A powerful explosion tore through a residential building in the heart of Athens on Friday, causing the structure to collapse and injuring three people in a crowded tourist district near the Acropolis. The blast damaged nearby homes, shops and vehicles...
Dr John Nkengasong, a former WHO adviser who worked with Biden administration on Aids policy, says decolonising curriculums and investment are key to unlocking potential of continent’s graduates African governments need to shake off the legacy of colonialism and underfunding if...
India will keep exporting diesel to help meet global demand and ease the fuel crunch, Oil Minister Hardeep Puri said. “We honor our commitments,” the minister said at an industry event in New Delhi, noting that India’s refining capacity continues...
The Romans advised that to secure peace, you must prepare for war. The preparation was the point: weapons kept ready so they need not be used, readiness standing in for the fight. Their word for peace, pax, came from pacisci...
Secretary-General António Guterres (second from left) addressing the high-level segment of the General Assembly to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development. Also visible (from left to right) are Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner...
Declassified journalists have been banned from the Labour Party’s annual conference for the third year in a row. The event in Liverpool next week is the first under new prime minister Andy Burnham and is traditionally an opportunity for reporters to...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a combative defense of Israel’s actions in the region at the United Nations on Thursday, as dozens of delegates walked out of the chamber in protest, highlighting Israel’s growing diplomatic isolation ahead of its...
On September 11, drones launched from Iraq struck Saudi Arabia’s East West Pipeline, the 1,200 kilometer link that carries up to seven million barrels of crude a day from the Eastern Province to the Red Sea port of Yanbu. The...
Before the vote for the next president of the International Chess Federation China Daily published an extended piece on Timur Turlov, founder of Freedom Holding Corp. and head of the Kazakhstan Chess Federation. At the close of the campaign, the...
Participants at the fourth UN High-Level Meeting on the Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health (NCDs), held in September 2025. Credit: UN Photo/Eric Kanalstein By Shreya Komar UNITED NATIONS, Sep 25 2026 (IPS) On September 21, just prior to the opening of...
Moderator Arif Ullah of Anthropocene Alliance joins LaTricea Adams of Young, Gifted, and Green; Dionne Delli-Gatti of Continuum Strategies; and Dr. Katlyn Turner of CU Boulder Information Science and KTLN Consulting to discuss AI’s environmental justice impacts and how frontline...
Since the U.S. war against Iran started earlier this year, Washington has pressed its allies in Europe and Asia to “ step up ” with military aid to help the United States reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Despite persistent pressure from...
When the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran ultimately ends, it will be remembered for its bloody onset. On the same day airstrikes killed the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, a U.S. missile incinerated an elementary school in Minab, killing 123...
The investigation below raises a disturbing question: What if rogue AI agents are learning from the secrecy and rule-breaking of the humans who created them? Lever founder David Sirota explores that idea in a companion analysis exclusively for paid subscribers. Two...
“Misalignment.” In the wake of artificial intelligence hacks, break-ins, and mini-disasters, that’s what technologists call the terrifying gap between what we want AI to do and what AI is actually doing. But much of what we are seeing is better...
Thanks to Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism who flagged a recent interview that Professor Robert Pape did with Mario Nawfal. During the interview, Pape argued that Vladimir Putin is caught in an “escalation trap.” In his telling, Russia launched a...
Europe’s energy debate continues to be influenced by assumptions that belong to a different era. Throughout much of the period that followed the end of the Cold War, policymakers, markets and consumers became accustomed to a world in which major...
By: Salman Rafi Sheikh Photo from the Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs Pakistan and China formally launched their Boundary Joint Commission in Islamabad on September 16-17, activating a mechanism provided for under their 2013 Agreement on the Boundary Management System but left...
Beijing has agreed to work with Washington to improve governance of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and to enhance cooperation as Chinese President Xi Jinping and United States President Donald Trump met face-to-face at the White House on Thursday. Xi made...
“The word ‘security’ is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment.” ~ Justice Hugo Black, New York Times Co. v. United States (1971) “National security” has become the government’s all-purpose permission slip to behave...
Smoke rose over Riyadh last week as Houthi forces launched strikes on the Saudi capital, as well as on crucial oil infrastructure in major coastal cities. It has been a disastrous month for Saudi Arabia as Houthi forces have made...
LISTEN NOW: California Attorney General Rob Bonta and 11 other Democratic attorneys general just settled their lawsuit blocking Paramount Skydance’s $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. The merger is now set to create one of the world’s largest media companies...
With the current geopolitical shifts and the emergence of a multipolar world, political, economic, and diplomatic relations between countries are changing. Through BRICS and the Global South, China seeks to challenge the perceived Western hegemony of the global political and...
If the wars of 2026 have demonstrated anything, it is that drones have become a key element of modern warfare. In Eastern Europe, both Moscow and Kyiv deploy drones at an unprecedented scale across the theater’s so-called “kill zone.” For...
The energy crisis caused by the United States and Israel’s war in Iran could be just what the world needed to achieve 35 percent electrification by 2035. This goal, “35 by ‘35” has emerged as a key platform of the...
