Taiwan

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Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.

Less than two months after his government hosted the NATO summit — which was framed as proof of Turkey’s pivotal role in transatlantic security — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has proposed full Turkish membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, an...

Middle East, Block 3, NATO

TotalEnergies expects its oil and gas production to grow by more than 3% every year until 2030 due to start-ups of new low-cost projects currently under development, the French supermajor said in its 2026 strategy and outlook on Monday. Overall...

News

US President Donald Trump wanted his summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington last week to demonstrate the strength of their personal relationship and show that direct diplomacy could keep competition between the world’s two largest economies under control....

Americas, China, Competition

A man carries his family’s food ration from a WFP distribution point to his shelter in Camp 11, Balukhali, Bangladesh, on September 24, 2026. Credit: Mohammed Zonaid/IPS By Mohammed Zonaid COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh, Sep 28 2026 (IPS) For Mohammed Dullah, recent cuts in...

Aid, Asia-Pacific, Development & Aid

One of my fundamental beliefs about the world is that Ramez Naam ought to blog more. Ramez is one of the world’s greatest futurists — he predicted the solar and battery revolutions long before these were widely understood. If you were reading Ramez in...

Technology, AI Diminishing Returns, AI Recursive Self-Improvement

This paper is a reflective scholarly essay written from the author’s position as a doctoral candidate and scholar-practitioner. It draws on personal academic experience and established literature on scholarship and learning communities, and it is addressed to a broad audience...

Education, Social Issues, Academic success

Trump’s speech at the 81st General Assembly shows that warmongering USA may accelerate in practice. Whether other nations respond appropriately is a separate matter. Trump’s Military Threat at the UNGA While the UN Charter, the document that established the United...

Politics, USA, Confrontation between Iran and the U.S.

NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, Adm. Pierre Vandier, returns to the studio to discuss how the alliance is continuously adapting to a new era of warfare driven by software, data, and uncrewed systems, and where it still lags. He explains...

Cogs of War, Defense Tech, Innovation

The last Conservative government passed the Legacy Act, which shut down many routes to justice for victims of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Inquests were stopped, even when British soldiers fired the fatal shots. Labour’s manifesto pledged to pass a Troubles Bill...

Archive, Military, Afghanistan

I spent more than 20 years in U.S. Army air defense, much of it in cramped control stations where the difference between a successful engagement and a catastrophic loss came down to the soldier at the console. The radar did...

Commentary, Army, Lived Experience

Powerus, a US defense company with ties to President Donald Trump’s sons, drew scrutiny after signing a memorandum of understanding this month with the Pakistani Army and offering Islamabad access to Ukrainian drone technology, sparking debate over the deal’s potential...

Military, American Ventures, Aureus Greenway

Is Ankara a culinary capital? Most people would answer this question with a definitive “No!” But is that really the case? Ankara is often a misinterpreted city, not revealing itself at first glance. You have to be born there or...

Arts & Life

A contentious civilian nuclear agreement between the US and Saudi Arabia has ignited a sharp debate over Middle Eastern security, laying bare the escalating friction between American nonproliferation objectives and the kingdom’s strategic ambitions. This month, The Washington Post reported...

Middle East, Block 1, Iran Nuclear Bomb

Helen Clark, Chair of the Board of Partners for the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH), moderates the event "Financing for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health in a Time of Austerity", hosted by the Global Leaders Network. Credit:...

Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Financial Crisis

Taiwan must deepen cooperation with democratic partners on drone development as unmanned systems become increasingly important to modern warfare, President Lai Ching-te said on Monday, as the island steps up efforts to strengthen its domestic defence industry. Speaking in Chiayi...

World News, China, Defence

By CIVICUS Sep 28 2026 (IPS)  : CIVICUS discusses the role of art in climate and rights struggles in the Brazilian Amazon with Tom Wheeler, executive director and co-founder of Treesistance. Treesistance is a platform operated by the Netherlands-based Sinchi Foundation that partners...

Active Citizens, Arts, Biodiversity

By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Sep 28 2026 (IPS) The 1944 Bretton Woods (BW) conference accepted the US demand to use the dollar to settle international financial transactions. This arrangement would require a US balance-of-payments deficit to issue enough dollars. Jomo...

Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Financial Crisis

Fearing a security vacuum if UN peacekeepers leave southern Lebanon when their mandate expires December 31, the Lebanese government is desperately seeking an extension of the United Nations Interim Force (UNIFIL) or the creation of a European-led multinational force to...

Israel-hezbollah, Israel, Hezbollah

Michael Petruzzello, a lobbyist known for helping to rehabilitate Saudi Arabia’s image in the wake of 9/11, the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, and famine in Yemen, is now registered as a foreign agent of the Saudi-backed government in Yemen. According to...

Saudi-arabia, Lobbying, Foreign-influence

Islam Times - Iraq’s suspension of flights from Iran is more than an aviation decision. It is a test of Baghdad’s independence, its principles of good-neighborly relations, and the commitments voiced by Ali al-Zubaidi at the United Nations — a...

Iraq

Islam Times - Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington was less a sign of an end to U.S.-China rivalry than an attempt to manage tensions between the two powers — a rivalry that extends beyond trade and technology to Taiwan and...

US

Two Documents, One Winter On 25 September, EU Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen wrote to every member state warning of “a price crisis linking to a supply crisis”. His remedies read like a 2022 revival: keep injecting gas into storage, shave...

Energy Security, Analysis, Economics

Investigations correspondent Louisa Loveluck reports on the Trump administration’s secret deportation deals, sending thousands of migrants to ‘third countries’ across the world A Sierra Leonean nurse detained, handcuffed and flown to Ghana. An Iranian dissident to Central African Republic. A Cameroonian...

US immigration, ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement), Africa

By: Khanh Vu Duc Vietnamese President To Lam at a private talks with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Photo from VNA Vietnam’s new Strategic Partnership with Canada is ambitious. The Joint Statement issued on September 24 covers everything from trade, digital technologies...

News

Over recent months, the straits of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb have become synonymous with geopolitical jostling. Whoever controls these narrow waterways governs the flow of maritime traffic from the Arabian Sea and the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean –...

Middle East, Bab ell-Mandeb Strait, Block 2

‘Page Six Hollywood’ recently declared: “War of Open Letters Erupts Between Pro-Israel and Pro-Palestine Factions in Hollywood.” Only a few years ago, a headline like this would have seemed unthinkable. The article described an increasingly open struggle between pro-Palestine and...

Uncategorized

The Trump Administration is touting the new oil order in Venezuela as a tremendous opportunity for reviving the industry in the world’s biggest crude oil resource holder. The U.S.-led restructuring of the sector kicked out Russian and Chinese companies out...

News

As US President Donald Trump publicly rejected Iran’s proposal for a ceasefire and reopening the Strait of Hormuz this weekend, the Iranian foreign minister reiterated that “there is no alternative to a negotiated solution.” “There’s always hope for diplomacy,” though the Trump-led United...

Middle East, Block 3, Donald Trump

The Gulf is the region’s most serious security crisis in decades, Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani said during his address to the 81st UN General Assembly. However, it should have been a wake-up call to all...

Middle East & Africa, Bahrain, Gulf Countries

The Red Sea’s changing security order has brought Somaliland new diplomatic attention. President Irro’s challenge is to turn that attention into lasting economic, political and security relationships before regional competition determines the terms. For much of its modern history, Berbera has...

Law & Order, Opinion/Analysis, Politics/Diplomacy

Somaliland’s diplomatic outreach has entered a significant new phase following President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi Irro’s official visit to Washington. The visit reflects Somaliland’s efforts to position itself as a credible partner in regional security, economic development, and international investment. Discussions...

Opinion/Analysis, Somaliland, Berbera

Vivek Raghuraman is co-founder and CEO of Mixx Technologies. At Intel, he led the first integrated silicon photonics transceiver to commercial release. At Broadcom, Raghuraman took two commercial generations of co-packaged optics through hyperscaler qualification in Meta’s environment. In 2023,...

CEO Interviews, Chiplet, chiplet

“A fraction of proposed data centers will get built. Utilities are wising up.” That was the headline on a May 2025 Utility Dive article that explored the conundrum speculative data center requests pose for U.S. electric utilities. More than a...

News

By any standard of morality, Trump is depraved. But adorned with the power of the state, he descends to another level — the level of evil. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years...

Corruption, National Politics, Article

The warning signs of the coming crash keep multiplying. An upward trend in interest rates amid falling bond prices could be the crisis-triggering factor. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Cross-posted from Michael...

Economics, Finance, Article
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