On September 3, Vice President JD Vance said that the confrontation with Iran was not really a war and declined to say when it might end. A day later, President Donald Trump called the conflict “small potatoes.” By then, the...
In a renewed diplomatic drive, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner travelled to Moscow this weekend to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin. They then traveled to Kyiv for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who said the pair presented him with...
“What do you want for your mahr?” is a question that piques dread in some, glee in others. Mothers advise their daughters to hide money from their husbands. Men wonder if it’s really true that “her money is her money,...
Muslims and Islam are increasingly becoming subjects of political campaigning ahead of the November 3, 2026 US midterm elections, as Republican candidates in several states use issues surrounding extremism, national security and Islamic law to attack Democratic opponents. In Michigan,...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said U.S. peace envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner presented several “decent” and potentially worthwhile ideas during weekend discussions aimed at ending Russia’s war in Ukraine. The U.S. envoys travelled to both Russia and Ukraine, holding...
Russia has rejected the idea that it is pursuing formal de-dollarisation, with Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov saying Moscow remains open to any acceptable payment method. His comments came ahead of the BRICS leaders’ summit in New Delhi on September 12...
Britain is set to announce a trade ban on goods produced in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, marking a significant shift in London’s policy toward Israel and an effort to reinforce support for a two state solution. Foreign...
Saudi Arabia has temporarily halted some operations at energy facilities in its southern region bordering Yemen, following attacks on energy sites on Tuesday morning local time, the official Saudi Press Agency reported. “Several energy sector facilities and installations in the...
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has sent a personally signed letter of thanks to a high school in central Türkiye after receiving a literary magazine prepared by its students and teachers, in a gesture inspired by the school community’s appreciation...
Countries of the Global South are not merely recipients of development support; they are contributors of knowledge, innovation and investment. Credi: Jorge Luis Baños/IPS By Hua Yang ROME, Sep 8 2026 (IPS) The world’s agrifood systems are under mounting pressure from economic uncertainty,...
China’s marine scientific research ships are expanding their operations around Taiwan, and they are not just there to advance the frontiers of human knowledge. Their operations serve to undermine Taiwan’s independent political status and to force international acceptance of Beijing’s...
Rodney Bay Marina, Saint Lucia. Rising seas are among the mounting risks for small island states as the world heads towards an expected overshoot of 1.5°C. Credit: Alison Kentish/IPS By Alison Kentish CASTRIES, Saint Lucia, Sep 8 2026 (IPS) The world is now...
Panelists and participants discuss Japan’s death penalty at a symposium examining capital punishment through the lens of human dignity, held on September 5, 2026, at St. Ignatius Church in Yotsuya, Tokyo. Credit: Katsuhiro Asagiri / INPS Japan By Katsuhiro Asagiri TOKYO, Japan,...
China’s clean technology industry is entering a new phase. After years of rapidly expanding exports to developed markets, particularly Europe, Chinese manufacturers are increasingly looking toward Southeast Asia as a major source of future demand. ASEAN countries have spent more...
The 35th Congress of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) — one of Indonesia’s largest and most influential mass Muslim organizations — has drawn to a consequential close. KH Abdul Hakim Mahfudz, affectionately known as Gus Kikin, was appointed Executive Council (PBNU) chairman...
By Anis Chowdhury SYDNEY, Sep 8 2026 (IPS) It is nearly a year since the UN Security Council (UNSC) adopted Resolution 2803 on 17 November, 2025, endorsing President Trump’s 20-point framework ostensibly designed to end the war in Gaza and create a...
Brent crude ticked up closer to $100 per barrel today as hopes for peace in the Middle East continued to shrink amid renewed mutual threats between the United States and Iran. At the time of writing, the international benchmark was...
On August 16, Trump abruptly commanded the Pentagon to “substantially” reduce joint military exercises between the US and South Korea (ROK). The annual Ulchi Freedom Shield, originally scheduled for eleven days, was subsequently relegated to a five-day exercise. By contrast,...
Twenty-five years ago, 19 hijackers took control of four American airliners and crashed them into symbols of American power, killing upwards of 3000 people. The American population watched the events unfold in real time. It was an emotionally jarring event...
From the start, the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has been a story of unintended consequences. Contrary to President Donald Trump’s hopes for a quick victory, the conflict has morphed into a sustained crisis, one that has driven up oil prices,...
This year’s anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks should serve as another reminder that the criminal prosecution of the accused plotters remains in limbo. One of the biggest cases in U.S. history, and potentially one of its most consequential,...
After almost five years of attritional warfare, the war in Ukraine is entering a more dangerous phase. Russia has strong incentives to escalate. The battlefield has not delivered the political outcome Moscow sought, while Ukraine is increasingly able to strike...
The Trump administration sent Congress its civil nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia. Asked what the deal permits, the president wrote: There will be no enrichment of material. His own Energy Secretary, Chris Wright, has said the opposite. The agreement...
The death of Palestinian artist Sliman Anis Mansour stirred powerful memories. He passed away at Al-Makassed Hospital in occupied East Jerusalem on August 24, at the age of 79, bringing to a close a legacy that cannot truly be described,...