Global biofuels production is projected to surge by nearly 70% by 2030 as major producing countries raise their fuel-blending mandates in response to the energy crisis triggered by the Middle East conflict, a study co-authored by British think tank Chatham...
The United States has officially invited Vladimir Putin to the G20 summit, which will take place in Miami on December 14-15. Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed the invitation after meeting with Sergey Lavrov: Washington expects the Russian president to...
For the first time in nearly four decades, Italy is considering nuclear power as part of its energy calculus. The Italian Senate on Wednesday gave final approval to a government plan to restart nuclear power generation, Reuters said, almost 40...
Some claims making the rounds on social media start with an observation that is basically correct: crude oil was more expensive after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 than it is today, yet diesel prices are now higher. The conclusion often...
By Mawlana Muhammad Haroon Abasoomar Shaykh ‘Abdullah Sirajuddin (rahimahullah) was the foremost teacher of my esteemed teacher, Shaykh Muhammad ‘Awwamah (hafizahullah) and was a senior ‘Alim of Syria. In June of the year 2000 (Rabi’ul Awwal 1421 A.H.) I travelled with...
The war with Iran is Trump’s folly but Congress’s disgrace for not stopping it. Jeffrey D. Sachs is University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. He is President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network,...
If the consent decree clearing the Paramount megamerger were a movie, it wouldn’t be an original — it would be the latest installment in a long-running horror franchise. In exchange for the plaintiffs (all Democratic attorneys general, sigh) removing one of...
The 2026 ‘African Youth Survey’ finds a generation more hopeful about Africa’s direction than it was two years ago. But beneath the headline rise in optimism sit harder questions about jobs, living costs, corruption and whether recovery is being felt...
Can civilisations pull together the fragments of older insights and knowing to give the context by which to make moral discourse intelligible again? Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Stategic...
Modern system-on-chip (SoC) and application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designs are extraordinarily complex. They may combine processors, accelerators, memory controllers, high-speed interfaces, security functions, and millions—or even billions—of logic gates. Verifying these systems entirely through … Read More The post S2C Prodigy...
Workers remain a repressed and exploited group. Caitlin Johnstone is a reader-supported independent journalist from Melbourne, Australia. Her political writings can be found on Medium . Articles are re-posted from Caitlins Newsletter . Cross-posted from Caitlin Johnstone’s Substack Doordash has reached a historic...
It was just this month that saw the Iran conflict spill over into a renewed fight between the Saudi coalition and Yemen's Houthi rebels. Now Iran is threatening to expand the fight further, even into the Indian Ocean. Yahya Rahim...
The main news of the day is the Chinese leader's first state visit to the United States in 11 years, a meeting that directly affects Russia's interests. Trump Welcomes Communist Xi on the Red Carpet Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in...
Somewhere in the briefing papers prepared for this week’s meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping sits a request that quietly retires a decade of American strategy. Washington wants Beijing to lean on Tehran over the Strait of Hormuz. China...
Global debt has passed US$365 trillion, and the cost of carrying it is now rising faster than any government can control. For investors with money anywhere in the world, few risks matter more over at least the next two years....
Fighting escalates after Tigrayan rebels form new coalition aimed at overthrowing Abiy Ahmed government There are growing fears of a return to civil war in Ethiopia after an offensive by fighters from Tigray into the neighbouring states of Afar and Amhara...
This story is the second of a two-part collaboration between Truthdig and the Texas Observer . Read the first part here . In the late spring of 2009, Andrew Collins learned that an oil and gas drilling waste landfarm, operated by...
“The History of Concrete” is one of the year’s most fluid documentaries. This intriguing, often amusing reorientation of how we see the material world features, and is directed by, the inimitable John Wilson (HBO’s “How To With John Wilson”) as...
TODAY’S NUMBERS 36 months (the EU’s new Russia asset-freeze renewal cycle, up from six) · 100% (top US tariff on Russia’s five biggest buyers) · 2.96m bpd (India’s Russian crude imports in July). Sanctions are getting harder to unwind, and...
Allies are hedging against the US: why Brussels, Madrid and Paris no longer see Washington as their most reliable partner Belgium no longer regards the United States as an unequivocally reliable ally. In its new foreign policy strategy, developments in Washington...
Throughout the 20th century and into the 21st century, Brazilian governments of all ideological persuasions have consistently resisted perceived subordination to the US. Regardless of who wins the presidency, we should expect Brazil to continue prioritizing national sovereignty. The post Structural...
Earlier this month, Britain, France, and Canada announced a coordinated round of sanctions on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank: an import ban on settlement goods, measures against the firms that sustain them, and sanctions on Israeli settlers. British...
Credit: Amanda Cotton / Ocean Image Bank By Gareth Johnstone and Jan Thomas Odegard OSLO, Norway, Sep 24 2026 (IPS) As Norway undertakes Vendepunkt , or “Turning Point,” its reflection on the future of Norwegian development policy, it is critical that oceans remain...
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