Emmanuel Macron has eight months left as president of France. He can’t stand again, and the political system is basically paralyzed as a result. Polls make it clear that the most probable outcome is the far-right of Marine Le Pen...
Outside Pecos, Texas, Chevron is getting ready to build a power plant to solve a problem the Permian Basin has been stuck with for years, which is that it produces far more natural gas than anyone nearby is willing to...
Iran has created a barter-like system to bypass sanctions on its oil sales, allowing it to acquire billions of dollars in goods from China, including military equipment. This trade mechanism, where Iranian oil is exchanged for credits for Chinese imports,...
Soaring LNG prices due to the Strait of Hormuz blockage are prompting economies to shift to alternative energy sources, pushing coal demand to a another record high this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in a new report on...
TODAY’S NUMBERS: $100 (Brent crude, after Wednesday’s tanker strikes) · 4.92% (US 10-year Treasury yield) · $4,440 (gold, per troy ounce) Oil and yields are climbing together while gold sits flat — markets are pricing an energy shock, not a...
A documentary titled “NAZA,” directed by Israeli journalists Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, reveals that mass civilian deaths were systematically included in Israeli military strategies in Gaza. The title refers to an Israeli military term for expected “collateral casualties.” The...
Since the Taliban seized power in August 2021, girls have been banned from schooling beyond the primary level and women’s employment has been severely restricted. Credit: Learning Together. By External Source KABUL, Sep 10 2026 (IPS) Many wonder why men in Afghanistan do...
NATOctSnake2 Across three pieces I’ve written for Sonar21, I have been making one continuous argument: The war in Ukraine was not a crisis that erupted in 2022. It was the payoff of a deliberate, decades-long Western project to turn Ukraine into...
We all know timing closure is one of the most challenging processes in chip design. Extracting actionable insight from massive timing reports, tracing violations back to RTL, and selecting the right fix across complex PPA tradeoffs all require deep expertise....
BETHLEHEM / PNN – Report by Monjed Jado | Photography by Ahmad Jubran The eighth annual Al-Khader Grape Festival and Market opened in the town of Al-Khader, west of Bethlehem, as part of a joint initiative by the Palestinian Agricultural Relief...
With far-right president José Antonio Kast presiding over Chile since March 2026, the country has seen a dramatic shift since the days of Gabriel Boric . Kast has taken a harder security approach to the Mapuche struggle in southern Chile...
TotalEnergies has made a new discovery offshore Angola and has bought operated interest in two new exploration blocks close to operating hubs as the international majors are returning to exploration in Angola’s waters to take advantage of existing infrastructure. TotalEnergies...
Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to visit New Delhi for the annual BRICS summit, marking his first trip to India in seven years. This visit could help improve diplomatic relations between China and India, but analysts note that business...
When Donald Trump ran for a second term, he promised to be a “president of peace” and claimed he would end foreign wars rather than start new ones. However, as the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks approaches, he...
The oil and gas supply shock amid the Middle East conflict has accelerated cumulative global investments in clean hydrogen to above $130 billion across more than 570 projects, as energy security has become a key driver of uptake alongside industrial...
Sweden will hold a parliamentary election on September 13. The centre-left opposition, led by Magdalena Andersson, currently has a slight lead in the polls over Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s right-wing government. Kristersson aims to create a majority government with his...
India is working to link central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) among BRICS nations for cross-border payments at an upcoming summit, despite political and technical challenges. The BRICS leaders will meet in New Delhi on September 12 and 13. The Reserve...
Oil tanker rates have jumped to record highs as escalating risks to shipping in and out of the Middle East are prompting traders and tanker operators to undertake inefficient and more expensive trade routes. While the crude oil supply is...
Australia has revised a proposed rule that would have required natural gas exporters to keep 20% of their output for the local market. Instead, exporters will now need to reserve up to 20% based on decisions made by the energy...
India needs to expand biofuel production and consumption to boost its energy security as crude oil prices soar amid the Middle East crisis, according to Tarun Kapoor, an adviser in India’s Prime Minister’s Office. “The future of biofuels is about...
This spring, NATO allies detected Russian submarines near the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic, engaged in a secret operation to use a weapon capable of damaging undersea cables without detection. This operation involved Russia’s GUGI undersea warfare directorate, which utilized...
With around half a year remaining before the next presidential election, France is in danger of becoming a stress test for the eurozone: a political crisis, a deteriorating fiscal position and growing market doubts about the country’s ability to finance...
Investment in what most call clean technologies dropped by 17% over the first half of the year, as China switched from subsidies to a market-based approach to those industries, a report from Rhodium Group has revealed. Investments in things such...
In November 2001, Peter Mandelson wrote an article in the Independent about the visit he paid to Syria’s new dictator, Bashar Assad, in January of that year. The then Northern Ireland secretary claimed that “politics had nothing to do with my...
