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U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright this week said that the oil exports from the Middle East have rebounded to 15 million barrels per day (bpd) and even topped the pre-war average of 20 million bpd on Sunday. Vessel-tracking services and...

Authors: M. Abiya Emima and Edberg D. Cheeran The global oil market has long played a pivotal role in shaping contemporary geopolitics, serving as a vital instrument for sustaining political dominance and shaping international interactions. Saudi Arabia, Russia, and the...

Leon Lauritsen is the CEO of Aras, a leading provider of digital thread solutions for product lifecycle management and engineering AI. He joined the company in 2022 through the acquisition of Minerva PLM, where he had been for over 20...

With less than three full months left until the start of heating season in much of Europe, the issue of gas inventories is becoming increasingly pressing. Current inventory levels are at the lowest in 17 years, and supply available for...

In late October, in a boardroom in Riyadh, executives from Red Sea Global and three Saudi lenders signed off on a SAR 6.5 billion ($1.73 billion) loan facility for AMAALA, the ultra-luxury wellness resort rising on the kingdom’s northern Red...

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Iturup in mid-August 2026 has sparked debates and generated fresh discussions on ownership of the territory between officials in Russia and Japan. Iturup is the largest and northernmost of the Kuril islands, ownership of...

Oil prices have soared in recent months as a result of the almost complete closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a key trade corridor connecting Asia and Europe. High fossil fuel prices have helped to drive up the profits of...

Islam Times - The Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), Major General Ahmad Vahidi, referring to the two imposed wars waged by the United States and the Zionist regime against Iran, stressed that the warriors of Islam brought...

Jerry Chen, CEO and Founder of Upbeat Technology, received his Master of Science in ECE from the University of Texas at Austin. Started working as an IC design engineer in Silicon Valley at Intel, Lucent, Apple, and Procket Network since...

AI's energy footprint is out of control. Hyperscalers are building out data centers faster than the energy industry can keep up with, pushing for the rapid buildout of any form of energy we have at our disposal, clean or dirty....

The Board of Peace is not a ceasefire-management mechanism drifting toward failure. It is a governance model built with the same structural fault line as the 1922 Mandate for Palestine: trusteeship over a population’s path to self-rule, with no authority...

The Republic of South Africa formally assumed the chairship of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Council of Ministers on 12 August 2026 in Durban, South Africa, from August 2026 to August 2027, following its tenure as interim chair since...

Take your pick of alarmist projections about the future of the global economy from top tech leaders. Monzo’s founder, Tom Blomfield, reckons unemployment will surge over the next five years as more and more human output is replaced by AI....

One of the things that I wish to address is the alienation, rejection, social isolation and the longing to belong that the mental patient has to suffer from and endure. I want to talk about psychosis, my personal experience, my...

As the British state seeks to destroy Palestine Action, a new trial is underway in which a judge has threatened defendants with a ‘terrorism connection’ if they explain the motives behind their activism. It is one of three such trials in...

The government of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz approved a landmark bill to expand the powers of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) and the Domestic Intelligence Service (BfV) by 2027. This expansion grants them offensive and operational tools, including cyber counter-sabotage...

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Record flooding inundated parts of Hamilton County, Indiana, on Saturday, Aug. 15, after the White River reached 24.60 feet in Noblesville, surpassing the previous record of 23.8 feet set in 1913. Drone footage released by the Hamilton County Government showed...

Southeast Asia may be winning the race to host the AI economy before it has answered a more uncomfortable question: how much power will the region actually gain from becoming indispensable to it? The signs of success are increasingly difficult...

Andrei Fesyun, deputy director for research, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University: “The timing was indeed good, I mean. This came during an inspection of naval exercises in the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan....

The joint US–Japan yen intervention was not a currency-stability measure. It was Washington making sure Tokyo could keep funding its $550 billion commitment to American AI infrastructure — and it marks the moment monetary policy formally joined chip controls and...

Islam Times - The change in command of CENTCOM’s Special Operations Forces amid the war comes as the United States has failed to achieve its initial objectives vis-à-vis Iran and the Strait of Hormuz. The development could signal growing internal...

