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Emmanuel Macron has eight months left as president of France. He can’t stand again, and the political system is basically paralyzed as a result. Polls make it clear that the most probable outcome is the far-right of Marine Le Pen...

Arts & Culture, Column, Film

Iran has created a barter-like system to bypass sanctions on its oil sales, allowing it to acquire billions of dollars in goods from China, including military equipment. This trade mechanism, where Iranian oil is exchanged for credits for Chinese imports,...

Oil & Gas, Analysis, China

A documentary titled “NAZA,” directed by Israeli journalists Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, reveals that mass civilian deaths were systematically included in Israeli military strategies in Gaza. The title refers to an Israeli military term for expected “collateral casualties.” The...

Arts & Culture, Cinema, Gaza

Since the Taliban seized power in August 2021, girls have been banned from schooling beyond the primary level and women’s employment has been severely restricted. Credit: Learning Together. By External Source KABUL, Sep 10 2026 (IPS) Many wonder why men in Afghanistan do...

Asia-Pacific, Education, Gender

With far-right president José Antonio Kast presiding over Chile since March 2026, the country has seen a dramatic shift since the days of Gabriel Boric . Kast has taken a harder security approach to the Mapuche struggle in southern Chile...

Democracy & Governance, Human Rights, chile

TotalEnergies has made a new discovery offshore Angola and has bought operated interest in two new exploration blocks close to operating hubs as the international majors are returning to exploration in Angola’s waters to take advantage of existing infrastructure. TotalEnergies...

News

The oil and gas supply shock amid the Middle East conflict has accelerated cumulative global investments in clean hydrogen to above $130 billion across more than 570 projects, as energy security has become a key driver of uptake alongside industrial...

News

Sweden will hold a parliamentary election on September 13. The centre-left opposition, led by Magdalena Andersson, currently has a slight lead in the polls over Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s right-wing government. Kristersson aims to create a majority government with his...

Europe, European Union, Sweden

India is working to link central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) among BRICS nations for cross-border payments at an upcoming summit, despite political and technical challenges. The BRICS leaders will meet in New Delhi on September 12 and 13. The Reserve...

Finance, BRICS, digital economy

Australia has revised a proposed rule that would have required natural gas exporters to keep 20% of their output for the local market. Instead, exporters will now need to reserve up to 20% based on decisions made by the energy...

Energy News, Australia, LNG

India needs to expand biofuel production and consumption to boost its energy security as crude oil prices soar amid the Middle East crisis, according to Tarun Kapoor, an adviser in India’s Prime Minister’s Office. “The future of biofuels is about...

News

This spring, NATO allies detected Russian submarines near the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic, engaged in a secret operation to use a weapon capable of damaging undersea cables without detection. This operation involved Russia’s GUGI undersea warfare directorate, which utilized...

Intelligence, Defense, European Union

Investment in what most call clean technologies dropped by 17% over the first half of the year, as China switched from subsidies to a market-based approach to those industries, a report from Rhodium Group has revealed. Investments in things such...

News

In November 2001, Peter Mandelson wrote an article in the Independent about the visit he paid to Syria’s new dictator, Bashar Assad, in January of that year. The then Northern Ireland secretary claimed that “politics had nothing to do with my...

Archive, Middle East, Secrecy

For eight years I helped decide whether American counter-terrorism money was working.As a programs advisor in the State Department’s Bureau of Counterterrorism from 2018 to 2025, I oversaw about 20 projects in East Africa worth roughly $80 million a year....

Commentary, Counter-terrorism, Defense Spending

An AfD election poster with the message: “Youth come to us”, reminiscent of both Nazi and Communist propaganda. By Jan Lundius STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Sep 10 2026 (IPS) During summer months there is a certain news drought. Nevertheless, this year social media has been...

Armed Conflicts, Crime & Justice, Education

When I look back on all of my work over the last 30 years, one of the projects I’m most proud of is Meltdown , an audio series I did in 2021 with acclaimed director Alex Gibney that reveals the...

