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Bloomberg's continuous front-month uranium futures contract (UXA1 Comdty) briefly surged above $100 a pound in late January, driven by tightening supplies, renewed government support for nuclear power, and rising electricity demand from the AI infrastructure boom. Uranium futures then retreated...
Israeli Commanders warn their political leadership of a pending explosion in the occupied West Bank, while the United States unleashes a new economic offensive in a desperate attempt to pressure the Iranians to open to Strait of Hormuz. In the...
Seven crude carriers were moored at Iraq’s Persian Gulf export facilities on August 24—a sharp increase from recent weeks. The carriers had a combined carrying capacity of roughly 13 million barrels, according to satellite imagery analyzed by Bloomberg. TankerTrackers.com separately...
Norway has started production from the second stage of the Troll Phase 3 development, accelerating 55 billion cubic meters of natural gas from the Troll West reservoir and helping sustain high gas deliveries to Europe from one of the continent’s...
Andy Burnham has suggested tax rises could be on the cards in the looming Autumn Budget, warning he “won’t be unrealistic” over the state of the public purse. The Prime Minister quickly pledged to give people “breathing space” and ease...
A former Guantanamo detainee finds that many of those who were his inmates are now in power in Kabul and Damascus, picking-up the pieces of what the US empire left behind. Moazzam Begg is a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, author of...
In Episode 2 of the Muslim Money Matters mini-series, brother Adam Taufique breaks things down to the basics! What’s the difference between financial literacy and Islamic financial literacy? How should you start managing your money? Is it all just a...
Predictions of an oil price apocalypse from the closing of the Strait of Hormuz have not yet materialised, but the long run consequences are still set to be steep. Sam Fraser is a writer based in New York City. He holds...
Yemen’s shift from coffee to qat crops intensified ecological pressures in in the impoverished north, creating the conditions for the Houthis’ rise. Ibrahim Al-Marashi is Associate Professor of Middle East history at California State University San Marcos (CSUSM). He obtained his...
A full-scale trade war has erupted between the United States and Canada, with consequences that could have significant implications for Russia. The U.S.-Canada trade war turns personal In short, U.S. negotiators failed to reach an understanding with Canada over new tariffs on...
With Russian infrastructure being pummeled by Ukrainian drones, the Kremlin is hoping to sustain its war effort in Ukraine going by deepening defense cooperation with Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. It is uncertain, however, whether Astana and Tashkent will go along with...
The federal government is putting another 3,388 acres of public mineral estate on the auction block for oil and gas development in Montana and the Dakotas. The Bureau of Land Management said it will offer 20 parcels in an online...
Two years ago, abortion opponents in Missouri tried to defeat Amendment 3, a ballot initiative to enshrine reproductive rights in the state constitution, by falsely telling voters that it would allow gender transition surgeries for minors — even though it...
China on Tuesday signaled it would not end its ties and trade relations with Iran following the U.S. sanctions unveiled on Monday that target Chinese and Hong Kong entities for helping Iran do business. On Monday, the U.S. Administration announced...
In a case with serious repercussions for U.S. national security and for Brazil, a Clinton-appointed U.S. federal judge concluded that an immigration record entered in the Customs and Border Protection system during the Biden administration was fraudulent. The fraudulent record...
The artificial intelligence boom is supercharging the development of next-gen nuclear energy technology. Big Tech and private equity are catalyzing the research and development of cutting-edge approaches to round-the-clock clean energy production as hyperscalers add power-hungry data centers to the...
JENIN, West Bank /PNN / In a promising agricultural venture, Palestinian agronomist Amani Abu Naeem has successfully launched a local blueberry cultivation experiment through her project, “Blueberry Karm,” turning a small-scale trial into a budding enterprise after two years of work...
You’d never know it by the title, “Dancing in the Dark,” but the Washington Spectator’s recent investigation is about the various steps (mostly illegal) President Donald Trump is taking, including the use of enforcement tools and violence, to prepare to...
This is a web version of The Lever ’s daily email newsletter. 🔥 ICYMI in The Lever : Private prisons are wading into our elections again. 🎧 Listen: How Obama waged his secret drone war . 👇 Further down in this newsletter: - The...
WASHINGTON — With just over two months until the November midterms, the U.S. Supreme Court gave way Monday for President Donald Trump to have a hand in regulating mail-in ballots nationwide, a voting method he has falsely claimed is rife...
MAWASI KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip / PNN / Report by Fidaa Mohammad Abdel-Jawad In the cramped corners of tents across Gaza, women hold on to fragments of mirrors almost as if they were pieces of their souls. In wartime, when a mirror...
Equinor sees a multi-billion LNG export project in Tanzania becoming more attractive for development amid the Middle East conflict that has crippled liquefied natural gas supply through the Strait of Hormuz, a senior executive at the Norwegian energy major said...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Report by Nesma Al-Harazin In a place where war has destroyed factories, closed businesses and upended livelihoods, some people are choosing to begin again — not from zero, but from what remains beneath the rubble. For some,...
The world’s biggest oil refiner, China’s state-held Sinopec, is looking to transform its business as domestic fuel sales crumble amid the electric vehicle boom. China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, as Sinopec is officially known, will be allocating more capital to...
Hey, Donald Trump couldn’t have made it clearer that he wanted to go to war with Iran, could he? You would think that even he wouldn’t have been dumb enough to start a war with that country, given the U.S. record...
