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

For the first time in nearly four decades, Italy is considering nuclear power as part of its energy calculus. The Italian Senate on Wednesday gave final approval to a government plan to restart nuclear power generation, Reuters said, almost 40...

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Saudi Arabia’s workaround for the Strait of Hormuz now carries a war-risk insurance bill nearly as expensive as sending tankers through Hormuz itself. Quoted premiums for Saudi-linked tankers calling at the Red Sea port of Yanbu have tripled to around...

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By Mawlana Muhammad Haroon Abasoomar Shaykh ‘Abdullah Sirajuddin (rahimahullah) was the foremost teacher of my esteemed teacher, Shaykh Muhammad ‘Awwamah (hafizahullah) and was a senior ‘Alim of Syria. In June of the year 2000 (Rabi’ul Awwal 1421 A.H.) I travelled with...

Biographies, History

If the consent decree clearing the Paramount megamerger were a movie, it wouldn’t be an original — it would be the latest installment in a long-running horror franchise. In exchange for the plaintiffs (all Democratic attorneys general, sigh) removing one of...

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Can civilisations pull together the fragments of older insights and knowing to give the context by which to make moral discourse intelligible again? Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Stategic...

Geopolitics, Alastair Crooke, Article

Modern system-on-chip (SoC) and application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designs are extraordinarily complex. They may combine processors, accelerators, memory controllers, high-speed interfaces, security functions, and millions—or even billions—of logic gates. Verifying these systems entirely through … Read More The post S2C Prodigy...

EDA, Prototyping, S2C EDA

Workers remain a repressed and exploited group. Caitlin Johnstone is a reader-supported independent journalist from Melbourne, Australia. Her political writings can be found on Medium . Articles are re-posted from Caitlins Newsletter . Cross-posted from Caitlin Johnstone’s Substack Doordash has reached a historic...

Economics, Gig Economy, Article

It was just this month that saw the Iran conflict spill over into a renewed fight between the Saudi coalition and Yemen's Houthi rebels. Now Iran is threatening to expand the fight further, even into the Indian Ocean. Yahya Rahim...

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Somewhere in the briefing papers prepared for this week’s meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping sits a request that quietly retires a decade of American strategy. Washington wants Beijing to lean on Tehran over the Strait of Hormuz. China...

Energy, Bab al-Mandab, China

This story was originally published by ProPublica . In November 2021 , the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History opened an exhibit called “The Electric Dr. Franklin,” describing “Benjamin Franklin’s pioneering contributions to electrical science.” The exhibit explained that, prior to...

Activism, Arts & Culture, Courts & Law

Russia has begun commercial crude exports from Rosneft’s Vostok Oil project, putting barrels on the water from its new Arctic terminal after years of sanctions, investor exits, and construction delays. Three ice-class tankers loaded about 250,000 metric tons of crude...

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Global debt has passed US$365 trillion, and the cost of carrying it is now rising faster than any government can control. For investors with money anywhere in the world, few risks matter more over at least the next two years....

Finance, 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, Block 1

Fighting escalates after Tigrayan rebels form new coalition aimed at overthrowing Abiy Ahmed government There are growing fears of a return to civil war in Ethiopia after an offensive by fighters from Tigray into the neighbouring states of Afar and Amhara...

Ethiopia, Africa, World news

This story is the second of a two-part collaboration between Truthdig and the Texas Observer. Read the first part here . In the late spring of 2009, Andrew Collins learned that an oil and gas drilling waste landfarm, operated by a...

Business & Economy, Courts & Law, Environment

“The History of Concrete” is one of the year’s most fluid documentaries. This intriguing, often amusing reorientation of how we see the material world features, and is directed by, the inimitable John Wilson (HBO’s “How To With John Wilson”) as...

Arts & Culture, Film, Opinion

China could lower its fuel exports again in October, potentially tightening the global fuel market further, as domestic gasoline and diesel inventories have slumped to multi-year lows. China’s fuel exports recovered in August as refiners exported 6.01 million tons of...

