Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
Emmanuel Macron has eight months left as president of France. He can’t stand again, and the political system is basically paralyzed as a result. Polls make it clear that the most probable outcome is the far-right of Marine Le Pen...
Soaring LNG prices due to the Strait of Hormuz blockage are prompting economies to shift to alternative energy sources, pushing coal demand to a another record high this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in a new report on...
TODAY’S NUMBERS: $100 (Brent crude, after Wednesday’s tanker strikes) · 4.92% (US 10-year Treasury yield) · $4,440 (gold, per troy ounce) Oil and yields are climbing together while gold sits flat — markets are pricing an energy shock, not a...
A documentary titled “NAZA,” directed by Israeli journalists Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, reveals that mass civilian deaths were systematically included in Israeli military strategies in Gaza. The title refers to an Israeli military term for expected “collateral casualties.” The...
A Russian drone attack targeted a border crossing between Ukraine and Moldova, killing two people and injuring three others, while Russian drones also struck in Kyiv, as Moscow continues its campaign of near-continuous strikes across Ukraine. The Russian attack on...
HSBC has hiked its Brent Crude forecast for 2026 to $90 per barrel from $80 as the Strait of Hormuz crisis is tightening markets while no clear path to de-escalation is in sight. The oil markets are unlikely to rebalance...
Since the Taliban seized power in August 2021, girls have been banned from schooling beyond the primary level and women’s employment has been severely restricted. Credit: Learning Together. By External Source KABUL, Sep 10 2026 (IPS) Many wonder why men in Afghanistan do...
Chinese AI chipmakers like Huawei Technologies and Cambricon have significantly raised prices for their AI processors, citing rising costs of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) as a key factor. Huawei has increased the price of its Ascend 950DT accelerator card to over...
NATOctSnake2 Across three pieces I’ve written for Sonar21, I have been making one continuous argument: The war in Ukraine was not a crisis that erupted in 2022. It was the payoff of a deliberate, decades-long Western project to turn Ukraine into...
We all know timing closure is one of the most challenging processes in chip design. Extracting actionable insight from massive timing reports, tracing violations back to RTL, and selecting the right fix across complex PPA tradeoffs all require deep expertise....
There is an assumption that a new government under former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett or former army chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot would set things right and revive Israel’s reputation in American public opinion. This assumption is in fact flawed. The...
BETHLEHEM / PNN – Report by Monjed Jado | Photography by Ahmad Jubran The eighth annual Al-Khader Grape Festival and Market opened in the town of Al-Khader, west of Bethlehem, as part of a joint initiative by the Palestinian Agricultural Relief...
With far-right president José Antonio Kast presiding over Chile since March 2026, the country has seen a dramatic shift since the days of Gabriel Boric . Kast has taken a harder security approach to the Mapuche struggle in southern Chile...
TotalEnergies has made a new discovery offshore Angola and has bought operated interest in two new exploration blocks close to operating hubs as the international majors are returning to exploration in Angola’s waters to take advantage of existing infrastructure. TotalEnergies...
Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to visit New Delhi for the annual BRICS summit, marking his first trip to India in seven years. This visit could help improve diplomatic relations between China and India, but analysts note that business...
When Donald Trump ran for a second term, he promised to be a “president of peace” and claimed he would end foreign wars rather than start new ones. However, as the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks approaches, he...
Brazil is now in the last weeks before the presidential election on October 4, during a severe institutional crisis involving the Supreme Federal Court (STF), the Federal Police, and the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. In the...
The oil and gas supply shock amid the Middle East conflict has accelerated cumulative global investments in clean hydrogen to above $130 billion across more than 570 projects, as energy security has become a key driver of uptake alongside industrial...
Sweden will hold a parliamentary election on September 13. The centre-left opposition, led by Magdalena Andersson, currently has a slight lead in the polls over Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s right-wing government. Kristersson aims to create a majority government with his...
India is working to link central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) among BRICS nations for cross-border payments at an upcoming summit, despite political and technical challenges. The BRICS leaders will meet in New Delhi on September 12 and 13. The Reserve...
Oil tanker rates have jumped to record highs as escalating risks to shipping in and out of the Middle East are prompting traders and tanker operators to undertake inefficient and more expensive trade routes. While the crude oil supply is...
India needs to expand biofuel production and consumption to boost its energy security as crude oil prices soar amid the Middle East crisis, according to Tarun Kapoor, an adviser in India’s Prime Minister’s Office. “The future of biofuels is about...
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis are moving closer to gaining control over the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a key route for commodity ships, according to Yemeni military sources. The Houthis are approaching full control of coastal cities including the historic port of Mocha...
India is currently facing a serious food safety crisis, as regulators have suspended operations at many local eateries and branded restaurants, and are pushing for front-of-pack warning labels that have unsettled the packaged food industry worth over $100 billion. Food...
