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Asian stock markets extended their sharp selloff on Wednesday as investor concerns over artificial intelligence (AI) valuations deepened ahead of a crucial round of earnings from major U.S. technology companies and the Federal Reserve’s latest monetary policy decision. The decline...

In the early hours of August 5 (UTC), an abandoned SpaceX rocket stage is expected to slam into the Moon at around 8,700 kilometers per hour. Launched in January 2025, the rocket sent two commercial lunar landers toward Earth’s nearest...

The Israeli war on Gaza and the US-Israeli aggression against Iran have radically altered the situation in the Middle East. One of the most significant consequences of the current conflict is the objective weakening of Israel’s position on the world...

The Caspian Sea forms a strategically vital direct supply route between Russia and Iran (Source: BBC) On Friday, even as the US President Donald Trump was announcing the end of the latest round of the conflict with Iran, Pentagon unobtrusively...

The US military’s fighter fleet is projected to become stealthier but less available, widening the gap between technological sophistication and the combat mass needed for a prolonged war. This month, the US Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report showing...

Faced with another summer of punishing energy costs, EU governments are once again reaching for the same short-term fixes—excise cuts, tax credits, and price caps—that have failed to deliver a lasting solution in previous crises. Behind the scramble, a more...

Vietnamese banks started deleting more than 86 million bank accounts last September. Of the roughly 200 million accounts on the country’s books, only 113 million personal accounts and some 711,000 organizational ones survived the biometric verification requirements introduced by the...

Oil prices spiked in early Asian trade on Wednesday, erasing a significant portion of Tuesday's selloff on the back of renewed hostilities in the Middle East and a bullish U.S. inventory report from the API. At the time of writing,...

Israel’s right-wing government is intensifying its half-century-long campaign to take over the West Bank fully by unleashing bands of settler militias to harass Palestinian residents, destroy their homes and livelihoods and restrict their movement throughout the occupied territory. The aim...

On June 21, 2026, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense announced that its armed forces would launch a five-day, four-night “Immediate Combat Readiness Exercise” from June 22 to June 26, intended to strengthen the ROC Armed Forces’ immediate response capabilities under...

Potential toxic substance detected in several of 15 elephants found dead in Kenya’s Amboseli national park Officials are investigating the deaths of 15 elephants over the past month in Kenya’s Amboseli national park. The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) said 10 of the...

It is summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and we are attempting an experiment that may not please everyone. With fewer eyes in the peak holiday period, and a lesser appetite for the presumed permabull piece in these bearish weeks, we...

TOKYO — Investors hoping President Prabowo Subianto might learn from Indonesia’s past economic mistakes should get used to disappointment. Since taking office in October 2024, Prabowo has worked to drag Southeast Asia’s biggest economy back into its past. Which past...

Reprinted from Andy Worthington’s website. On Sunday evening (July 19), a group of some of the most repulsive, ghoulish people on the face of the earth marched towards the perimeter fence separating the Gaza Strip from the rest of the...

Two major stories regarding the United States and Israel in recent days represent profound watershed moments in the history of the relationship between both countries. The first incident occurred on July 8 when US Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA) and his...

Amidst scorching temperatures and raging wildfires on the European continent, tropical storms and flash floods in the US, and severe drought in sub-Saharan Africa, high-level negotiators and state representatives gathered for a high-level retreat summit in Shamakhi, Azerbaijan on July...

Just recently, in a span of about six weeks, one impressive company was selected by the U.S. Army to build and operate rare earth processing facilities on an American military base…the first time the Army has ever done this. That...

In this issue: - Xi meets Slovak President - “Excess capacity” or “Overcapacity”? - CXMT IPO the day after - Xinhua’s mid-year review of the Chinese economy - Li Qiang commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Tangshan earthquake - National Conference on Overseas Chinese Affairs Work -...

Oil price movements since the start of March this year have become the topic of dozens of discussions. Many have been puzzled by futures prices and why they haven’t gone through the roof given the severe disruption in Middle Eastern...

Three days before its 67th sitting, the OPEC Secretariat did something it rarely bothers to do: it told the market, in writing, not to expect much from the meeting. In a statement issued ahead of the Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee’s...