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Record-high gasoline and diesel prices in many European markets did what European policymakers couldn’t do in years - shift consumer choice to low-emission vehicles. Battery electric vehicle sales in Europe, including the UK, Switzerland, and Norway, surged by 52.2% in...

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When I interviewed with Silicon Creations 15 years ago, I met directly with the company’s two founders, Jeff Galloway and Randy Caplan. I joined in 2011 as a circuit designer, and the three of us were the entire company. Today,...

IP, Silicon Creations, Jeff Galloway and Randy Caplan

Throughout the 20th century and into the 21st century, Brazilian governments of all ideological persuasions have consistently resisted perceived subordination to the US. Regardless of who wins the presidency, we should expect Brazil to continue prioritizing national sovereignty. The post Structural...

Diplomacy, International Conflict, International Relations

Earlier this month, Britain, France, and Canada announced a coordinated round of sanctions on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank: an import ban on settlement goods, measures against the firms that sustain them, and sanctions on Israeli settlers. British...

Human Rights, Europe, Germany

Europe’s benchmark natural gas prices jumped by 4% at trade open in Amsterdam on Thursday, as the United States and Iran remain distant on how to end the war and put an end to the blocked LNG shipments at the...

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Credit: Amanda Cotton / Ocean Image Bank By Gareth Johnstone and Jan Thomas Odegard OSLO, Norway, Sep 24 2026 (IPS) As Norway undertakes Vendepunkt , or “Turning Point,” its reflection on the future of Norwegian development policy, it is critical that oceans remain...

Africa, Climate Action, Climate Change

A tarmac welcome, a paused Taiwan arms package and a trade truce that conveniently outlasts the midterms. Trump’s White House summit with Xi Jinping will produce few agreements, but it reveals exactly who is setting the terms. On a blustery...

Diplomacy, Analysis, China

The UK government’s new sanctions on Israel have resulted in zero arms export licences being revoked or suspended, it can be revealed. Earlier this month, Ed Miliband announced a fresh range of measures against Israel including a ban on trade with...

Archive, Arms Trade, Middle East

Artificial intelligence is emerging as one of the defining concerns of Pope Leo XIV’s papacy, with the Vatican warning that the technology could reshape society in ways that governments and institutions may struggle to control. The Vatican’s concerns predate the...

World News, Artificial Intelligence, Religion

Main image: Members of the Ugandan dance group “the Ghetto Kids” pose for a group picture after a day’s rehearsal at their home in Nakawuka, Wakiso, Uganda, on May 25, 2026. The popular dance group is scheduled to perform alongside...

Culture, Art, Food

Prediction market platforms allow people to bet on real-world events like politics, culture, economics, war, and sports. Their defining feature is the buying and selling of contracts. They operate on a peer-to-peer model in which participants buy and sell contracts...

World, Block 3, Independent Media Institute

Chinese investment has long been a cornerstone of development policy for many Southeast Asian nations. From roads and buildings to green energy that helps countries keep up with global environmental regulations, Beijing’s investment has created significant development opportunities. But it...

Opinion, Ai Governance, Block 2

In her dual role as Türkiye’s first lady and chair of the U.N. Advisory Board of Eminent Persons on Zero Waste, Emine Erdoğan has highlighted the urgent threat of the global environmental crisis in a video message delivered at the...

Türkiye

Dr. Agnes Kalibata, speaking at the opening ceremony of the Africa Food Systems Forum in 2019. Credit: Wikimedia Commons By Agnes Kalibata NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 24 2026 (IPS) I was born in Rwanda, but my family soon became refugees in Uganda during the...

Africa, Armed Conflicts, Civil Society

Africa already has pan-African banks, monetary unions, regional markets, payment systems and a growing institutional savings sector. Yet credit, guarantees, financial information and capital do not yet flow across its borders with the ease that this framework should enable. How...

Opinion, Banking, Events

Artificial intelligence is widely expected to transform businesses and reshape the labor market. But its biggest economic consequence could extend beyond companies and workers: AI driven productivity gains could also give heavily indebted governments a way to improve their finances....

AI Competition, Artificial Intelligence, Economics
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