China’s latest coast guard patrols east of Taiwan mark another step in Beijing’s long-term strategy to reshape the security environment around the island without resorting to direct military confrontation. While Chinese authorities described Friday’s patrols as routine law enforcement operations...
The Caspian Pipeline Consortium has shut down again, following Ukrainian drone attacks on two tankers at the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, Reuters reported, citing the company operating the pipeline. According to the operator of the pipeline, the drone...
AI Training Technique Sparks New Tech Rivalry Model distillation, a widely used artificial intelligence training technique, has emerged as a new point of tension in the growing technology competition between the United States and China. While the method has long...
Asian Markets Rebound After AI Driven Selloff Asian stocks surged on Friday, tracking strong gains on Wall Street as investor confidence returned following robust earnings from major U.S. technology companies. South Korea’s KOSPI posted a record 17% rebound after suffering...
TOKYO — South Korea has outrun the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the 2008 Lehman shock, and the 2013 taper tantrum. Whether it can outrun its own AI boom is a harder test — and one the last week of Kospi...
Short answer… I think so. On Wednesday July 29, 2026, at roughly 3:20 pm CET, a drone struck the Energos Winter — a Marshall Islands-flagged floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) owned by US company New Fortress Energy — on its...
Images of the Pentagon, Washington DC. Credit: Kevin Doyle / Unsplash By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Jul 31 2026 (IPS) An age-old axiom in Statistics reads : Figures Cannot Lie, But Liars Can Figure. And more so, in military conflicts, including the five-month-old US-Iran...
Crude oil prices have been trending lower over the past couple of days, but the benchmarks are on course to book both a weekly and a monthly rise. On a monthly basis, Brent crude and West Texas Intermediate have both...
Two themes dominate Japan’s elite thinking at present: a blend of awe and fear about the ambitions of Japan’s powerful prime minister, Sanae Takaichi; and concerns about the US-Japan security alliance. Takaichi became prime minister last October through winning a...
Malaysia’s data center boom offers a revealing piece of arithmetic. Between 2021 and June 2025, the government approved 143 projects. Within that total, 25 projects granted Malaysia Digital status represented RM144.4 billion in investment and were expected to create 1,429...
Media reports published earlier this week about China’s plan to start making its own immersion deep ultraviolet (DUV) lithography machines have caused a sharp sell-off of European chip equipment stocks. But Chinese pundits say the situation remains very far from...
While the United States enjoys sufficient energy resources, thanks to shale oil, the European Union does not. To assure itself of the energy supplies in the Gulf that the European Union needs, the EU should consider assisting the Gulf States...
By: Majid Maqbool The killing of a police constable in the Kashmir Valley city of Anantnag, allegedly by Islamists militants, has triggered one of the largest security crackdowns since India officially revoked the special status of the region in 2019, arresting...
For over four decades, Israeli strategy has rested on an assumption so basic it rarely gets stated out loud: that the United States would remain the unrivaled organizing power of the Middle East, willing and able to underwrite Israel’s military...
A federal court has granted discovery in Max Blumenthal’s lawsuit against DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, and called the seizure of his phones a violation of his constitutional rights. The judge framed the case as part of a wider assault on...
This is where China’s rare earth magnet monopoly ends. REalloys (NASDAQ: ALOY) has signed a strategic agreement with permanent magnet manufacturer JS Link to develop one of the first fully integrated non-Chinese rare earth magnet platforms, bringing together feedstock, separation,...
Five months of mostly closed Strait of Hormuz have not sent oil prices spiking to $150 or $200 per barrel, as many analysts had warned in March. Even as more than 10% of global crude oil supply suddenly disappeared from...
State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir...
On July 30, 2026, international and domestic news sources simultaneously reported on the official visit of the aircraft carrier USS George Washington to Vietnam. The visit was seen as an affirmation of the US commitment to the Indo-Pacific region and...
Wood Mackenzie now estimates that the global upstream oil and gas sector could generate $495 billion in free cash flow in 2026 if crude averages $90 per barrel, more than doubling its previous forecast based on a $60 oil price...
Why Optical Probing Is Becoming a Manufacturing Boundary for Silicon Photonics Silicon photonics has already shown that extremely precise optical alignment is possible. In controlled laboratory environments, engineers can align fibers, waveguides, grating couplers, edge couplers, modulators, detectors, and electrical… com/photonics/371218-from-photonics-precision-to-repeatable-evidence/">From Photonics...
A failure to fully acknowledge the extent of Europe’s energy insecurities could lead to national security vulnerabilities, according to former United States Secretary of State John Kerry. NATO’s summit in Ankara, Türkiye this month displayed a recommitment to cohesion and...
Saudi Arabia’s quarterly budget deficit shrank by nearly three-quarters in the second quarter, courtesy of the same war that hammered its oil industry and sent the economy into its steepest contraction since the pandemic. The Kingdom posted a 34.3-billion-riyal—or $9.1-billion—shortfall...
