Saudi Arabia is not waiting for the Strait of Hormuz to return to normal to deliver its crude to Asia. It is building a workaround, one tanker handoff at a time. Saudi Aramco is offering more September crude to Asian...
HEBRON, West Bank /PNN / Residents of Khillet al-Farra, a small community west of Yatta near the border with the town of al-Samu, have endured years of difficult living conditions due to a lack of basic services, leaving daily life a...
China’s push to squeeze more oil and gas from home is paying off just as imported energy becomes more geopolitically complicated. CNOOC posted record first-half profit and production on Wednesday, helped by higher oil prices following the Iran war and...
GAZA CITY /PNN / Grape farming in the Gaza Strip is facing a sharp decline after years of war-related destruction, with farmers citing widespread land levelling, shortages of fertilisers and pesticides, and soaring production costs as key factors behind the crisis...
BETHLEHEM, West Bank /PNN/ A Palestinian man from Bethlehem has issued a humanitarian appeal to donors, officials and charitable organisations, seeking assistance as he struggles with severe health and financial challenges while caring for his three children with special needs. Mahmoud Abayat...
HEBRON, West Bank / PNN / As a prolonged water crisis grips the rural area of Masafer Yatta, water tanker drivers continue to travel between scattered communities to deliver much-needed supplies, despite dangerous conditions and obstacles that can turn a single...
Volodymyr Zelensky’s unexpected decision to honor SpaceX CEO Elon Musk with Ukraine’s Order of Freedom has brought renewed attention to the way the Starlink satellite network operates in Ukraine and to the potential risks for Musk’s business empire. Zelensky Seeks Ways...
When monsters square off, they are quick to showcase their asymmetrical superpowers. Take Godzilla, for instance. Thanks to U.S. atomic testing in the Pacific, the dinosaur-like sea creature has explosive, radioactive breath that can destroy everything in its path. His archenemy...
By James Alix Michel VICTORIA, Seychelles, Aug 26 2026 (IPS) Across this vast ocean, the latest monitoring by Mercator Ocean International shows marine heatwave conditions ranging from moderate to severe. At the same time, the World Meteorological Organization expects a strong El...
In 2025, Rob Geist Pinfold wrote, “The March Massacres Show That Syria Urgently Needs Solutions, Not Sanctions,” in which he argued that sanctions relief was a major way the West could positively engage with the new Syrian government. A year...
How feasible is Trump’s strategy? Is Iran in as desperate straits as Treasury Secretary Bessent suggests? Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Stategic Culture Foundation The 60-day MoU has expired. The...
There is no bigger con man in the United States than Chief Justice John Roberts. Not even President Donald J. Trump . The con began in September 2005, during Roberts’ confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Articulate, handsome and energetic...
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Western media, by employing double standards, censorship, deceptive language, amplifying Israeli lies and dehumanizing Palestinians, facilitates the genocide in Gaza. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where...
How does weaponry effect a war? Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=139499 I’ve written a fair amount over the last few years about the implications of the use of new military technologies in Ukraine and the Middle...
The biggest-ever split within Poland’s main right-wing opposition party is a serious self-inflicted wound, signalling a more fragmented conservative landscape and complicating the right’s path back to power. While it provides a tactical boost for the Tusk government, there is...
This story was originally published by The 19th . Dolly Parton, who used her stardom to not only embrace all listeners but also nurture marginalized communities through literacy and financial development, died peacefully in Nashville, Tennessee, on Tuesday, according to her...
The government’s National Wealth Fund is set to pump £71m into miner Tungsten West in a bid to help reopen the Hemerdon mine in Devon. The funding package combines a £36m share purchase, which will hand the government a 7.4...
Gaza /PNN / Report by Nesma Al-Harazin A few blocks away from Rafiq’s workshop, in a modest home kitchen filled with the smell of fresh bread and spices, Islam Al-Khaldi, 32, a journalism graduate, stands next to her husband Mohammad Al-Akhras,...
On August 25, Moscow received not only CIA Director John Ratcliffe but also the head of the Vatican’s diplomatic service, Paul Gallagher. The coincidence is difficult to regard as insignificant. Moscow Accepts the Vatican’s 'Good Offices' After meeting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey...
In one week, I celebrate my 53rd Birthday. I decided that, while this wasn’t some multiple of five, it’s still a big event. I never thought I’d live this long, and to celebrate, I’m offering a whopper of a deal...
India’s state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) plans to invest about $200 million to revive production at the San Cristobal oilfield in Venezuela, which it shares with Venezuelan state oil firm PDVSA, Indian outlet Economic Times reported on Wednesday,...
Another round of NATO naval exercises began in the North Atlantic the day before yesterday. At first glance, there seems to be little reason to focus on them separately. One more exercise, one less — and all of them are...
A reader poses a question. production organized around the valorization of capital. What happens when a state directs part of its automation effort toward reproducing the conditions of an aging society rather than simply maximizing profit? Is ‘does it create value?’...
