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When Uzbekistan celebrates 35 years of independence on September 1st, Washington should do more than congratulate its people and government. It should recognize a strategic opportunity and make Uzbekistan the anchor of its policy in Central Asia. Uzbekistan is Central...

EDGE Group CEO Hamad Al Marar discusses the UAE’s push to build a globally competitive defense industry — and how technology, manufacturing and exports are shaping that ambition. Credit: CNBC via Reuters Connect. The post UAE defense firm EDGE Group wants...

Numbers Report – August 21, 2026 In the latest edition of the Numbers Report, we will take a look at some of the most interesting figures put out this week in the energy and metals sectors. Each week we’ll dig...

Somewhere between a single genetically engineered cell and a life-saving therapy sits one of biotechnology’s most demanding balancing acts. Turning a promising molecule into a medicine that reaches millions of patients means mastering recombinant protein production at a scale few...

For the past several weeks, I have been working my way through the major findings in the Energy Institute’s 2026 Statistical Review of World Energy. This article concludes that series. For readers who want to catch up, the previous installments...

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to the Kuril Islands has triggered genuine hysteria in neighboring Japan. Despite constant diplomatic provocations, Russia is firmly defending its territorial integrity, demonstrating political restraint and readiness for a tough response, underpinned by strengthening defense...

On September 1, the Bank of Russia will put the digital ruble into circulation, making it available to every Russian in the autumn. The color of its logo is already known, along with details of how the new form of...

Every Friday, Reuters Open Interest distills the financial week into five key charts, highlighting the major market trends, surprises and developments that shaped investor sentiment. This week, the focus fell on a historic U.S. debt milestone, an extraordinary surge in...

The new Nigerian incentives for offshore oil and gas projects have the potential to attract $50 billion in new investment in Nigeria’s offshore energy sector, the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has said. Nigeria, however, needs upskilled and additional...

On 23 August, it will be 100 days since the Bundibugyo strain was first reported. How did it became the DRC’s most deadly outbreak and what must be done to stop it becoming the world’s largest? Almost 100 days ago, Africa’s...

Crude oil imports into China are set to rise by about 1.2 million barrels per day in the final quarter of the year from the current one, although they will likely remain lower than pre-war levels, Bloomberg has reported, citing...

First gas from Australia’s Beetaloo shale basin is scheduled to start flowing next month, with initial production of 37 million cu m, Reuters has reported, noting hopes that the country could replicate the U.S. shale gas success story. The Beetaloo...

Russia is prepared to consider new proposals for ending the war in Ukraine, but Moscow says any settlement must account for what it describes as the “realities on the ground.” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Moscow was ready...

When China agreed to suspend its sweeping new rare earth export controls in November 2025, Washington and Beijing appeared to have stepped away from another major escalation in their trade confrontation. The measures announced last October were suspended until November...

On July 23 the European Union used its newest sanctions tool for the first time. Buried inside its twenty first package against Russia was a mechanism that had not existed a year earlier: the power to ban transactions with any...

According to an exclusive report from POLITICO, Xi Jinping’s planned September visit to the United States has reportedly been shortened to just one day. If accurate, this would suggest that the outcomes and hard-won trust built during the two leaders’...

Donald Trump’s Board of Peace published a 15-point roadmap for Gaza in late July in which Hamas would hand its weapons to a committee of Palestinian technocrats, certified by an international verification body, and Israel would withdraw from the strip...

GEO Group contributed $1.4 million to a powerful super PAC that supports President Donald Trump and his political agenda just weeks after the private prison and immigration detention center operator scored two massive government contracts. According to Federal Election Commission records...

A Trump-Kim summit would be a spectacle like no other. A carnival extravaganza with the Korean Peninsula holding center stage, and every handshake, expression, seating arrangement, and stray remark dissected by troupes of North Korea pundits across the world’s news...

In this issue: - US may impose more sanctions on China over Iran? - Wang Yi in South Korea - Life for Evergrande founder - People’s Daily on AI governance - Supply chain weaponization against Taiwan - CASS attacks “pseudo-history” The Feed: Business, Economy and Trade -...

Washington is tightening the screws on Iran and loosening the rules on gasoline at the same time as Americans are paying more than $4 a gallon. The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday authorized an early switch to cheaper winter-grade gasoline,...

Agentrys believes that a purpose-built multi-agent system for chip design shouldn’t be a quarter-long project. Agentic AI systems are becoming quite popular to cut design time and increase quality for complex chip design projects. The challenge is finding the right...

Solar power is far and away the world’s fastest-growing form of energy production, beating out every other form of energy on Earth in 2025. Despite a recent political pivot away from renewable energies in the world’s largest economy, solar power...

Days after The Lever revealed that Michigan Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers held millions of dollars in stock that could benefit from his support for artificial intelligence-related development, he reversed his position and backed a statewide moratorium on new data...

Why the new American left should take up the quest for peace if the Democratic Party wins control of Congress this November, and of the presidency in 2028. The post “A Decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind” Mandates a Search...

Dark-money conservative groups and Big Oil interests have quietly mobilized behind a landmark Supreme Court case that could restrict when and how states and municipalities can seek climate damages from fossil fuel companies. At the center of the case is...

Apple customers in 110 countries received threat notifications recently alerting them to suspected spyware attacks targeting their devices, TechCrunch reports . Senior researcher John Scott-Railton says that the “scale and geographic diversity of public posts about receiving notifications are pretty unprecedented.” “For...

Continental Resources is getting substantially bigger in the Permian Basin. The privately held oil producer has agreed to acquire FireBird Energy II, adding roughly 54,000 net acres in the Midland Basin along with 32,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day...