Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
The first Trump and Biden administrations took lifesaving measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, they issued stimulus checks that allowed people to eat and pay their rent, which became the most successful public welfare initiative in...
Vietnam is considered one of the few countries that have successfully maintained a balance between the competition for influence between the US and China in Southeast Asia. This success stems from upgrading relations with the US to a “Comprehensive Strategic...
Soft power, in the form of scientific cooperation, is helping to drive an expansion of China’s economic influence in Central Asia. Uzbekistan and China, for example, recently launched the joint hyperspectral satellite, Samarkand-2028, which will support applications in agriculture, environmental...
This story was originally published by ProPublica . A robot was on fire. Again. It was the summer of 2024, and the cutting-edge robots inside General Dynamics’ sweltering artillery factory near Dallas were catching fire with startling regularity, according to four former...
Photo by Logan Voss on Unsplash I’m more than a little sick of talking about Anthony Fauci. The little dude who was so full of himself that he tried to argue every attack on him was an attack on science itself...
The Trump administration will put oil and gas leases covering more than 81 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico up for auction on Wednesday, August 12, in the third of 30 Gulf lease sales mandated under President Donald Trump’s...
Most people recognize that Donald Trump and his kids are stealing from us with both hands every day. But they are not as outraged as they should be because most have the view that everyone does it. While I will...
Remember that photo from Donald Trump’s first overseas trip as a president back in 2017? The new president was in Riyadh. Instead of going to Europe or Japan or Canada, Trump was making his first presidential trip to Saudi Arabia. And...
International youth Day 2026: Celebrating the Next Generation On the occasion of International Youth Day 2026, I would like to take this opportunity to celebrate and recognise the remarkable creativity, dedication, and potential of Somaliland’s young architecture students, particularly those graduating...
Norwegian aluminum producer Norsk Hydro's Alunorte plant in Brazil, one of the world's largest alumina refineries, reduced output by 50% following disruptions to natural gas availability. Bloomberg reports that disruptions to NatGas availability at Alunorte forced a 50% reduction in...
Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei's decision to formalize six senior military and security postings within 48 hours is less a personnel story than the closing chapter of a five-month improvisation. Read together, the appointments announced on August 10 show a...
America’s foreign policy, is markedly robust in its deal-making energy. Since January of last year, the second Trump administration has charged forward to bring rivals to the diplomatic table, organize peace processes, and find resolutions to many of the world’s...
Indian state-controlled oil refiners continue to search the market for spot crude supply as term deliveries are constrained by the ongoing crisis in the Middle East and its key oil chokepoint, the Strait of Hormuz. Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited...
Front-end SoC design has always been a balancing act between speed, accuracy, and the large amount of manual work required to get RTL, IPs, and collaterals to be aligned. In a recent webinar, Defacto CEO and founder Chouki Aktouf joined...
As Paris-based Canal+ completes its acquisition of MultiChoice and reshapes DStv while global streamers push into live sport, and young viewers accelerate the shift to digital, the question is who will control what Africa consumes in the entertainment space. One of...
The IEA has slashed its 2026 global oil supply forecast, with output now expected to plunge 4.3 million barrels per day this year as the failure to reopen the Strait of Hormuz pushes the market deeper into deficit. The latest...
Operation under way to rescue dozens missing after boat overturned by waves at world’s largest human-made lake At least 44 people have died after an overcrowded ferry capsized on Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe, police said. The boat had a capacity of 90...
We are seeing today a surge in heretical media outlets including Novara, Doubledown News, Drop Site, Byline Times, Middle East Eye – and of course Declassified UK. We have emerged thanks in part to a growing appreciation that the mainstream media...
Massive box-office receipts, for example in South Africa, for global blockbusters indicate that Africa’s movie appetite is growing but also mask a deeper shift as the volume of premium screens shrinks. Increasingly, African capital is expanding, and filmmakers are embracing...
Roberto Mosquera, a Cuban immigrant who has lived in the United States since 1980 and completed a prison sentence in 1996, was arrested by ICE last year and sent to a prison in Eswatini, a country in Africa he’d never...
On August 7, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey signed a defense pact that echoed Article 5 of NATO: an attack on one will be attack on all. The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement , for its vernacular, has sent shockwaves across...
The UK could see a power supply margin shortfall during the solar eclipse on Wednesday amid high demand in the new heatwave that is sweeping through Britain and the rest of Europe this week. There is no risk to customer...
Turkey’s parliament has passed legislation creating a framework for the disbandment of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), opening the way for Kurdish militants to return from northern Iraq and potentially be reintegrated into society. The move has brought hope to...
When Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan signed their joint defense agreement in Mecca on August 7, the alliance’s first test was already taking shape. A day before the signing, Saudi Arabia was preparing for the possibility of attacks by the Houthis...
South African scientist’s breakthrough research shows soil fungus could be used in fight against devastating crop pest Hearing about fields full of dead caterpillars enveloped in a mysterious white substance intrigued the South African scientist Letodi Luki Mathulwe. Something was killing...
