Shell has signed an agreement to sell its European onshore renewables portfolio to French peer TotalEnergies, the UK-based supermajor said on Monday as it prioritizes capital allocation into high-value businesses. The portfolio included in the transaction comprises 0.5 gigawatts (GW)...
Anti-FGM activists protests outside the National Assembly in Banjul, The Gambia, on 18 March 2024, as lawmakers discuss a bill seeking to lift the ban on FGM. Credit: by Muhamadou Bittaye/AFP By Inés M. Pousadela MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Aug 3 2026 (IPS) Last August,...
By: Salman Rafi Sheikh Although the Strait of Hormuz has dominated global attention, with Iran’s intermittent disruptions threatening one of the world’s most important energy arteries since the United States and Israel launched military strikes against Iran on February 28, the...
Meeting follows years of questions over wellbeing of detained former leader, who was ousted by coup in 2021 Myanmar’s detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has met a representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the aid...
Iran on Monday denied that any negotiations were taking place with the United States, directly contradicting U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim that talks were scheduled later in the day and exposing fresh uncertainty over Washington’s strategy after months of military...
India keeps buying a lot of Russian oil, with July imports hitting a new all-time high and accounting for more than half of total Indian crude oil imports. India’s crude oil imports from Russia rose to 2.8 million barrels per...
US prosecutors are accusing a legal permanent resident of Louisiana of participating in the October 7 attacks in Israel. Yet their case relies almost entirely on intelligence from Israel which the defendant’s lawyers are unable to see, and an Israeli...
BP has completed the sale of its refinery in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, to Klesch Group, as the UK supermajor continues to streamline its business and high-grade its portfolio under CEO Meg O’Neill. The transaction, whose sum was not disclosed, is part of...
Kuwait produced 1.971 million barrels of crude oil daily in July, Reuters has reported, citing unnamed sources. That was up from 1.65 million barrels daily in June, the report noted, which in turn was up from just 580,000 barrels daily...
European stock markets opened August on a positive note Monday as investor sentiment improved following renewed hopes for diplomacy between the United States and Iran, easing concerns over energy supply disruptions that had rattled global markets in recent weeks. The...
The release of the Chinese open-weight AI model Kimi K3 has compressed a year’s worth of unresolved AI policy debate into a single news cycle. On July 21, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened sanctions against Chinese labs found to have...
Yes, China certainly seems daunting. Go there and take a look at massive modern factories operating 24/7, millions of industrial and domestic service robots, along with what look like never-ending shiny skyscrapers in Shenzhen, Shanghai and other cities. The sheer...
Current conversations surrounding unconventional weapons — chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear — have become so fantastical as to be unserious. As the Chinese military fundamentally rethinks biological warfare and Russia continues to use chloropicrin in Ukraine, hypothetical scenarios of AI-enabled...
The Indian government will consider waiving transmission charges for solar and wind energy developers facing delays in the commissioning of their projects due to transmission line shortages. According to a Reuters report citing the country’s power regulator, the relief will...
Dominica's geothermal power plant. As Caribbean countries seek to reduce their dependence on imported fossil fuels, renewable energy remains a key pillar of the regional resilience agenda advanced by CARICOM leaders. Credit: Alison Kentish/IPS By Alison Kentish GROS ISLET, Saint Lucia ,...
For more than a decade, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi built his political appeal around economic development, welfare expansion, and the promise of opportunity. Millions of low income families benefited from subsidized cooking gas, direct cash transfers, and rural support...
By Daud Khan and Thomas McMahon ROME / RICCIONE, Italy, Aug 3 2026 (IPS) For the last few years, Artificial intelligence has been making increasingly intrusive demands for our attention. It burst onto the scene like a child prodigy, enthralling us with feats...
A Greek-owned liquefied natural gas carrier was involved in an “incident” in the Strait of Hormuz at the end of last week while exiting the waterway, the owner company said in a statement, as quoted by Reuters. The vessel is...
The Iran war has transformed one of the energy industry’s least celebrated businesses into one of its most profitable. Refining margins have surged to record levels as conflict across the Middle East and Russia disrupted global fuel supplies, giving major...
There are lots of reports of Ukrainian attacks on Russian shipping, but not so many about Russian attacks on Ukrainian ships. Over the last few months the Russians have been waging their own campaign to try and destroy shipping in...
Hungary’s corporate landscape is undergoing its most significant transformation in decades as businesses that flourished under former Prime Minister Viktor Orban adjust to a new political order led by Prime Minister Péter Magyar. Companies that once benefited from close ties...
We were driving toward the vineyards. Suddenly, he pulled over and looked up at the sky. A plane was taking off. He watched the plane for a while. He seemed to be flying away with the plane. He was surely...
Myanmar’s detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has met a representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in a rare public engagement, according to the military-backed government, offering one of the first official glimpses of the...
Taiwan has signaled that its military cooperation with the United States is stronger than widely understood, as Taipei continues to deepen defense coordination with the U.S. Pacific Command to strengthen its ability to deter growing pressure from China. Speaking to...
Last week, the Ebola outbreak in the DRC became the second largest, surpassing the 2018-2020 outbreak that occurred in eastern DRC as well. Health authorities have noted the current outbreak is the fastest, outpacing all other previous outbreaks. There remain...
