The threat reveals less about Oman and far more about how comprehensively the Iran war has gone off script for an administration that promised a quick, decisive victory. President Donald Trump did not set out to make an enemy of...
This story was originally published by Michigan Advance , a hard-hitting, nonprofit news site covering politics and policy across the state. Subscribe to their free daily newsletter HERE . Michigan Republican U.S. Senate nominee Mike Rogers collected nearly $100,000 from key...
Oilfield services giant SLB is preparing to reactivate as many as 15 drilling rigs in Venezuela, potentially removing one of the biggest obstacles to increasing the country’s crude production. SLB and energy-focused private equity firm Formentera Partners are working on...
Officials say all seven people onboard killed, including Telemundo executive and Ecuador intelligence chief Seven people, including five Americans, were killed when a safari helicopter crashed on Wednesday morning in a remote part of northern Kenya, according to local police and...
Afshon Ostovar, one of the leading experts on Iran and the host of the members-only podcast The Iran Reckoning, is joined by War on the Rocks membership editor Kerry Anderson for a state-of-play conversation on the conflict between the United...
Passersby take part in a pickup football game organized by civilian search collectives on Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma during the World Cup, July 2026. © 2026 Jorge Peniche/Human Rights Watch By Jorge Peniche Aug 19 2026 (IPS) Weeks have gone by...
Hebron / PNN / In the Old City of Hebron, some traditional Palestinian crafts continue to resist decline, maintaining a fragile presence despite rapid change and a shrinking workforce. Among them is handmade glassmaking , a centuries-old craft passed down through...
Kyrgyzstan has provided some clarity on the source of the recent blackout that impacted four states in Central Asia, while vigorously denying blame for the cascading outage. Power outages were first reported in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek during the...
American star Kanye West's upcoming concerts in Russia have sparked political controversy, but they have done little to change the attitude of a grateful audience toward the artist. Does Kanye West Love Hitler? American rapper Ye (Kanye West) is officially coming to...
Gaza – By Wael Oweida Football academies in the Gaza Strip, once a cornerstone for nurturing young talent, are struggling to survive amid widespread destruction and severe shortages, even as they continue to offer a rare outlet for children affected by...
The world’s largest battery-electric aircraft has completed its first flight using just $5 worth of electricity, with Heart Aerospace’s 25,000-pound X1 demonstrator flying for 27 minutes and putting a megawatt-scale electric propulsion system through its first airborne test. Heart Aerospace’s...
The entire pacific and cosmopolitan spirit if the nineties is exposed as an ideological cover to service interests of the rich Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His latest book, The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism...
Having lost the military war against Iran, the US is about to lose the economic war with its “ Operation Economic Fury ” offensive Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and former planner and advisor at...
Macroeconomics remains divorced from what is going on in the real economy Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Photo licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license Source:...
Key Takeaways from the webinar: Multi-agent intelligent assistant systems of the future will be architected to automate and augment SoC design and security verification and redefining semiconductor innovation, reshaping design, verification and security for the next generation of trusted silicon. The ESD...
Jelena Vidojević in conversation with Paul Stubbs Jelena Vidojević is a political scientist and co-founder of the New South Institute. She is also the editor of the ‘ Missing Voices: Critical Thinking in Times of Polycrisis’ series . Paul Stubbs is a...
Romania spent more than 2 million euros this month detonating rocks and sinking barges in the Danube, trying to shove enough water toward the Cernavoda nuclear plant to keep its reactors cool. It didn’t work. On Aug. 13, Nuclearelectrica began...
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For months, Bangladesh and India had been attempting that favorite diplomatic maneuver, the “reset,” a word suggesting that international relations, like an obstinate Wi-Fi router, can be repaired by switching everything off and starting again. There was certainly plenty to...
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 4 August 2026. On August 1, 2026, Moussa Mara, Mali’s former prime minister and current president of the opposition party Yéléma, was released from prison after serving a one-year jail sentence. He was charged...
Jurors in an eight-week trial of Palestine Action activists who allegedly planned a raid on an Israeli-owned arms factory were discharged on Wednesday. It came after they told the court they had been unable to reach verdicts for seven of the...
Hezbollah have blunted yet another Israeli attempt to seize the strategic Ali al-Taher Hills in southern Lebanon, falling into a costly ambush – meanwhile, Iran issues a threat that it will not stand idly by and could soon escalate unless...
This statement was originally published on misa.org on 17 August 2026. Executive overview The general elections of 13 August 2026 served as a defining crucible for Zambia’s democratic integrity and the endurance of its civic institutions. Although the technical execution of the...
In a fit of pique, Donald Trump recently scaled back the big annual military exercise between the United States and South Korea. He would have canceled it altogether if the 11-day Ulchi Freedom Shield training hadn’t already started. The U.S....