UK energy bills are set for a three-year high at the beginning of the winter, as higher gas prices due to the Iran war have prompted the energy regulator to raise the energy price cap on household costs by 4%...
When Myanmar’s military bombed a Buddhist monastery during a meditation retreat this month, reportedly killing at least 14 people, most of them elderly civilians, it should have reinforced a basic conclusion: the junta cannot be treated as a normal governing...
During my time at DAC 2026 I felt like I was attending two events. One was the traditional DAC where approaches to designing complex chips using the best tools and methodologies were the focus. There was another focus for the...
In Tajikistan, a beard can become a police file and a headscarf can become an argument about civilization. That sounds absurd until you understand what the government thinks it is fighting: not fabric, exactly, but the possibility that Tajik identity...
Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum, only for War on the Rocks members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight into how...
The public health emergencies in 2022 and 2024 saw the virus reported in 145 countries, but in the new cases children appear particularly affected A fresh outbreak of mpox in Guinea Bissau – the country’s first – means the virus formerly...
Six months since the Iran war crippled Qatar’s LNG exports via the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s second-largest liquefied natural gas exporter has lost $24 billion in sales as exports tumbled by as much as 96%, Reuters calculations showed on...
Simita Kumar, Education Officer at the Pacific Community (SPC), leads an engaging activity on the biodiversity of intertidal and coral reef ecosystems with young participants at the Veivueti Kids Ocean Conference. Credit: SPC By Sera Sefeti SUVA, Fiji, Aug 26 2026 (IPS) For...
In Ghana, a grassroots movement is championing nutritious, homegrown, climate-resilient produce, rather than western imports After three years at catering school in Accra, Abiro Wisdom was certain of one thing – he did not want to go into catering. At least...
While the West seems to specialize in deciding which elections are valid, “free and fair,” and worthy of recognition, it also seems to specialize in turning a blind eye when their handpicked puppet dictators suspend elections and rule as tyrants....
Japan is today set to announce an energy import diversification plan that will include stipulations about support for pipelines in the Middle East aimed at diverting export oil flows away from the Strait of Hormuz. The plan also features a...
Every crisis in the Middle East returns the world’s attention to the same stretch of water. When tankers are seized, or missiles fly near the Persian Gulf, oil prices move, insurers reprice risk, shipping reroutes, and the United States repositions...
Ukraine celebrated this year’s independence day on August 24 in the presence of key allies and amid the unfolding of another major corruption scandal. It all started when Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s defense minister until his dismissal as part of a...
NEW YORK — The moment the US debt crossed US$40 trillion, it stopped being a number and became a gravitational force — one powerful enough to bend Asia’s bond markets, currencies and policy priorities. Officials in Tokyo know this better...
Photo highlighting the activities and successes of the 'Promoting Nature-based Solutions for Land Restoration while Strengthening National Monitoring Technical Working Group in Kenya: Phase 2' project funded by UK PACT. Credit: Anthony Ochieng/CIFOR-ICRAF By Lulseged Tamene Desta and Cargele Masso NAIROBI, Kenya,...
South Korea is betting extraordinary sums on artificial intelligence. President Lee Jae-myung has backed an 800 trillion won (US$578 billion) semiconductor expansion involving Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, promoted a new chip hub in the country’s southwest and joined Korean...
Results of the vote on the approval of the appointment of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, UN General Assembly, 24 July 2026. Credit: UN Photo/Loey Felipe By Samuel King BRUSSELS, Belgium, Aug 26 2026 (IPS) On 24 July, the United Nations...
In March 2006, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) denounced the essay by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," as a "a classical conspiratorial anti-Semitic analysis invoking the canards of Jewish power and Jewish control." In their...
A series of crises have roiled Libya over the last month, undermining a U.S.-led initiative to resolve the country’s profound political predicament and open its markets to American investment. Violent protests over deteriorating living conditions have surged in western cities under...
For decades, the assumption underpinning global politics was simple: American power, however imperfect, anchored the system. Allies might occasionally foster frustrations surrounding US unilateralism but stayed close to Washington because the alternative, a world without a clear anchor, seemed riskier....
Darline Graham won the Republican primary Tuesday and will likely win a full-term to fill her late brother Lindsey Graham’s U.S. Senate seat in the ruby red state of South Carolina in the upcoming November election. According to the latest tallies...
Mario Nawfal, based on our discussion today, inspired me to write this article. In the companion to this essay , I argued that Scott Bessent’s latest sanctions on Iran are toothless because Iran’s oil trade has walked out of the...
By: Tim Daiss The disruption of liquefied natural gas (LNG) flows through the Strait of Hormuz has exposed an uncomfortable reality for Taiwan. Its energy imports remain acutely vulnerable to events thousands of kilometers from its shores. However, the more troubling...
After decades confined largely to laboratories, nuclear fusion is beginning to attract the kind of money and industrial planning normally reserved for technologies expected to make it onto the grid. Global private investment in fusion hit a record $4.48 billion...
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