With around half a year remaining before the next presidential election, France is in danger of becoming a stress test for the eurozone: a political crisis, a deteriorating fiscal position and growing market doubts about the country’s ability to finance...
The stabilization of the Iran-Israel confrontation could well be the calm before the storm, only this time the storm would be between Israel and Türkiye. In this context, the question arises: how would such a conflict affect NATO? Reasons for...
For years, analysts and observers have warned about the dangers of China’s relentless infrastructure push in Tibet, particularly its dam-building ambitions on the Brahmaputra River, known in China as the Yarlung Tsangpo. Beijing has repeatedly waved away such concerns, insisting...
Investment in what most call clean technologies dropped by 17% over the first half of the year, as China switched from subsidies to a market-based approach to those industries, a report from Rhodium Group has revealed. Investments in things such...
If there is a revolution brewing in the automation of white-collar work, you wouldn’t know it at the Pentagon. Here, the typical action officers, staff who tackle the daily work of the bureaucracy, perform essentially the same duties as their...
In November 2001, Peter Mandelson wrote an article in the Independent about the visit he paid to Syria’s new dictator, Bashar Assad, in January of that year. The then Northern Ireland secretary claimed that “politics had nothing to do with my...
For eight years I helped decide whether American counter-terrorism money was working.As a programs advisor in the State Department’s Bureau of Counterterrorism from 2018 to 2025, I oversaw about 20 projects in East Africa worth roughly $80 million a year....
An AfD election poster with the message: “Youth come to us”, reminiscent of both Nazi and Communist propaganda. By Jan Lundius STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Sep 10 2026 (IPS) During summer months there is a certain news drought. Nevertheless, this year social media has been...
When I look back on all of my work over the last 30 years, one of the projects I’m most proud of is Meltdown , an audio series I did in 2021 with acclaimed director Alex Gibney that reveals the...
In the global supply chain, Indonesia sits at the epicenter of the market for nickel and other critical minerals. Yet the value of that natural wealth is still set on distant trading floors and market exchanges in places like London...
Africa’s largest economic grouping is the informal sector, which regularly turns over billions of dollars and is often the largest employer, but it is largely ignored by formal financial structures. Of this grouping, often undocumented, forcibly displaced persons form a...
Islam Times - Lavrov’s remarks about the possibility of Iran joining the Mecca Agreement point to a gradual shift in West Asia’s security equations—a transformation that, by drawing on indigenous capabilities, regional independence, and cooperation among Iran, China and Russia,...
Credit: UNESCO By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Sep 10 2026 (IPS) First, it was the mass deportations of undocumented aliens, then a crackdown on liberal-minded academics from prestigious US Universities, and now, restrictions on foreign journalists based in the US. The proposed restrictions may...
Crude oil prices held near recent highs after rallying sharply earlier this week, with gains driven by an escalation in the U.S.-Iran conflict and intensifying attacks on tankers in the Persian Gulf. Iran reported hits on U.S. warships and tankers in...
The discussion concerning the future Clearing-House Mechanism (CHM) of the BBNJ Agreement—in simpler terms, the High Seas Treaty—has now reached an important phase. The full title of the treaty is the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law...
Kamikawa Yoko, MP for Japan and Chair of AFPPD at the opening of the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD) annual conference held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Credit: APDA By Cecilia Russell KUALA LUMPUR & JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Sep...
The lesson of 9/11 should be that war is not the answer to any of the problems facing the United States. After inflicting violence and chaos on country after country for 25 years in a “global war on terror” that has evolved into...
US President Donald Trump’s decision to reduce US participation in military exercises with South Korea raised eyebrows in the face of North Korea’s ongoing belligerence, and the potential impact on the US-South Korean relationship – but Trump in this instance...
As diplomats prepare for the BRICS Summit in New Delhi this weekend, the Iran war is looming large. India, which assumed the BRICS chairmanship in January, was already facing the difficult responsibility of securing consensus to achieve concrete movement on a...
Kabul — Last month, when Aisha Wahab of California became the first Afghan-American elected to Congress, her victory was heralded as a sign that Afghans had truly made their mark in American society. Afghan social media was inundated with messages of...
--- While it is somewhat cliche to say that the “whole world changed” after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, it does not detract from the reality of the statement. In numerous tangible ways, the culture, security, and...
In his eagerness to distract attention from Iran and finally secure a diplomatic coup, President Trump is pivoting once again to North Korea. Three successful encounters with Kim Jong Un in his first term yielded no breakthrough, leaving behind scars...
By: Tim Daiss The Philippines has spent years trying to move away from coal for its power sector, but worsening power reliability is forcing Manila to reconsider just how quickly it can afford to do so. The Visayas electrical grid has...
Asia Times editors’ note: Context for the following article is provided by new reporting from investigative reporter Seymour Hersh saying that the US Operation Economic Outcast targets not Iran’s ayatollahs – as Hersh thought Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was suggesting...
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