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Japan has remained at the forefront of global attention for several reasons in recent times — from concerns over an economic bubble and a slowing economy to a weakening yen. On the leadership front, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s first...

The Africa CDC and the World Health Organization called on August 6 for an urgent scale-up of the Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, conceding that the outbreak is spreading faster than efforts to contain it. Contact...

On Friday, July 31, 2026, Lieutenant Commander James M. Ennes, Jr., US Navy, ret., slipped his cable and unfurled his sails. With the Great Pilot at the helm, he set a course to his final home port. LCDR Ennes, then...

The events in Tell, southwest of Nablus, were not an isolated act of violence. They were a warning. For years, Israel has treated Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank as open spaces for military raids, settler invasions, land theft...

Reprinted with permission from The Jason Jones Show substack. Have you seen the ruling classes’ latest ploy for holding onto power rather than allow the public to hold them accountable through straightforward and honest elections? It’s clear as day to...

“Whether we are awake or asleep, we should never let ourselves be persuaded except on the evidence of our reason.” -René Descartes, Discourse on Method (1637) It may seem a silly question, but the query is anything but foolish:Why exactly...

U.S. President Donald Trump is weighing another suspension of the Jones Act as gasoline prices above $4 a gallon threaten to become a liability for Republicans heading into the midterm elections. The move would again open domestic oil and fuel...

When Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu recently warned that the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence could eventually create a purchasing power problem by reducing entry-level hiring, the reaction was predictable. The discussion quickly turned into a familiar debate over whether AI...

In the United States, President Trump aims to expand the country’s nuclear power capacity by developing new projects and restoring old reactors. However, restarting disused reactors is not as simple as just turning them back on, as rigorous safety standards...

Islam Times - The Israeli occupation entity is heading toward what could be one of the most consequential elections in its history—not only because of the war and its conflict with the Palestinians but also because of a deeper question...

A single bug on a full-chip SoC can pull engineers off roadmap work for days or even weeks. It involves massive waveforms, thousands of files of RTL and UVM, and dense specs that aren’t always perfect. Finding these bugs have...

In my 45 years experience in the semiconductor industry, 43 of that in EDA and IP, I have never seen such a meteoric rise of an EDA company. I do remember money being raised for EDA in the early days...

Europe is currently contending with its third energy crisis in four years against the backdrop of near-constant global geopolitical friction and fracas. The continent’s over-reliance on foreign fossil fuel imports has been thrown into sharp relief in recent months and...

There is a familiar ritual in Washington’s foreign policy think tanks whenever two Middle Eastern states sign a memorandum of understanding, launch a joint economic council or hold their first-ever ministerial dialogue: the announcement is instantly upgraded, in the retelling,...

Brendan Emery is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of iQ Sense Technology. He has more than 25 years of international experience in animal health, having held senior commercial leadership roles with organisations including Boehringer Ingelheim and Norbrook Laboratories. Together with Co-Founder...

Brendan Emery is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of iQ Sense Technology. He has more than 25 years of international experience in animal health, having held senior commercial leadership roles with organisations including Boehringer Ingelheim and Norbrook Laboratories. Together with Co-Founder...

To accelerate the global green transition, several energy companies are developing more durable and efficient renewable energy equipment, such as wind turbines and solar panels. This has been hugely successful in recent decades, with the creation of larger, stronger wind...

On Monday, as Taiwan entered the final week of its largest-ever Han Kuang war games, a Greek-owned Patriot battery arrived in Saudi Arabia to help blunt a fresh wave of Houthi strikes. Two days later, Ukraine’s air force disclosed that...

Sudan’s prolonged war is creating risks that extend well beyond its borders. The growing role of Islamist armed groups, including the Al-Baraa Bin Malik Brigade, could further complicate the country’s political and security landscape while creating new challenges for China’s...

El-Sayed’s victory exposes the cracks in America’s pro-Israel political consensus, showing that grassroots voters can now challenge establishment money and influence. More broadly, his victory signals that foreign policy is increasingly coming home to the ballot box, forcing Democrats to...

David Reeder became president and CEO of Entegris in 2025, with more than 20 years of semiconductor expertise across IDMs, fabless, foundry, systems, and component companies. Most recently, Dave served as Chief Financial Officer at Chewy where he successfully oversaw...

The Mecca Joint Defence Agreement is not really a well-organised military alliance. Instead, it looks more like a backup plan, in which three middle powers are essentially preparing for a situation where they can no longer fully depend on the...

Kuwait has since the beginning of the Iran War in February been targeted by Iranian drones and missiles 1,400 times. Why has this state—smaller than the US state of New Jersey—been targeted more than any of its larger neighbors including...

Although Donald Trump insists that the Strait of Hormuz is open, it ain’t. There are no direct talks between Iran and US representatives. In fact, it looks like Pakistan’s attempt at mediation is going nowhere. Iran has been talking with...

Suppression or Reformatting? How Turkey’s Century-Old Equation Enters a New Phase. In May 2025, something happened that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago: the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), designated a terrorist organization in Turkey, announced its self-dissolution...

According to the Russian Foreign Ministry Second European Department Director Yury Pilipson, "promoting the subject of unification between the two countries in the media is part of a campaign to shape Moldovan public opinion and create the impression of growing...

At roughly 4am on 30 July, a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile came down in farmland near Tarnawa-Kolonia, Poland, after Polish radar lost track of it seconds from impact. Within hours, the open-source geolocation collective GeoConfirmed had posted the exact coordinates,...

Authors: John A. Calabrese and Aaron Jon Pasha* Saudi Arabia’s approach to the Iran war has been defined by a sustained effort to avoid direct entanglement. That restraint was notable given Riyadh’s position as Iran’s principal Gulf rival, its close...

The U.S. energy system has helped mitigate the shock loss of oil and LNG supply from the Middle East when the Strait of Hormuz closed to traffic and sent refiners and gas importers worldwide scrambling for alternative supply. The record...

Since returning to office in January of 2025, President Trump has made securing critical mineral supply chains a cornerstone of his political and economic agenda. Yet one country critical to achieving that objective has received little attention in Washington: Kazakhstan....

Southeast Asia has been hit harder than anywhere else on Earth by the energy crisis stemming from the War in Iran, leaving many nations scrambling to shore up localized energy supply chains. The newfound volatility in global energy markets has...

Islam Times - The return of the United States and Europe to sanctions against Russia, coupled with warnings about Moscow’s threat to NATO, appears to be less a sign of strength than an attempt to conceal military failures, billions of...

Islam Times - The Saudi Arabia-Pakistan-Turkey defense pact signed in Mecca cannot simply be viewed as an alliance against Iran. The agreement has emerged within a new security environment in West Asia, shaped by the experience of the Yemen war...

The US may be entering a period of significant nuclear reassessment as it confronts a growing mismatch between its predominantly strategic arsenal and adversaries increasingly prepared for limited nuclear use. This month, Breaking Defense reported that the US Department of...

The months-long closure of the Strait of Hormuz has led to severe fuel shortages around the globe, as companies battle to continue operations. Airlines have been hit hard as they struggle to obtain enough jet fuel to maintain their regular...

On August 7, 2026, at Al-Safa Palace in Makkah, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif signed the Makkah Joint Defense Agreement — a trilateral pact declaring that an armed...

Scientists at UC Davis and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory just made a major breakthrough in the design of nuclear fusion reactors. The team is at the vanguard of a new field of nuclear fusion research known as materials-driven fusion, which...