Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
Shell has said it will continue its bumper share buyback programme after revealing the Iran war’s effect on oil prices and trading volumes helped it book a near-record profit. The Anglo-Dutch giant’s net profit spiked to $9.8bn between April and...
State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir...
Samsung just posted an operating profit of 89.5 trillion won, roughly US$62 billion, for the second quarter. That’s a jump of 1,814% from a year earlier. Revenue climbed 130% to 171.5 trillion won, a company record. And Samsung’s shares fell...
Qatar’s state-owned QatarEnergy has bought on the spot market as many as 33 cargoes from the United States so far this year to ship them to customers in Asia to reduce the impact of its own stranded supply due to...
US President Donald Trump has remade American foreign policy into a dangerous mix of belligerence, atrocity crimes and incoherent lunacy. The broad elements of the Trump administration’s almost non-existent Myanmar policy are well known. The gutting of the US Agency...
The Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal’s characterisation of the reports suggesting the US could impose a 100 percent tariff on countries such as India that import Russian oil as speculative cannot be taken as a statement of fact. “We...
Extending hardware acceleration to formal verification is a powerful idea to extend hardware acceleration to a verification domain that has not got much attention for acceleration. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur, former Synopsys CTO...
The Politburo held its July meeting today. Some of the highlights: - Fifth Plenum scheduled for October, agenda is “to study major issues concerning the unremitting advancement of full and rigorous Party self-governance”; - Diagnosis of economic situation section includes “it is...
Analysis of samples collected from carcasses found traces of toxic chemical compound, says Kenya Wildlife Service The recent deaths of 15 elephants near a park in southern Kenya in the past month were most likely caused by the animals ingesting pesticides...
Cameroon’s Paul Biya has not made a statement or been seen since leaving for ‘brief private stay’ at Swiss hotel on 7 June A record 53-day absence by the world’s oldest head of state has renewed speculation in his native Cameroon...
Explaining stock market movements is always a little bit of a fool’s errand; no one really understands why stocks boom or crash on a given day or in a given week. Over the long run, the stock market displays lots...
The biggest oil supply squeeze is currently in diesel markets amid the lowest global refining activity for this time of year since the 2020 pandemic, Goldman Sachs says. War-induced refinery outages in the Middle East and Russia have collapsed global...
For two weeks, American aircraft and warships pounded Iran’s southern coast, night after night. On Friday the strikes stopped. By Monday, July 27, the quiet was holding, oil prices were sliding, and traders had decided the worst was behind them....
The murderous Zelensky regime has yet again attempted to drag the open-minded Iran into its desperate calculation of war. It also wants to broaden the scope of the war. On 25 July 2026, Ukraine’s de facto president, Volodymyr Zelensky, said...
By Shuli Wong UNITED NATIONS, Jul 30 2026 (IPS) The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is battling the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record, with United Nations officials warning that hunger is actively undermining efforts to contain the spread. “Ebola feeds on delay, fear...
HEBRON, occupied West Bank – By PNN Staff Palestinian shepherds in the rural communities of Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, say organized thefts of livestock by Israeli settlers are escalating, threatening the only source of income for dozens of families and...
Appearing increasingly isolated and weakened, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu travelled to Washington this week, where he had a face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump – his eighth of the US president’s second term. Netanyahu is desperate to revive his image...
By: Maria Elena Ahner For much of the past three years, the world’s strategic attention has been fixed on the Red Sea crisis, instability around the Strait of Hormuz, recurring disruptions at the Suez Canal, and Eastern European calamities. Ukraine has...
Volkswagen’s ambitious attempt to enter China’s emerging flying car market ended in failure after years of technical setbacks, legal disputes and fierce competition from domestic manufacturers, underscoring the growing challenges foreign automakers face in keeping pace with China’s rapidly evolving...
Coal demand and prices in China have jumped in recent days as scorching heat waves across most of the country boost electricity demand. The benchmark spot coal prices at the port of Qinhuangdao have erased a slump from earlier this...
China’s top leaders pledged on Thursday to support the country’s slowing economy by accelerating spending on already-approved infrastructure projects instead of rolling out large-scale stimulus measures. The decision came after recent economic data showed second-quarter growth slowed to 4.3%, the...
The multidimensional crisis that has gripped Myanmar since the military coup on February 1, 2021, has entered a new chapter — one increasingly complex and riddled with contradictions. The move by military chief and coup maker Senior General Min Aung...
Josephine Sembeyo (in blue) competes during Kenya's World Athletics Under-20 trials in May, where she qualified for the World Athletics Under-20 Championships in Oregon. Credit: Robert Kibet/IPS By Robert Kibet OLOITOKTOK, Kenya, Jul 30 2026 (IPS) Before sunrise each morning, 19-year-old Josephine Sembeyo...
France Battles Massive Bordeaux Wildfire France continued to battle a vast wildfire near Bordeaux on Thursday after firefighters managed to prevent the blaze from spreading overnight. Authorities said approximately 42,000 hectares have burned, while two people were arrested on suspicion...