In an age of affirmations and self-help mantras, Islam offers timeless du’as that cultivate happiness, contentment, and trust in Allah. Happiness and the Source of Good As public awareness of mental health issues increased in the 2000s, professionals and influencers have recommended...
Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz slightly increased as US-Iran negotiations remained ongoing in an effort to restore peace after the memorandum of understanding collapsed amid two weeks of tit-for-tat strikes, according to Pakistan's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tahir Andrabi,...
Poland is moving ahead with a sweeping reform of its armed forces. At first glance, the changes appear to focus solely on restructuring the military command system. A closer look, however, reveals something much broader-a shift in the country's entire...
After a night of speculation, the Egyptian Cabinet said on Thursday morning that the fire that broke out aboard two energy vessels at Damietta Port the day before was caused by a drone strike, though it did not disclose who...
China’s trade turnover with Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, the largest economies in Central Asia, showed strong growth in the first half of 2026, as did trade with Tajikistan. Meanwhile, the numbers for Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan fell, according to the PRC’s General Administration...
While another lull in direct combat between the United States and Iran has come into effect, other fronts begin to expand and threaten to drown the region in a much broader conflict. In the latest episode of The Target, Robert...
Russia is running short of undamaged oil refinery capacity, and it’s looking to Kazakhstan for help. Kazakhstan said Thursday that it is in talks with Moscow to process Russian oil at Kazakh refineries, sell some of the resulting fuel domestically,...
The landmark nuclear cooperation agreement between the United States and Saudi Arabia marks a major geopolitical shift that could reshape the balance of power across the Middle East while triggering debate over nuclear security and regional stability. Historic Nuclear Cooperation Agreement...
In Abby Martin’s new film, ‘Earth’s Greatest Enemy,’ she exposes how the US military has unleashed death, devastation and more pollution than any other institution in the world on the global populace. In their most recent documentary, “Earth’s Greatest Enemy”, Abby...
Software defined vehicles (SDVs) are transforming the automotive industry. Today’s vehicles are connected computing platforms that rely on advanced processors, artificial intelligence (AI), over the air (OTA) software updates, cloud services, and vehicle to everything (V2X) communications. Every electronic …...
U.S. refineries are producing the most gasoline and diesel since before the pandemic lockdowns, refining margins are running at record highs, but the world is still short on fuels. And it would take a while—and maybe a peace deal in...
The US economy grew at a far weaker than expected pace in the second quarter despite a pickup in consumer spending and solid business investment. According to the BEA, GDP (inflation adjusted) rose just 1.5% in the period, according to...
Russia has extended restrictions on gasoline and diesel exports through January 31, 2027, just five days after saying the diesel ban would disappear once its domestic fuel market recovered. Recovery, it seems, has been rescheduled. Moscow first banned diesel exports...
Millions of people around the world will now find themselves even more exposed to the criminal actions of predatory states. Unlike Khan’s accuser, they are unlikely to ever get their day in court Jonathan Cook is the author of three books...
Through a meme and a movement, Indian students have once again mobilized, this time in response to Chief Justice Surya Kant’s comparison of unemployed youth to “cockroaches” and “parasites” attacking the system. This remark led to the creation of the...
Iraq’s new prime minister, Ali Al-Zaidi, was first regarded as a political newcomer with no prior experience in government or political office, but he understood enough about Iraq’s interests to insist his first overseas trip be to the United States, unlike his...
French teens are about to start the school year with access to one less vice. On July 23, France’s Parliament approved legislation that will ban children under the age of 15 from accessing social media. Under the law — which President Emanuel...
A coalition of progressive groups , led by the huge union SEIU-UHW, managed to get a one-time 5% wealth tax on the California ballot this fall. The tax would apply to assets of over $1 billion held by the state’s...
As President Donald Trump ’s tariffs and his war with Iran drive up prices of everything from oil to steel, you’d think big American corporations would be screaming bloody hell. Presumably, Trump’s tariffs and war are squeezing their profits just...
Texas Democrat James Talarico is, frankly, bizarre. It’s like Democrats there figured a less masculine Beto O’Rourke would be the way to draw all Texans together or something. Tilting At Windmills is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support...
The share of coal in China’s electricity output fell in the first half of 2026 to below 50% for the first time on record, in a landmark achievement of the Chinese policy to boost non-fossil power sources. The share of...
A container ship used by the US military to supply its airbases in Britain with bombs docked in south Wales last week, it can be revealed. The move came as President Trump resumed using RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire to bomb Iran...
In October 2019, President Donald Trump gave Turkey the green light to launch a military operation against Syrian Kurdistan, the Kurdish-led autonomous region known as Rojava . As journalists and nongovernmental organization workers fled toward the sole border crossing linking...
Iran fired ballistic missiles at American bases in Jordan late on July 28, in what appeared to be the first time Tehran initiated an attack on US targets since the war began in late February. The Islamic Republic has claimed...
Following a subdued start to the year, sales of electric vehicles (EVs) jumped in the second quarter after the Middle East crisis slashed crude supply and hiked oil and fuel prices, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in a report...
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