The widespread student protests that erupted across India in July 2026 over the alleged NEET UG examination paper leak and concerns surrounding the CBSE evaluation process are more than a domestic political controversy. They represent a broader global phenomenon in...
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David Hearst: Karim Khan dared to hold Israel to account – and that’s why he was brought down
Full ArticleThe ICC arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu has, to date, been the only serious attempt by the international community to bring the Israeli state to justice for the genocide in Gaza. The person who brought the arrest warrant forward has...
Rapid depreciation in China's electric vehicle market is often portrayed as evidence that EVs are becoming disposable consumer electronics. Yet the opposite may prove true. While the vehicle loses value, the battery increasingly becomes a long-lived energy asset with multiple...
The future of relations between Central Asian republics (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan) and Iran under a government now dominated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is likely to feature pragmatic economic and transit cooperation amid heightened caution, with...
British politics has never been the same since Brexit. Deepak Tripathi, PhD, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. He blogs at Reflections . Among his latest...
Robin McAlpine: China is so much better than us at manufacturing – and it’s not because of low wages
Full ArticleIt might be comforting for us in the global north to tell ourselves that China is dominating high-tech manufacturing because it’s workers are paid a lot less than here, but it’s not true and that deceit won’t help us fix...
Your story, DID YOU GET MARRIED TO HER WHEN I WAS IN THE MENTAL HOSITAL? is not meant to be an easy read. I know it took it out of you to write it, and I am not surprised by...
Our tech overlords tell us that artificial intelligence will soon create a world of abundance while solving our major problems such as climate change. Just so you know who I'm talking about, I have previously defined our tech overlords as "a grab bag...
The Central Bank of Ireland looks set to continue enabling the sale of Israel’s genocide bonds throughout the EU. Ireland is the ‘home member state’ of these bonds that fund genocide, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes in Palestine, which means...
Kazakhstan resumed crude exports through the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) on Monday after the operator reopened its Black Sea marine terminal and resumed accepting crude from producers following a week-long suspension triggered by drone attacks, Kazakhstan’s Astana Times reported. Two...
Sudan’s War Economy: Funded By Gum Arabic And Gold
Full ArticleAmmar Mohammed Mahmoud Mohammed, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Republic of the Sudan to the United Nations, addresses the Security Council meeting that heard reports of the Secretary-General on Sudan. Credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten By Oritro Karim UNITED NATIONS, Jul 27 2026...
Four days before the State Department released its new report on Cuban influence, the Trump administration launched what the White House called a global campaign against “Radical Left terrorism” . Officials said far-left extremism would be treated with the same...
By Kanav Arora, ML Researcher at ChipAgents Most hardware teams already understand why formal verification matters. It can expose corner cases that simulation may never reach and establish critical behaviors across the modeled state space. The unresolved question is not whether formal...
Nvidia is in early talks to provide up to $250 billion in financing guarantees to help OpenAI lease computing capacity from a planned $500 billion, 10-gigawatt data center facility in Ohio, according to Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter....
Three years of declining hunger have answered one question: Progress is possible. The question now is whether governments will scale what works before conflict, climate shocks and financial retreat erase it. Credit: Isaiah Esipisu/IPS By Máximo Torero ROME, Jul 27 2026 (IPS) Here...
Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum only for War on the Rocks members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight into how Ukrainians...
Chinese buyers that received the first U.S. LNG cargo in over a year plan to resell it on another market to profit from higher prices elsewhere and avoid paying a 25% tariff, sources familiar with the plans told Bloomberg on...
On July 23, the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated a Turkey-based Hamas money exchange and a senior Muslim Brotherhood official, the third round of sanctions against Hamas's Turkish financial network in less than two years....
The European Union is moving toward a new strategy for imposing sanctions on Russia, a shift that could expose deeper divisions within the bloc and fuel institutional tensions over the decision-making process. The 21st sanctions package against Russia may become the...
The UK’s net zero push risks leaving the country with higher electricity bills and more susceptible to blackouts, according to a leaked report commissioned by the national grid system. The report, produced by energy consultancy firm Cornwall Insight for the...
The Worst Nuclear Deal in History
Full ArticleThe following story is co-published with Joe Cirincione’s Substack and adapted from an article published July 25 by MS NOW. The billions of dollars the Saudi monarchy has gifted President Donald Trump ’s family have paid off. Trump has caved to...
This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . Could the oil industry be held responsible for fueling the extreme heat that led to a woman’s death? That’s the question at the heart of a...
Priorities
Full ArticlePhoto by Sasun Bughdaryan on Unsplash Not everything is of equal importance. That’s just a simple fact of life. For example, if it comes down to making it to a casual lunch with a friend or taking your spouse to the...
TotalEnergies will appeal a landmark decision of the Paris Judicial Court from last month, which ordered the French supermajor to align its business to climate change goals as it held it responsible for climate change. In a statement on Monday,...
CARACAS — The country that in 2008 heard then-President Hugo Chávez say , “Go to hell, damn Yankees,” as he expelled the U.S. ambassador, today watches hundreds of U.S. soldiers patrol the streets of La Guaira, which was devastated by...
Ron’s Little Anti-Red Book
Full ArticleThe Florida school calendar makes a hash of enjoying the end of July. Soon, I will have to log on at midnight to register for after-school care in the hours before the waitlist barrier comes down. The preseason PTA meeting...
