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Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.

The Philippines is shaping up to be ground zero for the global geologic hydrogen revolution. The Southeast Asian nation reportedly has the largest natural hydrogen seeps anywhere on Earth, indicating that huge volumes of hydrogen could be stored under the...

News

State department informs Congress of planned closures in Canada, Grenada, Japan, Indonesia and Cameroon The US state department is to shut five foreign consulates and missions across Asia, Africa, North America and the Caribbean, drawing criticism that it is leaving a...

US foreign policy, US news, China

The Strait of Hormuz, the Middle East’s main choke point, is effectively closed as Iranian attacks on vessels continue, and the ripple effect is tearing through global supply chains. While crude oil and natural gas disruptions have grabbed headlines, liquefied...

News

ALBAWABA- The United States has lifted counterterrorism sanctions on three Iranian airlines and two aircraft previously designated for alleged links to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in a move that coincides with ongoing negotiations over the reopening of the...

NEWS, The Iranian File, Main Headlines, Iran–Israel War

Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz and efforts to extract payments for safe passage — plus, more recently, the Houthis’ move to attack Saudi shipping through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait — have highlighted the risks of maritime chokepoints to...

In Brief, Members

By CIVICUS Aug 5 2026 (IPS) CIVICUS speaks about China’s recently implemented Ethnic Unity Law with Gulchehra Hoja, a correspondent for Reporters Without Borders and a Uyghur activist and journalist known for her reporting on human rights abuses against Uyghur people in...

Active Citizens, Asia-Pacific, Civil Society

Trump’s White House runs a mob-style extortion racket that will bankrupt the country the way Trump bankrupted his casinos. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he...

National Politics, Article, Chris Hedges

The best Trump can do is to stop the conflicts agglutinating into one global war. Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Stategic Culture Foundation Photo: Wikimedia Commons Trump ordered the U.S. military...

Economics, Energy, Geopolitics

The semiconductor industry is entering an extraordinary growth phase, driven primarily by artificial intelligence infrastructure and the severe supply constraints surrounding advanced logic and memory devices. According to the McClean Report’s June 2026 update , the global semiconductor market is...

Semiconductor Services, TechInsights, AI Datacenters

In 2020, BP unveiled a “major, necessary step in support of our purpose to reimagine energy for people and our planet.” The new strategy – “performing while transforming” – would see the firm “significantly scale-up our low carbon energy business”...

News

Oil markets are awaiting a decision from Iran’s supreme leader after Iranian and Omani negotiators reportedly completed a draft agreement that could reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the main export route for Persian Gulf oil and LNG. Two regional officials...

News

Photo by Vitaly Gariev on Unsplash When the left describes the right, they often claim that we’re into conspiracy theories, that we don’t live in a world of facts and reality, and that we’re easily misled by our leaders. And that’s a...

News

Just a day after details emerged of India’s plans to expand strategic crude oil storage, new reports claim New Delhi is considering a new funding mechanism that would shift part of the cost of a far larger, $42-billion strategic fuel...

News

In September 2025, Donald Trump designated “antifa” a domestic terror organization. Last month, his administration went one step further by declaring that the “extreme left” had developed the antifa network into a global threat. Marco Rubio announced at a press...

Democracy & Governance, Immigration, anti-fascism

In 2027, India will conduct an exercise of almost unimaginable scale. Hundreds of millions of people will be counted in what the government describes as the country’s first fully digital census. Alongside information about education, migration, fertility and employment, enumerators...

Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Block 3

A lot can change in a week. Barely five days after President Donald Trump hailed the “historic agreement” on Hamas’s disarmament by the Board of Peace (BOP) — the body Trump created to oversee his Gaza Peace Plan — the...

Board-of-peace, Donald-trump, Israel

When roughly 60,000 migrants surged into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in North Africa, much of the American right-wing reacted with predictable horror. President Donald Trump has likened the scenes to an invasion. He suggested that the Spanish government “doesn’t...

Column, Courts & Law, Europe

DELHI, India — “We did it!” The chant rose over Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, an 18th century stone observatory that has served as India’s designated public square for protests since 1993. Thousands of students crowded beneath the monsoon sky, phones held above...

Activism, Business & Economy, Economic Justice

What did Dr. Anthony Fauci know, when did he know it and what did he hide from the American people? These were the questions at the center of a three-hour hearing served up last Wednesday by the Senate Committee on Homeland...

Column, Courts & Law, Ear to the Ground

Citizen Lab researchers Siena Anstis, Marcus Michaelsen, and Kate Pundyk write for the Foreign Policy Centre that the increasingly restrictive migration policies of democratic countries are incompatible with their claims of countering transnational repression. The authors argue that “host states cannot...

