After years of delays and plateaued development timelines, it might finally be time for the small nuclear revolution. In a brand new report, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has once again increased its long-term nuclear power forecast, projecting that...
We’re going to try it a little differently this week and just embed everything. Anywho, this is me sitting down with my friend and editor, Cam Edwards. In this video, we talk about the challenges of raising at least three types...
Russians are participating in a three-day parliamentary election that is expected to confirm the ruling United Russia party’s control in a political system that limits opposition to the war in Ukraine. The election’s outcome seems certain, but it may serve...
Yemen’s civil war has returned to the centre of a much wider regional conflict. In September, the Iran-aligned Houthis launched a rapid offensive along Yemen’s Red Sea coast, overrunning forces aligned with the internationally recognised government. They captured the port...
Good things are happening! Big Tech gets schooled, civil rights report for duty, a fossil fuel revival hits the brakes, and The Lever sits down with a teen titan of First Amendment rights. You Love To See It is a benefit...
Awareness of environmentally friendly construction methods is increasing in Austria, which is reflected in the growing interest in sustainable garden sheds. The term “gartenhütte” refers to a garden hut or shed, typically a small structure used for storage, hobbies, relaxation...
HEBRON, West Bank / PNN / In a small workshop tucked inside Hebron’s centuries-old Old City, herbs, olive oil and other natural ingredients take on a new life. Mariam Abu Turki has turned plants long familiar in Palestinian homes and fields into...
The Israeli documentary Naza attracted considerable international media and political attention after winning the Venice Film Festival’s Special Jury Prize, despite not yet having reached the wider public. Following its screening at the festival, the film received a 25-minute standing...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip /PNN / For the first time in three years, Gaza’s children are returning to classrooms.But there are few signs of the back-to-school season they once knew. The new academic year began Saturday with students returning to in-person education...
President Xi Jinping’s visit to Cairo was not a protocol visit. It was a doctrine declaration. At a highly sensitive moment: an open war in Iran, threats to close the Strait of Hormuz, and a sharp division within the BRICS...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Le Minh Hung traveled to New Delhi for the 18th BRICS Summit, where he met bilaterally with Narendra Modi and laid out Hanoi’s vision for international cooperation. The visit drew heavy coverage at home, but it did...
The country has one of the highest femicide rates in the world, and women are yet again being asked to remove themselves from public life to counter it When I heard the authorities advising women in and around Kempton Park, the...
At any other time in American history, it would end the career of somebody like Scott Bessent, our limited-intelligence Treasury Secretary. It came out yesterday when Illinois Congressman Sean Casten was questioning him about the “billions of dollars” that Trump keeps claiming...
Seeing Rural Japan Through a Single Prefecture: Hyōgo Rural Japan is living through two forms of population decline at once, and Hyōgo Prefecture distills the whole structure into a single frame. The first is the aging of business owners. Across Japan, hundreds...
This summer the Nuclear Regulatory Commission concluded that restarting Three Mile Island’s Unit 1 — the plant synonymous with nuclear disaster since 1979 — would have no significant environmental impact. Constellation Energy now expects the renamed Crane Clean Energy Center...
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 17 September 2026. The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has established a Legal Support Fund with an allocation of approximately GHS 544,000. The Fund responds to growing concerns about the use of...
For most of this year I have been making an argument about a fraction of a barrel. Not the barrel itself — the flat price of crude has been a headline anyone can read — but the middle of it:...
The famous American MQ-9 Reaper drone often makes the news, and usually for rather scandalous reasons. Its appearance in the sky is always a harbinger of trouble — either immediately or shortly afterward. The Reaper is like a scavenging bird,...
This statement was originally published on lesotho.misa.org on 15 September 2026. The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Lesotho strongly condemns the reported vandalism and destruction of equipment and furniture at KEL Radio s tation over the weekend. MISA Lesotho is concerned...
Every export increasingly carries two products: the good itself and the evidence that makes it admissible. The cost of producing the second may determine who can sell the first. This is an overlooked consequence of selective US–China decoupling. Production costs...
This statement was originally published on cipesa.org on 10 September 2026. In July 2026, Mozambique’s Constitutional Council ruled that before a government can justify an internet shutdown, it must first have lawful authority to order one. The ruling signifies that before...
The Middle East crisis has reverberated through key global shipping chokepoints thousands of miles away from the Strait of Hormuz. Following the crippled tanker traffic through the Middle East’s main oil and LNG export outlet, the Panama Canal and the...
The artificial intelligence energy crisis is catalyzing the development pipeline for space-based solar energy. As the world rushes to build up more energy production capacity in a scramble to keep up with skyrocketing demand from data center hyperscalers, the public...
