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The world is currently facing persistent value conflicts, with the diversity of civilizations under threat. Growing isolationism, a rise in protectionism, a downtrend of intercultural dialogue mechanism efforts from existing powers, and the inefficacy of world institutions to uphold the...

East Asia, China, Diplomacy

China just broke ground on a revolutionary new hybridized energy production and storage facility. The power plant will store excess energy in the form of molten salt, and then produce electricity during peak demand times through a supercritical carbon dioxide...

News

A wave of concern has suddenly swept through Western military circles over the possibility of Russian tanks breaking deep into Ukrainian defenses. The trigger was a real incident that Western observers have so far been reluctant to believe. That, however,...

Opinion

European leaders are now fretting about Vladimir Putin in much the same way that everyone worries these days about artificial intelligence. Until recently, AI agents remained within the virtual spaces where they’d been developed. Rather than free range, they were confined...

War & Peace, Europe, NATO

Ship-to-ship transfers and pipelines bypassing the Strait of Hormuz, where available, have become the primary export route for most Middle Eastern oil. Oil producers in the region have demonstrated what some see as remarkable adaptability to the new circumstances. In...

News

There is often an uncomfortable unevenness in contemporary Muslim moral courage. Western Muslim leaders and organizations have shown admirable clarity in confronting the crimes of Empire and Zionism. The more difficult test comes when the same principles implicate governments, institutions...

#Current Affairs, Injustice, Islamophobia

On Monday night, the Trump administration launched what appears to be a nascent cult-of-personality state media channel: “Trump TV: The Essentials” consists of a stream of Donald Trump ’s speeches and administration official appearances, available on the White House’s YouTube...

Courts & Law, Ear to the Ground, Media

In 2021, Sungmin Cho wrote, “South Korea’s Taiwan Conundrum,” where he argued Seoul’s complex strategic position makes engagement on questions of involvement over a Taiwan contingency complicated. Five years later, we asked him to revisit his arguments.Image: U.S. Navy (Photo...

Members, Rewind and Reconnoiter

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Midterm Madness

Is the era of nuclear weapons coming to an end? Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” [Table] | [/Table] Nuclear weapons have been much talked about recently. The interest comes in waves, often sparked off by individual incidents in the war in...

Geopolitics, Article, Aurelien

Convening energy ministers, investors, financiers, and experts for the next African Energy Week (AEW), on October 12–16, in Cape Town, South Africa, aims at taking one more step with Africa’s energy ambitions that could translate into investment, production, infrastructure, and...

Energy Security, Africa, energy security

Andy Burnham’s decision to send a Royal Air Force plane to Saudi Arabia for “defensive” aerial refuelling in the kingdom’s war against the Houthis has a familiar ring to it. His words echo those of his predecessor. Keir Starmer provided the...

Archive, Arms Trade, Middle East

In a huge victory for the Palestine solidarity movement and the mass civil, political and legal campaign against Israel Bonds, the Development Corporation for Israel (DCI) has been unable to get authorisation to sell its bonds in the EU ....

Political Rights

Glencore committed $500 million to VaultCo, the Export-Import Bank public-private partnership sourcing critical minerals for a US government stockpile, Reuters reported Wednesday. The commitment makes Glencore the fourth supplier named to Project Vault, joining Hartree Partners, Mercuria Americas and Traxys...

News

Every war produces its own vocabulary of loss — death tolls, displacement figures, damage assessments. But one number cuts across every current conflict and rarely makes the headline: the count of children who go to sleep each night with no...

Activism, Africa, Europe

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth keeps popping up on the campaign trail, fueling speculation he may run for president in 2028. His travel last month to Iowa, “a presidential campaign proving ground, fits that pattern,” The Washington Post reported , citing...

Column, Media, Military

One Year Later — September 2026 When this piece first ran a year ago, VSORA was the quiet outsider, a company with a bold architecture and no Silicon Valley address. One year on, the thesis has held up better than even...

