Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
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...
Russia has warned NATO that it could use nuclear weapons if the Western alliance attempted to isolate Kaliningrad, sharply escalating tensions between Moscow and the military alliance over the heavily militarised Russian territory on the Baltic Sea. In a diplomatic...
Two races were held at Fuji Speedway last weekend: the six-hour FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) and the Race Against Dementia led by champion driver Sir Jackie Stewart OBE, who returned to Japan 60 years after winning the Fuji 200...
The renewed rally in oil prices above $100 per barrel Brent has prompted foreign investors to pull money out of India’s stock and bond markets at the highest pace since March, when the start of the Iran war and the...
TOKYO — Anyone betting that inflation risks are fading should look at the US Treasury market. The sharp selloff in Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) suggests the world’s biggest bond market is growing less convinced that price pressures are contained. Investors...
Seaweed farmers tend their crop off Zanzibar, where rising sea temperatures are putting pressure on a vital coastal livelihood, according to the new Copernicus ocean report. Credit: Zuberi Mussa/IPS By Kizito Makoye DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Sep 30 2026 (IPS) Fatuma Makame learned...
Britain’s economy grew faster than previously estimated in the second quarter of 2026, strengthening its position as the fastest-growing Group of Seven economy during the first half of the year but setting up a tougher test for the government ahead...
This story was published in collaboration with the Investigative Reporting Lab at Yale . I grew up walking the boardwalk in downtown Wilmington, North Carolina, peering into the froth of the Cape Fear River. The name came from 16th-century mariners who...
For years, relations between Washington and Beijing seemed stuck on an escalation treadmill. Every quarter brought new semiconductor restrictions, naval jockeying in the South China Sea or retaliatory tariffs, locking the world’s two preeminent powers in an apparently irreversible downward...
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has described violence against women as a “national shame” after the discovery of another woman’s body intensified public anger over the country’s persistent gender-based violence. Eleven women’s bodies have been found in Ekurhuleni, a municipality...
“We want to stop the North Koreans as far from Pusan as we can. Block the main road as far north as possible. Contact General Church. If you can’t locate him, go to Taejon and beyond if you can. Sorry...
In January, this article series opened with a blunt question: Economic statecraft is back, but is America ready?Driving the question, in part, was the fact that the United States had not yet articulated (at least overtly) a strategy for economic...
The global investment boom is no longer being driven by artificial intelligence alone. Governments are preparing to pour trillions of dollars into defence, creating a powerful new link between military spending, AI and technology while raising fresh concerns about inflation,...
When Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan agreed to a mutual defense pact in August, it was principally seen as a political commitment. The “Mecca alliance,” as it was dubbed, stipulated that an armed attack on one would be treated as...
Kuala Lumpur plans to send a total of 5,000 Myanmar nationals back to the war-torn country despite persecution concerns Malaysia began sending back about 1,500 Myanmar nationals on Tuesday, the government confirmed, as it launched a scheme that rights groups say...
Crude oil prices ticked higher today, after dipping on Tuesday, following reports that President Trump has no intention of easing sanction pressure on Iran, which has decimated exports from one of OPEC’s biggest producers. At the time of writing, Brent...
Quitting smoking initiates bodily regeneration within 20 minutes, yet complete organ function recovery may take up to a decade. Russian Ministry of Health data indicates that tobacco smoke causes not only inflammation but also fibrosis, an irreversible scarring of tissues. The...
A Sierra Leonean nurse detained, handcuffed and flown to Ghana. An Iranian dissident sent to Central African Republic . A Cameroonian deported to Equatorial Guinea. This is the face of the Trump administration’s policy since 2025 – striking deals with 35...
Rafael Grossi has turned a UN technical body into Washington’s political weapon, and the visa scandal in Vienna has laid bare the cynicism of the Western bloc. From Technical Body to Political Weapon The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was...
US forces are withdrawing from their remaining bases in Iraq, raising concerns that their departure could create a security vacuum, strengthen Iranian-backed Shi’ite militias and give the resurgent Islamic State an opportunity to regroup. The withdrawal, completed on Wednesday, was...
Media personnel watch a digital screen showing leaders of member states gather for a family photograph during the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi on 13 September 2026. Credit: Arun Sankar/AFP By Samuel King and Inés M. Pousadela BRUSSELS, Belgium / MONTEVIDEO,...
China has accused Taiwan’s government of distorting World War Two history, escalating a dispute over which side can claim the legacy of China’s wartime resistance against Japan. Beijing’s Taiwan Affairs Office said on Wednesday that Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party...
Member of Smallholder Farmer Alliance in Haiti with tree she is about to plant. Credit: A.F. Cortes/SFA By Hugh Locke NEW YORK, Sep 30 2026 (IPS) Years ago, standing in a small farmer’s field in Haiti, I began to suspect that we had...
On the morning of September 24, Abdel Fattah Burhan should have been standing at the podium of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Instead, he was in Khartoum. The general who leads Sudan’s army and chairs its Sovereignty Council...
