Icelanders voted on Saturday on whether to reopen membership talks with the European Union. The public is divided on this issue, with a recent poll showing a slight majority against the government’s proposal for renewed negotiations, though previous surveys indicated...
The upcoming official visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Egypt, scheduled for August 30 to September 3, 2026, coincides with the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit. The visit will address economic and technological cooperation, as well as regional and...
Azerbaijan is one of the world’s oldest oil producers and exporters, having pumped crude since the mid-19th century, and remains a major global oil producer. It has long relied on oil and gas to meet its energy needs and as...
Good things are happening! Meta gets a very expensive timeout, regulators kill a killer weedkiller, big money gets the cold shoulder, and Trump’s trans-care crackdown gets blocked. You Love To See It is a benefit of a Lever paid subscription. If...
On 11 February, NATO launched Arctic Sentry — Swedish Gripen jets patrolling Greenlandic airspace, German Eurofighters overhead, nine flags behind a single new command. Officially, it answers Russian submarines in the GIUK gap. Unofficially, it arrived three weeks after Donald...
The 2026 Africa Food Systems Forum (AFS Forum) celebrates 20 years since its formation as the African Green Revolution Conference as part of a concerted campaign to move Africa’s food systems forward. This year’s summit will be held in Kigali,...
The inaugural Africa Business Investment Summit saw a target of $500m of structured commitments, a royal keynote and an unusually candid accounting of why capital still hesitates, by Amartey Laryea. Otumfuo Osei Tutu II had been speaking for barely five minutes...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip /PNN / In a swimming pool in the central Gaza city of Deir al-Balah, children who have lost limbs are learning more than swimming skills. They are taking part in an effort to rebuild their confidence, cope...
GAZA STRIP / PNN / For Shorouq Saadallah and her family, displacement has meant more than leaving home in search of safety. For the past eight months, the family has been living in a displacement camp near a garbage dump, where piles...
US President Donald Trump’s abrupt directive on August 16, 2026, to drastically scale back the joint “Ulchi Freedom Shield” (UFS) military exercises sent shockwaves across the Asia-Pacific geostrategic landscape. The unilateral announcement, posted to social media mere hours before the...
Central Claim The diplomatic traffic through Tehran this week, Qatar, Pakistan and Oman all visiting in seven days, has generated the appearance of momentum toward reopening the Strait of Hormuz. The substance tells a different story. Iran is not negotiating...
If you or someone you know is struggling, the Veterans Crisis Line is available 24/7: call 988 and press 1, text 838255, or visit VeteransCrisisLine.net. I was going to do an article about the corruption of the Trump family, but I...
“Theory is a net. Only those who cast, can catch.”- Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1959) In assessing Israel’s nuclear deterrence and escalation doctrine, one element remains consistently overlooked. This element concerns US-Russian differences regarding “nuclear firebreak theory.”...
In the race to secure the Democratic ticket for Massachusetts’ upcoming Senate race, Rep. Seth Moulton has put out a not-so-subtle call for ads targeting “voters under 40” highlighting that he’s “one of Massachusetts’ rising progressive stars” and a “next...
On August 29, more than 5,000 Indian Americans will fill Madison Square Garden for an event called “Universal Oneness Celebrations.” The keynote speaker is Mohan Bhagwat, chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, or RSS as Indians call it. It is...
This statement was originally published on lesotho.misa.org on 23 August 2026. When a state handshake grants instant credibility to an outlet that answers to no one, who is truly to blame when the next viral lie takes root? By Nicole Tau Every journalist...
This statement was originally published on zambia.misa.org on 13 August 2026. SECOND PRESS STATEMENT BY THE ZIKO LATHU CONSORTIUM AND THE GLOBAL PLATFORM NETWORK AS ZAMBIA VOTES – DELIVERED ON 13TH AUGUST 2026, AT THE GLOBAL PLATFORM Good afternoon distinguished colleagues of...
Over the last two years, the EU and UK have emerged as leading actors in imposing sanctions on Russia. But people like Maria Demertzis, Professor at the European University Institute in Italy, have raised questions around the effectiveness of the...
An analysis of the coming energy crisis Steve Jermy is a Commodore (Rtd) Royal Navy. Naval commander, offshore energy CEO, strategic thinker Cross-posted from Steve Jermy’s substack “Mor Gallos” Photo: Screengrab 1. Executive Summary Introduction – this strategic analysis: forecasts an emerging and prolonged global...
Politics tries to hide it but the only morality it is interested in these days is greed and avarice. It is this which has done endless damage and only a moral campaign can challenge it. Robin McAlpine is head of strategic...
US President Donald Trump’s ‘Economic D-Day’ is following home as the daunting reality of America’s dwindling Strategic Petroleum Reserves becomes inescapable. In this episode of The Target, Mint Press News’ Robert Inlakesh explores the latest revelations to emerge regarding “beyond...
Here’s a realistic scenario how the next serious crisis around digital sovereignty will play out. It will not be a conventional cyberattack. An AI agent, pursuing an assigned objective, will identify another AI system as an obstacle and attempt to...
The massive data center capacity scale-up underway has focused attention on the scale of water required for these facilities to operate. Rystad Energy estimates that without water-saving measures in place, global water consumption by data centers could rise to 644...
The U.S.’ designation of U.K.-based activist collective Palestine Action as a global terrorist group is part of a wider project, concocted by far-right pro-Israel strategist Sebastian Gorka, to criminalize left-wing or pro-Palestine dissent against Trump’s rule. MintPress exposes this plan. The...
