Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
The European Commission has signaled it would delay the entry into effect of its controversial methane regulation amid a persistent gas crunch resulting from the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. That may not be enough to offset the...
Hundreds of oil executives have flocked to Venezuela’s capital city of Caracas this week for the first major industry event in the country in decades. The Venezuela International Oil & Gas Summit is taking place nine months after the U.S....
An alarming security incident occurred on a FlyDubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv when a crew member reportedly attempted to crash the plane, stabbing the captain before passengers and other crew members intervened. Pilots flying as passengers aboard the...
On paper, the United States should be the world’s safety valve in this fuel crisis. American refineries make far more diesel than Americans burn. But every one of those barrels is already spoken for. Between rising domestic demand, heavy export...
For decades, Africa has lagged the world in energy consumption, accounting for less than 5% of global energy supplies despite being home to a fifth of the world’s population. The continent also accounts for a mere 2% of global manufacturing...
Support for white Afrikaners, anti-communism and others reveals how US redefining what qualifies as human rights With hours left before the funding expires, the Trump administration is pushing to direct more than $175m of the state department’s flagship human rights fund...
In his celebrated short stories about robots, science fiction author Isaac Asimov devised three laws to prevent machines from overpowering humans. First of all, robots could not, under any circumstances, harm humans. Following from this prime directive, they had to...
I spent a significant part of my career in the ASIC business. This segment of semiconductors has always been challenging, difficult and invigorating. There is something special about delivering a working custom chip that enables your customer to bring a...
Guyana is starting to see significant profits from its rapidly expanding oil operations, with much more expected to come. Oil was first discovered in the offshore Stabroek Block in 2015, with development commencing soon after, and production starting in December...
The Board of Peace’s model for governing Palestine reflects designs for a new world order. Read Article HERE Jared Kushner, Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, and Steve Witkoff attend the inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace at the Donald J. Trump Institute...
A Departure, and a Drone Launcher On 30 September the last American troops left an air base in the Erbil region, ending the US military presence in Iraq after twelve years. Kataib Hezbollah, the most powerful Iran-aligned militia, called it...
President Trump announced plans to appoint a special coordinator for artificial intelligence, an "AI czar," within three to four days. The White House is also considering establishing a committee of about ten members to oversee the technology's development. These announcements...
The nature of the shortage of diesel and jet fuel is more complex than most people realize. Based on my analysis, a shortfall has existed since at least 2020. The shortage is not simply the result of the closure of...
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Ukrainian lawmakers have been instructed to leave Kyiv and relocate to areas near the Romanian and Hungarian borders until October 17, amid intelligence that Russia plans to expand its strikes on the capital in early October, Eagle Intelligence Reports reported...
U.S. oil and gas production increased among firms surveyed by the Dallas Fed in Q3, but crude’s swing from $67 to $107 per barrel in less than three months has left producers struggling to decide where prices are headed. Oil...
Over the better part of three days, President Donald Trump hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington for a summit that drew international attention for its high-stakes agenda, from trade and AI to Taiwan. While some experts saw the summit...
It was the West’s mistaken analysis that has trapped the West into an escalatory staircase of actions that risk taking Europe to a war with Russia Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted...
The little-known decisions and breakthroughs—and the remarkable role of Robert Noyce—that helped shape the modern semiconductor industry by Sunil Mehta When people tell the story of how Silicon Valley came into being, they usually begin with a familiar sequence of events. The transistor...
All those institutions we were told were integral to democracy and world peace turn out to be the greatest threats. Craig Murray is a British former diplomat, political activist, human rights campaigner, blogger, and whistleblower Cross-posted from Craig Murray’s Blog Photo: ScreenGrab I have...
Europe’s latest energy shock is rapidly feeding into consumer prices, with inflation accelerating across some of the euro area’s largest economies and leaving the European Central Bank facing an increasingly uncomfortable policy dilemma. September data show particularly strong increases in...
Keynes’ rejection of purposeful activity as desirable for humankind once the economic problem has been solved, and doubt on whether monotheistic religions will be needed once we reach abundance Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His latest...
As I write this, Ramadan is still about six months away. Some may wonder why we should speak about Ramadan now. Yet, over the years, I have noticed a distinct pattern: many of the wounds we hope to heal in...
When the establishment media deals with issues in which the West’s war industries are most heavily invested, it happily jettisons even the semblance of critical distance from the state Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,...
A major explosion and fire have hit one of India’s largest refineries just as the country is pushing its plants above normal operating rates to offset tight fuel supplies caused by the Iran war. One worker was killed, and at...
