Taiwan

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Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.

The following story is co-published with Matt Bivens’ Substack newsletter, The 100 Days. Millions are in hiding. Those who have escaped Ukraine are fanned out across Europe, clinging to low-pay jobs and temporary housing. But Europe’s leaders are impatient with them. The...

Column, Courts & Law, Europe

When President Vladimir Putin sent his forces into Ukraine, the Kremlin appeared to be betting on a familiar axiom of European security: sheer Russian mass, backed by vast Soviet-era stockpiles and nuclear power, would overwhelm resistance. More than four years...

News

This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . Darya Minovi was mapping pollution from medical sterilization plants across the country when many of the communities she was speaking to began asking the same...

Courts & Law, Environment, Health & Wellness

The US is betting that a new generation of hypersonic cruise missiles can restore a decisive edge in long-range strike, but turning that ambition into a practical wartime capability will require overcoming challenges that extend well beyond speed and range...

Military, Block 1, DARPA

As he was leaving office in 2017, President Barack Obama urged Americans concerned about where their country was headed to act. “If something needs fixing, then lace up your shoes and do some organizing,” he said in Time magazine ....

Activism, Column, Media

Grid constraints and rising coal-fired power generation in China led to soaring curtailment rates of solar and wind power generation in the first half of the year. China curtailed as much as 360 terawatt-hours (TWh) of solar and wind generation...

News

The images of chaos and confusion went global on social media within minutes: an estimated 70,000 Moroccans rushed the shores of Spain’s North African enclave Ceuta, climbing through holes in the chain-link fence and swimming around the barriers jutting into...

Courts & Law, Europe, Immigration

Rotten food, overflowing toilets into bunking areas, no room in the incoming missile shelters, confiscated cellphones that are the notification devices for incoming missiles, infrequent mail, social media closed down, were some of the issues that military families identified at the national conference...

Opinion, Common Dreams, Iran War

Strain of virus with no vaccine has potential to overrun response impeded by conflict and misinformation Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are losing their battle to contain the country’s deadliest Ebola outbreak . DRC’s health ministry declared an...

Ebola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda

Suppose for a moment that reliance on nuclear arms by the United States and other nuclear powers will produce “strategic stability” for the rest of this century. That is, that there will be no nuclear war or war on a major scale between the...

Opinion, Common Dreams, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

On Monday, August 17, 2026, the 60-day deadline for the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (IMOU) between the United States and Iran expired without a final agreement or a joint declaration of its extension, as stipulated in the memorandum. This has...

Middle East & Africa, China, Defense

Rising energy prices are poised to send UK inflation rearing back up, as economists warn that the summer boost to the economy could be fleeting. The rate of Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation is tipped to rise to 2.9 per...

News

The world stands at a crossroads: either continued American hegemony or the emergence of a multipolar order, where a balance of power replaces the dominance of a single nation. The US has pursued a policy of global primacy spanning the...

China, Politics, Russia

The oil crisis in Japan has eased in recent weeks as the resource-poor G7 economy that depended on the Middle East for 90% of its crude oil supply has managed to diversify purchases and moved to release stocks from strategic...

News

Digital lending has made it easier for consumers to explore financial products online. Borrowers can now research lenders, check requirements, upload documents, and apply using a phone or computer. However, having more options can also make it harder to decide...

Finance, Economics, loans

Participants in traditional dress take part in a cultural welcome at the UNCCD COP17 venue in Ulaanbaatar on Aug. 17, 2026, highlighting the cultural diversity of communities whose livelihoods are closely linked to rangelands. Credit: UN photo By Kizito Makoye DAR ES...

Biodiversity, Combating Desertification and Drought, Development & Aid

I believe this year’s DAC will be viewed as the time and place where EDA experienced a major shift. That is, the shift from the value of tools and methodology to the value of agentic design flows powered by highly...

AI, ChipAgents AI, EDA

In geopolitics, words do matter, and sometimes a deletion says a lot more than a thousand-page defense white paper. The Pentagon’s recent move to quietly strip the word “Indo” from the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, reverting to its Cold War-era title...

War & Peace, India, Indo-Pacific

China began the third quarter with weaker-than-expected key economic indicators, raising additional concerns about the health of its economy and its demand for crude oil in the coming months. Retail sales increased by just 0.6% in July from a year...

News

Federal Troops Regain Control Somali federal forces pushed opposition fighters out of Baidoa on Monday after hours of intense fighting in one of the country’s largest cities, residents told Reuters. The clashes left a number of people dead and marked...

World News, Military, Security

A cryptocurrency company backed by U.S. President Donald Trump is collaborating with a Hong Kong based venture that provides access to artificial intelligence models developed by Chinese companies facing U.S. national security restrictions. WorldClaw offers access to 90 AI models...

Americas, Artificial Intelligence, Finance

India’s government should consider bringing back fuel with ethanol blending content lower than 20% amid concerns about potential damage to the old vehicle and two-wheeler fleet in the world’s most populous country, the government’s chief economic adviser said. In a...