Five years after Indian Point’s last reactor shut down, Albany rediscovered the appeal of electricity that runs around the clock without burning fossil fuels. Governor Kathy Hochul wants 5 gigawatts of new nuclear capacity, with at least 1 GW developed by the publicly...
An investigative report on a blacklisted Chinese server maker’s American subsidiary, which has freely exported Nvidia’s most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) chips through a loophole in Washington’s Entity List rules, has added fresh uncertainty to a planned US-China AI summit...
For more than a century, Pan-Africanism gave Africa a powerful political vocabulary of unity, solidarity, dignity, and liberation. This ideology emerged from a continent determined to reclaim control over its destiny after colonial exploitation and domination. But what happens when...
Washington’s takeover of more than a fifth of Venezuela’s oil reserves in a deal officially signed by U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright on 2 September was as unexpected as it was dramatic, with President Donald Trump’s comment a few days...
The biggest U.S. legacy automakers look to turn the losses from their underutilized electric vehicle battery capacity into a new profitable business to seize the soaring demand for battery storage energy systems. GM and Ford, which, due to poor demand,...
The German Government, along with German universities, are sponsoring a project called MedWater which supports Zionist ethnic cleansing and land seizure in the West Bank. Cross-posted from Scheerpost Exploiting academic institutions as a cover, between 2017 – 2021 the German government surreptitiously...
The investigations published by The New York Times and The Washington Post should not be dismissed as another collection of allegations emerging from Sudan’s opaque civil war. Taken together, they present the most substantial publicly available evidence yet that elements...
A disastrous election for German chancellor Friedrich Merz in particular, and the German establishment in general. Ed Turner is Reader in Politics at Aston University in Birmingham and Co-Director of the Aston Centre for Europe. Cross-posted from The Conversation Picture by Roy Zuo The...
A ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements is the absolute minimum the UK could do towards meeting its obligations to international law, but even that is far too much for the powerful Israel lobby. Ben Jamal is a British Palestinian...
I've been writing for more than a decade and a half about a broad category of metals often nowadays dubbed "strategic" because they are crucial to high-tech applications such as solar photovoltaic panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles, flat screens, semiconductors,...
On August 7, 2026, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkiye signed a defence pact termed as the Makkah Defence Alliance. This is primarily an agreement for collective security, quite similar to NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)’s Article 5. The official announcement...
The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4), Sevilla, 2025. Credit: Forus By Justina Kaluinaitė NEW YORK, Sep 7 2026 (IPS) The 81st session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA81) opens tomorrow at a particularly important moment for multilateralism. The UN80 reform...
Copper is riding its longest weekly winning streak since 1994, and the physical market underneath the rally keeps getting thinner. Benchmark prices on the London Metal Exchange notched a 10th straight weekly gain through last Friday, trading near $14,300 a...
The Department of War just announced at the end of August that it is expanding GenAI.mil with ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government , adding more corporate AI directly into the daily infrastructure of the American military. Both systems are...
In recent years, the space around Kaliningrad has been getting tighter. Poland is building fortifications along the Russian border, Lithuania is restricting transit under the sanctions regime, NATO is strengthening its presence in the Baltic, and Western military officials are...
China has paused approvals for new battery storage factories amid a review of existing and planned capacity, Chinese financial news outlet Cailianshe reported this weekend, citing industry sources. The temporary suspension of approvals of plants that have not started construction...
Germany's political landscape shifted sharply to the right on Sunday, September 6, as the Alternative for Germany (AfD) won a record result in the state election in Saxony-Anhalt. The party secured 43.8 percent of the vote, more than twice the...
Legislative elections in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt have ended with a huge victory for the nationalist-populist Alternative for Germany (AfD). The final results have AfD with just under 44% percent of the vote and the incumbent Christian Democrats (CDU)...
Back on June 4, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Russian leader Vladimir Putin were all smiles amid the ceremonial groundbreaking for the construction of Uzbekistan’s first cluster of nuclear reactors, to be built by Russia’s nuclear entity Rosatom. “I am...
Indian coal companies are ramping up supply to the coal-fired power plants as coal stocks at dozens of the plants dropped to critically low levels, India’s Ministry of Coal said on Monday. More than 50 coal-fired power plants in India,...
The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have found themselves at the center of a major crisis following news investigations by leading U.S. media outlets that exposed their involvement in developing and deploying chemical weapons in the ongoing conflict against the Rapid...
Bottom line: Documented Ukrainian graft becomes diplomatic leverage on its own schedule, independent of its dollar value — the 2024 $40 million case and 2025’s NABU/SAPO law both proved that. This time, the reformer who was closing the exact loophole...
The global power of most Middle Eastern countries remains dependent on their oil and/or gas output, so it is little wonder they try to maximise this, either by pushing production higher or by pretending it is higher, or by forecasting...
The prices of crudes from Canada, South America, and Africa have jumped in recent weeks as Chinese oil import demand is rising from a decade-low, benchmark prices rally, and Middle East supply remains disrupted. The Djeno crude from Congo, one...
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