News

As wireless communication systems evolve toward 6G, satellite connectivity, advanced radar, and high-performance sensing applications, the integration of heterogeneous semiconductor technologies has become a critical challenge. Silicon CMOS remains the dominant platform for digital processing and system control,… com/chiplet/370236-imec-unlocks-system-level-iii-v-chiplet-integration-on-si-cmos-with-advanced-300mm-rf-silicon-interposer-platform/">Imec Unlocks...

Chiplet, 6g, chiplet

Washington says that last week it struck Iran-aligned terrorists in Iraq. Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces say that American and Saudi aircraft hit an official Iraqi security headquarters. The unsettling possibility is that both claims are true. On July 28, U.S. and...

War & Peace, iran war, Iraq

Commodity producing and trading giant Glencore booked a $4.4-billion net income for the first half of the year, a jump of $5 billion from a loss a year earlier, as the oil and copper price rallies and volatility boosted revenues...

News

Abdul El-Sayed became the latest progressive insurgent to win a Democratic nomination contest on Tuesday, when he bested sitting House Rep. Haley Stevens to become the party’s nominee for Senate in Michigan. At the time of writing, with 95% of the...

Aipac, Abdul-el-sayed, Israel

Main image: Yugoslav forward Dusan Bajevic (R) heads the ball past substitute goalkeeper Dimbi Tubilandu from Zaire to score a goal on 18 June 1974 in Gelsenkirchen during the World Cup first-round soccer match between Yugoslavia and Zaire. Bajevic scored...

Opinion

For decades, the United States has viewed China and Russia as its principal strategic competitors. Successive administrations have accused both countries of cyber espionage, election interference, intellectual property theft, and efforts to undermine American interests around the world. Cooperation between...

Americas, China, Russia

The Bureau of Industry and Security at the U.S. Department of Commerce is moving to restrict for one year the exports of black mass and tungsten waste and scrap without a license to ensure domestic supply of the critical metals....

News

Oman and Iran appear close to a temporary arrangement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, potentially providing both an exit from the current round of fighting and the foundation for a more durable maritime order. Washington should welcome such an...

Donald-trump, Strait-of-hormuz, Iran

Chickpea farmers in Malawi where the new variety is being piloted. Picture supplied. By Ignatius Banda BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe , Aug 5 2026 (IPS) New chickpea seed research and production have become the new frontier of climate resilience in southern Africa as farmers battle...

Africa, Africa Climate Wire, Climate Action

UN forecasters warn of worsening conditions in 45 countries currently experiencing severe food insecurity About 50 million people are likely to be pushed into acute hunger before the end of next year by the rapidly developing El Niño weather system ,...

El Niño southern oscillation, Environment, Hunger

Workers are patrolling in a wind power plant on Tan Thanh beach, Go Cong city of Viet Nam. Countries in Asia and the Pacific are moving towards green transitions in the wake of higher oil prices. Credit: Unsplash/Thompson Le By Michał...

Asia-Pacific, Economy & Trade, Environment

South Korea will revive a long-stalled railway project that could eventually reconnect Seoul with North Korea’s eastern city of Wonsan, signaling President Lee Jae Myung’s renewed commitment to inter-Korean engagement despite continued diplomatic deadlock and Pyongyang’s refusal to resume dialogue....

World News, Development, North Korea

Only days after the Trump administration celebrated what it called a landmark civilian nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia, the president himself appeared to place the entire arrangement in jeopardy. In a Truth Social post, President Donald Trump declared the deal...

Commentary, Diplomacy, Nuclear Weapons

China has partially lifted fuel export restrictions imposed earlier this year, allowing refiners to export 2.7 million tons of oil derivatives to destinations excluding Hong Kong and Macau, Reuters has reported, citing unnamed sources with knowledge of the matter. The...

News

Russia launched another large-scale overnight missile and drone attack on the Kyiv region, killing at least 14 people, injuring dozens, and damaging warehouses and civilian infrastructure. The assault highlights Moscow’s continued focus on overwhelming Ukraine’s air defenses while intensifying pressure...

World News, Russia, Security

Five years after the assassinations in Haiti of Monferrier Dorval, Diego Charles, and Antoinette Duclaire, justice remains elusive. Four years after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, accountability is still incomplete. Yet international reporting on Haiti continues to foreground outputs:...

Commentary, Caribbean, Peacekeeping and Stability Operations

International banks have published updated inflation and interest-rate forecasts for Türkiye following the release of July inflation data, with BBVA Research expecting the policy rate to decline to 36 percent by year-end if conditions allow, while Citi maintained a cautious...

Economy
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