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Representatives from the Syrian government and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah recently held secret talks in Turkey to reduce tensions between them, marking the first known meeting between the two long-time adversaries. This meeting involved Syrian officials and Hezbollah members,...

Wow, OpenAI and Synopsys just announced a multiyear partnership to develop GPT-Synopsys, a specialized artificial intelligence model for semiconductor design. The agreement combines OpenAI’s frontier models with Synopsys’ electronic design automation software and engineering expertise. Its ambition is to help...

If you only looked at the price of the fuel, you'd think the nuclear trade has never been better. Long-term uranium prices are sitting at $96/lb, an all-time record and up ~12% YTD, taking out the $95/lb high set in...

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Oil prices are high not because the world is short on oil but because the trade routes have been severely disrupted, driving up freight and other costs, India’s Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said. “There's no supply shortage in the...

Two Sets of Numbers, One Week On 22 September, two polls put Brazil’s presidential runoff within the margin of error. Quaest had Senator Flávio Bolsonaro on 42% and President Lula da Silva on 41%. BTG Pactual/Nexus had it 46–45 the...

The U.S. Administration has urged Germany and France, Europe’s largest economies that hold a sizeable chunk of the EU’s emergency reserves, to release diesel from emergency stockpiles or face a potential U.S. diesel export ban, sources close to the discussions...

India's power shortfall surged to a three-year high in September as El Niño and industrial electricity demand drove consumption higher. Last month, India's power shortages jumped to 560 million kilowatt-hours (kWh). This was the highest level since August 2023, Reuters...

For years, Pakistan’s claim that the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan operates from sanctuaries inside Afghanistan produced a familiar exchange: Islamabad accused, Kabul denied, and each new militant attack triggered another round of recrimination. That pattern is becoming harder to sustain. The sanctuary...

Three oil tankers have been hit by unknown projectiles while transiting the Strait of Hormuz this week, shipping intelligence and security companies say. Three Liberia-flagged tankers with their transponders switched off were transiting the Strait on Tuesday and Wednesday when...

On September 30, the last American and coalition troops flew out of Erbil Air Base, and the Pentagon declared an “orderly departure.” The White House called it a victory. President Trump, never one for understatement, described the whole enterprise as...

China’s refiners have halted fuel exports until further notice, multiple sources briefed on the matter told Reuters on Thursday in a development that could further tighten the global fuel market. PetroChina, the state major, has canceled some gasoline and jet...

The air war between Russia and Ukraine has evolved constantly since the start of the conflict. The latest example is Russia’s deployment of a new type of long-range, jet-powered drone, which is having a significant effect on Ukraine’s ability to...

New details have emerged about the nationality of the pilot who was injured by his colleague aboard a Flydubai aircraft. As reported in Israel, the captain of the Dubai-Tel Aviv flight who was wounded is an Indian national named Smit...

The Trump administration has warned France and Germany to release emergency diesel reserves to help lower global fuel prices or risk facing a potential US ban on diesel exports, according to people familiar with the discussions. The warning represents a...

Nearly a decade after the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya people by Myanmar forces, satellite images show the insurgent Arakan Army is now emulating the killings and land grabs There are at least 10 camps like the one on the paddy fields...

Taiwan is allocating the equivalent of $13 billion for energy cost support for state power generation company Taipower and refiner CPC, Reuters has reported, to offset the sharp cost inflation resulting from the war in the Middle East. Taiwan is...

On the 25th of September, President of the Presidential Leadership Council of Yemen Rashad al-Alimi called for a general mobilisation of the Yemeni people against the Houthis and promised amnesty to Houthi defectors. From his base in Riyadh, he summoned...

During a recent training exercise in the western Pacific, a small group of engineers single-handedly saved the day.In the scenario, adversary covert forces used first-person view drones to intercept American helicopters that were shuttling between austere forward island airbases. Some...

Pakistan’s government is considering allowing power plants and private firms to directly import LNG procured on the spot market as the country has been struggling with an energy crisis since the Iran war crippled Qatar’s term supplies. Pakistan’s Energy Ministry...

In 1901, military analyst Jan Bloch declared that new military technologies had changed war so radically that the study of history had become useless. He castigated military officers who prepared for future war based on “musty precedents” and who failed...

US President Donald Trump is unlikely to receive this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, but his confrontation with the international institutions and political actors involved in the award may still influence the Nobel Committee’s calculations when it announces the laureate on...

A potential ban on U.S. diesel exports could have “a negative impact on gasoline,” U.S. President Donald Trump said late on Wednesday, although he didn’t rule out such a move from the Administration. The President told reporters in the Oval...

Islam Times - Abu Dhabi’s claims of de-escalation come as its continued hostile positions on Iran’s territorial integrity, its hosting of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and its security alignment with the United States and Israel have created a clear...

Islam Times - The timing of the Pentagon’s order for full readiness, Washington’s vague claims about an attack on Fairford air base and the intensification of security rhetoric come as the Trump administration faces economic pressure, declining approval ratings and...

Crude oil prices moved markedly lower on Wednesday and stayed there earlier today, after booking a solid jump for September. The decline came in response to reports from JP Morgan, Goldman, and Kpler, suggesting oil flows out of the Persian...

The global bond markets are a sensitive lot. And they’ve been having a particularly tricky time lately. Spooked by high inflation, high interest rates and high levels of government debt across the world, those markets have become less stable over the summer....

Xi’s recent visit to Washington was merely a tactical step rather than a genuine reconciliation. Beneath the façade of conspicuously displayed friendliness lies a persistent antagonism across various domains—an antagonism that both sides have learned to “manage,” including in ways...

Thirty-six years after German reunification, the physical borders between the former Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) have long vanished from maps. Yet, a stark divide persists, most noticeably in the wallets of Germans. While...