Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
The Middle East crisis has reverberated through key global shipping chokepoints thousands of miles away from the Strait of Hormuz. Following the crippled tanker traffic through the Middle East’s main oil and LNG export outlet, the Panama Canal and the...
The artificial intelligence energy crisis is catalyzing the development pipeline for space-based solar energy. As the world rushes to build up more energy production capacity in a scramble to keep up with skyrocketing demand from data center hyperscalers, the public...
French President Emmanuel Macron is calling the G7 back to the table to discuss another release of emergency oil stocks as Europe loses Saudi crude deliveries and diesel prices push deeper into record territory. Macron said Friday that he will...
Unlike many ungulates that establish a strict social hierarchy led by a dominant male, sheep lack an internal leadership structure. Both wild and domestic flocks demonstrate a tendency to follow almost any entity that moves with confidence-be it a goat,...
BETHLEHEM / PNN / The Palestine News Network (PNN) has launched a new programme aimed at strengthening independent journalism and public accountability, as part of efforts to develop professional media content that amplifies community voices and addresses social and economic challenges...
This is the first article in a two-part series. For many years, progressive movements and activists have longed for the moment when we could imagine a real foreign policy rooted in true internationalism and solidarity. But in our efforts to influence actual...
Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. ***IranSenior officials from Iran, Oman, and neighboring Gulf states were scheduled to meet in Salalah on Monday...
A Republican Congressional candidate in Iowa has pitched himself as an anti-corruption crusader, swearing off corporate PAC donations and claiming to represent voters who’ve “been left behind by a broken political system that works for insiders and lobbyists.” But as...
Police fire teargas as protests break out in city of Minna after deaths of suspected illegal goldminers, many of whom were children Survivors from a prison cell in Nigeria where 37 suspected illegal goldminers died while in the custody of a...
The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States rose this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday, with the total rig count in the US rising to 595, up...
This time, Europe seems serious about holding Israel accountable – or at least that is what 11 European countries, together with Canada, want us to believe. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of the Palestine Chronicle. He is the...
The link between urbanization and poverty may be determined by how cities are planned and governed, according to UN reports. Credit: Benjamin Shurance/Unsplash By Shuli Wong UNITED NATIONS, Sep 18 2026 (IPS) Urbanization can help concentrate jobs, services, and investments; however, it can...
As a kid, I knew three things about the guy who owned my favorite NFL team. He was short, from Ohio, and he was a good owner because he spent money. After 40 years of further review, that stands as...
TotalEnergies and BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) have signed a partnership agreement under which GIP will invest $1.8 billion in capital contribution toward some of the French supermajor’s oil and gas infrastructure assets in Africa. In exchange for the $1.8...
Why are stadium owners angry? Is the Strait of Hormuz still blocked? And whose campaigns is Big Tech funding? The answers to these questions and many more can be found in LeverMind , our weekly news quiz testing your knowledge of...
Saudi Aramco shifts crude exports to the Persian Gulf, easing supply fears and pushing Brent below $105. Friday, September 18, 2026 Last week’s market panic about the 7 million b/d East-West pipeline remaining offline for weeks gave way to a...
When Xi Jinping sits down with Donald Trump in Washington on September 24, the American side plans to raise AI-directed cyberattacks and accusations that Chinese labs copied U.S. models. Less than two weeks earlier in New Delhi, Xi offered the...
For the Kremlin, the giant Vostok Oil project in the frigid Far North is crucial to two goals: bolstering Russia’s presence in the Arctic and keeping production of the key export commodity going as reserves in more accessible parts of...
Ten-year Bund yields hit their highest level since 2011 the week the AfD won 43.8% of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt — the worst state result the CDU has ever suffered, delivered to a chancellor already polling at 13% approval, the...
Ladies and gents, we’re going to do something a little different today. I’m going to tell you all a story. It’s a true one, too. No tall tale, no puffery or hyperbole, if I can help it. Just a simple...
An INEOS-led carbon capture and storage project in Denmark was launched on Friday to become the first full-scale CO2 storage site in the European Union, UK-based chemicals and energy group INEOS said. The Greensand CO2 storage facility, led by INEOS...
The little girl stared up at Norma Gómez from the doorway of her neighbor’s apartment, her sad, brown eyes suddenly flashing with hope. “Are you the person who’s going to bring my mom back?” she asked. Gómez struggled to find an answer....
As we mark 15 years since Occupy Wall Street, it is worth remembering that the movement against inequality has a long lineage. The Gen Z-led protests flooding the streets of India, Kenya, Bolivia and Tunisia today have been building for...
Palantir CEO Alex Karp proclaimed on a panel in 2024 that “technology should be able to reduce drastically the amount of collateral damage, civilian deaths.” Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and former Deputy Director of the CIA David Cohen agreed. Proponents...
TSMC reportedly plans to double its Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate capacity from approximately 130,000 300mm-equivalent wafers per month at the end of 2026 to 260,000 by 2028. The estimate is not formal company guidance and should be treated as a supply-chain projection. Nevertheless,...
