faßnacht reports that Germany’s intelligence overhaul would blur the postwar separation between...
Low U.S. gasoline prices are the top priority of the Administration amid the war in Iran, Vice President JD Vance said, as the U.S.-Iran deadlock persists and the U.S. vowed to keep the blockade on Iran indefinitely. “I know that...
The deaths of a Bulawayo mother and her daughters spark calls for an urgent action on gender-based violence The three white coffins were draped in white lace and topped with small sprays of flowers. The mourners who filled a Bulawayo church...
Tankers moving along the Strait of Hormuz dwindled further this week, with only five crossings on Wednesday and nine crossings on Thursday, down from a monthly average of 12 crossings, according to data from Kpler, as cited by Reuters. Five...
China on Friday condemned Taiwan’s annual Han Kuang military exercises as a “wasteful charade”, accusing Taipei of stoking fears of war as the island conducts 10 days of drills simulating a potential Chinese attack. The comments were China’s first official...
European shares were little changed on Friday but remained on track for a weekly decline as investors weighed stalled U.S. Iran peace efforts, rising oil prices and upcoming euro zone economic data. The STOXX 600 edged up 0.05% to 659.65...
A large-scale blast hit an ammunition factory in the Italian town of Colleferro, near Rome, on Aug. 13, local authorities and regional media reported. The factory is operated by KNDS Ammo Italy, a subsidiary of the French-German defense firm KNDS ....
Water and energy infrastructure have become one of Iran’s main levers of deterrence against the United States. Iranian Foreign Minister Aragchi recently made it clear to Gulf states that if the U.S. military renewed large-scale strikes on Iran, their critical...
Vietnam’s sovereign AI relies heavily on open-weight models developed in the United States. However, as Washington and Beijing are moving to restrict access to these technologies, Hanoi’s bamboo diplomacy offers little protection to its AI ambitions. In mid-July, Vietnam approved...
Saudi Arabia is turning to regional defence alliances as it faces growing attacks from Iran and its network of regional allies, while trying to avoid being pulled into a wider Middle East war. Riyadh is pursuing several new security arrangements,...
NEW YORK – US Treasury yields are pressing against their highest levels since 2007, and Asia’s policymakers know what that usually means: turbulence ahead. This week’s $42 billion auction of 10-year notes cleared at 4.683%, the richest yield since the...
This week brought two Indonesia stories that sat side by side but pointed in different directions. In Jakarta, US Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby met Indonesia’s defense minister, Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin, as part of a Southeast Asia tour...
Today, there is no all-out war, no peace, and no light at the end of the Strait of Hormuz. The Trump administration’s crack at transforming Iran is drifting along in the Persian Gulf, as on-again, off-again negotiations fail to resolve...
Crude oil imports from Russia accounted for over 50% of India’s total import volumes last month. This was the highest share of Russian oil in India’s import mix, Reuters noted in a report that cited unnamed trade sources. Russia exported...
North Korea has intensified its criticism of Japan’s military expansion and its growing security cooperation with the United States and South Korea, portraying the developments as a threat to regional stability. More than a dozen North Korean state media attacks...
By CIVICUS Aug 14 2026 (IPS) : CIVICUS discusses the challenges posed by Paraguay’s ‘anti-NGO law’ with Hugo González, executive director of the Paraguayan Network of LGBTQ+ Artists (REPAR+), a civil society organisation (CSO) that promotes the rights of LGBTQI+ people, which has...
Islam Times - The significant discrepancy between the US energy secretary’s claim that 9 million barrels of oil pass through the Strait of Hormuz each day and data from ship-tracking companies is not merely a statistical disagreement; the gap points...
Islam Times - According to reports and data published by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), Reuters, The Guardian, CMA CGM and Marsh, the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz has made the passage of ships more hazardous. It has sharply...
Crude oil prices were on course to add 4% this week, as the United States and Iran indicated they are no closer to a peace deal than they were at the start of the war. At the time of writing,...
Credit: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Aug 14 2026 (IPS) Pakistan, one of few South Asian countries to oscillate between democratic governments and authoritarian regimes, is cracking down on journalists, including foreign correspondents covering the political situation in...
Without a credible political solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Gaza will continue to oscillate between fragile ceasefires and devastating wars, leaving lasting peace out of reach. The Illusion of a Gaza Breakthrough Declaring last week’s announcements on Gaza a ‘breakthrough’...
On Washington’s 16th Street, overlooking Meridian Hill Park, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is transforming the former French Embassy into a permanent base for its growing influence operation in Washington. The party bought the Beaux-Arts mansion for roughly...
In the early months following Israel’s brutal war on Gaza, Latin American leaders emerged as some of the world’s sharpest critics of the military campaign. Then-Colombian President Gustavo Petro was among the first world leaders to call Israel’s actions a “genocide.”...
African governments can lead by requiring environmental and social impact assessments for AI infrastructure Originally published on Global Voices Advox Ibrahim says AI has the potential to support, rather than replace, Indigenous peoples’ knowledge. She gives a positive example in Chad, where...
Nvidia’s newly unveiled plan to mobilize more than US$500 billion in third-party financing for artificial intelligence (AI) data centers is expected to deepen its global dominance and reduce the competitiveness of Chinese chips in global markets. The company said on...
Larry’s note: This article discusses suicide. Service members, veterans, and family members in crisis can reach the Veterans/Military Crisis Line by dialing 988 and pressing 1, texting 838255, or visiting VeteransCrisisLine.net. When the Secretary of the Army orders every officer and...
By: Khanh Vu Duc Vietnamese Communist Party General Secretary Tô Lâm’s visit to Australia and New Zealand may look like routine diplomacy. It is better understood as a marker of Hanoi’s evolving strategy in a more contested Indo-Pacific. Vietnam is not abandoning...
Eighteen Years, Zero Texts On July 28, the UN General Assembly did what it has done every year since the effort began: it rolled Security Council reform talks into another session without resolving anything, this time pushing the process into...
To Lam’s visit to Canberra on August 11 was the first state visit to Australia by a Vietnamese head of state since the 1975 reunification and the first meeting between the two leaders. Since taking the presidency in April, To...
“The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness… They conferred against the Government the right to be let alone — most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.” ~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941)...
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