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...
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...
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...
Equal Earth projection, adopted by the UN last week, provides an alternative to 16th-century Mercator display Three cartographers have spoken of their astonishment at the UN’s near-universal adoption of a map they created to more accurately show the sizes of Africa...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
The idea that the world is becoming multipolar has acquired the status of conventional wisdom. It is repeated by governments, international organizations, business leaders, and much of the academic and policy community. The argument appears straightforward. American primacy is declining....
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....
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...
Three years after Brexit, the UK-EU relationship is not converging. Financial services are diverging deliberately, defense integration is off limits, and energy markets face a hard deadline with no resolution. The reset narrative obscures a weaker negotiating position than Westminster...
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...
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...
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.”...
Drinking locally made alcohol is common in Nigeria, especially in rural areas where it is more affordable and poorly regulated At least 48 people have died and about 100 others are receiving treatment in southern Nigeria after consuming a locally brewed...
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Yemen’s Houthis have been surprising the world for years, and especially their less-than-friendly neighbors, Saudi Arabia and Israel. In addition to periodic strikes on their oil and gas facilities and military bases, the Houthis have recently added a victorious advance...
Turkey plans to spend $108 billion over the next ten years to develop its alternative energy infrastructure, eyeing 120 GW in installed wind and solar capacity. At the same time, Turkey is also spending heavily on securing long-term oil and...
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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’...
Karl Miller’s latest private assessment, dated September 16 and titled “Judgment Day Has Arrived,” makes a single governing claim about diesel, jet fuel, and kerosene: physical demand is now outrunning promptly deliverable supply. Not the price of the barrel —...
The global fuel crisis is strengthening Russia’s position in the energy sector and geopolitics against the backdrop of rising prices and limited reserves. US Wants Best for Itself, but Things Turn Out as Usual The Wall Street Journal, in an article titled...
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...
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...
The year 2026 has brought sweeping change to Latin America’s relationship with the United States. Following a major military buildup in the Caribbean and strikes against vessels suspected of drug trafficking, U.S. forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Jan....
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...
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:...
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...
As Yemen’s Houthis ramp up the costs of war in the Gulf, Tehran is wagering on US elections to bring a political sea change Marco Carnelos is a former Italian diplomat. He has been assigned to Somalia, Australia and the United...
We must keep prising the fingers of the billionaire class off our throats until it is only the discredited, and morally bankrupt, who refuse to speak loudly in opposition to genocide Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the...
How long can Western nations serve as proxies to keep the US afloat? Michael Hudson (preview clip The United States is selling oil short, just as it has kept down the price of gold through financial manipulation, selling gold forward short...
Rising electrification rates remain the main pillar of global energy investment despite recent concerns about the existential threat that AI could pose for humanity, Fatih Birol, the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), said on Thursday. “Electricity demand...
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The world of pop culture is ablaze with fury, as billionaire plutocrat Robert Kraft successfully pressured Ed Sheeran into dropping Macklemore from his North American tour over the rapper’s pro-Palestine statements. The incident has ignited widespread outrage, and blown up in...
RAMALLAH /PNN/ The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said journalists and media workers in the Gaza Strip are facing “exceptionally harsh conditions” amid the ongoing war, calling for the urgent medical evacuation of dozens of injured and ill reporters who cannot access adequate...
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is increasingly preoccupied with a singular structural shift: the move toward national currencies in trade and investment. While the official rhetoric emphasizes a collective drift away from the US dollar, a deeper analysis of member...
Just days after Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan reaffirmed an intention to reduce the country’s dependence on Russian natural gas imports, Russia’s provider, Gazprom Armenia, has taken the seemingly punitive step of announcing a prolonged cutoff of supplies. Pashinyan told...
This story was originally published by Sentient . Last November , the Trump administration proposed a regulation that would strip federal water pollution protections from wide swaths of wetlands in the United States. Now, 10 months later, the administration has updated...
In 2020, the group Black Lives Matter became a driving force in American politics. They ostensibly rallied around the idea that black lives, you know, matter. A bold position, to be sure, because I wasn’t sure anyone really disagreed. Photo by...
The Houthis are routinely described as Iranian proxies. The description has become even more common as their military reach has expanded from northern Yemen toward the Red Sea and the Bab el Mandeb strait. Iran has supplied weapons, training, intelligence...
Within days of the CDU’s worst-ever state election result, CSU leader Markus Söder ruled out any move against Chancellor Friedrich Merz “under no circumstances,” calling him the right man to stand by his own reform agenda. Read as loyalty, that...
The US Congress on September 16 passed sweeping legislation targeting Russia and Iran, sending to President Donald Trump a sanctions package supporters say will increase pressure on Moscow and countries that help finance its war against Ukraine. The House of...
Failing to deter a full-scale war with Israel and the United States, Iran has moved away from the strategic patience and military restraint that shaped much of its prewar approach, shifting toward a counter-escalation strategy that aims to transform the...
The House voted Thursday to pass legislation that would place a new set of sanctions on Russia, drawing significant Democratic support despite opposition from party leadership. The bill, first introduced by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) in 2025, was previously...
The UK household energy bills could jump by between 25% and 30% in the first quarter of 2027 amid surging natural gas prices as the Middle East crisis drags on, analysts say, warning that the government may have to spend...
ASML’s grip on the most advanced corner of chip manufacturing is tightening. The Dutch company, already the sole supplier of extreme ultraviolet lithography systems, is winning broader industry support for High Numerical Aperture EUV, or High NA, its next-generation technology...
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