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Spain and Morocco have reinforced security around the Spanish enclave of Ceuta after an unprecedented surge saw around 49,000 migrants cross by land and sea in a single day, making it one of the largest border breaches ever recorded at...

BP on Friday launched a process to market its North Sea business as the UK-based supermajor looks to simplify its portfolio and invest in high-return projects. The formal launch of a potential sale comes after months of speculation that BP...

Indonesia’s defense diplomacy under President Prabowo Subianto (2024-2029) has entered a new phase marked by intensified relations with Eastern European countries. While Indonesia’s primary focus has previously been on the Asia-Pacific region and traditional partners like the United States (US),...

Kashmir remains one of the world’s most contentious geopolitical flash points. In April 2025 India and Pakistan, two nuclear-armed countries that share a tense border, came dangerously close to a major confrontation after militants attacked Indian tourists near the popular...

As the death toll rises to almost 1,500, and with a vaccine against the Bundibugyo strain potentially still months away, health workers face a battle to slow the outbreak The latest numbers of confirmed cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic...

Some drowned and others caught up in crush, official says, and thousands sleep on streets or in parks At least 18 people have died trying to reach the Spanish enclave of Ceuta after about 49,000 migrants breached the border with Morocco...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a fresh $1.8 billion disbursement to Egypt after completing the seventh review of the country’s economic reform programme and a review under its Resilience and Sustainability Facility. The funding brings total IMF disbursements...

Japan’s biggest buyer of liquefied gas has told media it has secured enough supplies until October and there is no risk of summer shortages during peak air-conditioning demand, Channel News Asia has reported. “We have secured sufficient LNG stocks for...

Editor’s note: This is the first article in a new occasional series featuring battles that just didn’t matter, that looked important in isolation but had negligible strategic or political effect, or were absurd, anticlimactic, or structurally irrelevant to the wars...

China’s latest coast guard patrols east of Taiwan mark another step in Beijing’s long-term strategy to reshape the security environment around the island without resorting to direct military confrontation. While Chinese authorities described Friday’s patrols as routine law enforcement operations...

The Caspian Pipeline Consortium has shut down again, following Ukrainian drone attacks on two tankers at the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, Reuters reported, citing the company operating the pipeline. According to the operator of the pipeline, the drone...

AI Training Technique Sparks New Tech Rivalry Model distillation, a widely used artificial intelligence training technique, has emerged as a new point of tension in the growing technology competition between the United States and China. While the method has long...

TOKYO — South Korea has outrun the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the 2008 Lehman shock, and the 2013 taper tantrum. Whether it can outrun its own AI boom is a harder test — and one the last week of Kospi...

Islam Times - “Israeli” occupation forces carried out a massive underground explosion beneath the UNESCO-listed Shaqif Fortress [Beaufort Castle] in the Arnoun area of southern Lebanon overnight Thursday into Friday, using an estimated 700 tons of explosives, according to a...

Crude oil prices have been trending lower over the past couple of days, but the benchmarks are on course to book both a weekly and a monthly rise. On a monthly basis, Brent crude and West Texas Intermediate have both...

Two themes dominate Japan’s elite thinking at present: a blend of awe and fear about the ambitions of Japan’s powerful prime minister, Sanae Takaichi; and concerns about the US-Japan security alliance. Takaichi became prime minister last October through winning a...

Malaysia’s data center boom offers a revealing piece of arithmetic. Between 2021 and June 2025, the government approved 143 projects. Within that total, 25 projects granted Malaysia Digital status represented RM144.4 billion in investment and were expected to create 1,429...

Islam Times - A closer examination of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon [UNIFIL]'s announcement regarding the discovery of four tons of explosives derived from ammonium nitrate in the southern Lebanese town of Houla raised questions that go beyond the...

While the United States enjoys sufficient energy resources, thanks to shale oil, the European Union does not. To assure itself of the energy supplies in the Gulf that the European Union needs, the EU should consider assisting the Gulf States...