The number of ships that have transited the Strait of Hormuz dropped to a week-low on Tuesday, according to shipping data, as vessel owners continue to avoid the key chokepoint in the Middle East. Only eight vessels moved in either...
As the deadly Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon continues, the fabulously wealthy banker-turned-“philanthropist” Antoun Sehnaoui has assembled a network of business and media operatives – and a fascist Christian goon squad – in Beirut and Washington dedicated to doing Israel’s...
Taiwan has condemned planned Chinese naval drills with an Indonesian warship off the island’s east coast, calling the exercise a dangerous provocation and accusing Beijing of trying to create the impression that it controls waters east of Taiwan. China’s Defence...
Brent Crude oil prices rose above $89 per barrel in early trade in Europe on Wednesday as Iran and the United States offered contrasting claims about who controls the Strait of Hormuz. Brent Crude prices were up by 0.64% at...
Oil flows from the Middle East have normalized, with Sunday traffic alone above pre-conflict averages, U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said on Tuesday in a claim that appears not to be backed by ship-tracking data. On Tuesday, Secretary Wright...
Exiled Nicaraguans hold a national flag in the Church of San Francisco in San José, Costa Rica, at a service held on 19 April 2026 to commemorate the anniversary of protests in 2018. Credit: Ezequiel Becerra/AFP By Inés M. Pousadela MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay,...
A sharp, funny, and painfully familiar portrait of modern Nigerian womanhood, Dear Kaffy, turns heartbreak into humour and celebrates the fierce power of female friendship. Sometimes we laugh just to keep ourselves from crying. This is the overwhelming sentiment one feels...
US foreign policy, built on military intervention, sanctions, applying double standards, and making use of proxy conflicts, is not bolstering America’s global influence but is instead accelerating the emergence of alternative alliances, uniting countries opposed to Western dominance. After so...
Iran is set to join the New Development Bank (NDB), the development lender established by the BRICS group, Iranian central bank governor Abdolnaser Hemmati said on Wednesday, as Tehran seeks to deepen financial ties with emerging economies amid sweeping international...
Editor’s note: This is the eighth article in a limited series celebrating American defense technologies born from wartime and their effects on broader national security, politics, and society. This series will run for several weeks to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary,...
Children play outside their home at a shelter in the Philippines. Credit: UNICEF/Joshua Estey By Oritro Karim UNITED NATIONS, Aug 12 2026 (IPS) On July 7, the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres presented a report from the Special Rapporteur on the sale,...
Carol Koech, Vice President for Africa at the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet By Benson Kunchezera LILONGWE, Aug 12 2026 (IPS) For years, Malawi’s electricity supply has been at the mercy of droughts, floods and cyclones that have repeatedly exposed the...
When war changes, schools change. New technology, the politics of mass mobilization and campaign design, and novel tactics that defined Napoleonic warfare led to Gerhard von Scharnhorst’s reforms and the idea of lifelong education as a professional obligation. The pattern...
Main image: Actors, dignitaries and ambassadors attending the Nollywood Film Festival in Germany. The writer was invited to cover the Nollywood Festival in Germany, but what she found there went well beyond films; she discovered identity, belonging and the power of...
By Anis Chowdhury SYDNEY, Aug 12 2026 (IPS) Should anyone be surprised that Israel has rebuffed Donald Trump? The unconditional support of the US and its Western allies for Israel has emboldened the rogue state. Thus, Israel continues its genocide against the...
In the weeks since the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding collapsed, Washington and Tehran have used the time to strengthen their respective positions in the event negotiations resume. For the United States, this has largely taken the form of overt threats by President...
This week’s market headlines have been dominated by Gulf tensions, inflation, bond market concerns and renewed political pressure on the Federal Reserve. But beneath those developments, investors are watching three broader trends: the surprising strength of European bank stocks, Japanese...
Oil and gold prices climbed on Wednesday as geopolitical tensions intensified ahead of key U.S. inflation data, while investors assessed the potential impact on Federal Reserve interest rate policy. U.S. crude rose 0.61% to $83.71 a barrel, while Brent crude...
Russia has started importing fuels from India, Bloomberg reported today, citing Kpler data that shows one cargo of 42,000 tons of gasoline from Nayara Energy’s Vadinar refinery arriving in Russia earlier this month. The Vadinar refinery is partly owned by...
Renewable energy became an essential issue in G20 meetings due to the reality of climate change in recent decades. The campaign of the energy transition is one of the efforts to change energy resources from fossil fuel and coal to...
The Trump administration has launched a series of measures to ensure that US defense contractors source critical minerals domestically or from allied nations, building a supply chain that officials hope would break China’s monopoly over materials such as scandium and...
On July 19, President Donald Trump’s top Africa adviser, Massad Boulos, held a series of talks in Cairo with the foreign ministers of Egypt, Eritrea and Somalia. The participants framed the discussions as an effort to bolster security in the...
When the Taliban reclaimed power five years ago, China appeared poised to capitalize on Afghanistan’s new realities. Beijing quickly took important steps to establish de facto relations with the Islamic Emirate, such as keeping its embassy open in Kabul, maintaining direct...
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