Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
Response in Colombia continues after the 7.4 earthquake. In Barrio Lleras, Buenaventura, more than 54 houses have been destroyed or are at risk of collapse. Credit: UNICEF By Oritro Karim UNITED NATIONS, Aug 25 2026 (IPS) Over the past week, the humanitarian crisis...
Thirty-seven Russian army officers were given two weeks of military training in Britain in September 1995, declassified files show. The “intensive military cooperation” involved the Russians “driving tanks and firing a range of weapons”, and was paid for by Britain under...
Al-Bireh / PNN / Dr. Rami Hamdallah, Chairman of the Central Elections Commission (CEC), met today, Monday a group of CSOs representatives at CEC HQ in Al-Bireh to discuss the ongoing preparations for conducting the legislative elections, emphasizing moving forward with...
It’s hardly news that Americans are not happy with the state of their nation. Confidence in the country’s direction crashed hard during the Bush years and never recovered. But what’s notable about more recent years is Americans’ increasing dissatisfaction with their personal lives: [1]...
Judged by the initial strategic goals set by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2022, Russia’s military lost its war against Ukraine some time ago. Yet Russia’s armed forces have not stopped fighting and continue to prosecute large-scale combat operations in...
JP Morgan and Santander will lead a fundraising operation for Argentina LNG, Bloomberg has reported, citing unnamed sources who said the total could reach $15 billion. One of these told the publication the companies involved in the project aimed to...
BETHLEHEM, West Bank / PNN / As economic hardship deepens and job opportunities shrink, many young Palestinians are looking for new ways to earn a living by putting their skills to work in unexpected fields. Among them is 29-year-old Waleed Salman, who...
Iran threatened an aggressive response to the latest U.S. sanctions announced on Monday by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, with a top government official noting Tehran was “fully prepared for the U.S. sanctions.” “Naturally, the enemies intend to launch an economic...
Some of the over 56,000 returnees the Malawian government brought back home are assisted upon arrival. Credit: Thomas Kachere/IPS By Charles Mpaka BLANTYRE, Malawi, Aug 25 2026 (IPS) When the Malawian government announced the conclusion of the repatriation of its citizens trapped in...
The US Navy’s new AIM-424 “Malice” missile could push carrier defense back into the outer air battle, where destroying the aircraft and networks enabling China’s long-range strikes may matter more than intercepting the missiles themselves. The US Navy has officially...
Actor Mark Ruffalo issued a powerful statement in response to the efforts of Paramount Skydance to slander him as an antisemite for publicly denouncing the Ellison’s support for Israeli genocide and the media monopoly’s merger with Warner Brothers Discovery as...
Bessent Announces New Iranian Sanctions There was one sentence in Scott Bessent’s Monday sanctions announcement that gave the whole game away. Anyone who launders money for the Iranian regime, the Treasury Secretary warned, “will be removed from the US dollar system.”...
Finnish telecom equipment maker Nokia is walking away from mainland China after two decades of building out its networks there, closing nearly every remaining site by year-end in the clearest sign yet that Europe and China are severing their telecom...
With the United States unable to militarily defeat Iran in President Donald Trump’s illegal US-Israeli war of choice, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday escalated the administration’s economic attacks on Tehran, warning countries and companies around the world that continuing to do business...
By: Salman Rafi Sheikh The new Saudi-Pakistan-Turkey defense pact may look like the beginnings of an “Islamic NATO,” but it is much more a political signal than a functioning military alliance. The Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, signed by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and...
Reprinted with permission from Trita Parsi’s Substack. One of the important characteristics of Israel and Donald Trump’s war on Iran was that it never had the support of the American people. When George Bush launched his illegal invasion of Iraq,...
In this issue: - Xi meets Jordan’s king - Sixth Plenum of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection - “Zhong Caiwen 钟才文” on the economy - Fiscal revenue grew in July - Formaldehyde-dipped cabbage - US-China The Feed: Business, Economy and Trade - Politics and Law...
More than half a year after the U.S. captured and extracted Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela, the biggest American oil firms haven’t returned to operating oilfields in the world’s largest oil reserves holder. Chevron, which has operated in Venezuela throughout Maduro’s...
Democrat Socialist label not undermining Democrat vote in November By Ray Hanania Chicago, IL – A recently released Zogby poll shows that the label “Democratic Socialist” will not undermine the performance of Democrats against Republicans in the November 3, 2026,...
The United States is forging ahead with its critical minerals ambitions, investing billions in securing non-Chinese supply, while in Europe, the central EU government “hesitate, over-administrate, talk and lose time.” The EU was already behind the U.S. on critical minerals....
Modern ASIC, SoC, CPU, and GPU development depends on verification processes that detect subtle functional defects before tapeout. SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA) are particularly important because they encode temporal design intent: how signals, states, and transactions must behave across clock cycles....
Modern ASIC, SoC, CPU, and GPU development depends on verification processes that detect subtle functional defects before tapeout. SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA) are particularly important because they encode temporal design intent: how signals, states, and transactions must behave across clock cycles....
The fertilizer crisis is usually framed as a natural gas problem. When gas prices rise, ammonia costs rise, fertilizer plants reduce production, and farmers become exposed to a global commodity chain they cannot control. That diagnosis is correct but incomplete....