Employment across Germany’s automotive sector fell to 721,400 workers at the end of September, the lowest level recorded since mid-2011 when the industry employed 718,000 people. The federal statistics office reported the sector shed 48,700 positions over the 12 months...

Islam Times - Troubling reports emerging from the USS Abraham Lincoln, amid the depletion of U.S. weapons stocks, are painting a different picture of Washington’s claims of military superiority—one that increasingly highlights Iran’s resilience, the dynamics of a war of...

The US-led coalition leaves Iraq on Sept. 30, and Washington has attached a price to the exit: the country’s most powerful militias must hand their weapons to the state by the same day. Two months out, Baghdad is demonstrating the...

Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman looks on during a meeting with US President Donald Trump, White House, Washington, November 18, 2025. The telephone call from the US Vice-President JD Vance to Prime Minister Narendra...

The recent mass irregular migration incident in Ceuta should be seen as more than a border security issue. It is a significant test of the current relationship between Morocco and Spain—two neighboring states whose interests are increasingly entangled across migration,...

Ukraine functions as a privateer vessel launched by a greater power to impose continuous costs on Russia. The campaign is deliberate, the alternatives are known to both sides, and the pace of events is designed to force Moscow into the...

The internet is going through a fundamental change. Information used to be scarce, and access to it was a source of power. Today, the problem is almost the opposite; there is too much information floating online. Almost any news story...

Islam Times - Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said the two massacres carried out by “Israeli” occupation warplanes in the Lebanese southern towns of Ansar and Deir al-Zahrani, which resulted in the martyrdom of an entire family, most of them...

Islam Times - At least seven people were martyred and three others injured after an “Israeli” airstrike struck a house in southern Lebanon early Saturday, in a fresh violation of the ceasefire and a further escalation of the entity’s ongoing...

Aviation is often treated as one of oil's safest remaining markets. In 2026 that still looks like a reasonable assumption. Airlines are expected to consume around 104 billion gallons of fuel this year, sustainable aviation fuel remains below 1% of...

Six weeks before US and Israeli aircraft killed Iran’s supreme leader on February 28, a cluster of new, previously dormant crypto wallets began buying “Khamenei out by March” contracts on Polymarket. In the hours before the strike itself, six accounts...

The Trump administration is pushing for a homegrown nuclear power renaissance. The United States is still the largest producer of nuclear energy in the world, but that won’t last long without drastic changes in energy policy and investment at the...

When Zhu Rongji died in Beijing on August 12 at the age of 97, Asia lost one of the finest public servants of its modern era. He was the premier who opened China to the world, the plain-spoken technocrat who...

With a new Prime Minister in office, it is uncertain whether the United Kingdom will continue accelerating its green transition or backtrack on climate pledges to support fossil fuel development. Many have speculated that the new Labour Party PM Andy...

As the British state seeks to destroy Palestine Action, a new trial is underway in which a judge has threatened defendants with a ‘terrorism connection’ if they explain the motives behind their activism. It is one of three such trials...

Japan’s protest over Putin’s visit to the Kuril Islands is loud because its response is capped: Tokyo cannot meaningfully sanction the one Russian energy relationship — Sakhalin-2 LNG — it now depends on more than ever, after the Strait of...

Border security tightened after social media posts call for another mass crossing into Spain’s north African territory Moroccan police have arrested 111 people as they tried to enter Spain’s north African territory of Ceuta, amid ⁠tightened security on both sides after...

Following a year of tighter sanctions and Ukrainian attacks on refineries, ports and tankers, Russia’s crude output has fallen further in the second half of 2026, severely affecting the nation’s crude production outlook. Factoring in these disruptions, Rystad Energy has...

Bethlehem / PNN / Farmers in the town of Battir, west of Bethlehem, head to their fields, where agriculture has been tied for hundreds of years to a traditional irrigation system fed by spring water. The system remains in use today...

Over the past 15 years, Mexico has faced a severe seaweed problem, with vast quantities of a brown seaweed known as sargassum washing up on beaches along the Caribbean coast and hitting the tourism industry hard. Researchers are yet to...