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The detention of newly trained Somali soldiers in Ethiopia’s Somali Regional State has brought renewed attention to a Saudi-backed military training programme in Somalia and raised questions about the future deployment of the forces emerging from it. The incident, however,...

Ceva and LG Electronics have joined forces to remove one of the biggest obstacles to ultra-wideband adoption: integrating a complete radio, baseband and software stack into a production system-on-chip. Their joint platform combines Ceva-Waves UWB baseband intellectual property and software...

The phenomenon of the tradwife (traditional wife)—women who claim to want to live a “traditional life” by cooking, taking care of children, taking care of the household, and dressing femininely as the main source of happiness—has evolved from an individual...

The yuan-denominated crude oil futures trading in China hit this week their highest level since the contract was launched in 2018 as escalating threats to Middle East’s oil supply and increased purchases by Chinese refiners push prices higher. Launched in...

By Tim Messegee, Senior Director of Solutions Marketing at Rambus PCI Express (PCIe), PCIe switches, Time Division Multiplexing (TDM), Network Interface Cards (NICs), and SmartNICs are all well-established technologies that have formed the backbone of computing and networking systems for years....

Australian Energy Minister Chris Bowen will travel to Saudi Arabia next week to meet with Saudi Energy Minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, and get the latest updates on the state of operations and oil supply after the Kingdom shut down...

Indonesia’s national energy company Pertamina is considering upstream investments in Guyana and Suriname to diversify Indonesia's oil and gas supply and boost energy security, the Indonesian government has said. “Pertamina has already initiated exploratory discussions on cooperation in exploration and...

Artificial intelligence has moved rapidly from chatbots that sometimes produce basic factual errors to increasingly autonomous systems capable of writing software, operating digital tools and completing complex tasks with limited human supervision. That progress has intensified concerns among some of...

The recovery of hundreds of bodies from beneath buildings destroyed during Israel’s military campaign in Gaza has raised renewed concerns over possible war crimes, U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk said on Tuesday. Turk said remains believed to belong to...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has replaced Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa with Suahasil Nazara. It’s easy to change a minister, but harder to prove that the change will deliver what investors actually want. Indonesia enters this transition with Moody’s and...

A new fiscal regime in the UK from 2027 could deliver an additional £14.9 billion, or $20 billion, to Britain’s revenues, the leading offshore industry group said in its annual Economic Report, calling on the Burnham government to bring forward...

Belarusian state institutions have worked together to suppress critics of President Alexander Lukashenko’s government through almost every stage of the justice system since 2020, according to independent U.N. experts. A report prepared for the U.N. Human Rights Council says courts,...

This week, Maruarar Sirait, Indonesia’s housing minister, spent four hours at the Jakarta residence of China’s ambassador, Wang Lutong, and emerged with the outline of an ambitious plan. China will help Indonesia build large numbers of apartment blocks, known locally...

Every alliance contains a struggle over who gets to decide what the alliance is for. The unusual thing about the Mecca Alliance, formally known as the “Mecca Joint Defence Agreement,” is that all three of its members appear to believe...

Ukraine is facing a new challenge in its air war with Russia as Moscow rapidly expands its use of faster, jet powered attack drones. In July, Ukraine invited a large group of domestic manufacturers to test a new generation of...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s effort to broker an energy infrastructure truce between Russia and Ukraine could remove one immediate threat to global fuel markets, but it is unlikely to resolve the diesel shortage that has developed this year. Trump said...

India hosted the 18th BRICS Summit, the fourth under its presidency since its inception, coincidentally on the UN Day for South-South Cooperation (September 12) in New Delhi. This comes against the backdrop of unilateral sanctions, coercive tariffs, and ongoing conflicts...

China’s new SME payment rules, released this month, include a financing instruction that deserves scrutiny. Beijing is encouraging large companies to use bank loans and bond financing to replace accounts payable and pay suppliers in cash, effectively shifting the working-capital...

Silicon Valley insiders are sounding the alarm about AI’s dangers, leaving many people terrified. Are the doomsday fears valid, or are they a distraction from corporate accountability? In this exclusive, uncut interview for premium subscribers, David Sirota speaks with Matt Stoller...

Six months into the second US-Israeli war on Iran, the Trump administration’s message is that Iran is weakening, the United States is winning and the costs of war will be temporary. That narrative is hard to sustain as the war drags on,...

With the 2026 U.S. midterm elections approaching, state and local election officials across the country are preparing for scenarios that would have once seemed highly unlikely, including federal intervention at polling places, demands for voting equipment and records, legal challenges...

By refusing to call a snap election while Labour is ahead of Reform UK, Burnham is trading the only moment he is likely to hold a durable advantage over Nigel Farage for years of mandate-less governing that will cost him...

Over the weekend, Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei called for artificial intelligence (AI) companies, including his own, to slow down their work. Sam Altman and Elon Musk, heads of rivals OpenAI and xAI respectively, agreed. The move reflects concern across the AI industry and,...

Turkey escalated tensions with Greece sharply in September 2026, as denoted by a return to hardline rhetoric and friction over regional alliances in the Eastern Mediterranean, recalling periods of heightened tension before the signing of the 2023 Athens Declaration on...

By: Khanh Vu Duc US President Donald Trump participates in a bilateral meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in March 2026. Photo from the White House Japan is trying to arrange a meeting between Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and US President...

To examine the unyielding multi-billionaire dollar shield that the United States provides Israel is to confront the coarse mechanics of modern empire. Washington has, for decades, maintained a posture of absolute defense, supplying advanced weaponry, providing diplomatic immunity, and rationalizing...

The U.S. and global economies have continued to mint high-net-worth individuals at a historic clip, with wealth intelligence firm Altrata noting that the combined wealth of the world’s billionaires jumped 12.8% Y/Y to a record $15.1 trillion in 2025. The...

Crude oil prices have extended their earlier gains into this week, with little chance of reversing course as the war in the Middle East expands and desire for a peaceful resolution seems to wane, as global oil stocks continue shrinking....

Energy stocks have rallied this year as oil prices soared amid the Middle East conflict. The U.S. supermajors ExxonMobil and Chevron have seen their stocks gain about 40% each so far in 2026, but U.S. refiner stocks have outperformed the...

Scientists at MIT have discovered a new way to extract high-purity hydrogen from ammonia while using a lot less energy than previous technologies. The breakthrough could provide a critical inroad toward reducing the energy and ecological footprint of the hydrogen...