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Iran says it will announce a new restricted zone in the Gulf and publish maps for a new shipping corridor through the Strait of Hormuz in the coming days, adding another layer of tension around one of the world’s most...

Editor’s note: This is the tenth article in a limited series celebrating American defense technologies born from wartime and their effects on broader national security, politics, and society. This series will run for several weeks to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary,...

North Korea and Russia have opened their first road bridge across the Tumen River, marking another step in the rapidly expanding relationship between the two countries. The bridge is located near the existing Friendship Bridge, a rail crossing that has...

On August 5, two years to the day after a mass uprising drove Sheikh Hasina from power, she announced from India that she would return to Bangladesh in December. Read as a forecast, the statement is implausible. Read as a...

When Israeli warplanes struck the Abu al-Duhur airbase in Syria on Aug. 18, 2026, the smoke rose over the demolition of an old geopolitical assumption about the Middle East. This time, Israel directly targeted a strategic sphere of influence where...

South Korea has reportedly agreed to invest $22.3 billion in a gas-fired power plant in Texas as part of its trade deal with the Trump administration. The investment would be South Korea’s first under the trade deal, Reuters noted in...

They fled a brutal civil war to reach safety in Egypt, but now many Sudanese women and girls are falling prey to sexual exploitation Sudanese women who fled to Egypt to escape the war in their country are facing increasing levels...

Figs mean summer — they represent the summer heat, where the sweet scent of fig trees mingles with the chirping of crickets and the singing cicadas. The scent of fig leaves on sleep-inducing lazy afternoons and the indescribable honey-like taste...

Western coverage of Chinese artificial intelligence still tends to treat the competition as a model contest: can a Chinese company match the best American system? China is certainly in that race. But it is also pursuing a quieter route. Chinese...

China’s endorsement of Egypt’s right to protect its water and food security marks a significant diplomatic development in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) dispute. It does not amount to a formal rejection of Ethiopia’s dam, but it gives Cairo’s...

One problem with following innovation is that the extraordinary now arrives disguised as the weekly. A frontier model trained on more than 100,000 GPUs, several leading AI services stumbling in the same morning, a camera-chip company redesigning itself around edge...

American bombs are now falling on Tehran, and while Donald Trump ultimately pulled the trigger, administrations before him—Republican and Democrat alike—constructed the gun, and even loaded it. In 1995, US president Bill Clinton issued executive orders banning US investment tied...

After the signing of the Munich agreement in 1938 that allowed Nazi Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia, Winston Churchill spoke of the fate of that country in a powerful speech in the House of Commons: “Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken,...

Russia’s Northern Sea Route (NSR) is about to become a game-changer for Eurasian energy trade, and Europe’s January 2027 ban on Russian LNG is pushing Moscow to bring it to life sooner than planned. LNG will remain its foundation, while...

An Oakland Institute analysis challenges claims that a large increase in mining is an unavoidable cost of replacing fossil fuels. Using International Energy Agency (IEA) data, Oakland calculated that wind, solar, renewable-power networks, grid batteries and electric vehicles accounted for...

In line with Russia’s state policy, International Bridge Awards was established to recognize entrepreneurial contributions and to foster dialogue on attracting special talents to Russia. The International Bridge Awards was established for talented and ambitious professionals from around the world,...

Priority number one is not the Ukraine-Russia war or the upheavalment (see genocide) in Gaza; however, there is a global disintegration of family life all over the world. Masses of people are forced by government legislation to be moved forcibly...

While electric car and truck sales have grown more slowly than expected in recent years, prompting governments to rethink clean fuel targets and automakers to slow the pace of EV production, electric motorcycles are becoming increasingly popular in certain parts...

Advanced semiconductor packaging has become essential to improving computing performance as conventional transistor scaling grows more difficult and expensive. Instead of manufacturing an entire processor as one large monolithic die, chipmakers can divide it into smaller chiplets and combine logic,...

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Cairo represents a major strategic step that is reshaping the balance of power in the Middle East and raising deep concerns for both the United States and Israel. The American and Israeli concern stems...

Liam and Noel Gallagher of the band Oasis arrived at the Venice Film Festival via water taxi ahead of the documentary “Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger,” which highlights their reunion tour after years of feuding. When asked about Venice,...

Ramallah /PNN / The Central Elections Commission (CEC) and the Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR) announced today, Sunday, renewing the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in partnership with the Civil Coalition for Elections Support and Observation, during the 2026 Legislative...

Sander is an Applied-physics graduate from TU Delft. Worked at a semiconductor start-up during his studies, decided building a company would be the most interesting way to shape his career. In 2010, a TU Delft professor suggested combining light and...

Oman, a major oil and gas producer, plans to expand its renewable energy capacity as part of its energy diversification and green transition goals. The government recently introduced new national policies to expand Oman’s green energy and cleantech industries and...

The multipolar world has closely watched the importance of SCO’s 26th meeting of the Council of Heads of State, as it marked the “25 Years of the SCO: Together for Sustainable Peace, Development and Prosperity.” Introduction From 31 August to...

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It has not been much of a secret, but I am back in Russia with Judge Napolitano and a couple of other podcast luminaries, to participate in a series of academic seminars dedicated to finding a way for Russia and...

The Red Sea no longer separates the Middle East from Africa. It increasingly connects their security problems. Across the Horn of Africa, ports, trade routes, military partnerships and local conflicts are attracting greater attention from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt...

Voting in Saxony-Anhalt, eastern Germany, started on Sunday in a significant election where the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party may become the first far-right party to gain state power since World War Two. The AfD, led by 35-year-old Ulrich Siegmund,...

Authors: Ahmad Ibrahim and Amna Hashmi* In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the ruling commandment “all animals are equal” survives the revolution word for word. Only a footnote is added later: some are more equal than others. According to Orwell’s argument,...

For years, Washington hoped it could reach one big deal with Saudi Arabia. The United States would strengthen rits security relationship with Riyadh and help the kingdom build a civilian nuclear program. In return, Saudi Arabia would recognize Israel. If...