For over four decades, Israeli strategy has rested on an assumption so basic it rarely gets stated out loud: that the United States would remain the unrivaled organizing power of the Middle East, willing and able to underwrite Israel’s military...

A federal court has granted discovery in Max Blumenthal’s lawsuit against DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, and called the seizure of his phones a violation of his constitutional rights. The judge framed the case as part of a wider assault on...

A nominal ceasefire reached in April 2026 has done little to halt the escalation in the Persian Gulf. After Iran’s “attempted surprise attack” against US forces on July 28, the US retaliated by launching a “heavy wave” of airstrikes on July 30, according to...

This is where China’s rare earth magnet monopoly ends. REalloys (NASDAQ: ALOY) has signed a strategic agreement with permanent magnet manufacturer JS Link to develop one of the first fully integrated non-Chinese rare earth magnet platforms, bringing together feedstock, separation,...

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...

On July 30, 2026, international and domestic news sources simultaneously reported on the official visit of the aircraft carrier USS George Washington to Vietnam. The visit was seen as an affirmation of the US commitment to the Indo-Pacific region and...

Wood Mackenzie now estimates that the global upstream oil and gas sector could generate $495 billion in free cash flow in 2026 if crude averages $90 per barrel, more than doubling its previous forecast based on a $60 oil price...

Why Optical Probing Is Becoming a Manufacturing Boundary for Silicon Photonics Silicon photonics has already shown that extremely precise optical alignment is possible. In controlled laboratory environments, engineers can align fibers, waveguides, grating couplers, edge couplers, modulators, detectors, and electrical… com/photonics/371218-from-photonics-precision-to-repeatable-evidence/">From Photonics...

A failure to fully acknowledge the extent of Europe’s energy insecurities could lead to national security vulnerabilities, according to former United States Secretary of State John Kerry. NATO’s summit in Ankara, Türkiye this month displayed a recommitment to cohesion and...

Saudi Arabia’s quarterly budget deficit shrank by nearly three-quarters in the second quarter, courtesy of the same war that hammered its oil industry and sent the economy into its steepest contraction since the pandemic. The Kingdom posted a 34.3-billion-riyal—or $9.1-billion—shortfall...

Poland is moving ahead with a sweeping reform of its armed forces. At first glance, the changes appear to focus solely on restructuring the military command system. A closer look, however, reveals something much broader-a shift in the country's entire...

China’s trade turnover with Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, the largest economies in Central Asia, showed strong growth in the first half of 2026, as did trade with Tajikistan. Meanwhile, the numbers for Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan fell, according to the PRC’s General Administration...

Russia is running short of undamaged oil refinery capacity, and it’s looking to Kazakhstan for help. Kazakhstan said Thursday that it is in talks with Moscow to process Russian oil at Kazakh refineries, sell some of the resulting fuel domestically,...

The landmark nuclear cooperation agreement between the United States and Saudi Arabia marks a major geopolitical shift that could reshape the balance of power across the Middle East while triggering debate over nuclear security and regional stability. Historic Nuclear Cooperation Agreement...

Software defined vehicles (SDVs) are transforming the automotive industry. Today’s vehicles are connected computing platforms that rely on advanced processors, artificial intelligence (AI), over the air (OTA) software updates, cloud services, and vehicle to everything (V2X) communications. Every electronic …...

U.S. refineries are producing the most gasoline and diesel since before the pandemic lockdowns, refining margins are running at record highs, but the world is still short on fuels. And it would take a while—and maybe a peace deal in...

The US economy grew at a far weaker than expected pace in the second quarter despite a pickup in consumer spending and solid business investment. According to the BEA, GDP (inflation adjusted) rose just 1.5% in the period, according to...

Russia has extended restrictions on gasoline and diesel exports through January 31, 2027, just five days after saying the diesel ban would disappear once its domestic fuel market recovered. Recovery, it seems, has been rescheduled. Moscow first banned diesel exports...

Iraq’s new prime minister, Ali Al-Zaidi, was first regarded as a political newcomer with no prior experience in government or political office, but he understood enough about Iraq’s interests to insist his first overseas trip be to the United States, unlike his...