The Chinese presence in the Red Sea and Horn of Africa ports and projects is deeply significant, given its connection to trade and supply chains and its potential to grant China future influence over maritime security, shipping lanes, and military...
At least two LNG carriers have transited the Strait of Hormuz so far this week, while two others were detected to have engaged in ship-to-ship transfers outside the Strait offshore Oman, tanker-tracking and satellite data compiled by Bloomberg showed on...
Unlike the British “Brexit”, with which journalists are so eager to compare this referendum, Iceland’s “Nei” signifies not a vote to leave the EU, but a vote against resuming accession negotiations for full-fledged membership. Fishing sovereignty, currency independence, and the...
For years, digital influence followed a familiar path. Someone searched Google, looked through the results, clicked a website, and decided what to do next. Businesses fought for clicks through SEO, advertising, content, and brand building. However, all of that is...
Charlie Cheng is CEO of TeRAM , with four decades of technology experience focused on microprocessor architecture and semiconductor memory. Before TeRAM, he worked on several AI processors, including multiple generations of Meta’s MTIA accelerators beginning in 2019. Previously, he...
Charlie Cheng is CEO of TeRAM , with four decades of technology experience focused on microprocessor architecture and semiconductor memory. Before TeRAM, he worked on several AI processors, including multiple generations of Meta’s MTIA accelerators beginning in 2019. Previously, he...
While there are legitimate national security concerns around AI, there is no decisive “finish line” to AI innovation that will grant a final victory to either the United States or China. The post The Wrong Race: The US, China, and AI...
Sovereignty is usually understood as a legal status: a state is recognized, possesses territory and institutions of government, and formally has the right to make decisions independently. Yet in today’s international system, that definition is no longer sufficient. Formal independence...
The new generation Audi 100 enters the market positioned between the traditional luxury of Mercedes-Benz and the driver-centric focus of BMW. The range consists of three variants: the base 100, the mid-range 100S, and the top-tier 100CS. All three utilize...
Every actor with the power to end this war has instead spent September building permanent infrastructure to live around it. The House voted for a third time Tuesday to curb Trump's war powers, passing the latest resolution 220-204, but there...
November WTI crude oil futures were trading at $96.35 at 0:51 GMT early Friday, up $0.49, or 0.51%, for the week. The contract traded as high as $101.69 and as low as $94.64. The range reflects a market caught between...
Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict Poland's state-controlled refiner, Orlen, lost $230 million on a Venezuelan crude deal the moment it wired the money with no collateral and no bank guarantee. Orlen's Swiss trading arm signed a $345 million contract with Dubai-based...
Saudi Arabia has sold as many as 60 million barrels of crude oil from the Persian Gulf port of Ras Tanura for September and October loadings outside the Strait of Hormuz via ship-to-ship transfers, trade sources told Reuters on Friday....
When former Biden administration official Ely Ratner last year proposed a binding, NATO-style “Pacific Defense Pact ” with an integrated command structure among the United States, Japan, Australia, and the Philippines, he delivered an accidental indictment of a central weakness...
Seaweed communities on Kunashir Island are undergoing a structural shift driven by rising ocean temperatures. During an expedition from September 6 to 15, phycologists from Vladivostok surveyed the littoral and upper sublittoral zones—down to a depth of two meters—finding that...
Four of Nurat Osman’s alleged abductors were killed during rescue after she was taken from outside her home last week A British woman kidnapped in Malawi last week has been rescued by police after a shootout in which four of her...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for Fayuvi, a novel gene therapy developed by Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. designed to combat Sanfilippo syndrome type A, a devastating rare neurological disorder. A Devastating Childhood Disease Sanfilippo syndrome type A, also...
India’s coal power generation did not grow between the first half of 2024 and the first half of 2026, for the first such two-year period in over 50 years in which coal power has remained flat in the world’s second-largest...
Russia's projected budget deficit for 2027 is expected to reach approximately 2% of GDP, according to President Vladimir Putin. This figure marks an increase from the 1.2% of GDP outlined in the current law. To address the growing fiscal pressure,...
The African serval, illegally enclosed in the back yard, was subdued and transferred to an animal welfare facility Louisiana firefighters responding to a small house blaze found a wildcat native to sub-Saharan Africa illegally enclosed in the back yard, and an...
The debate about AI consciousness is growing, in academic articles, newspaper opinion pieces, and even among AI bots themselves. I doubt this is a passing wave of interest. As AI systems become more capable and human-like, and more involved in our lives, the question will...
Only four commodity vessels were detected to have moved inbound or out of the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, shipping data showed early on Friday, while oil shipping options out of the Middle East became fewer with the closure of...
Venezuela’s government and opposition are nearing an agreement to transfer about $4 billion in central bank gold reserves from the Bank of England to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Financial Times reported on Friday. Reuters could not...
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