His foreign policy is roiling markets and spiking US Treasury bond yields, which touches everything in the American economy Karthik Sankaran is a senior research fellow in geoeconomics in the Global South program at the Quincy Institute Cross-posted from Responsible Statecraft Photo: Wikipedia Over...
Venezuela helped create OPEC. More than six decades later, it is considering walking away, and Washington appears perfectly happy to hold open the door. Caracas is weighing whether to leave the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, Bloomberg reported Friday,...
Kazakhstan is trying to keep the Kremlin at arm’s length amid Russian efforts to lean on Central Asian states for help in bolstering Moscow’s staggering war economy. Ukraine’s ongoing drone campaign has inflicted severe damage on Russia’s energy infrastructure and...
Chinese media and intelligence are closely following the exodus of the American Central Intelligence Agency CIA personnel, particularly the months-long wait for new retirees to receive their financial entitlements. The agency is facing what it describes as an unprecedented number...
More Gulf oil is moving again. Getting it out now costs a fortune. Earnings on the benchmark Saudi Arabia-to-China supertanker route surged to a record $647,000 per day on Thursday, according to Baltic Exchange data cited by Bloomberg. That is...
This story is a partnership with Drilled , an independent global newsroom focused on multimedia climate accountability reporting. Reporting for this story was funded in part by the Center for Media and Democracy. Strike up a conversation in Mandan, North Dakota, at...
Vladimir Putin’s upcoming visit to the Kyrgyz capital could become a turning point for the largest Eurasian association, which is preparing for a radical transformation of its role on the continent. SCO Is Not NATO — But It Could Become Something...
In the second quarter of 2026, the EU recorded a trade deficit of €21.8 billion, as goods imported from non-EU countries (€701.8 billion) exceeded exports (€680.0 billion). This is the first trade deficit registered since the second quarter of 2023,...
Why is meat so expensive? Who’s pouring herself a cup of ambition? And who is Hasan Piker anyway? The answers to these questions and many more can be found in LeverMind , our weekly news quiz testing your knowledge of the...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres (at podium) briefs reporters on the status of the Ebola virus outbreak. Credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten By Shreya Komar UNITED NATIONS, Aug 28 2026 (IPS) Following 42 consecutive days without a new confirmed case, The Africa Centres for Disease...
By CIVICUS Aug 28 2026 (IPS) CIVICUS discusses Sweden’s new migration laws with John Stauffer, legal director and deputy executive director of Civil Rights Defenders, a Swedish civil society organisation that acts as a civil rights watchdog at home and supports human...
Chinese Huawei Technologies Company has submitted a formal bid to the Egyptian government to establish advanced artificial intelligence (AI) data centers for various government sectors, including the military, security, and surveillance sectors, as well as the creation of a national...
“Don’t leave home without sunscreen!” “No tan is worth the risk!” “Protect the skin you’re in!” If you haven’t heard these sun protection slogans, you’ve certainly heard a litany of others. The current dermatological guidelines decree the sun’s rays as...
This article was originally published in Mondoweiss . On a large rock under the midday summer sun, Abdul Karim Hassan, 63, sat exhausted by fatigue and grief, staring toward his two sons’ houses on the hill of Ras al-Ain in the...
Lake Chungará and Parinacota volcano in northern Chile Credit: Gerd Breitenbach, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license By Céline Delacroix OTTAWA, Canada, Aug 28 2026 (IPS) This week is World Water Week , the annual conference of governments, business, and civil...
Oil holds near $90 despite sweeping Iran sanctions as uncertainty over Hormuz transits keeps markets on edge. Friday, August 28, 2026 The US announcement of ‘toughest sanctions in history’ against Iran did relatively little to push oil prices away from...
JENIN, West Bank /PNN - An Israeli airstrike killed three Palestinians on Friday in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, including a man the Israeli military said was a Hamas operative, according to Israeli and local sources. The Israeli military said...
Photo by Pix Tresa on Unsplash A while back, I talked about the kind of spread I wanted. It’s part of something I call Project Ithaca, just to have a name for it in my mind. I picked the name a...
TODAY’S NUMBERS: $6.8bn (Danantara’s remittance to Jakarta’s budget) · 20% (Saudi PIF’s new overseas-investment ceiling, down from 30%) · 5.65% (Danantara’s average bond yield). Money built to leave state treasuries is being told to stay home. Bloomberg reported Friday that...
Britain has played itself into the role of a would-be global and maritime power. Its desire to reclaim the great status it once enjoyed has driven London into such enormous expenditures that Britain has decided to bring Germany into the...
Even before the Collective West launched a direct military war against Russia, Russia had already won the war: its army, its economy, and its people. By Peter Hanseler via ForumGeopolitia.com Hard Factors Russia’s Many Enemies If one wants to determine which side will prevail...
Agentic artificial intelligence is likely to give the open-source electronic design automation market a meaningful boost. Its biggest contribution will not be the immediate replacement of established commercial platforms from Cadence, Synopsys, or Siemens. Instead, agentic AI can make open-source...
The search is on for “Unstoppable Africans”. The Global Africa Business Initiative (GABI) has opened nominations for a new community-led campaign to recognise and celebrate entrepreneurs, business leaders and changemakers whose ideas, leadership and actions are driving Africa’s economic transformation. The...
Sudan’s war has entered a more dangerous phase after fighting spilled across the country’s borders, raising fresh concerns about the conflict’s regional consequences. The Chadian army accused the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) of carrying out an airstrike against a convoy...
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