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

British police have run more than a dozen training sessions since 2023 for countries that the government has flagged for their poor human rights record, Declassified UK can reveal. The College of Policing, the professional body for policing in England and...

Archive, Intelligence, Middle East

The War Enters a New Phase Six months after the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran, the conflict appears to be entering an endgame defined by economic pressure, military deterrence and a lack of a clear path to...

Middle East & Africa, Iran, USA

Thailand plans to accelerate the rollout of renewable energy sources and embrace nuclear power for the first time to cut reliance on imported LNG in the wake of the Middle East crisis, Energy Minister Akanat Promphan told Bloomberg in an...

News

In August 2026, a fatal traffic accident from the previous year became one of the biggest trending topics on Vietnamese social media. Nguyen Sy Cuong, a former National Assembly deputy whose wife now serves as Minister of Culture, Sports and...

Southeast Asia, Block 3, Souhteast Asia

More than 150 people are dead and hundreds more missing after an enormous wave of water, ice, mud and rock cascaded more than 170 kilometres down the Bhote Koshi River valley in Nepal. The valley is the main link between...

South Asia, Climate Change, Nepal

Poland has asked the European Commission to impose a €250 million ($291.3 million) fine on Meta, accusing the social media company of failing to adequately tackle fraudulent advertisements and scams on its platforms. Polish Digital Affairs Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski said...

World News, European Union, Meta

Six months into the Iran war, OPEC+ is facing an unprecedented challenge to its influence over global oil markets. The alliance, which once had considerable power to shape prices by adjusting production, is now struggling to offset supply disruptions caused...

Energy Geopolitics, China, Oil-Gas

Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz rose slightly on Wednesday, but remained well below normal levels as uncertainty continued over the future of the strategic waterway and talks between Iran and Oman. Kpler data showed 10 visible commodity vessel...

World News, Economics, Iran

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Islam Times - The outcome of the economic war with the United States will be determined less in Washington than in Tehran. The United States can exert pressure, but it cannot determine the quality of Iran’s economic governance. Victory in...

Iran

Islam Times - The Arab National Congress [ANC] condemned the attack by “Israeli” occupation authorities and settlers on the Qalandiya vocational training center operated by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees [UNRWA] north of occupied al-Quds,...

Palestine

“Unthreatening and respectful.” That is how the president of the United States described North Korea on Aug. 16, 2026, in his social media post ordering his secretary of defense to scale back joint exercises with South Korea. Two years earlier...

Commentary, Alliances, Nuclear Weapons

There have been many warnings. Here another one: Physical supply has caught up with the market. Our call: over the next 30 days, diesel scarcity will transmit directly into freight costs, food prices, agricultural production, industrial output and inflation. Over the next 12...

Uncategorized, Karl W. Miller, Link

Yet another tanker has been struck by a projectile in the Strait of Hormuz, the UK Maritime Trade Operations said today, as quoted by DPA. The report follows earlier attacks that continue despite efforts on the part of Pakistan and...

News

There is a harsh paradox in today’s sustainability debate. The tools for understanding environmental risk are becoming more sophisticated: financed emissions, climate-risk models, taxonomies, transition plans and carbon pricing are increasingly part of the language of business and finance. This...

Opinion, Indonesia, Indonesia Decarbonization

The USS Abraham Lincoln is on its way home. This is welcome news after hearing of its abhorrent conditions. Yet, the situation lived by sailors and Marines aboard the carrier over the last nine months, the continued threats that troops...

Opinion, Common Defense, Department of Veteran Affairs

China Radio International has been broadcasting since 1993. Its mission is to introduce China to the world and present the world to China. Broadcasting in 80 languages, it is one of the world's major international broadcasters. It operates a multi-language...

News

Washington’s August 13 report, The Great Transshipment Scam, puts Southeast Asia at the center of a widening US campaign against tariff evasion worldwide. Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam are all placed in the report’s Tier 2, a category the White...

Trade, Block 2, China Trade

The China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Railways has been in the spotlight recently. Many observers have highlighted the project, which connects trade routes from China (Kashgar) through Kyrgyzstan to Andijan in Uzbekistan and then on to Europe, as part of an era of power...

Eurasia, China, Economics

Views of settlements in the Rasuwa district in north-central Nepal covered in mud following the devastating flash floods that swept through the area on Aug. 26, 2026, causing widespread destruction to homes, roads and other infrastructure. CREDIT: UNICEF/UN0914644/ Skanda Gautam By...

Aid, Asia-Pacific, Environment

On paper, Alexander Vindman’s loss in last week’s Florida Democratic Senate was a shocking upset. After all, Vindman had a 16-to-1 fundraising advantage and far more national name recognition than the winner — progressive state Rep. Angie Nixon. But the results...

Elections, Russia-ukraine, Democratic-party

Over the last month, he has engaged in two controversial and rare interventions in financial markets. The first came in early August when the U.S. Treasury joined the government of Japan in its efforts to strengthen the yen by buying the...

Iran-war, Tariffs, Donald-trump

Author: Karl W. Miller August 26, 2026 (The following article is from Karl W. Miller… His bio is at the end of the piece.) Physical supply has caught up with the market. Our call: over the next 30 days, diesel scarcity will transmit...

Uncategorized

By: Ainur Rohmah Indonesia’s experiment with decentralization is facing a tough test under President Prabowo Subianto. As Jakarta pulls billions of dollars in regional funding back to the center to finance his signature programs, local governments are left with less money...

News

In late 1861, Union soldiers in Bloomfield, Missouri, found the local newspaper’s office empty and decided to put it to good use. Stars and Stripes covered the activities of the three Illinois regiments. Their commander in chief, of course, was US...

Uncategorized

The global semiconductor market in the second quarter of 2026 was $368 billion, according to WSTS. 2Q 2026 set records for growth: up 35% from 1Q 2026 and up a phenomenal 104% from 2Q 2025. The previous record growth was...

Semiconductor Intelligence, Semiconductor Services, amd

The Iran war has entered a stage for Washington in which deciding how to end it may prove more difficult than deciding how to start and sustain it. Within the U.S. ruling establishment, the growing divide between Donald Trump and...

Americas, Defense, featured

Alongside boosting exploration and production offshore its home market Norway, Equinor is pursuing an international growth strategy, aiming to significantly increase its overseas oil and gas output by focusing on fewer but more lucrative regions such as the U.S., Brazil,...

News

Akhilesh Kumar & Krishnakanth Sistla, Intel Diamond Rapids is Intel’s next-generation Xeon processor, designed around the proposition that hyperscale performance increasingly depends on moving, processing, and protecting data as efficiently as executing instructions. The architecture replaces the conventional… Read More The post...

Events, Intel Foundry, Semiconductor

Octopus boss Greg Jackson has called on Andy Burnham to deliver “urgent reform” to the energy market to protect households from “volatile” gas prices. Jackson, founder of the UK’s biggest household electricity supplier, said: “The government’s decision to take VAT...

News

Authors: Raymond James Floreani and Julian Spencer Churchill PhD Friday, August 21st, 2026, is a day that will certainly be etched into the minds of average everyday Canadians. It is when Donald Trump directed the United States government at midnight...

Americas, Canada, Economics

China’s push to squeeze more oil and gas from home is paying off just as imported energy becomes more geopolitically complicated. CNOOC posted record first-half profit and production on Wednesday, helped by higher oil prices following the Iran war and...

News

GAZA CITY /PNN / Grape farming in the Gaza Strip is facing a sharp decline after years of war-related destruction, with farmers citing widespread land levelling, shortages of fertilisers and pesticides, and soaring production costs as key factors behind the crisis...

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