This is the second article in a two-part series. The first part, First Principles for a New Progressive Foreign Policy, can be found here . In this run-up to the 2026 mid-term elections, progressive movements and candidates remain caught up in...
Canada’s Supreme Court legalized medical assistance in dying (MAID) in 2016, and there has been no end to debate and controversy over the end-of-life process: how it should be approached, what conditions it applies to and who should be allowed...
Analysts have sharply raised their 2026 oil price forecasts as hopes fade for a quick normalization of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, with a new Reuters poll putting Brent crude at an average of $89.05 per barrel this year,...
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News , a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here . A series of deadly heat waves from May to August overwhelmed Germany’s healthcare...
Photo by Sue Winston on Unsplash When I sit here and type these words, I’m creating something that is, ultimately, intangible, but no less real. This isn’t a radical concept. We call this intellectual property, and we work to preserve it because...
President Donald Trump is tapping $20 million in Department of Homeland Security funding to pay for TV ads that heavily feature him ahead of the midterm elections, Democrats said Tuesday as the promos critics call propaganda come under bipartisan attack. The...
SiFive and AMD demonstrated an AI workload that brings together two open technologies: the RISC-V processor architecture and AMD’s ROCm GPU software platform. At the AI Infra Summit on September 15, 2026, the companies showed ROCm 10.0 running on SiFive’s...
Securing Energy for Europe (SEFE), the German state-owned gas importer, has been instructed to boost the level of natural gas in storage by the equivalent of 8 terawatt-hours (TWh) by December 15, the company said on Wednesday. Germany nationalized the...
President Donald Trump is set to announce plans to use $54 billion from South Korea’s $350 billion investment package for building a liquefied natural gas facility in Alaska and other U.S. projects. This announcement aligns with Trump’s efforts to showcase...
President announces measures amid anger at authorities over recent murders of women South Africa’s president has called on men to take more responsibility for violence against women as he announced measures to tackle the problem, amid anger at authorities over a...
Russia launched a significant air campaign against Ukraine’s energy grid on Wednesday, targeting power facilities around Kyiv and other areas. This attack, described as the heaviest in months, killed seven people, according to Ukrainian officials. The strikes followed a series...
The key OPEC+ producers are set to leave their current crude oil output quotas unchanged for November at a meeting this weekend, anonymous sources familiar with the plans told Reuters on Wednesday. The Gulf producers in OPEC+ have been producing...
For those employed in arduous solitary work such as cab driving, a marathon phone call is the perfect place to navigate the dislocations of immigrant life - Don’t get The Long Wave delivered to your inbox? Sign up here The question of...
Can quantum computing have any relevance to EDA? This month’s paper suggests it might have a role someday, in accelerating one of the most fundamental of EDA algorithms: SAT. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur,...
A stronger future for coffee starts by strengthening the places and communities where that journey begins. Credit: Edgardo Ayala/IPS By Boubaker Ben Belhassen ROME, Sep 30 2026 (IPS) Imagine your morning coffee. You smell the aroma as steam rises from the cup. It...
In the first hours of the U.S. and Israeli war against Iran on February 28, 2026, a major strategic assumption was put to the test. If the head of the Islamic Republic were removed, would the regime itself collapse? The opening...
Russia’s government on Wednesday extended the ban on exports of diesel, marine fuel, and gasoil for all fuel producers by October 31, which effectively extends the period in which the tightening global market will have to cope without Russian diesel...
When Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met in Washington last week, artificial intelligence was among the issues dividing their countries. Days earlier, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the two sides had agreed to establish a formal AI dialogue, including an...
Khalilur Rahman (second from right), President of the eighty-first session of the United Nations General Assembly, chairs the High-level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response. Credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten By Shreya Komar UNITED NATIONS, Sep 30 2026 (IPS) The United Nations High-level...
China is not expected to materially boost its crude oil imports through the end of the year as oil prices surged above $100 per barrel again and independent refiners struggle to procure cheaper supply amid the near-disappearance of Iranian barrels....
China’s benchmark thermal coal prices have jumped for 11 straight weeks, hitting the highest level in three years this week, amid lower domestic production and reduced imports from top coal exporter Indonesia. The spot thermal coal price at Qinhuangdao, the...
A Flydubai Boeing 737 flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv was involved in a serious mid-air incident on September 30 after a physical confrontation between the pilots triggered emergency signals and sent the aircraft into a sudden, steep descent. Flight...
Suzannah Mirghani’s first feature contains a powerful performance by Rabha Mohamed Mahmoud as a village’s elder woman and tackles the long shadow of British imperialism and women’s rights ‘I decide my past,” says a village matriarch in this intriguingly political and...
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