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Kevin Rideout, who was abducted by unknown assailants in Niamey, said to be in good health and in care of US officials An American missionary who was kidnapped in Niger in October has been released, his organisation has said. Kevin Rideout “is...

Niger, US news, World news

Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. Germany’s spies get powers once reserved for policeDiego Faßnacht reports that Germany’s intelligence overhaul would blur the postwar separation between...

Global Risk-Reward Monitor

Low U.S. gasoline prices are the top priority of the Administration amid the war in Iran, Vice President JD Vance said, as the U.S.-Iran deadlock persists and the U.S. vowed to keep the blockade on Iran indefinitely. “I know that...

News

Tankers moving along the Strait of Hormuz dwindled further this week, with only five crossings on Wednesday and nine crossings on Thursday, down from a monthly average of 12 crossings, according to data from Kpler, as cited by Reuters. Five...

News

China on Friday condemned Taiwan’s annual Han Kuang military exercises as a “wasteful charade”, accusing Taipei of stoking fears of war as the island conducts 10 days of drills simulating a potential Chinese attack. The comments were China’s first official...

World News, China, Security

European shares were little changed on Friday but remained on track for a weekly decline as investors weighed stalled U.S. Iran peace efforts, rising oil prices and upcoming euro zone economic data. The STOXX 600 edged up 0.05% to 659.65...

World News, Economics, Europe

Vietnam’s sovereign AI relies heavily on open-weight models developed in the United States. However, as Washington and Beijing are moving to restrict access to these technologies, Hanoi’s bamboo diplomacy offers little protection to its AI ambitions. In mid-July, Vietnam approved...

AI Competition, Artificial Intelligence, China

Saudi Arabia is turning to regional defence alliances as it faces growing attacks from Iran and its network of regional allies, while trying to avoid being pulled into a wider Middle East war. Riyadh is pursuing several new security arrangements,...

Middle East & Africa, Defence, Saudi Arabia

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Friday that he plans to endorse a candidate for the country’s 2028 presidential election, but said he has not yet decided who will receive his backing. Marcos is constitutionally limited to a single...

World News, Asia, Philippines

NEW YORK – US Treasury yields are pressing against their highest levels since 2007, and Asia’s policymakers know what that usually means: turbulence ahead. This week’s $42 billion auction of 10-year notes cleared at 4.683%, the richest yield since the...

Finance, Block 2, Currencies

This week brought two Indonesia stories that sat side by side but pointed in different directions. In Jakarta, US Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby met Indonesia’s defense minister, Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin, as part of a Southeast Asia tour...

Southeast Asia, Block 2, China-Indonesia

Today, there is no all-out war, no peace, and no light at the end of the Strait of Hormuz. The Trump administration’s crack at transforming Iran is drifting along in the Persian Gulf, as on-again, off-again negotiations fail to resolve...

Israel, Aipac, Iran-war

Crude oil imports from Russia accounted for over 50% of India’s total import volumes last month. This was the highest share of Russian oil in India’s import mix, Reuters noted in a report that cited unnamed trade sources. Russia exported...

News

North Korea has intensified its criticism of Japan’s military expansion and its growing security cooperation with the United States and South Korea, portraying the developments as a threat to regional stability. More than a dozen North Korean state media attacks...

East Asia, Japan, North Korea

Credit: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Aug 14 2026 (IPS) Pakistan, one of few South Asian countries to oscillate between democratic governments and authoritarian regimes, is cracking down on journalists, including foreign correspondents covering the political situation in...

Democracy, Featured, Global

Without a credible political solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Gaza will continue to oscillate between fragile ceasefires and devastating wars, leaving lasting peace out of reach. The Illusion of a Gaza Breakthrough Declaring last week’s announcements on Gaza a ‘breakthrough’...

Israel, Middle East, Palestine

In the early months following Israel’s brutal war on Gaza, Latin American leaders emerged as some of the world’s sharpest critics of the military campaign. Then-Colombian President Gustavo Petro was among the first world leaders to call Israel’s actions a “genocide.”...

Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina

On Washington’s 16th Street, overlooking Meridian Hill Park, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is transforming the former French Embassy into a permanent base for its growing influence operation in Washington. The party bought the Beaux-Arts mansion for roughly...

Recep-tayyip-erdogan, Israel, F-35

Nvidia’s newly unveiled plan to mobilize more than US$500 billion in third-party financing for artificial intelligence (AI) data centers is expected to deepen its global dominance and reduce the competitiveness of Chinese chips in global markets. The company said on...

Technology, AI Factories, Artificial Intelligence

By: Khanh Vu Duc Vietnamese Communist Party General Secretary Tô Lâm’s visit to Australia and New Zealand may look like routine diplomacy. It is better understood as a marker of Hanoi’s evolving strategy in a more contested Indo-Pacific. Vietnam is not abandoning...

News

Eighteen Years, Zero Texts On July 28, the UN General Assembly did what it has done every year since the effort began: it rolled Security Council reform talks into another session without resolving anything, this time pushing the process into...

Diplomacy, African Union, Analysis

To Lam’s visit to Canberra on August 11 was the first state visit to Australia by a Vietnamese head of state since the 1975 reunification and the first meeting between the two leaders. Since taking the presidency in April, To...

Asia Times, Block 4, To Lam

“The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness… They conferred against the Government the right to be let alone — most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.” ~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941)...

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Amid geopolitical changes, Red Sea security has attained new developments, creating heightened maritime tensions, while the Gulf States race to control the region. By a simple geographical definition, the Red Sea is a sea inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying...

Middle East & Africa, Africa, Economics

For years, U.S. President Donald Trump has openly displayed his disdain for the clean energy and electric vehicle sectors. In the early days of his second term, Trump stalled funding for EV charging infrastructure while pushing fossil fuels. In July...

News

U.S. demand for electricity is expected to hit an all-time high both this year and next, driven by the data center buildout of Big Tech. This is the latest in a series of record-demand projections by the Energy Information Administration....

News

LISTEN NOW: Oliver Larkin spent a decade battling the Democratic Party’s campaign machine as an organizer for candidates like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Now, in Florida’s Aug. 18 primary, he’s a democratic socialist going up against Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) —...

Lever Time

It’s been nearly 50 years since director Robb Moss first documented his month-long trip through the Grand Canyon with five friends. That footage became the 1978 documentary “Riverdogs” and served as the jumping off point for its appropriately titled 2003...

Arts & Culture, Film, Opinion

A single bug on a full-chip SoC can pull engineers off roadmap work for days or even weeks. It involves massive waveforms, thousands of files of RTL and UVM, and dense specs that aren’t always perfect. Finding these bugs have...

Bronco AI, EDA, bronco ai

China has driven the world’s solar energy deployment, adding capacity at such a blistering rate that the nation’s existing and planned wind and solar generation nearly doubles the rest of the world put together. However, China’s deployment of supportive infrastructure...

News

Washington is putting real money behind advanced nuclear. The US Department of Energy is gearing up to hand X-energy another $1 billion for its planned nuclear project with Dow in Texas, bringing total federal funding available for the project since...

News

Oil supply disruptions, high fuel prices and faster battery innovation could give electric vehicle adoption a fresh push, with consequences for oil demand, power grids and metals markets, Wood Mackenzie said Thursday. Wars affecting oil-producing Russia and Iran have exposed...

News

A Room in Vienna That Washington Did Not Book In July, in a private room in Vienna, three men who used to run European foreign policy sat down with a former Kremlin official whose name has still not been made...

Europe, Analysis, Diplomacy

A strong commercial space industry is an important partner for the U.S. government, as it contributes to building more robust space and defense capabilities and facilitates innovation more broadly. As competition between the United States and China heats up, both...

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