Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
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This is a follow-up to my previous piece on the economic effects of the Persian Gulf sulfur and urea cutoff. In that piece I argued that the public conversation about the Strait of Hormuz has fixated on crude oil and…
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A new Italian restaurant has opened in Istanbul: Lucente. But what first caught my attention was not its menu, but the approach taken to create it. The team learned pasta-making from a family that has been producing…
Technology
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A Samsung memory chip worker earning about $60,000 a year could receive roughly $560,000 in bonuses before tax, according to the company’s largest union. Its estimate includes both Samsung’s existing profit-sharing bonus…
Military
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On October 4, the US pulled its 12 B-1 strategic bombers out of Fairford, UK and returned them to the United States. Reports say the planes returned to Ellsworth Air Force Base in Rapid City, South Dakota. The bombers…
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Introduction This is a follow-up to my previous piece on the economic effects of the Persian Gulf sulfur and urea cutoff. In that piece I argued that the public conversation about the Strait of Hormuz has fixated on…
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Islam Times - The Economist’s alarming cover about a “bond market explosion” can be seen as a key to understanding Trump’s contradictory behavior: a president who threatens Iran to project victory, yet puts the US under…
Iran
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Islam Times - Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has described Iran’s participation for the first time, as the first country invited as a special guest, in the summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) as a…
Vaccines and immunisation
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Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers A controversial research trial that will withhold hepatitis B vaccines from some African newborns was given…
Foreign Affairs
Fund our high schools instead of genocides Photo: Stephane Jouteux For the third week in a row, high school students across France are taking to the streets demanding more investment in their education. They want more…
Climate Change
A mother and her child stand in the wreckage of their destroyed home in Toamasina, Madagascar, following a devastating cyclone. Credit: UNICEF/Tsiory Ny Aina Andriantsoarana By Oritro Karim UNITED NATIONS, Oct 9 2026…
RAMALLAH, Palestine / PNN / Wisal Abu Alia As the olive harvest season approaches, Palestinian villages and towns are preparing for an annual event that extends far beyond agriculture, forming a vital part of the…
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Jasmine Jobson goes the distance as the British-Somalian boxer battling pain from her past and her family’s disapproval in a heavyweight, tick-the-boxes production The true-life success story of boxer Ramla Ali is…
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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. ***IranIn late September, U.S. and Iranian…
Americas
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In the upcoming presidential runoff in Brazil, two candidates, Senator Flavio Bolsonaro and incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, represent very different visions for US-Brazil relations. Bolsonaro enters the…
Austerity
Iran war could turn rising oil and food costs into a debt crisis, forcing countries to put their populations before creditors. Energy prices and the risk of a world depression Robinson Erhardt: Michael, I woke up to a…
Geopolitics
Israel was forged out of ethnic cleansing and apartheid. The Greens have very belatedly recognised what should have been obvious all along Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict…
Austerity
Thousands of protestors have set up encampments in city squares across Spain. The immediate spark has been the housing crisis but years of neo-liberal driven austerity have brought matters to a head Steven Marsh is a…
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Committee recognises work of South African who chaired UN commission that concluded Israel was guilty of genocide in Gaza The Nobel peace prize has been awarded to Navi Pillay, the South African former UN human rights…
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What would the world look like if the nations of the world decided to allow everyone to thrive in peaceful coexistence? — Why doesn’t that seem to work? Which troublesome elements would need to be neutralized? By Peter…
Events
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TSMC’s 2026 Open Innovation Platform Forum presented artificial intelligence as the force reshaping semiconductor design. Its central argument is that faster chips will require progress across the whole system: logic…
Africa
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Each morning on her way to Kariakoo, Clementina Nyangwine looks out of her commuter bus as it crawls through Jangwani and watches giant foundation piles rising above the muddy Msimbazi valley. Workers in safety helmets…
Activism
As scholars of democracy , we are watching America’s warning signs flash red. We expect America’s long-building constitutional crisis to soon escalate. Earlier this year, we hosted a national workshop to assess the…
Business & Economy
Look, I’ve been around the block. I know what it means when a feature of my life is suddenly appended with words like -coded and -core . It means the things about myself that I can’t or don’t want to change are being…
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The following story is co-published with Matt Bivens’ Substack newsletter, The 100 Days. “No,” said the priest. “It is not necessary to accept everything as true. One must only accept it as necessary.” “A melancholy…
