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Spanish border workers warned authorities weeks before a mass migrant rush into the North African enclave of Ceuta that arrivals were increasing and could escalate, but unions say the government failed to take timely action. More than 70,000 migrants attempted...

As you read this article on your computer or smartphone, you are almost certainly using open-source technology in some way. It forms the foundation of the global digital economy, from operating systems and web servers to databases and encryption protocols....

West Africa’s cocoa industry is struggling to comply with new European Union anti-deforestation rules, raising concerns about supply disruptions and higher costs for chocolate makers. The EU law, known as the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), will require importers to prove...

Emerging from the chaos of supplying the U.S. Army during the War of 1812, the War Department sought to foster domestic production of standardized muskets. Out of this industrial project arose an invention that laid the foundation for automation and...

India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation has secured a license from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control to return to Venezuela, Indian media have reported. India’s largest oil and gas company has a 40% stake in the San Cristobal...

Editor’s Note: The following article draws on themes from the author’s forthcoming book titled US Counterterrorism Operations in Afghanistan: Jackpots, Dry Holes, and Collateral Damage.Over the next month, the United States will pass two major historical milestones: the five-year anniversary...

Taiwan is set to increase defence spending by 16% next year, taking its proposed military budget above T$1 trillion ($31.40 billion) for the first time as the island faces growing military and political pressure from China. President Lai Ching-te said...

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) announced his opposition to Medicare for All on the same day a CBS News poll found 90 percent of Democratic voters support the idea — and 72 hours after a Yale University study showed...

The Financial Times has run a striking assessment: Pakistan, it argues, has become an emerging “hinge power” – a state whose simultaneous ties to Washington, Beijing, the Gulf and Tehran let it broker where others can only choose sides. The...

The war in Ukraine and the sanctions that followed it redrew the geo-economic map of Eurasia almost overnight. Supply chains assembled over decades were severed, and for Central Asia — a region long held within Moscow’s orbit — the disruption...

Tanker traffic via the Strait of Hormuz slowed further over the weekend, maintaining upward pressure on oil prices. At the time of writing, Brent crude was trading at $88.62 per barrel, with West Texas Intermediate at $82.18 per barrel. Earlier...

U.S. President Donald Trump has instructed the Pentagon to “substantially reduce” joint military exercises with South Korea, citing the cost of the drills and Seoul’s refusal to participate in U.S. actions against Iran. Trump said on Sunday that he was...

On August 7, 2026, Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Belgrade for his first official visit to Serbia. On the surface, it was a standard diplomatic event. But the location made it anything but routine. The ceremonial welcome included a guard of...

Iran is very likely to be attacked by the U.S. and Israel in early October of 2026 to preempt an Iranian attack on Israel two weeks before the November 3, 2026, U.S. midterm elections. It is possible that Iran may...

Reports that sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln have either jumped overboard or attempted to do so have exposed the horrendous conditions facing the largely working class naval crew that has been at sea for 268 days and deployed in...

Beijing may believe that Donald Trump’s 2016 election and his return to office eight years later are not accidents but part of a deeper American current. Beyond Trump himself, the America that has emerged since 2016 increasingly seems unwilling to...

Putin’s Kuril landing is not a bilateral Russia-Japan sovereignty dispute. It is the northern half of a coordinated Sino-Russian pressure campaign on Tokyo — timed to the same waters a joint Chinese-Russian flotilla patrolled weeks earlier, and confirmed within twenty-four...

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright this week said that the oil exports from the Middle East have rebounded to 15 million barrels per day (bpd) and even topped the pre-war average of 20 million bpd on Sunday. Vessel-tracking services and...

Authors: M. Abiya Emima and Edberg D. Cheeran The global oil market has long played a pivotal role in shaping contemporary geopolitics, serving as a vital instrument for sustaining political dominance and shaping international interactions. Saudi Arabia, Russia, and the...

Leon Lauritsen is the CEO of Aras, a leading provider of digital thread solutions for product lifecycle management and engineering AI. He joined the company in 2022 through the acquisition of Minerva PLM, where he had been for over 20...

With less than three full months left until the start of heating season in much of Europe, the issue of gas inventories is becoming increasingly pressing. Current inventory levels are at the lowest in 17 years, and supply available for...

In late October, in a boardroom in Riyadh, executives from Red Sea Global and three Saudi lenders signed off on a SAR 6.5 billion ($1.73 billion) loan facility for AMAALA, the ultra-luxury wellness resort rising on the kingdom’s northern Red...

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Iturup in mid-August 2026 has sparked debates and generated fresh discussions on ownership of the territory between officials in Russia and Japan. Iturup is the largest and northernmost of the Kuril islands, ownership of...

Oil prices have soared in recent months as a result of the almost complete closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a key trade corridor connecting Asia and Europe. High fossil fuel prices have helped to drive up the profits of...

Islam Times - The Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), Major General Ahmad Vahidi, referring to the two imposed wars waged by the United States and the Zionist regime against Iran, stressed that the warriors of Islam brought...

Jerry Chen, CEO and Founder of Upbeat Technology, received his Master of Science in ECE from the University of Texas at Austin. Started working as an IC design engineer in Silicon Valley at Intel, Lucent, Apple, and Procket Network since...

AI's energy footprint is out of control. Hyperscalers are building out data centers faster than the energy industry can keep up with, pushing for the rapid buildout of any form of energy we have at our disposal, clean or dirty....

The Board of Peace is not a ceasefire-management mechanism drifting toward failure. It is a governance model built with the same structural fault line as the 1922 Mandate for Palestine: trusteeship over a population’s path to self-rule, with no authority...

This update focuses on the role of allies in the Russo-Ukraine War (which was the fascinating and distressing story of the last week). Ukraine’s allies (I use that word knowing it is loaded) should have helped Ukraine win the war...

The Republic of South Africa formally assumed the chairship of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Council of Ministers on 12 August 2026 in Durban, South Africa, from August 2026 to August 2027, following its tenure as interim chair since...

Take your pick of alarmist projections about the future of the global economy from top tech leaders. Monzo’s founder, Tom Blomfield, reckons unemployment will surge over the next five years as more and more human output is replaced by AI....

One of the things that I wish to address is the alienation, rejection, social isolation and the longing to belong that the mental patient has to suffer from and endure. I want to talk about psychosis, my personal experience, my...

As the British state seeks to destroy Palestine Action, a new trial is underway in which a judge has threatened defendants with a ‘terrorism connection’ if they explain the motives behind their activism. It is one of three such trials in...

The government of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz approved a landmark bill to expand the powers of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) and the Domestic Intelligence Service (BfV) by 2027. This expansion grants them offensive and operational tools, including cyber counter-sabotage...

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