Inflation has leaped up following the reset of the energy price cap, official data has revealed, marking the likely beginning of a long run of increases in price growth. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) put the consumer price index...
Chinese intelligence, military, political, and strategic circles received the news of the meeting between Egyptian Intelligence Chief Major General Hassan Rashad and a Hamas delegation in Cairo on Sunday, August 16, 2026, headed by Khalil Al-Hayya, as a pivotal step...
Over the past week , Pentagon officials launched a broadside against reports of dire conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, which has been deployed in the Middle East for more than eight months. Less than 24 hours after Defense...
This story was originally published by The 19th . Florida Democrat Angie Nixon , a progressive who recently joined the Democratic Socialists of America, won Democrats’ nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in a stunning upset that gave progressives a win...
Panda-powered tourism fuels summer resort economy in southwest China town The Shenshuping Base of Wolong China Giant Panda Garden, operated by the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda (CCRCGP), is home to over 70 giant pandas. The...
Most discussions about the Democratic Party in this election cycle focus on the remarkable rise of progressive Democrats (such as Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon, a democratic socialist who yesterday scored an upset win in the Democratic contest for the...
The Beninese lawyer Moudjib Djinadou runs a new think tank, the Itumò Institute. He has published a new essay, *L’Afrique renégate*. What have you learnt from your experience on the ground at the heart of African crises? I have faced humanitarian crises,...
Washington may be biting off more than it can chew: escalating over Hormuz could trigger a wider confrontation, undermine U.S. credibility, and expose the limits of American power. A Strait at the Center of a New Power Struggle Trump’s Hormuz...
Main image: Supporters leave flowers after taking part in a vigil for late Cambridge professor Jason Arday in Trafalgar Square in central London on August 17, 2026, following his death at age 41 on August 14. Arday, the ex-Cambridge professor...
The Ukraine war has become fertile ground for a dangerously misguided way of thinking about the dynamics between Russia and the West — one that, if left unchecked, will set the stage for a larger and more destructive confrontation in...
Canada has won a three-day reprieve from President Donald Trump’s threatened 50% tariffs, but a final trade deal remains hung up on Canadian auto exports, leaving Washington and Ottawa until Friday to settle one of their biggest remaining disputes, Reuters...
UK household energy bills are set to further rise from October by 4% to their highest level since the summer of 2023, as the Iran war has tightened global gas supply and made gas restocking in Europe more difficult and...
The Five Eyes links the intelligence agencies of Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States through arrangements for sharing signals intelligence. The operation has its origins in the Cold War but expanded significantly after September 11. Edward Snowden’s...
Thousands of National Guard soldiers have been deployed across Washington under President Donald Trump’s campaign to combat crime and improve public safety in the U.S. capital. Yet a Reuters review of criminal court records suggests that the troops have played...
India’s government is looking to incentivize city gas distributors to increase piped gas connections to raise domestic cooking gas supply to households as the costs of importing liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) have soared since the Iran war choked off supply...
There is a long-running myth that Africans did not have clothes until the arrival of Arabs and later, colonisation. In fact, Africa has a long tradition of making its own unique clothing since time immemorial. From Malian mud cloths, which...
NEW YORK – As global bond yields spike amid the latest Middle East tremors, Japan is at the epicenter. Surging US Treasury rates are getting most of the attention – even from geopolitical observers like Eurasia Group’s Ian Bremmer, who...
We have to talk about Gaza. It is the defining moral crisis of modern history. One of the reasons people don't get it is that you cannot understand what is happening in Gaza without understanding the history of Israel and...
A smoke- free UN corridor. Credit: IPS By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Aug 19 2026 (IPS) When smoking was common in the corridors of the UN, in the delegate’s lounge and in committee rooms during the 1970s and 90s, the office of the...
Schools across Thailand have begun conducting active shooter response drills following a deadly attack at a school that killed at least eight people. The exercises were launched as authorities moved to strengthen security measures and prepare students and teachers for...
The US’s flagship tariff-free trade programme allows African countries to use Chinese and Indian textiles in their exports to the US. The success of Africa’s textile and apparel industry under the United States’ African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is something...
85% of Ethiopia’s industrial park production is in textiles and garments, with manufacturing led by the $250m Hawassa Industrial Park. Back in July 2015, construction started on the Hawassa Industrial Park (HIP) (pictured) about 280 miles south of Ethiopia’s capital, Addis...
In a Pacific war, the U.S. military cannot assume uncontested access to its depots and supply lines for munitions, spare parts, food, water, and energy. Jonathan is joined by David Tuttle (Rune Technologies), Paul Lwin (HavocAI), and Tom Garvey (CACI)...
The Iran war is beginning to resemble the Ukraine war in one important way. Operationally, the wars themselves are still very different — Ukraine is a large-scale ground invasion, while the Iran war is not there just yet. But their...
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