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When former Biden administration official Ely Ratner last year proposed a binding, NATO-style “Pacific Defense Pact ” with an integrated command structure among the United States, Japan, Australia, and the Philippines, he delivered an accidental indictment of a central weakness...

War & Peace, Indo-Pacific, Treaties

Seaweed communities on Kunashir Island are undergoing a structural shift driven by rising ocean temperatures. During an expedition from September 6 to 15, phycologists from Vladivostok surveyed the littoral and upper sublittoral zones—down to a depth of two meters—finding that...

Science

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for Fayuvi, a novel gene therapy developed by Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. designed to combat Sanfilippo syndrome type A, a devastating rare neurological disorder. A Devastating Childhood Disease Sanfilippo syndrome type A, also...

Health

India’s coal power generation did not grow between the first half of 2024 and the first half of 2026, for the first such two-year period in over 50 years in which coal power has remained flat in the world’s second-largest...

News

Russia's projected budget deficit for 2027 is expected to reach approximately 2% of GDP, according to President Vladimir Putin. This figure marks an increase from the 1.2% of GDP outlined in the current law. To address the growing fiscal pressure,...

Russia

The debate about AI consciousness is growing, in academic articles, newspaper opinion pieces, and even among AI bots themselves. I doubt this is a passing wave of interest. As AI systems become more capable and human-like, and more involved in our lives, the question will...

Technology, AI Apocalypse, AI Consciousness

Venezuela’s government and opposition are nearing an agreement to transfer about $4 billion in central bank gold reserves from the Bank of England to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Financial Times reported on Friday. Reuters could not...

World News, Gold, Security

Protests broke out in central Nigeria after 33 people detained during a crackdown on suspected illegal gold mining were found dead while in the custody of a paramilitary agency. Reuters footage showed 33 bodies at a hospital in Minna, the...

World News, Nigeria, Paramilitary

Global stocks and bonds came under pressure on Friday as investors assessed a broad shift toward tighter monetary policy among major central banks amid renewed inflation concerns. The Bank of Japan’s decision to raise interest rates was the latest move...

Finance, Economics, Inflation

Britain is seeking deeper economic and security ties with the European Union as Finance Minister John Healey urges the bloc to avoid excluding British companies from its planned “Made in Europe” industrial policy. Healey is expected to raise the issue...

World News, Economics, England

The world community is undergoing an irreversible transition towards multipolarity, driven by the weakening of US and Western influence, the rise of the economic and political power of Global South countries, and the emergence of new centers of power seeking...

China, Politics, Russia

China’s government has called on local coal miners to maintain a stable production rate after a jump in spot prices for thermal coal earlier this month. Thermal coal prices on the spot market recently climbed to the highest in three...

News

Freeing an American from Myanmar’s custody is a diplomatic win. Turning that win into a case for trusting the country’s coup-maker, rights-abusing generals, however, would be a mistake. Adam Castillo, a former US Marine and ex-president of the American Chamber...

Opinion, Adam Castillo, AMCHAM Myanmar

It is one of the significant questions that arises in our minds: why do some states cooperate with each other? At the same time, they compete with other states. The factor behind this changing behavior of states is their national...

Diplomacy, China, Opinion

Crude oil prices were on course for a weekly decline after a three-week series of gains, as traders' fears about Saudi Arabia’s ability to continue exporting oil appeared to have been quelled by reports about ship-to-ship transfers in the Gulf...

News

WHO team visits the pediatric oncology ward at the King Hussein Cancer Centre in Amman, Jordan. November 2025. Credit: WHO By Shreya Komar UNITED NATIONS, Sep 18 2026 (IPS) When a child is diagnosed with cancer, their chances of survival should not depend...

Africa, Aid, Economy & Trade

Without the resources to educate, train and economically include refugees, displacement will continue to drive onward migration By Linda Latsko Lockhart NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 18 2026 (IPS) For the young women I met through Global Give Back Circle’s HER Lab in Kenya, displacement...

Crime & Justice, Development & Aid, Economy & Trade

This year’s annual summit of Pacific Island Forum (PIF) leaders, occurring less than two months after China fired a long-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile into the South Pacific, was an opportunity for the region to speak collectively about its security and...

China, South-china-sea, Ballistic-missiles

The conflict between the United States and Iran has become a contest in enduring economic pain and the political consequences that may flow from that pain. This has characterized the conflict since the breakdown of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)...

Houthis, Yemen, Trump-administration

In recent years pro-Israel advocates have aggressively sought to censor and control speech surrounding the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict, particularly in the United States, and often with considerable success . This month, Zionist censors might have finally met their match — in...

Cancel-culture, Free-speech, Israel

BANGKOK – Authorities exhumed four human corpses on September 16 buried in an illegal “Jewish Cemetery” amid escalating investigations into Israelis allegedly breaking the law by deceptive real estate deals and lucrative businesses, sparking tension between Bangkok and Tel Aviv....

Southeast Asia, Aed Carabao, Block 2

Russia’s parliamentary elections will take place on Sept. 18-20, 2026, amid the ongoing war with Ukraine. Given the backdrop of an energy crisis, battlefield failures in Ukraine and fears of more national conscription at home, you might think that the...

Ukraine War, Block 2, Russia

Political corruption is often perceived as transactional: Cash flows to a politician, who then proactively does something for a donor. But there is an equally pervasive kind of corruption that’s more difficult to see, because it isn’t necessarily in campaign...

Analysis

A recently published economic analysis estimates that President Donald Trump’s war with Iran has cost US consumers an average of $1,760 per household – including a total of $121 billion in extra spending on energy alone – since the conflict...

Middle East, Block 3, Hormuz Strait

U.S. President Donald Trump intends to establish administrative control over Canada by proposing that the neighboring country become the 51st U.S. state, said political analyst Maxim Bardin, a member of the Expert Council of the All-Russian organization “Officers of Russia.”...

Opinion

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As he campaigns across the Lone Star State, Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton has seized upon Texans’ growing concern with artificial intelligence and adopted a hard-line stance, promising to crack down on rogue chatbots and rein in AI data centers’...

National Politics

With assorted economic and military crises boiling all across the Middle East in the wake of his disastrous decision to launch a war on Iran, President Trump will meet with Persian Gulf leaders in New York next week, on the margins...

News

Taiwan is moving toward a nuclear comeback barely a year after shutting its last reactor, as soaring LNG prices and mounting dependence on imported gas force a rethink of its energy strategy. The preparations are already tangible: Taipower has submitted...

News

Imagine flying from South Africa to Antarctica, one of the most remote places on Earth. Then visualize making the journey on a jet powered, partially, by fuel made from left-over cooking oil. That’s from a headline today on Business Insider...

News

Sometime around late 2009, centrifuges at Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment plant began malfunctioning. They would suddenly speed up or slow down, placing enormous stress on the delicate machinery. Centrifuges failed. The engineers trying to diagnose the problem had another problem:...

Business & Economy, Column, Opinion

For a second year in a row, the United States will deny access to the United Nations headquarters district to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, whose Palestinian Authority administers parts of the occupied West Bank. Why is this happening, where did...

Democracy & Governance, mahmoud abbas, Palestinian Authority
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