Modern power grids require a constant, real-time balance between supply and consumption. Unfortunately, the integration of wind and solar energy makes power grids unstable due to the intermittent nature of renewable energy generation. To prevent localized grid blackouts or harmful...

Simon Davidmann is a renowned EDA industry pioneer and serial technology entrepreneur with more than 40 years of experience in simulation and verification. After Synopsys acquired Imperas, which he founded in 2005, he was Synopsys Vice President responsible for Processor...

Oil prices have just come off a fresh two-month high as the crude oil market has tumbled this week amid signals of de-escalation in the U.S.-Iran conflict. Despite the slump in crude prices and the extreme volatility in the past...

The American Petroleum Institute (API) estimated that crude oil inventories in the United States fell by 3.296 million barrels in the week ending July 24. In the week prior, US crude oil inventories grew by 2.603 million barrels. Commercial crude...

TUBAS, West Bank — The Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem (ARIJ) said Israeli authorities have advanced new phases of a project known as the “Crimson Line” in the Jordan Valley by issuing six additional military orders aimed at expanding control over Palestinian land...

Solar power is far and away the cheapest form of new energy to install in nearly every context around the world. Even in the United States, where the cost of solar additions has jumped up 18 percent since Trump’s tariffs...

President Donald Trump revealed on Monday that sales of Venezuela’s oil by his administration have generated more than $13 billion since the capture of former President Nicolás Maduro on January 3, claiming that the revenue has effectively “paid for that...

OPEC+ is preparing to approve one more production increase for September and then put the monthly quota parade on hold through the end of the year. Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, Kuwait, Algeria, Kazakhstan, and Oman are expected to raise their...

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's remarks about the difficulty of understanding the Russia-Ukraine conflict have once again highlighted what many in Moscow view as shortcomings in Russia's information strategy. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov acknowledged the issue directly. "That means we have not...

A recent investigation by OCCRP found that the co-founder of NSO Group, which develops Pegasus spyware, travelled to Panama in 2013 on an Israeli diplomatic passport. Senior researcher John Scott-Railton spoke with OCCRP, saying that the finding “raises questions about NSO’s...

Uzbekistan appears to be hedging its bets when it comes to Afghanistan’s ability to serve as a trade corridor. Over the past year, Tashkent has ramped up its engagement with Afghanistan, setting an ambitious target of almost tripling annual bilateral...

Saudi Aramco shut its 400,000-barrel-per-day Jazan refinery on July 27 after a Houthi attack damaged the facility, according to an IIR note seen by Reuters. IIR said the strike damaged the refinery’s Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle complex and tank farm....

On July 13, at Damascus’s Dama Rose Hotel, Syria’s economy minister, Nidal al-Shaar, stood before executives from Chevron, Visa, Citibank, EY and a dozen other American firms and called it “a new chapter.” Two days earlier, President Trump had announced...

Water disputes can directly drive conflict, but more often, water scarcity acts as a catalyst — one that, combined with other pressures, raises the risk of conflict. This is nothing new; water has shaped human conflict for millennia. What’s changed...

Quadric has extended its Series C financing to $46 million through a second close led by the International Finance Corporation, the private-sector investment arm of the World Bank Group. The transaction raises Quadric’s total capital secured to approximately $90 million...

At the beginning of Donald Trump’s first term as U.S. President in 2017, a senior White House official commented off-the-record to OilPrice.com that: “We’re not going to put up with any more crap from the Saudis.” The comment had followed...

Israel has approved the future deployment of the International Stabilization Force (ISF) in Gaza, a significant step in implementing the US-backed peace plan. The planned multinational force is expected to support humanitarian efforts, stabilization, and a transition toward new Palestinian...

A public dispute at the United Nations Security Council has unexpectedly brought together countries with sharply opposing geopolitical interests while raising new questions about the future of relations between Paris and Washington. During a Security Council meeting, U. S. diplomats walked...

Investment in defence tech start-ups has reached a record high this year as the world’s biggest arms companies step up spending on new military technology. New figures from Dealroom show defence contractors including BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin and Airbus have...