Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
Simon Davidmann is a renowned EDA industry pioneer and serial technology entrepreneur with more than 40 years of experience in simulation and verification. After Synopsys acquired Imperas, which he founded in 2005, he was Synopsys Vice President responsible for Processor...
Oil prices have just come off a fresh two-month high as the crude oil market has tumbled this week amid signals of de-escalation in the U.S.-Iran conflict. Despite the slump in crude prices and the extreme volatility in the past...
TUBAS, West Bank — The Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem (ARIJ) said Israeli authorities have advanced new phases of a project known as the “Crimson Line” in the Jordan Valley by issuing six additional military orders aimed at expanding control over Palestinian land...
Solar power is far and away the cheapest form of new energy to install in nearly every context around the world. Even in the United States, where the cost of solar additions has jumped up 18 percent since Trump’s tariffs...
OPEC+ is preparing to approve one more production increase for September and then put the monthly quota parade on hold through the end of the year. Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, Kuwait, Algeria, Kazakhstan, and Oman are expected to raise their...
Using private finance to build public infrastructure is short-sighted and almost always ends up costing the public purse more in the long run. Maike Schmidt is an assistant researcher at the New Economics Foundation and is based in Brussels. Her work...
Author of a new book titled ‘Capitalism and the Media’. Des Freeman is a professor of media and communications at Goldsmiths, London. Cross-posted from Counterfire Could you tell us a little about yourself and your background? I’m currently a Professor at Goldsmiths University, but...
One small town in the West Bank refused to accept quiet annihilation by the Zionist colonialists and fought back, showing Palestinian resistance is still alive. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of the Palestine Chronicle. He is the author...
Saudi Aramco shut its 400,000-barrel-per-day Jazan refinery on July 27 after a Houthi attack damaged the facility, according to an IIR note seen by Reuters. IIR said the strike damaged the refinery’s Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle complex and tank farm....
As Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky arrives in Washington, much indicates that he is no longer merely trying to draw greater American support into its war against Russia. Increasingly, it appears to be pursuing something far more consequential: merging the Ukraine war...
On July 13, at Damascus’s Dama Rose Hotel, Syria’s economy minister, Nidal al-Shaar, stood before executives from Chevron, Visa, Citibank, EY and a dozen other American firms and called it “a new chapter.” Two days earlier, President Trump had announced...
Water disputes can directly drive conflict, but more often, water scarcity acts as a catalyst — one that, combined with other pressures, raises the risk of conflict. This is nothing new; water has shaped human conflict for millennia. What’s changed...
Quadric has extended its Series C financing to $46 million through a second close led by the International Finance Corporation, the private-sector investment arm of the World Bank Group. The transaction raises Quadric’s total capital secured to approximately $90 million...
Israel has approved the future deployment of the International Stabilization Force (ISF) in Gaza, a significant step in implementing the US-backed peace plan. The planned multinational force is expected to support humanitarian efforts, stabilization, and a transition toward new Palestinian...
A public dispute at the United Nations Security Council has unexpectedly brought together countries with sharply opposing geopolitical interests while raising new questions about the future of relations between Paris and Washington. During a Security Council meeting, U. S. diplomats walked...
When U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Manila in mid-July for regional diplomatic talks, the trip was framed as a direct sign of American commitment to Pacific security. Before the week was out, however, a Chinese coast guard...
Investment in defence tech start-ups has reached a record high this year as the world’s biggest arms companies step up spending on new military technology. New figures from Dealroom show defence contractors including BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin and Airbus have...
For generations , the United States has been a global advocate for freedom, democracy and the rule of law. Today, however, the world is calling on the United States to uphold those same principles at home. Last month, the International Trade...
The following story is co-published with Matt Bivens’ Substack newsletter, The 100 Days. Over his decades as Iran’s religious and government leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had consistently rejected nuclear weapons. Khamenei ruled that these ridiculously violent explosives, with their promise of...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky landed in Washington with a bang Tuesday, just days after Ukraine carried out a missile strike against an Iranian cargo ship in the Caspian Sea. The attack appears to be part of Zelensky’s effort to win over...
When I was in high school, we were told that we needed to go to college. If we didn’t, we’d miss out on significant lifetime earnings. It didn’t matter what we majored in, you see, just that we went. Tilting At...
The European Union could save a lot on LNG imports by 2030 if it achieves its heat pump, solar, and wind installation targets…so much so that the bloc could save twice the gas it imports from Qatar, the Institute for...
This story was originally published by Sentient . For years , Bayer and the biotech giant it purchased, Monsanto, have faced allegations that glyphosate , the active ingredient in its popular herbicide Roundup, causes cancer. The saga has resulted in over...
Trump's latest comments cooled oil prices, but talks over ending the Strait of Hormuz blockade could prove far more consequential. Hedge Funds Pile Back into Oil as Chokepoint Risks Return - The signing of the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding triggered...