Semiconductor, VSORA, AI Gigafactories

Copper closed Tuesday a hair below its all-time high, extending its winning streak to six sessions as Chinese buyers restocked ahead of back-to-back holidays and warehouse inventories in Shanghai and London kept draining. Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange...

News

Cuts to U.S. federal incentives for carbon capture projects and an uncertain regulatory environment going forward have prompted some start-ups to move from solely capturing and storing carbon dioxide to selling it to oil companies to help them boost oil...

News

St John's Anglican Church near London's Hyde Park was transformed into a fashion runway for several hours. Models in hijabs and niqabs walked through the church. In modern Britain, this proved to be an entirely acceptable use of church space....

World

Ahead of a high-stakes US-China summit planned for September 24 at the White House, Beijing appears to be spotlighting its influence over Iran to gain leverage during negotiations with its chief geopolitical rival. Expectations for a US-China breakthrough on Iran...

News

The president of Somaliland took advantage of the geopolitical and global economic turmoil caused by the Iran War to visit Washington this week in an effort to advocate for American recognition of Somaliland and for the deepening of economic ties...

Somalia, Iran-war, Red-sea

ASML is exploring how to produce more than 110 extreme ultraviolet lithography machines in 2028, reflecting the extraordinary investment flowing into artificial intelligence infrastructure. The Dutch semiconductor-equipment company expects to manufacture at least 80 EUV systems in 2027 and is...

Lithography, AI Infrastructure, asml

Camden Council’s investments in Palantir, the controversial AI company with ties to the Israeli military, have increased by over 1,200% since October 2023. The council’s overall holdings in companies complicit in Israel’s violation of Palestinian rights have risen in value by...

Archive, Arms Trade, Middle East

The cartographers who designed the more accurate map of the world to replace the inaccurate Mercator projection have joined forces with Togo to implement the UN resolution. Following on from the historic vote in the UN, which passed a resolution to...

Current Affairs, Correct the map, United Nations

Sunil Bharti Mittal’s Airtel Money targets $9bn IPO in boost for ailing UK stock market Nils Pratley: Does this mark the end of London’s listing drought? Not yet A payments business that operates across Africa and is ultimately controlled by an Indian...

London Stock Exchange, IPOs, Emerging markets

The Trump administration has once again turned on South Africa to serve as a distraction from its mounting list of troubles. Foreign Secretary Marco Rubio has announced new visa restrictions for laughably fictitious infringements by African countries. It is time we...

Opinion, Baffour's Beefs, Politics

Europe’s economy is showing greater resilience than expected despite rising energy costs and disruptions linked to conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, with business activity across the euro zone accelerating sharply in September. The euro zone’s private sector expanded...

World News, Economics, European Union

The Kremlin has signalled that Russia’s position on potential peace talks with Ukraine remains unchanged, despite a planned meeting between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in New York. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said...

World News, Diplomacy, Russia

By CIVICUS Sep 23 2026 (IPS) CIVICUS discusses public art, gender-based violence and censorship in Iraqi Kurdistan with Tara Abdullah, a multidisciplinary visual artist from Sulaymaniyah who is currently based in Oslo, Norway as part of the Safemuse – Safe Havens for...

Active Citizens, Arts, Civil Society

A new military agreement between the United States, Denmark and Greenland has eased some of the anxiety surrounding Washington’s ambitions in the Arctic, but it has not erased concerns among Greenlanders about an expanded American military presence. Greenlandic officials and...

World News, Defense, Greenland

A street market in Yangon, Myanmar’s biggest city. Residents are anxious about high inflation and also fear recent floods will drive food prices higher. Credit: Ant/IPS By Guy Dinmore, and a reporter in Yangon YANGON, Myanmar, Sep 23 2026 (IPS) Isolated and at...

Aid, Armed Conflicts, Asia-Pacific

A district judge in Grand Rapids has dismissed a lawsuit brought against several oil supermajors that accused the companies of conspiring to interfere with competition in alternative energy and electric cars. The lawsuit was filed by Michigan Attorney General Dan...

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