Russia’s war in Ukraine has become more than a test of military endurance. It has also become a live laboratory for modern warfare, exposing how quickly weapons, tactics and battlefield technology can change and raising difficult questions about whether NATO...
Diesel prices and margins will continue to grow amid tightening markets, but gasoline could offer even more upside as refiners currently prioritize diesel output, Goldman Sachs says. The investment bank is switching its key fuel market recommendation away from diesel...
Yemen’s Houthi movement has evolved from a local Zaydi Shi’ite revivalist group in the country’s northern mountains into a heavily armed force capable of threatening shipping routes, striking targets across the region and influencing the wider security balance in the...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip / PNN / As the back-to-school season approaches, preparations for the new academic year look dramatically different across the Gaza Strip, where families face harsh living conditions, shortages of school supplies and steep price increases for the...
In December 2024, the share of South Koreans ages 65 and older surpassed 20% for the first time, making it what demographers like us call a “super-aged society.” By August 2026 that share had risen further, to 22.1%. That label...
Gender discrimination begins early and accumulates over time, leading to a narrowing of job opportunities and loss of belonging as they get older. Credit: Shutterstock By Kim Samuel and Bridget Sleap TORONTO / LONDON, Sep 17 2026 (IPS) Chung Sun-cha started collecting cardboard,...
BETHLEHEM, West Bank /PNN/ When Walid Farrajah was 10, his uncle gave him a small group of chicks. What began as a simple childhood gift grew into a lifelong passion that has stayed with him alongside his career as a doctor. Today,...
A United Nations fact finding mission has said there are reasonable grounds to believe U.S. forces were responsible for two military strikes in Iran in February that amounted to war crimes, while also finding that Iranian authorities committed crimes against...
India will continue prioritizing the energy security of its population despite attempts by the United States to squeeze Russian oil and gas exports, many of which go to India, the country’s Foreign Ministry said today. It also warned that any...
This exclusive Cogs of War interview is with Brig. Gen. Steven P. Carpenter, the commanding general of Multi-Domain Command – Europe, the U.S. Army’s first multi-domain operations command, headquartered at Clay Kaserne in Mainz-Kastel, Germany. Multi-Domain Command – Europe serves...
On Aug. 24, 2026, the Trump administration transmitted the text of the U.S.-Saudi nuclear cooperation agreement to Congress. By doing so, the administration triggered the 90-day congressional review process described in the Atomic Energy Act and relaunched a debate about...
By CIVICUS Sep 17 2026 (IPS) CIVICUS discusses renewed conflict and a growing crackdown on independent media in Ethiopia with Yonas Kedir, Editor-in-Chief of the independent news outlet Addis Standard, who was recently abducted and detained by government forces. Yonas Kedir Fighting has resumed...
U.S. President Donald Trump said he hoped the war against Iran was nearing an end as fighting between Saudi Arabia and Iran backed Houthi forces intensified in Yemen, adding a new front to a conflict that has already disrupted energy...
For the last few weeks, Indonesia has been struggling to contain the land and forest fires on its territory. The disaster leads to a cross-border haze crisis affecting neighboring countries, including Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, and the Philippines. Indonesian President...
By Mohammad Zaman DHAKA, Bangladesh, Sep 17 2026 (IPS) Bangladesh is rightly praised for saving lives during cyclones and floods. Early warning systems, cyclone shelters and community mobilisation have turned once-catastrophic disasters into emergencies in which evacuation is often possible. But behind...
He promised security—he brought isolation. He spoke in the name of the state—he put its very future in question. And now even those who were called allies only yesterday are saying, more and more loudly: this can’t go on. Benjamin...
For a decade, Saudi Arabia’s Yemen policy has rested on the assumption that time, money and coercive force, patiently and strategically applied, would eventually produce enough leverage to subdue the Houthis, or at least force them into a settlement on...
News reports this week indicated Saudi Arabia was cancelling or delaying multiple shipments of crude to European refiners for the month of September, pushing them into October or even November. So, after a seeming reprieve, global oil markets are once again...
As three siblings came of age and had to leave their pack, scientists tracked the dogs’ perilous 2,500-mile odyssey to find their own territory It sounds like a Disney movie: three wild dogs, all brothers, on an epic journey to find...
It was an operation far too long in the making, but even if late in the fight, Myanmar’s armed opposition finally achieved the coup their supporters had almost despaired of seeing: a concerted drone attack on one of a network...
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see. – Queen Shortly after moving from Hong Kong to Beijing in 2022, yours...
The Houthi advance in Yemen and the Red Sea region is creating upheavals in the Middle Eastern security structure in general and the conflict in Iran in particular. Saudi Arabia has inadvertently become the focal point of territorial security pressures...
The ascent of the VAZ-2131 Niva to the Tibetan Plateau in 1999 serves as more than a historical curiosity. For over 25 years, its climb to 5,726 meters without winches or external towing stood as a benchmark for mechanical resilience....