Rohingya refugees cross the Naf River on a makeshift raft while fleeing violence in Myanmar, on their way to Bangladesh. Credit: UNICEF/Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin By Mohammad Zaman VANCOUVER B.C., Canada, Aug 3 2026 (IPS) The Rohingya crisis remains one of the most enduring humanitarian...
There is nothing accidental about the dozens of deaths, as over 60,000 people sought to enter the Spanish exclave of Ceuta. Europe’s governments have effectively abolished refugee rights and built external borders that Trump would be proud of. Europe’s leaders...
Global markets opened the week on a mixed note as optimism over renewed U.S.-Iran diplomacy sent oil prices sharply lower, while coordinated intervention by the United States and Japan boosted the Japanese yen. Investors welcomed signs that geopolitical tensions in...
Those who anticipated that a U.S. war against Iran would risk igniting a region-wide conflagration are looking prescient. The latest metastasis of the conflict has included airstrikes by both the United States and Saudi Arabia in Iraq, against Iraqi militias seen...
Fox News has always served as a purveyor of Republican war propaganda, but its coverage of the Iran conflict has been particularly aggressive, and in many ways unmoored from reality, giving their viewers a more than skewed vision of what...
I recently travelled to Sorowako, South Sulawesi, for a corporate social responsibility programme supported by Vale Indonesia. I helped local journalists use artificial intelligence ethically and responsibly in investigative reporting: reading documents, identifying inconsistencies and preparing interviews while keeping verification...
An old west African practice of sending children away to study is being used as a cover for trafficking, say human rights groups In a bare, gloomy room on the beachfront at Saint-Louis, in the north-west of Senegal, dozens of young...
Here is the latest from Karl Miller: CONTROLLING JUDGMENT A major US-Israeli campaign against Iran would create a credible risk of retaliatory pressure against the most concentrated Israeli fuel systems first, followed by wider pressure against GCC refining, LNG, power-water, storage and...
Oil prices fell sharply in early Asian trade on Monday after President Trump called off another round of military strikes on Iran, raising hopes that a diplomatic route to reopening the Strait of Hormuz and averting a broader regional conflict...
Europe enters the decisive years of its post‑Russian gas transition with a structural constraint that cannot be negotiated away. Political timelines move in short cycles while geological timelines do not. Deep‑basin non‑conventional gas in North Africa requires 5–7 years from...
A senior Israeli official, likely Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, recently briefed the Israeli press delegation that traveled to Washington with him for his White House visit regarding plans for Israel to build a domestic stealth fighter plane and an accompanying unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV). The primary...
Israel is home to droves of international criminals accused or found guilty in a second country of various crimes. Among them is Tomás Zerón, accused mastermind of the kidnapping and murder of 43 Mexican students in Ayotzinapa. This article was...
By: Shim Jae Hoon From security ties to trade and business relations, the US-South Korean alliance, long hailed as iron-clad and most successful in East Asia for decades, is coming under exceptional stress, threatening the whole fabric of their long-term relations....
Joseph F. Krause is an American materials scientist, entrepreneur, and U.S. Army National Guard veteran. He is the cofounder and CEO of Radical AI, a New York deep-tech startup founded to accelerate the discovery of advanced materials. Before Radical AI, Krause...
When we were asked to investigate Russia’s indoctrination and militarization of children living in the Ukrainian territories occupied by Moscow since 2014, we had a general idea of the Kremlin’s occupation policies. Two of us grew up in what was...
A decade ago, it would have been unthinkable that arresting the President of Israel would be a mainstream position. However, after starting multiple wars and committing genocide, a recent poll from The Economist/YouGov found that 49 percent of respondents agreed...
Locked up in a cell in Madrid since his arrest on July 10, 2026, the well-known left-wing philanthropist Fergie Chambers is waiting to learn whether Spain will hand him to Washington. According to a US indictment, his crime was moving...
When Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz, Saudi Arabia quickly redirected its oil flows to the Red Sea. Now, that route has become dangerous because of the Houthi blockade, so Saudi is rerouting to Egypt—and two LNG tankers in...
Chuck McClish is the founder of Lattrex Inc., a fabless semiconductor startup building Kyttar, an asynchronous, clockless reconfigurable processor for real-time signal processing. He spent 15 years at Microchip Technology in chip design and verification, working across RTL design, UVM...
On August 2, President Donald Trump said he would halt planned U.S. strikes on Iran after Middle Eastern allies outlined the parameters of a possible agreement to end the five-month war. The announcement came after weeks of renewed escalation, pressure...
China’s domestic car sales have fallen significantly this year; however, sales of Chinese cars have risen substantially in some international markets, such as Mexico, demonstrating the growing global demand for Chinese-made vehicles. This demand growth has been driven by the...
“The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.” T.S. Eliot “I, myself, am a poet but I love working in the garden growing vegetables… I know very well that if I do not grow lettuce, I cannot write...
The tapering off of news coverage on the US-Israeli genocide has done little to abate the violence. In fact, its permanence is precisely what allows the world to look away. Vijay Prashad is the Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research....
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