For eight years I helped decide whether American counter-terrorism money was working.As a programs advisor in the State Department’s Bureau of Counterterrorism from 2018 to 2025, I oversaw about 20 projects in East Africa worth roughly $80 million a year....
An AfD election poster with the message: “Youth come to us”, reminiscent of both Nazi and Communist propaganda. By Jan Lundius STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Sep 10 2026 (IPS) During summer months there is a certain news drought. Nevertheless, this year social media has been...
When I look back on all of my work over the last 30 years, one of the projects I’m most proud of is Meltdown , an audio series I did in 2021 with acclaimed director Alex Gibney that reveals the...
In the global supply chain, Indonesia sits at the epicenter of the market for nickel and other critical minerals. Yet the value of that natural wealth is still set on distant trading floors and market exchanges in places like London...
Africa’s largest economic grouping is the informal sector, which regularly turns over billions of dollars and is often the largest employer, but it is largely ignored by formal financial structures. Of this grouping, often undocumented, forcibly displaced persons form a...
Credit: UNESCO By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Sep 10 2026 (IPS) First, it was the mass deportations of undocumented aliens, then a crackdown on liberal-minded academics from prestigious US Universities, and now, restrictions on foreign journalists based in the US. The proposed restrictions may...
The discussion concerning the future Clearing-House Mechanism (CHM) of the BBNJ Agreement—in simpler terms, the High Seas Treaty—has now reached an important phase. The full title of the treaty is the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law...
Kamikawa Yoko, MP for Japan and Chair of AFPPD at the opening of the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD) annual conference held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Credit: APDA By Cecilia Russell KUALA LUMPUR & JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Sep...
As diplomats prepare for the BRICS Summit in New Delhi this weekend, the Iran war is looming large. India, which assumed the BRICS chairmanship in January, was already facing the difficult responsibility of securing consensus to achieve concrete movement on a...
Kabul — Last month, when Aisha Wahab of California became the first Afghan-American elected to Congress, her victory was heralded as a sign that Afghans had truly made their mark in American society. Afghan social media was inundated with messages of...
In his eagerness to distract attention from Iran and finally secure a diplomatic coup, President Trump is pivoting once again to North Korea. Three successful encounters with Kim Jong Un in his first term yielded no breakthrough, leaving behind scars...
By: Tim Daiss The Philippines has spent years trying to move away from coal for its power sector, but worsening power reliability is forcing Manila to reconsider just how quickly it can afford to do so. The Visayas electrical grid has...
Asia Times editors’ note: Context for the following article is provided by new reporting from investigative reporter Seymour Hersh saying that the US Operation Economic Outcast targets not Iran’s ayatollahs – as Hersh thought Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was suggesting...
Prime Minister Carney of Canada (the defacto 51st State) is a Liberal banker, warmonger and rabid Russophobe. What’s not to like? Mark Carney: A Day in the Life of a War Carnival CEO https://youtu.be/s4whsn7ib8Y (Length 4:00) Carney, the burlesque-dancing pirate in bed with...
A failed war does not end when the drones stop flying. It creates a new danger: A government that refuses to admit defeat and a president who, having failed abroad, seeks muscular victories elsewhere. The war against Iran is a...
BRICS+ and the Search for Strategic Autonomy in a Fracturing Global Order As the BRICS+ summit convenes on September 12-13, the gathering is far more than a routine diplomatic meeting. It is a pivotal moment for a group of countries seeking...
In this issue: - Deflation over for now - MOFCOM responds to US distillation advisory - Previewing the Xi-Trump summit - DeepSeek IPO and new model - Regulators want to pop the Robot Bubble - New spy drama The Feed: Business, Economy and Trade - Politics and...
For decades, the United States has been Canada’s most important energy partner, absorbing the lion’s share of its oil and gas production. After meeting its domestic refining needs, Canada exports ~80% of its crude output, with roughly 90% going to...
As public anger against the Nepalese government mounts after deadly landslides in Nepal, files show the country’s new prime minister and several of his colleagues came to power thanks in part to a covert program sponsored by the US government....
An event addresses a moment; a process creates continuity.An event manages adjustment; a process builds order. Complementing the proposed Muscat/Oman process, diplomatically in circulation since June through the Group of Friends of the Process, Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi...
The South Korea-United States alliance has been one of the principal foundations of the East Asian security architecture for more than seven decades. Established in the aftermath of the Korean War, the alliance provided South Korea with an extended security...
OpenAI’s Jalapeño is a custom accelerator designed specifically for AI inference, particularly the low-latency, multi-chip workloads behind interactive and agentic systems. Its central idea is that useful performance cannot be reduced to peak floating-point operations or memory bandwidth. What matters...
Europe desperately needs to ramp up its energy storage capacity if it wants to avoid another energy crisis. In the wake of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine back in 2022, the European Union made major strides in building up its...
On September 5, Russia and South Africa observed 20 years since the signing of the Treaty on Friendship and Partnership. This was concluded in Cape Town in 2006 as part of the official visit by President Vladimir Putin. The treaty...
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