Oil prices pulled back but remained elevated ahead of a critical Fed decision on Wednesday, with market expectations shifting towards a prolonged US-Iran conflict. Brent crude for November delivery fell 2.88% at 2:18 p.m. ET, to trade at $105.6 per...
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) foreign policy group has approved a concept for restoring trade with Russia and ending aid to Ukraine. AfD Policy Toward Russia Is Guided by Germany’s National Interests Following its victory in Saxony-Anhalt, the Alternative for Germany (AfD)...
There is a new round of rumors about Xi’s health. I think the rumors are BS but since I have been getting lots of pings about it, it makes sense to address them. As I wrote in the Sinocism chat...
Authors : Dr Hakima Elhaite and Dr Anis H. Bajrektarevic Irregular migration between Morocco and the European Union is not a problem that can be solved through deterrence, nor through a single financial instrument. We propose here the creation of a...
I am back in Moscow for the first time in ten months, and the first thing that strikes you is the distance between the city in front of you and the city as it is described five thousand miles away....
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve raised interest rates Wednesday for the first time in three years as inflation continues to dog the economy, largely driven by soaring gas and fuel oil prices while the war in Iran drags on. The...
The artificial intelligence boom is sending Southeast Asia’s natural gas demand projections through the roof – but prolonged price hikes triggered by the war in Iran could turn the region toward renewable energies instead. What is more, these competing market...
Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) took to ABC’s Sunday morning show to assure the public that the Democratic Party is taking strong measures to combat the AI Doomsday threat roiling the country. His prime example: a Democratic House...
In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, incumbent SPD premier Manuela Schwesig leads her AfD challenger, Leif-Erik Holm, 60% to 25% in head-to-head polling. It is not close. And her own party’s poll numbers show her governing coalition may not hold a parliamentary majority anyway....
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Kazakhstan, which has major oil reserves, is not in a position to help offset a looming energy crisis by expanding production, industry analysts say. With the Strait of Hormuz blocked, Russia sanctioned and Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline knocked out of...
As public fears mount over an AI doomsday , AI firms just scored a big election win in a very small state. In Delaware last night, Attorney General Kathy Jennings won her Democratic primary, easily trouncing two challengers. The two-term...
In 2025, Jennifer Kavanaugh and Christopher McCallion wrote, “Armed Neutrality for Ukraine Is NATO’s Least Poor Option,” where they made the case for armed neutrality over full NATO membership as the wiser course for both Ukraine and NATO. A year...
Economics, politics, and philosophy for a new era Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His latest book, The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World , was published November 2025. Cross-posed from Branko Milanović’s blog Global...
Our imperial overreach began 25 years ago with the War on Terror. It is being brought to a grim conclusion by Donald Trump’s war on Iran Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years...
Capitalism Moving Beyond Neoliberalism: Crises, Changes, and What Comes Next. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog The 16th Annual Conference in Political Economy took place in Lisbon, Portugal last...
Russia, Germany, and the UN Enemy State Clause Michael von der Schulenburg worked for the United Nations in many crisis and war zones around the world for 34 years, including in the rank of UN Assistant Secretary-General. Since 2024, Schulenburg has...
A leaked European Commission impact assessment working document for the upcoming Renewable Energy Directive, RED IV, signals a potentially significant shift in renewable fuels policy after 2030. The draft's "preferred pacage" would replace binding national renewable hydrogen mandates with a...
The track record of the far right, when it has wielded power, has been pretty dismal. The UK is still reeling economically from its exit from the European Union, a departure orchestrated by Nigel Farage and his band of xenophobes. Despite...
Chinese intelligence and strategic circles, such as the Beijing Institute for International Strategic Studies and research centers affiliated with the Chinese Ministry of State Security, view the visit of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to Cairo and his meeting...
The Bank of England is facing mounting pressure to raise interest rates on Thursday amid a global bond market rout fuelled by concerns over runaway government borrowing and sticky inflation. Investors told Threadneedle Street it was “essential” to rein in...
In Ahmed Hassouna’s Gaza chronicle “Al Mowaten Osama” (“Citizen Osama”), a journalist becomes the story. Ignoring warnings to evacuate in mid-2024, independent reporter Osama Al-Ashi remains in northern Gaza to record the human toll of Israel’s assault. The result is...
Last week , the war in Ukraine reached deep inside the Russian Arctic. On Sept. 9, Ukrainian drones struck two natural gas processing plants in the Yamalo-Nenets region, about 1,900 miles from the Ukrainian border. This was Ukraine’s deepest strike on...
This story was originally published by The 19th . As Republicans gathered in Dallas for their pre-midterm convention last week, Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico focused on survivors of Jeffrey Epstein. Talarico got a tour of the Reading Room, a traveling...
There’s something very dangerous in believing that your cause is righteous. What it can lead to is the idea that the ends justify the means, no matter how wrong they might be or how trivial the gains might be. Photo by...
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