Yemen's Houthis on Monday targeted the Saudi oil tanker Amzan in the Red Sea off Yanbu with a ballistic missile and drones, the Iran-aligned militant group announced. Soon after initial reports emerged, Saudi Arabia confirmed the attack, with Saudi shipping company Bahri stating...
The Trump administration has revealed the details of its “economic D-Day” campaign against Iran, expanding secondary sanctions that threaten foreign companies with exclusion from the U.S. financial system for continuing to do business with Tehran and targeting nearly 60 individuals,...
RISC-V has evolved from a Berkeley research architecture into a global instruction-set standard spanning embedded controllers, application processors, accelerators, and emerging servers. Its defining technical characteristic is not merely openness, but disciplined modularity. Four ratified base ISAs—RV32I, RV64I,… Read More The...
Norway is producing oil and gas faster than the industry is finding new resources, increasing the risk of a steep decline after 2030, according to a new report from the Norwegian Offshore Directorate. The warning comes despite strong current activity....
Millions have rightly turned to John Mearsheimer for compelling critique of US foreign policy, but it’s also important to recognise the limits of his ‘realist’ worldview. Gerald Sussman is professor emeritus of urban studies and international studies at Portland State University....
Iran’s economy is capable of withstanding American punishment because it had already adapted to isolation from the Dollar for many years before this war began. Mahyar Ramezankhani is a professor of economics and an economic analyst. He holds a PhD in...
A way to make use of decommissioned oil infrastructure that solves the problem of renewable energy storage. Stuart Jones is Professor of Sedimentology & Geoenergy at Durham University. Andrew Crossland is Professor in Practice in the Department of Engineering at Durham University. Chris...
TotalEnergies will invest in two major oil pipelines designed to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, backing Abu Dhabi’s expansion of its Fujairah export route and a planned pipeline carrying Iraqi crude through Syria to the Mediterranean. CEO Patrick Pouyanné announced...
The United States has fingered over 40 countries, including Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, as alleged accomplices in helping China engage in tariff evasion schemes designed to maintain the country’s US-bound exports, according to a Trump Administration white paper. Titled...
Spokesperson for Duke of Sussex says he remains an ‘active and avid supporter’ of African Parks’ mission The Duke of Sussex has stepped down from the board of a major African wildlife charity that had been at the centre of a...
This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . The world has become hotter and, in many places, drier than ever before in recorded history. Just this summer, as some U.S. states battle over...
The pro-Israel lobby is dominating American headlines during the current election because of its outsized role in competitive House and Senate races — a role that's drawn scrutiny as Israel's popularity among American voters declines. Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick’s new...
Starvation is a particularly cruel and horrible way to die. Beginning with intense hunger and pain and followed by exhaustion and mental deterioration, starvation continues with the body gradually consuming its own tissues on a downward spiral toward death. The major...
Artificial intelligence performance is increasingly constrained by memory rather than arithmetic throughput. Scaling laws show that model quality improves when parameter count, training data, and compute grow together, but this balance fails when processors cannot obtain operands quickly enough. Contemporary...
17 August marked the 240th anniversary of American folk hero Davy Crockett -- ‘King of the Wild Frontier’, as the old song goes. It also marked the official end of the 60-day period for negotiations to end the conflict between...
Below is a roundup of the 2026’s top media coverage of stories of repression and resistance featuring Palestine Legal clients, attorneys, and attorney network members from outlets including The Guardian, The Hill, Inside Higher Ed, The Intercept, and Truthout. Inside Higher...
Russia has undergone a profound transformation in the structure of its economy over the past five years. The shift accelerated under unprecedented Western sanctions, forcing the country to rely increasingly on its own domestic market, investment resources and technological capabilities. Deputy...
This is a web version of The Lever ’s daily email newsletter. 🔥 New by David Sirota: Is Bernie Sanders the new Barry Goldwater ? 👇 Further down in this newsletter: - The devastating downstream effects of Hollywood’s mega-merger. - Even Republicans are distancing...
Trump buddy Larry Ellison (one of the richest people in the U.S.) and his son David are a hair’s breadth away from being able to decide what many Americans learn about what Donald Trump is doing to America. The only thing...
An attack on an energy facility which was shut down for four days last month was carried out by hackers linked to the Iranian regime. The cyberattack, which is believed to be the first time Iranian-affiliated hackers have successfully infiltrated...
Events in the Middle East regularly put Israel at the center of the world's media attention. It is portrayed sometimes as the attacking side and sometimes as the defending side; sometimes as a US ally following Washington's lead, and sometimes...
The choice is not between an unmanageably open meeting and a completely closed process. What matters is that observers have some direct line into the negotiations and can see that their expertise and proposals are genuinely considered. Credit: Albert Oppong-Ansah/IPS. By...
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said he would be pleased if the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) expelled Armenia from the alliance. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded that if Armenia wants to leave, it should do so itself. What is...
In his recent book , “ This is the Plan,” former chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party Ben Wikler dates the origins of today’s politics to 2010. That was the year the Tea Party previewed the rise of Trumpism and...
Photo by Thomas de LUZE on Unsplash The 2020s have been interesting, to say the least. We’ve seen plenty of riots, as well as public health officials who berated us for going to church deciding that riots were different and therefore...
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