Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Rooted in African lineages yet refusing replication, Mbari Kola is Nigerian curator and art collector Ugoma Ebilah’s striking new cultural institution in Lagos. It is a living space where art, ideas, community and hospitality converge, writes Toni Kan . When you...
Africa’s health sector is not confined to health issues – it has direct and indirect influence on how economies perform. Africa’s health financing challenge is therefore not only a health problem, it is an economic one. This is the crux...
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...
As this year’s UN General Assembly wound up its various activities, it was time to reflect on what the world’s various leaders had to say about our times and each other. Some spoke boldly, some timidly and some rudely. How...
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,...
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