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...
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...
For two years, Israel's war in Lebanon has been measured largely in a human toll: the dead, the wounded, the displaced. What has drawn far less attention is the destruction of the land itself. Across southern Lebanon, a combination of incendiary...
For decades, the potential closure of the Strait of Hormuz has been considered the ultimate doomsday scenario for global oil markets. So, when Iran effectively closed the Strait earlier this year in response to the joint U.S.-Israeli assault, many analysts...
A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report finds that the maintenance backlog for military installations has ballooned to more than $285 billion — leaving many facilities in disrepair, while risking readiness and service members’ quality of life. This figure is a...
For decades, the United States treated the prospect of an Iranian nuclear weapon as an intolerable threat. Yet when Washington and Tehran went to war twice in roughly a year, America’s own nuclear arsenal provided remarkably little leverage. In June 2025,...
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.”...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The executive branch, as enforcer of the law, holds an arsenal of powers it may lawfully use but usually does so sparingly. A president could pardon every federal prisoner in the country, or order the IRS to audit, aggressively and...
An Integrated Approach to National, European and Global Resilience The healthcare sector worldwide is facing an increasing threat from cyberattacks. Between 2022 and 2025, the European Repository of Cyber Incidents (EuRepoC) recorded a total of 351 significant attacks on healthcare facilities....
Norwegian oil and gas firms Equinor and Aker BP have made a gas and condensate discovery close to the operating Balder field in the North Sea, the Norwegian Offshore Directorate, the regulator of the industry in Norway, said on Monday....
Our intrepid team covers a lot of ground in this episode: the increasing fluidity of the battlefield, drones and air defense, the biting Black Sea campaign, the causes and aftermath of the firing of Ukraine’s popular defense minister, why Ukraine...
The Norwegian government is asking the country’s Supreme Court to overturn lower-court rulings that invalidated the development permits of three new oilfields in Norway’s North Sea. The case was brought to court three years ago by environmental organizations Greenpeace Nordic...
The collapse of multiculturalism in Ceuta works in Russia’s favor, as it could trigger the fall of Europe’s Russophobic governments. Sanchez Uses Rubber Bullets Against Migrants in Ceuta Spanish police used rubber bullets in Ceuta to contain migrants attempting to leave a...
Ebola is a disease that spreads through communities, so we need to listen to communities if we want to halt its spread Each time we travel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), we go first to listen. In Bunia,...
GAZA, Gaza Strip / PNN / Report by Nesma Al-Harazin — For Palestinian Mahmoud Abdel Karim Skik, losing both legs in a wartime injury was only the beginning of a much larger struggle. The double amputation not only changed how he moves...
Japan’s nationwide day-ahead electricity price soared by 20% in one week to settle on Monday at the highest level since January 2023, as gas supply disruptions from the Middle East and an intense heatwave pushed up prices and consumption. The...
Britain’s decision to provide Ukraine with classified information on British-made components used in SCALP long-range cruise missiles has triggered a sharp response from Moscow, with the Kremlin accusing London of deliberately prolonging the war and warning that its latest support...
By Kizito Makoye DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Aug 24 2026 (IPS) For pastoralists in Arvaikheer — a village in Mongolia’s dry central plains — rain can determine whether there is enough grass for cattle to roam, whether waterholes are replenished and whether...
Pakistan has stepped into a delicate diplomatic role as tensions between Washington and Tehran enter a potentially dangerous new phase, with Army Chief Asim Munir visiting Iran on Monday for talks aimed at promoting regional peace and stability. His visit...
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