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I’m still not feeling particularly well, which is why there wasn’t a post yesterday. There won’t be much of one today, I’m afraid. I’m in the path of the hurricane in the Gulf, so my day is going to be getting the paying…
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It’s an honor to attend events like this as a guest, and even more so as a speaker. On Friday at 3:30 p.m., I’ll be moderating a panel with the CEOs of three of the hottest AI startups. I definitely have a few questions…
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The South African-born jurist and former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay has won a Nobel her efforts to promote peace and international law. The 85-year-old, who is an ad hoc judge at the international court of…
Democracy & Governance
Political scientists have a fairly dry checklist for what makes a regime oppressive: it silences dissent, it turns state power against its own people, it treats international law as optional, and it punishes…
Europe
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As NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and European leaders increasingly warn of a looming Russian threat, Vladimir Putin used the Valdai Discussion Club to deliver a very different message: Europe is feeding an escalation…
Hurricane Isaias
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Storm expected to make landfall on US’s northern Gulf coast with risk of flash floods and isolated river flooding Isaias has become the first Atlantic hurricane of the 2026 season, with wind speeds of 80mph and a minimum…
South Asia
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China is increasingly trying to diversify its connections to the region as Pakistan’s actions in Afghanistan create new security and strategic problems for Beijing. The opening of a road through the Wakhan Corridor is an…
Analysis
Walmart serves 280 million shoppers a week and churned out more than $22 billion in profit in the last fiscal year. So, suffice it to say, I was floored – and maybe even a bit flattered – when the retail behemoth issued…
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Pakistan’s deployment of troops to Saudi Arabia under the Makkah Pact could deepen domestic political instability, strain its relations with Iran, and undermine its strategic autonomy by drawing Islamabad further into a…
Aid
Children in Gaza wait in the hope of receiving food. Credit: UN News By UN Women UNITED NATIONS, Oct 9 2026 (IPS) Since October 2023, 50,000 women and girls in Gaza have been killed or seriously injured. • UN Women…
Cogs of War
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A kill chain measured in seconds cannot depend on processes measured in weeks or months. The Pentagon recognizes that drone proliferation and AI-enabled lethal targeting are reducing decision cycles and increasing the…
Geopolitics
Thoughts on Gaza, China, and Afghan drug lords. Matthew Hoh is the Associate Director of the Eisenhower Media Network. A former Marine and State Department official who resigned in protest over the wars in Iraq and…
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In 79 A.D., Gaius Plinius Secundus, known today as Pliny the Elder, was the supreme commander of the Roman imperial fleet, permanently stationed at Misenum near Naples. He died during the eruption of Vesuvius, after…
Southeast Asia
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Last week, eight Chinese-made light attack jets sat on a half-finished runway at Ban Keun, flanked by more than two dozen military support vehicles, offering the first aerial glimpse of a new Chinese-Lao military…
Biodiversity
By Madhu Rao and Tyson Miller SINGAPORE, Oct 9 2026 (IPS) When governments gather in Yerevan this month for the 17th UN Convention on Biological Diversity , they will weigh a promise nearly 200 countries adopted six…
Iran
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Islam Times - Iran’s participation in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s counterterrorism exercise in Belarus goes beyond military cooperation. It is a sign of the failure of the project to isolate Iran and of the…
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Islam Times - The Leader of the Islamic Revolution and the Islamic Republic of Iran, Sayyed Mojtaba Khamenei, has praised Iran’s internal security forces, known as FARAJA, for maintaining their duties under US-“Israeli”…
The-bunker
The Bunker appears originally at the Project on Government Oversight and is republished here with permission. The U.S. ended its military campaign in Iraq on September 30, as the final American combat troops based there…
Russia
Let’s imagine a bit of “future history” in Ukraine. It is February 2027. The Ukrainian winter has been unusually cold, and Russian air strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, transportation grid, and communications…
Defense-industry
President Donald Trump traveled to Baltimore this week to announce a $7 billion deal with the defense tech firm Anduril to build autonomous submarines as well as components for the Navy’s Virginia-class attack…
Global development
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Matsadaash staff allege torture and forced confessions after being held on charges of working for Muslim Brotherhood Egyptian journalists are planning a new protest in Cairo this weekend after six colleagues were charged…
Larry C. Johnson
On the morning of September 30, flydubai flight FZ1073, a Boeing 737 MAX 8, left Dubai for Tel Aviv with 174 passengers aboard, 27 of them children. About two and a half hours into the flight, the first officer attacked…
China
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Beijing has rebuffed a European Union request to voluntarily cap hybrid car exports to the bloc, raising the prospect of new, steep EU tariffs on Chinese hybrids, which have so far escaped the duties on pure electric…
France
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Islam Times - France’s test of a new missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, along with Macron’s emphasis on the necessity of power and deterrence, has once again exposed the West’s nuclear double standards…