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President Xi Jinping’s visit to Cairo was not a protocol visit. It was a doctrine declaration. At a highly sensitive moment: an open war in Iran, threats to close the Strait of Hormuz, and a sharp division within the BRICS...

For most of this year I have been making an argument about a fraction of a barrel. Not the barrel itself — the flat price of crude has been a headline anyone can read — but the middle of it:...

Vietnam’s Prime Minister Le Minh Hung traveled to New Delhi for the 18th BRICS Summit, where he met bilaterally with Narendra Modi and laid out Hanoi’s vision for international cooperation. The visit drew heavy coverage at home, but it did...

The country has one of the highest femicide rates in the world, and women are yet again being asked to remove themselves from public life to counter it When I heard the authorities advising women in and around Kempton Park, the...

At any other time in American history, it would end the career of somebody like Scott Bessent, our limited-intelligence Treasury Secretary. It came out yesterday when Illinois Congressman Sean Casten was questioning him about the “billions of dollars” that Trump keeps claiming...

North Korea is sending increasing numbers of workers to Russia’s premier drone factory located at the Alabuga Special Economic Zone. Alabuga is located in the Yelabuzhsky District of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. The Yelabuga Drone Factory produces Geran drones (Geran 1, Geran...

Islam Times - While Trump speaks of Iran’s defeat and full control of the Strait of Hormuz, global markets appear to be taking a different narrative seriously. Orders for more than $20 billion worth of VLCC tankers and shifts in...

A potential multi-billion-dollar transfer of advanced US stealth fighters to Saudi Arabia has thrust US Middle East policy into a delicate balancing act between regional deterrence, Israeli air superiority and rising geopolitical skepticism. The US State Department approved a potential...

Twenty-five years after September 11, the Twin Towers are gone from New York’s skyline, Osama bin Laden has been dead for more than fifteen years, and American troops have been out of Afghanistan since 2021. Yet the war that began...

There is a particular kind of essay that appears every few years, usually after some fresh convulsion in Jerusalem or Gaza, asking whether “liberal Zionism” can still hold together as a coherent political project. The question is not new. It...

The famous American MQ-9 Reaper drone often makes the news, and usually for rather scandalous reasons. Its appearance in the sky is always a harbinger of trouble — either immediately or shortly afterward. The Reaper is like a scavenging bird,...

Group trapped at Hotel Bamy after US removal as rights groups sound alarm over poor conditions and violence Two men that the Trump administration expelled to Equatorial Guinea were bound, fitted with bags over their heads, beaten and pushed down a...

Every export increasingly carries two products: the good itself and the evidence that makes it admissible. The cost of producing the second may determine who can sell the first. This is an overlooked consequence of selective US–China decoupling. Production costs...

The Middle East crisis has reverberated through key global shipping chokepoints thousands of miles away from the Strait of Hormuz. Following the crippled tanker traffic through the Middle East’s main oil and LNG export outlet, the Panama Canal and the...

The artificial intelligence energy crisis is catalyzing the development pipeline for space-based solar energy. As the world rushes to build up more energy production capacity in a scramble to keep up with skyrocketing demand from data center hyperscalers, the public...

French President Emmanuel Macron is calling the G7 back to the table to discuss another release of emergency oil stocks as Europe loses Saudi crude deliveries and diesel prices push deeper into record territory. Macron said Friday that he will...

Unlike many ungulates that establish a strict social hierarchy led by a dominant male, sheep lack an internal leadership structure. Both wild and domestic flocks demonstrate a tendency to follow almost any entity that moves with confidence-be it a goat,...

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. ***IranSenior officials from Iran, Oman, and neighboring Gulf states were scheduled to meet in Salalah on Monday...

Police fire teargas as protests break out in city of Minna after deaths of suspected illegal goldminers, many of whom were children Survivors from a prison cell in Nigeria where 37 suspected illegal goldminers died while in the custody of a...

The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States rose this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday, with the total rig count in the US rising to 595, up...

TotalEnergies and BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) have signed a partnership agreement under which GIP will invest $1.8 billion in capital contribution toward some of the French supermajor’s oil and gas infrastructure assets in Africa. In exchange for the $1.8...

Why are stadium owners angry? Is the Strait of Hormuz still blocked? And whose campaigns is Big Tech funding? The answers to these questions and many more can be found in LeverMind , our weekly news quiz testing your knowledge of...

Saudi Aramco shifts crude exports to the Persian Gulf, easing supply fears and pushing Brent below $105. Friday, September 18, 2026 Last week’s market panic about the 7 million b/d East-West pipeline remaining offline for weeks gave way to a...

For the Kremlin, the giant Vostok Oil project in the frigid Far North is crucial to two goals: bolstering Russia’s presence in the Arctic and keeping production of the key export commodity going as reserves in more accessible parts of...

Ten-year Bund yields hit their highest level since 2011 the week the AfD won 43.8% of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt — the worst state result the CDU has ever suffered, delivered to a chancellor already polling at 13% approval, the...

An INEOS-led carbon capture and storage project in Denmark was launched on Friday to become the first full-scale CO2 storage site in the European Union, UK-based chemicals and energy group INEOS said. The Greensand CO2 storage facility, led by INEOS...

TSMC reportedly plans to double its Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate capacity from approximately 130,000 300mm-equivalent wafers per month at the end of 2026 to 260,000 by 2028. The estimate is not formal company guidance and should be treated as a supply-chain projection. Nevertheless,...

The Chinese presence in the Red Sea and Horn of Africa ports and projects is deeply significant, given its connection to trade and supply chains and its potential to grant China future influence over maritime security, shipping lanes, and military...

At least two LNG carriers have transited the Strait of Hormuz so far this week, while two others were detected to have engaged in ship-to-ship transfers outside the Strait offshore Oman, tanker-tracking and satellite data compiled by Bloomberg showed on...