News

U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoy Jared Kushner met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Monday as Washington sought to revive its stalled Gaza peace plan, a day after Kushner held a rare meeting with Hamas representatives in Cairo....

World News, Gaza War, Humanitarian Crisis

Euro zone government bond yields remained near their highest levels in more than 15 years on Monday as investors worried that a prolonged Iran war could keep energy prices and inflation elevated. Germany’s 10 year Bund yield held around 3.20%,...

Finance, Economics, Eurozone

Spanish border workers warned authorities weeks before a mass migrant rush into the North African enclave of Ceuta that arrivals were increasing and could escalate, but unions say the government failed to take timely action. More than 70,000 migrants attempted...

Europe, migration, Security

As you read this article on your computer or smartphone, you are almost certainly using open-source technology in some way. It forms the foundation of the global digital economy, from operating systems and web servers to databases and encryption protocols....

Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Block 2

West Africa’s cocoa industry is struggling to comply with new European Union anti-deforestation rules, raising concerns about supply disruptions and higher costs for chocolate makers. The EU law, known as the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), will require importers to prove...

Climate & Sustainability, Africa, Climate Crisis

Amna Idres Musa Mahamod leads the Al-Wifag Women’s Association in Toker, Sudan. Photographed for the Through Her Lens: Women Rising for Peace Exhibition . Credit: UN Women/Mona Elfateh By Shuli Wong UNITED NATIONS, Aug 17 2026 (IPS) Women-led and women’s rights organizations (WLOs) in...

Active Citizens, Aid, Armed Conflicts

Emerging from the chaos of supplying the U.S. Army during the War of 1812, the War Department sought to foster domestic production of standardized muskets. Out of this industrial project arose an invention that laid the foundation for automation and...

Arsenal of Innovation, Cogs of War, Military History

One of the first tasks of Whitehall’s mandarins – the permanent government – is to indoctrinate a new prime minister in the need for official secrecy, especially around the intelligence agencies. Andy Burnham should be more sceptical judging by his comments...

Archive, Intelligence, Secrecy

India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation has secured a license from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control to return to Venezuela, Indian media have reported. India’s largest oil and gas company has a 40% stake in the San Cristobal...

News

Editor’s Note: The following article draws on themes from the author’s forthcoming book titled US Counterterrorism Operations in Afghanistan: Jackpots, Dry Holes, and Collateral Damage.Over the next month, the United States will pass two major historical milestones: the five-year anniversary...

Commentary, Counterinsurgency, Counterterrorism

Taiwan is set to increase defence spending by 16% next year, taking its proposed military budget above T$1 trillion ($31.40 billion) for the first time as the island faces growing military and political pressure from China. President Lai Ching-te said...

World News, Defense, Security

The Financial Times has run a striking assessment: Pakistan, it argues, has become an emerging “hinge power” – a state whose simultaneous ties to Washington, Beijing, the Gulf and Tehran let it broker where others can only choose sides. The...

South Asia, Block 3, Foreign investment in Pakistan

A poster depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as wanted by the International Criminal Court is displayed in a corridor of the European Parliament in Brussels, June 2026. Credit: Frédéric Pétry/HansLucas via AFP By Andrew Firmin LONDON, Aug 17 2026 (IPS) In a...

Active Citizens, Armed Conflicts, Civil Society

Zambia’s Green Revolution campaign generated stagnant productivity and rising hunger. Credit: Timothy A. Wise By Timothy A. Wise and Jomo Kwame Sundaram CAMBRIDGE, MA, USA / KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug 17 2026 (IPS) As AGRA turns 20, a new report exposes its worsening...

Africa, Climate Change, Development & Aid

The war in Ukraine and the sanctions that followed it redrew the geo-economic map of Eurasia almost overnight. Supply chains assembled over decades were severed, and for Central Asia — a region long held within Moscow’s orbit — the disruption...

Eurasia, Central Africa, China

When a fire destroys the Silk Store, Darius risks his life to save Weili and Arslan – only to face the consequences of the secret he kept. Read Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part...

#Culture, #Life, featured

Tanker traffic via the Strait of Hormuz slowed further over the weekend, maintaining upward pressure on oil prices. At the time of writing, Brent crude was trading at $88.62 per barrel, with West Texas Intermediate at $82.18 per barrel. Earlier...

News

U.S. President Donald Trump has instructed the Pentagon to “substantially reduce” joint military exercises with South Korea, citing the cost of the drills and Seoul’s refusal to participate in U.S. actions against Iran. Trump said on Sunday that he was...

World News, Security, South Korea

On August 7, 2026, Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Belgrade for his first official visit to Serbia. On the surface, it was a standard diplomatic event. But the location made it anything but routine. The ceremonial welcome included a guard of...

Europe, Politics, Russia
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