Show Notes: On today's show Andrew and Bill begin with reactions to CXMT's IPO success this week, including responses from legislators in Washington and the stakes of Apple's continued lobbying fight to relax restrictions on US companies working with PRC memory...
Britain’s new chancellor John Healey has asked for a military officer to accompany him at the Treasury, it has emerged. The move indicates how much weight Healey will place on weapons procurement after resigning as defence secretary last month in protest...
Shell (SHEL:NYSE) more than doubled its second-quarter earnings from a year earlier, as higher oil and gas prices, record refinery utilization, and strong trading boosted profits to above analyst expectations. Shell on Thursday reported adjusted earnings of $9.84 billion for...
Russia said its armed forces launched extensive overnight strikes across Ukraine on Thursday, targeting military production facilities in Kyiv, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kryvyi Rih, and ports along the Black Sea. According to Russia’s Defence Ministry, the operation involved land, sea, and...
Euro zone government bond yields climbed on Thursday after a sharp sell-off in U.S. Treasuries following the Federal Reserve’s decision to leave interest rates unchanged. Investors also responded to rising oil prices, driven by escalating tensions between the United States...
The most successful deterrent threats leave no evidence behind. No missiles fly. No networks go down. No troops cross borders. Nothing happens. For policymakers, that is often the desired outcome. For researchers, it is a nightmare. Imagine, however, being able...
QatarEnergy has successfully sent an LNG cargo via the Strait of Hormuz, three weeks after one of its LNG carriers was struck in the waterway, Bloomberg has reported, noting that the vessel had idled in the strait since early July...
An expert panel segment during the Fifty-eighth session of the Economic Commission for Africa Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, held from 28 March to 3 April 2026 in Tangier, Morocco. Credit: UNECA By United Nations Economic...
Greek firefighters continued battling deadly wildfires across the island of Crete for a second consecutive day on Thursday, as Greece joined Spain and France in confronting one of Europe’s most severe wildfire outbreaks of the summer. The crisis intensified after...
The Middle East’s energy sector is entering a prolonged period of uncertainty as conflict between the United States, Israel, and Iran continues to disrupt one of the world’s most critical oil-producing regions. Rather than moving toward either peace or full-scale...
The United States military launched a two-hour operation against dozens of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targets across Iran early Thursday, marking another significant escalation in the expanding Middle East conflict. According to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), the strikes targeted...
Japan’s biggest refiner, Eneos, has bought a rare cargo of Canadian crude as the country seeks to diversify away from Middle Eastern crude. This is the first Canadian oil shipment bought by a Japanese company since 2025, Reuters noted in...
Losing funds should force leaders to confront their own challenges, they said, while many voiced concerns over increasing foreign influence A quarter of young Africans believe aid cuts by the US could have a positive impact, saying that losing foreign money...
Before a Chinese humanoid can take on ground-handling work at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, JAL Ground Service has to decide which jobs are suitable and what safety conditions the machine must meet. GMO AI & Robotics then adjusts its movements for...
Let me introduce you to my friend, Karl Miller. Karl Miller is a US energy-sector figure known primarily as a trader, investor, and distressed-asset specialist rather than a sell-side or think-tank “analyst” in the narrow sense. Per his own professional...
Longtime CBS News cameraman Derek Williams, who spent four decades covering some of Asia’s most pivotal events, from the Vietnam War to the Tiananmen Square massacre, died July 22. He was 79. According to his family, ge had been living...
On June 26, two official delegations — one from Israel and one from Lebanon — signed a framework agreement with great fanfare in Washington. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, openly enthusiastic, framed the event as paving the way toward “lasting...
Israel is spending wads of cash on public diplomacy in a desperate attempt to reverse waning American support for the country after it stands accused of genocide in Gaza and pushing the U.S. into the Iran war. Since Oct. 7, Israel...
On July 28, Saudi air defenses shot down drones launched from Iraqi territory by “Iran-affiliated terrorist militias,” a Saudi ministry of defense statement read. The attacks targeted oil facilities in the Eastern Province and at the capital, Riyadh, itself. Days earlier,...
Crude oil prices ticked lower today on reports that oil tankers were still passing through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, despite information about renewed strikes between the U.S. and Iran, and a drone attack on a tanker in an Egyptian port....
David Nwamini was working at a market in Lagos when he was given the chance to start anew in the UK. He had no idea what was expected of him in return • The summer issue of the Long Read magazine...
Creatives priced out of Abidjan have breathed new life into a city that was hit by a jihadist attack in 2016 By the poolside of La Fourchette de Rōze hotel in Grand Bassam, a Côte d’Ivoire city sandwiched between the Ébrié...
Indonesia mines more nickel than any other country, producing more than 60% of the world’s supply. For about a decade, Jakarta has pursued “downstreaming” — a strategy to move beyond exporting raw ore and up the value-added chain. In 2026,...
Like few other countries, Taiwan faces a legitimate existential crisis. Beijing’s position that Taiwan must submit to absorption by the People’s Republic of China, even by force if necessary, is insistent and uncompromising. There is zero doubt this would result in...
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