Reliance on banking apps and e-wallets has surged in recent weeks in Gaza, despite the strip’s lack of the infrastructure needed to support such a shift. While vendors see digital transfers as a solution to Gaza’s cash shortage crisis, unreliable internet...
The spike in oil prices and slowing private investments have been weighing on India’s economic growth, which is now seen at 6.6% in the fiscal year to March 2027, a full percentage-point drop from the 7.7% GDP growth in the...
Modern conflicts are not just waged by state sponsored armed forces. In the last two decades there has been a rapid growth in the international recruitment of Private Military Companies (PMCs), used for everything from protecting top-level diplomats from harm...
Arteris has expanded its partnership with Arm to deploy Cycuity Radix hardware security assurance technology across additional next-generation Arm central processing unit (CPU) programs. The expansion follows five years of collaboration and successful use of Cycuity Radix on select Arm...
Amid renewed escalation between the United States and Iran, an unusually visible dispute has emerged within the U.S. government over the aims and limits of the confrontation. Recent remarks by Vice President J.D. Vance moved that divide from the margins...
The anti-government protests in Libya over power cuts and high electricity bills over the past few days escalated on Tuesday, with protesters entering the Mellitah Oil and Gas complex and threatening to halt gas and fuel supplies for both the...
By: Thai Scam Watch Although military rule in Thailand officially ended years ago, its footprint in the boardrooms of the country’s biggest state-owned companies is less well known, with interventions into the economy and in particular the vast state-owned enterprise (SOE)...
More than half a dozen empty supertankers are currently en route to Egypt’s Sidi Kerir port to pick up Saudi crude as the world’s top crude oil exporter is re-routing – again – its export tactics to avoid the new...
Artificial intelligence may not create a new kind of terrorism, but it makes existing tactics cheaper, faster and easier. That is the central argument of a July 2026 report from the U.S.-based think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies....
Iran looks to accelerate infrastructure projects at its main oil export terminal at Kharg Island, amid on-and-off threats by U.S. President Donald Trump to either bomb or seize the island. The Islamic Republic is speeding up the completion of development...
HEBRON, occupied West Bank (PNN) – As attacks by Israeli settlers and occupation forces continue to escalate across the occupied West Bank, Palestinian women are paying a disproportionate price, facing physical injuries, psychological trauma and growing economic hardship while carrying the...
The prospect of regime change in Iran has once again entered international debate as exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi intensifies his campaign to position himself as the face of a post Islamic Republic Iran. Speaking to Western governments, engaging with...
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has launched a renewed diplomatic effort to revive Cyprus peace negotiations, holding separate meetings with Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders before planned joint talks aimed at ending nearly a decade of political deadlock....
Eni and TotalEnergies have taken the final investment decision to develop the Cronos gas field in deep waters offshore Cyprus, in the Mediterranean country’s first hydrocarbon development expected to bring first gas to market in 2028. The Cronos project, operated...
Vietnam’s effort to modernize Da Nang’s maritime infrastructure may look at first like another Asian port-development project, but it is considerably more important than that. The transformation underway along Vietnam’s central coast brings together three priorities that increasingly define Hanoi’s...
Nasdaq futures declined on Tuesday as investor concerns over artificial intelligence chip demand, rising corporate spending and intensifying Chinese competition weighed on technology stocks ahead of a crucial week of earnings from Wall Street’s largest companies. Chipmakers led the premarket...
The crisis of European democracy is caused by the fact that the political establishment has lost touch with society, replacing real political discussions with moralizing and branding any justified skepticism of citizens as “extremism.” Much of Europe’s political establishment has...
Japan is planning to join the rush to diversify oil export routes away from the Strait of Hormuz by investing in pipeline projects abroad, notably in the Middle East. Citing a document produced by the country’s economy ministry, Bloomberg reported...
Editor’s note: This is the sixth article in a limited series celebrating American defense technologies born from wartime and their effects on broader national security, politics, and society. This series will run for several weeks to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary,...
Foreign governments and influence groups have splurged vast amounts of money taking British MPs abroad since the last election, Declassified can reveal. Israel , Qatar and Taiwan top the rankings, with charm offensives to promote the countries in Westminster. The Middle Eastern...
France is preparing for its fourth major heatwave of the year as soaring temperatures and prolonged drought continue to fuel one of the country’s worst wildfire seasons on record, with firefighters battling a massive blaze near Bordeaux that has already...
In the Pacific War, the U.S. Navy’s underwater demolition teams prepared the way for U.S. and allied amphibious landings on enemy-held islands. Through beach reconnaissance, obstacle breaching, mine clearance, and other missions, these teams paved paths for the first waves of amphibious assaults conducted by naval task...
In the speech announcing his invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin took only minutes to arrive at the original sin in his catalogue of Western crimes. Before Iraq, before Libya, before Syria, came Belgrade: “First a bloody...
U.S. President Donald Trump is set to host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Washington on Tuesday, as the wars in Iran and Ukraine enter critical phases that could reshape U.S. foreign policy and regional...
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