Unlike many ungulates that establish a strict social hierarchy led by a dominant male, sheep lack an internal leadership structure. Both wild and domestic flocks demonstrate a tendency to follow almost any entity that moves with confidence-be it a goat,...
BETHLEHEM / PNN / The Palestine News Network (PNN) has launched a new programme aimed at strengthening independent journalism and public accountability, as part of efforts to develop professional media content that amplifies community voices and addresses social and economic challenges...
This is the first article in a two-part series. For many years, progressive movements and activists have longed for the moment when we could imagine a real foreign policy rooted in true internationalism and solidarity. But in our efforts to influence actual...
Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. ***IranSenior officials from Iran, Oman, and neighboring Gulf states were scheduled to meet in Salalah on Monday...
A Republican Congressional candidate in Iowa has pitched himself as an anti-corruption crusader, swearing off corporate PAC donations and claiming to represent voters who’ve “been left behind by a broken political system that works for insiders and lobbyists.” But as...
This time, Europe seems serious about holding Israel accountable – or at least that is what 11 European countries, together with Canada, want us to believe. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of the Palestine Chronicle. He is the...
The link between urbanization and poverty may be determined by how cities are planned and governed, according to UN reports. Credit: Benjamin Shurance/Unsplash By Shuli Wong UNITED NATIONS, Sep 18 2026 (IPS) Urbanization can help concentrate jobs, services, and investments; however, it can...
As a kid, I knew three things about the guy who owned my favorite NFL team. He was short, from Ohio, and he was a good owner because he spent money. After 40 years of further review, that stands as...
TotalEnergies and BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) have signed a partnership agreement under which GIP will invest $1.8 billion in capital contribution toward some of the French supermajor’s oil and gas infrastructure assets in Africa. In exchange for the $1.8...
Why are stadium owners angry? Is the Strait of Hormuz still blocked? And whose campaigns is Big Tech funding? The answers to these questions and many more can be found in LeverMind , our weekly news quiz testing your knowledge of...
Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. Germany’s CDU is entering a leadership crisisDiego Faßnacht reports that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is facing a deepening leadership crisis...
When Xi Jinping sits down with Donald Trump in Washington on September 24, the American side plans to raise AI-directed cyberattacks and accusations that Chinese labs copied U.S. models. Less than two weeks earlier in New Delhi, Xi offered the...
Ten-year Bund yields hit their highest level since 2011 the week the AfD won 43.8% of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt — the worst state result the CDU has ever suffered, delivered to a chancellor already polling at 13% approval, the...
Ladies and gents, we’re going to do something a little different today. I’m going to tell you all a story. It’s a true one, too. No tall tale, no puffery or hyperbole, if I can help it. Just a simple...
An INEOS-led carbon capture and storage project in Denmark was launched on Friday to become the first full-scale CO2 storage site in the European Union, UK-based chemicals and energy group INEOS said. The Greensand CO2 storage facility, led by INEOS...
The little girl stared up at Norma Gómez from the doorway of her neighbor’s apartment, her sad, brown eyes suddenly flashing with hope. “Are you the person who’s going to bring my mom back?” she asked. Gómez struggled to find an answer....
As we mark 15 years since Occupy Wall Street, it is worth remembering that the movement against inequality has a long lineage. The Gen Z-led protests flooding the streets of India, Kenya, Bolivia and Tunisia today have been building for...
Palantir CEO Alex Karp proclaimed on a panel in 2024 that “technology should be able to reduce drastically the amount of collateral damage, civilian deaths.” Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and former Deputy Director of the CIA David Cohen agreed. Proponents...
TSMC reportedly plans to double its Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate capacity from approximately 130,000 300mm-equivalent wafers per month at the end of 2026 to 260,000 by 2028. The estimate is not formal company guidance and should be treated as a supply-chain projection. Nevertheless,...
The Chinese presence in the Red Sea and Horn of Africa ports and projects is deeply significant, given its connection to trade and supply chains and its potential to grant China future influence over maritime security, shipping lanes, and military...
For years, digital influence followed a familiar path. Someone searched Google, looked through the results, clicked a website, and decided what to do next. Businesses fought for clicks through SEO, advertising, content, and brand building. However, all of that is...
Sovereignty is usually understood as a legal status: a state is recognized, possesses territory and institutions of government, and formally has the right to make decisions independently. Yet in today’s international system, that definition is no longer sufficient. Formal independence...
The new generation Audi 100 enters the market positioned between the traditional luxury of Mercedes-Benz and the driver-centric focus of BMW. The range consists of three variants: the base 100, the mid-range 100S, and the top-tier 100CS. All three utilize...
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...
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...
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