Ann Wu is Co-founder & CEO of Silimate. Before Silimate, Ann designed several generations of custom silicon at Apple, helped manage inference ASIC programs at Meta, and led product strategy and execution at Celestial AI. Ann has a M.S. in...
The Trump administration is weighing whether to extend access to some Chinese rare earth materials beyond the January 1, 2027 cutoff after U.S. producers acknowledged they cannot build sufficient domestic processing and magnet capacity before the deadline, Reuters reported on...
The New Face of Progressive Politics in Japan
Full ArticleThe debate over who will replace the recently retired founder of the Japanese progressive party Reiwa Shinsengumi Yamamoto Taro has brought a previously low-key citizen activist Ishii Reiko to the forefront in Japanese politics. Ishii Reiko, a woman who rose...
India’s Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd. (MRPL) has become the first Indian refinery to tell crude suppliers to avoid both the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea, inserting the restriction into a spot tender for up to 1 million...
Chinese authorities are monitoring the demonstrations against US President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, viewing them as a reflection of the erosion of Western legitimacy, and are strategically exploiting them to fuel anti-American and anti-Israeli rhetoric. This is...
Tehran said it had halted retaliatory attacks against US allies in the Middle East as Washington refrained from attacking Iran for the second night in a row. A top military official in Tehran, meanwhile, threatened to widen Iran’s attacks across...
The fuel crisis in Russia has started to ease in recent days as some refineries have restarted operations, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Sunday. “The situation is gradually stabilizing, a number of oil refineries became operational again....
In part two of their conversation, Generation Jihad’s Bill Roggio, FDD CMPP Senior Director Bradley Bowman, and FDD Senior Analyst Cameron McMillan ask a tough question following months of kinetic warfare with Iran: What’s the Pentagon’s readiness for the next...
Every generation of semiconductor innovation has relied on one fundamental principle: before a technology can be manufactured at scale, it must first be understood. That understanding comes through characterization. For decades, characterization enabled process learning. It helped engineers understand transistor behavior,…...
The Houthi threats to shipping in the Red Sea and its chokepoint, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, have forced at least one oil tanker carrying Saudi crude to Asia to choose the much longer route through the Suez Canal, the Mediterranean,...
Fuel prices in Australia hit last week the highest level since March as the hostilities in the Middle East drove international crude oil prices to the highest in two months. Australia’s nationwide gasoline prices hit in the week ending July...
Will mini reactors solve Africa’s energy crisis?
Full ArticleGiven the acute shortage of affordable power in most of Africa, the continent needs all the sources it can tap, from oil and gas to renewables like wind and solar. Now, it can also, reports Laurent Soucaille, develop small nuclear...
Irish energy distributor DCC Energy has agreed to be taken over by a consortium led by private equity heavyweight KKR and Energy Capital Partners. The deal values the company at close to $7.7 billion and is about $1 billion higher...
An act of utter weakness. And utter mediocrity
Full ArticleFor a long time, the classic 18th-century song “Rule, Britannia!” by English composer Thomas Arne, with lyrics by Scottish poets James Thomson and David Mollett, effectively served as the United Kingdom’s second national anthem. Its refrain, “Rule, Britannia! Britannia rule...
By: Sherab Woeser Photo from New York Post On July 2, began a livestream from his phone, broadcasting the final moments of his life. The frame captured the United Nations Headquarters on the right as he walked forward, carrying the Tibetan national...
JAKARTA – Bank Indonesia Governor Perry Warjiyo’s abrupt resignation marks a watershed moment for Southeast Asia’s largest economy. Coming midway through his second five-year term, Warjiyo’s departure — tendered for personal reasons and quickly accepted by President Prabowo Subianto —...
Tanker traffic through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait slumped to a multi-month low on Sunday amid Houthi attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure on the Red Sea coast. Only 11 tankers carrying commodities transited the Bab el-Mandeb chokepoint between the Red Sea...
In Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip, children received polio vaccines as part of the vaccination campaign conducted by UNICEF and its partners in 2025. Credit: UNICEF/Mohammed Nateel By Shuli Wong UNITED NATIONS, Jul 27 2026 (IPS) On Monday July 20, a team...
Finding the perfect property in Cyprus can quickly become stressful. With thousands of listings to sort through, buyers may encounter outdated ads or unreliable agents. Choosing the right search platform can save both time and money. This ranking looks at...
U.S.-Saudi Nuclear Agreement Opens Door to Civilian Nuclear Cooperation, with One Major Caveat
Full ArticleA view of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Credit: Unsplash/Ekrem Osmanoglu By Maximilian Malawista UNITED NATIONS, Jul 27 2026 (IPS) On Wednesday, July 22 , the U.S. Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, and Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Energy, HRH Prince Abdulaziz bin...
Student-made posters and artwork line the streets of Jantar Mantar, capturing messages of resistance and hope. Aishwarya Bajpai/IPS By Aishwarya Bajpai NEW DELHI, Jul 27 2026 (IPS) On July 25, after 50 days of protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan...
European natural gas prices plunged by 8.6% at the open in Amsterdam on Monday as the United States paused strikes on Iran over the weekend and Tehran signaled a halt to retaliatory attacks across the Middle East. Hopes of de-escalation...
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