The Iraq War was already four-years-old when I walked down the ramp of a C-17 at Al Taqaddum Air Base in April 2007. The fact that I am writing these words is proof that I survived that deployment and a...
In 1927, Augusto Cesar Sandino began an insurgent campaign against the U.S. occupation of Nicaragua. Under orders from President Calvin Coolidge, the U.S. Marines had intervened in Nicaragua to settle a civil war between a conservative government and liberal rebels. In...
Eurofighters Over Lielvārde This week, four German Eurofighters and several dozen ground crew arrived at Lielvārde air base in central Latvia. They were sent at Riga’s request to protect the country’s airspace through Saturday’s election. The deployment follows a spring...
Patrice Talon has transformed the west African country’s economy and infrastructure at the expense of political freedom In recent years, a building boom has reshaped Benin’s largest city, Cotonou, and a shiny new coastal road has reduced journey times to Ouidah,...
When governments talk about reducing dependence on the Strait of Hormuz, the discussion usually turns to pipelines in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. For Asian importers, that is only part of the story. The physical bottleneck is in...
Every Senate Democrat but one voted to advance a resolution that would have forced the State Department to produce a report regarding violence against American citizens, as well as other Israeli violations of human rights, in the West Bank. With...
Two Men at the Top, Two Ships in the Spratlys Today China marks National Day with the smallest military high command in its modern history. On 21 September, state media announced that Zhang Youxia, first vice-chairman of the Central Military...
By: Toh Han Shih Xi Jinping was welcomed by Donald Trump at the White House in September 2026. Photo from China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs There was much friendliness and mutual respect between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping...
Islam Times - The 40-day war, the June 17 case, the Salalah meeting and Netanyahu’s recent visit to Abu Dhabi have painted a new picture of the UAE’s position in regional dynamics: a country that, while benefiting significantly from economic...
Islam Times - Trump speaks of victory, control of the Strait of Hormuz and Iran’s defeat. But market indicators, the war’s mounting bill, energy prices and polling in the United States paint a different picture — one in which the...
Islam Times - The proposal put forward by former government officials, regardless of whether one agrees or disagrees with it, serves as an important reminder for the country’s decision-making system: Iran’s nuclear issue has entered a stage in which decisions...
Russia is expanding access to its remote regions by modernizing its aviation infrastructure. Of the country's 226 civil airfields, at least 75 are scheduled for reconstruction by 2030. For travelers, these upgrades translate to increased flight frequencies and lower ticket...
Islam Times - The sudden postponement of the Salalah meeting on arrangements for passage through the Strait of Hormuz has raised questions about behind-the-scenes pressure on Oman. An account by a senior Al Jazeera journalist of Israeli intervention and coordination...
Washington is reportedly exploring a new diplomatic avenue with Moscow, one that moves beyond the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and centers on a potential prisoner exchange for sanctions relief. According to The Atlantic, former President Donald Trump has endorsed an...
“God help the Nation when it has a President who doesn’t know as much about the military as I do.” ~ President Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking to his White House Staff Secretary, Gen. Andrew Goodpaster These words are quoted in...
For decades, the architecture of West Asia has rested on a comforting fiction: that Pax Americana could indefinitely manage the region through the policy of offshore balancing, security guarantees to autocrats and the supreme might of the U.S. military. That...
Oil prices pulled back on Tuesday, reversing recent gains as investors weighed signs of export recovery by Middle Eastern producers against uncertainty surrounding the fate of the Iran war. Brent crude for November delivery fell 1.5% to trade at $103.72...
The principles of the Soviet mathematical school, once a hallmark of rigorous education in the USSR, are experiencing a resurgence in the United States, with American parents increasingly enrolling their children in specialized "Russian Math" programs. These supplementary classes, often...
European natural gas prices have soared dramatically since the war in Iran trapped a fifth of the world’s liquefied natural gas supply behind the Strait of Hormuz. The high prices are creating a headache for governments amid soaring energy bills...
They’ve been shown to raise electricity bills, pollute drinking water, do little to boost local employment while threatening millions of jobs in a variety of industries, and top executives have warned that the technology they support could wipe out all of humanity by the end of the decade. But rather than take...
Russia has transferred some of the largest European retail chains and industrial assets under external management, while retaining a lever of pressure on the West through the threat of full nationalization. Major Western retailers will no longer control their businesses in...
Sanctions are designed to impose economic costs that eventually generate political pressure for behavioral change. Yet Russia has absorbed years of unprecedented economic restrictions without experiencing a corresponding political backlash. Conventional explanations focus on the country’s macroeconomic buffers: accumulated foreign-exchange...
The US government on Monday finalized new lower vehicle fuel economy standards — reversing a push by the Biden administration to build more fuel-efficient vehicles. The move is broadly seen as helping sales of gas-powered cars and trucks at the...
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