US sanctions experts say the Trump administration's new campaign to economically isolate Iran could be an effective escalation -- but only if Washington backs its threats with action. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent unveiled what he called “Operation Economic Outcast”...
While public narratives continue to emphasize Russian weakness and inevitable decline, a quieter pattern of force-structure adjustments, regional political activity, elite technical investment, and materials-science infrastructure suggests Moscow is reinforcing the foundations of a prolonged contest. The post-electoral window offers...
Photo by Vitaly Gariev on Unsplash Yes, you may notice today’s title harkens back to Jack Nicholson as The Joker in Tim Burton’s first Batman movie. I’ve always liked that line, but I rarely use it. After all, he said it...
The war they chose: the Flying Tigers' fight against fascism By Einar Tangen Eighty-five years on, the Flying Tigers remain a reminder of what people from different countries can do when they choose to stand together against fascism. On Dec. 20, 1941, Japanese...
Ukraine continues to pound Russian refineries in nearly daily drone attacks that damage refining infrastructure, deepen the fuel crisis in Russia, and tighten global fuel markets. In the latest attack on Monday night, Ukrainian forces hit the 180,000-barrels-per-day Afipsky refinery...
China’s Evolving Strategic Trade Settlement Framework While political chaos reigns a new economic order is evolving In reaction to the weaponization of SWIFT and aggressive trade moves by the US to contain China economically under Trump, then Biden, and Trump again, China...
Signoff-quality design tools are mandatory for signoff, though not so good for early design exploration. Signoff demands high accuracy in design description and high precision in analysis. The first requirement can’t be met early in design where architecture decisions are...
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi was in Jakarta from August 20 to 22, where he launched a new Comprehensive Strategic Dialogue, initiated a second round of the 2+2 dialogue between foreign and defense ministers, and held a separate meeting with...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (PNN) — Report by Nesma Al-Harazin As war has surrounded people in Gaza with fear, injury and displacement, veterinarian Mutasim Qadura has found himself confronting another, quieter kind of suffering: sick and injured animals in need of...
Norway’s energy major Equinor hopes to make a “pretty big” oil discovery offshore Namibia, the global exploration hotspot it has just entered, a senior company official said on Tuesday. Equinor hopes that the Petroleum Exploration License 90 (PEL 90) offshore...
Marina says she does not particularly like her flowers, but that, “for some reason,” people buy them. In the centre of Uzhgorod, 800 kilometres southwest of Kyiv, this 75-year-old Ukrainian woman sells chrysanthemums, dahlias and gladioli on the pavement of...
The three states in the Strait of Malacca, the vital shipping lane into Asia, have pledged to keep the world’s busiest maritime thoroughfare free and open to vessels amid the ongoing crisis in the Strait of Hormuz in the Middle...
India’s crude oil import bill has soared since the Iran war choked Middle Eastern oil supply, raised benchmark crude prices, quadrupled freight rates, and boosted insurance on a single Strait of Hormuz voyage to never-before-seen highs. India has been paying...
Response in Colombia continues after the 7.4 earthquake. In Barrio Lleras, Buenaventura, more than 54 houses have been destroyed or are at risk of collapse. Credit: UNICEF By Oritro Karim UNITED NATIONS, Aug 25 2026 (IPS) Over the past week, the humanitarian crisis...
Thirty-seven Russian army officers were given two weeks of military training in Britain in September 1995, declassified files show. The “intensive military cooperation” involved the Russians “driving tanks and firing a range of weapons”, and was paid for by Britain under...
Al-Bireh / PNN / Dr. Rami Hamdallah, Chairman of the Central Elections Commission (CEC), met today, Monday a group of CSOs representatives at CEC HQ in Al-Bireh to discuss the ongoing preparations for conducting the legislative elections, emphasizing moving forward with...
It’s hardly news that Americans are not happy with the state of their nation. Confidence in the country’s direction crashed hard during the Bush years and never recovered. But what’s notable about more recent years is Americans’ increasing dissatisfaction with their personal lives: [1]...
Judged by the initial strategic goals set by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2022, Russia’s military lost its war against Ukraine some time ago. Yet Russia’s armed forces have not stopped fighting and continue to prosecute large-scale combat operations in...
JP Morgan and Santander will lead a fundraising operation for Argentina LNG, Bloomberg has reported, citing unnamed sources who said the total could reach $15 billion. One of these told the publication the companies involved in the project aimed to...
BETHLEHEM, West Bank / PNN / As economic hardship deepens and job opportunities shrink, many young Palestinians are looking for new ways to earn a living by putting their skills to work in unexpected fields. Among them is 29-year-old Waleed Salman, who...
Iran threatened an aggressive response to the latest U.S. sanctions announced on Monday by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, with a top government official noting Tehran was “fully prepared for the U.S. sanctions.” “Naturally, the enemies intend to launch an economic...
Some of the over 56,000 returnees the Malawian government brought back home are assisted upon arrival. Credit: Thomas Kachere/IPS By Charles Mpaka BLANTYRE, Malawi, Aug 25 2026 (IPS) When the Malawian government announced the conclusion of the repatriation of its citizens trapped in...
Organised by Movie Jabber, the annual Otamatsuri comic-con festival sees people dressed in costumes and accessories gather at Carnivore Grounds in Kenya’s capital to celebrate creative arts, gaming tournaments and comic book culture • This subheading was amended on 25 August...
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