Analysis

In the global supply chain, Indonesia sits at the epicenter of the market for nickel and other critical minerals. Yet the value of that natural wealth is still set on distant trading floors and market exchanges in places like London...

Southeast Asia, Block 1, EV Supply Chains

Africa’s largest economic grouping is the informal sector, which regularly turns over billions of dollars and is often the largest employer, but it is largely ignored by formal financial structures. Of this grouping, often undocumented, forcibly displaced persons form a...

Economy

Credit: UNESCO By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Sep 10 2026 (IPS) First, it was the mass deportations of undocumented aliens, then a crackdown on liberal-minded academics from prestigious US Universities, and now, restrictions on foreign journalists based in the US. The proposed restrictions may...

Civil Society, Featured, Freedom of Expression

The discussion concerning the future Clearing-House Mechanism (CHM) of the BBNJ Agreement—in simpler terms, the High Seas Treaty—has now reached an important phase. The full title of the treaty is the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law...

International Law, biodiversity, ocean

As diplomats prepare for the BRICS Summit in New Delhi this weekend, the Iran war is looming large. India, which assumed the BRICS chairmanship in January, was already facing the difficult responsibility of securing consensus to achieve concrete movement on a...

Russia, India, Dedollarization

Kabul — Last month, when Aisha Wahab of California became the first Afghan-American elected to Congress, her victory was heralded as a sign that Afghans had truly made their mark in American society. Afghan social media was inundated with messages of...

Taliban, Humanitarian-aid, Congress

In his eagerness to distract attention from Iran and finally secure a diplomatic coup, President Trump is pivoting once again to North Korea. Three successful encounters with Kim Jong Un in his first term yielded no breakthrough, leaving behind scars...

Americas, China, Diplomacy

By: Tim Daiss The Philippines has spent years trying to move away from coal for its power sector, but worsening power reliability is forcing Manila to reconsider just how quickly it can afford to do so. The Visayas electrical grid has...

News

Asia Times editors’ note: Context for the following article is provided by new reporting from investigative reporter Seymour Hersh saying that the US Operation Economic Outcast targets not Iran’s ayatollahs – as Hersh thought Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was suggesting...

Middle East, Block 2, Iran

Prime Minister Carney of Canada (the defacto 51st State) is a Liberal banker, warmonger and rabid Russophobe. What’s not to like? Mark Carney: A Day in the Life of a War Carnival CEO https://youtu.be/s4whsn7ib8Y (Length 4:00) Carney, the burlesque-dancing pirate in bed with...

Guest Contributor

A failed war does not end when the drones stop flying. It creates a new danger: A government that refuses to admit defeat and a president who, having failed abroad, seeks muscular victories elsewhere. The war against Iran is a...

Uncategorized

BRICS+ and the Search for Strategic Autonomy in a Fracturing Global Order As the BRICS+ summit convenes on September 12-13, the gathering is far more than a routine diplomatic meeting. It is a pivotal moment for a group of countries seeking...

News

For decades, the United States has been Canada’s most important energy partner, absorbing the lion’s share of its oil and gas production. After meeting its domestic refining needs, Canada exports ~80% of its crude output, with roughly 90% going to...

News

An event addresses a moment; a process creates continuity.An event manages adjustment; a process builds order. Complementing the proposed Muscat/Oman process, diplomatically in circulation since June through the Group of Friends of the Process, Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi...

Middle East & Africa, front, Gulf Countries

The South Korea-United States alliance has been one of the principal foundations of the East Asian security architecture for more than seven decades. Established in the aftermath of the Korean War, the alliance provided South Korea with an extended security...

Opinion, India-South Korea, South Korea-US alliance

OpenAI’s Jalapeño is a custom accelerator designed specifically for AI inference, particularly the low-latency, multi-chip workloads behind interactive and agentic systems. Its central idea is that useful performance cannot be reduced to peak floating-point operations or memory bandwidth. What matters...

AI, Events, Semiconductor

Europe desperately needs to ramp up its energy storage capacity if it wants to avoid another energy crisis. In the wake of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine back in 2022, the European Union made major strides in building up its...

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