For decades, Africa has lagged the world in energy consumption, accounting for less than 5% of global energy supplies despite being home to a fifth of the world’s population. The continent also accounts for a mere 2% of global manufacturing...
Support for white Afrikaners, anti-communism and others reveals how US redefining what qualifies as human rights With hours left before the funding expires, the Trump administration is pushing to direct more than $175m of the state department’s flagship human rights fund...
In his celebrated short stories about robots, science fiction author Isaac Asimov devised three laws to prevent machines from overpowering humans. First of all, robots could not, under any circumstances, harm humans. Following from this prime directive, they had to...
I spent a significant part of my career in the ASIC business. This segment of semiconductors has always been challenging, difficult and invigorating. There is something special about delivering a working custom chip that enables your customer to bring a...
President Trump announced plans to appoint a special coordinator for artificial intelligence, an "AI czar," within three to four days. The White House is also considering establishing a committee of about ten members to oversee the technology's development. These announcements...
The nature of the shortage of diesel and jet fuel is more complex than most people realize. Based on my analysis, a shortfall has existed since at least 2020. The shortage is not simply the result of the closure of...
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Ukrainian lawmakers have been instructed to leave Kyiv and relocate to areas near the Romanian and Hungarian borders until October 17, amid intelligence that Russia plans to expand its strikes on the capital in early October, Eagle Intelligence Reports reported...
Over the better part of three days, President Donald Trump hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington for a summit that drew international attention for its high-stakes agenda, from trade and AI to Taiwan. While some experts saw the summit...
It was the West’s mistaken analysis that has trapped the West into an escalatory staircase of actions that risk taking Europe to a war with Russia Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted...
The little-known decisions and breakthroughs—and the remarkable role of Robert Noyce—that helped shape the modern semiconductor industry by Sunil Mehta When people tell the story of how Silicon Valley came into being, they usually begin with a familiar sequence of events. The transistor...
All those institutions we were told were integral to democracy and world peace turn out to be the greatest threats. Craig Murray is a British former diplomat, political activist, human rights campaigner, blogger, and whistleblower Cross-posted from Craig Murray’s Blog Photo: ScreenGrab I have...
Keynes’ rejection of purposeful activity as desirable for humankind once the economic problem has been solved, and doubt on whether monotheistic religions will be needed once we reach abundance Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His latest...
As I write this, Ramadan is still about six months away. Some may wonder why we should speak about Ramadan now. Yet, over the years, I have noticed a distinct pattern: many of the wounds we hope to heal in...
When the establishment media deals with issues in which the West’s war industries are most heavily invested, it happily jettisons even the semblance of critical distance from the state Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,...
This is the second article in a two-part series. The first part, First Principles for a New Progressive Foreign Policy, can be found here . In this run-up to the 2026 mid-term elections, progressive movements and candidates remain caught up in...
Canada’s Supreme Court legalized medical assistance in dying (MAID) in 2016, and there has been no end to debate and controversy over the end-of-life process: how it should be approached, what conditions it applies to and who should be allowed...
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News , a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here . A series of deadly heat waves from May to August overwhelmed Germany’s healthcare...
Photo by Sue Winston on Unsplash When I sit here and type these words, I’m creating something that is, ultimately, intangible, but no less real. This isn’t a radical concept. We call this intellectual property, and we work to preserve it because...
President Donald Trump is tapping $20 million in Department of Homeland Security funding to pay for TV ads that heavily feature him ahead of the midterm elections, Democrats said Tuesday as the promos critics call propaganda come under bipartisan attack. The...
Crude oil inventories in the United States saw an increase of 900,000 barrels during the week ending September 25, according to new data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released on Wednesday. The increase brings commercial stockpiles to 427.3...
Securing Energy for Europe (SEFE), the German state-owned gas importer, has been instructed to boost the level of natural gas in storage by the equivalent of 8 terawatt-hours (TWh) by December 15, the company said on Wednesday. Germany nationalized the...
President Donald Trump is set to announce plans to use $54 billion from South Korea’s $350 billion investment package for building a liquefied natural gas facility in Alaska and other U.S. projects. This announcement aligns with Trump’s efforts to showcase...
Romania’s Prime Minister-designate, Siegfried Muresan, did not get the necessary votes for a parliamentary vote of confidence on Wednesday, continuing a political crisis that could affect the country’s investment grade rating. Muresan, a respected lawmaker in the European Parliament, received...
Russia launched a significant air campaign against Ukraine’s energy grid on Wednesday, targeting power facilities around Kyiv and other areas. This attack, described as the heaviest in months, killed seven people, according to Ukrainian officials. The strikes followed a series...
For those employed in arduous solitary work such as cab driving, a marathon phone call is the perfect place to navigate the dislocations of immigrant life - Don’t get The Long Wave delivered to your inbox? Sign up here The question of...
A stronger future for coffee starts by strengthening the places and communities where that journey begins. Credit: Edgardo Ayala/IPS By Boubaker Ben Belhassen ROME, Sep 30 2026 (IPS) Imagine your morning coffee. You smell the aroma as steam rises from the cup. It...
In the first hours of the U.S. and Israeli war against Iran on February 28, 2026, a major strategic assumption was put to the test. If the head of the Islamic Republic were removed, would the regime itself collapse? The opening...
Russia’s government on Wednesday extended the ban on exports of diesel, marine fuel, and gasoil for all fuel producers by October 31, which effectively extends the period in which the tightening global market will have to cope without Russian diesel...
When Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met in Washington last week, artificial intelligence was among the issues dividing their countries. Days earlier, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the two sides had agreed to establish a formal AI dialogue, including an...
Khalilur Rahman (second from right), President of the eighty-first session of the United Nations General Assembly, chairs the High-level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response. Credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten By Shreya Komar UNITED NATIONS, Sep 30 2026 (IPS) The United Nations High-level...
Suzannah Mirghani’s first feature contains a powerful performance by Rabha Mohamed Mahmoud as a village’s elder woman and tackles the long shadow of British imperialism and women’s rights ‘I decide my past,” says a village matriarch in this intriguingly political and...
Two races were held at Fuji Speedway last weekend: the six-hour FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) and the Race Against Dementia led by champion driver Sir Jackie Stewart OBE, who returned to Japan 60 years after winning the Fuji 200...
The renewed rally in oil prices above $100 per barrel Brent has prompted foreign investors to pull money out of India’s stock and bond markets at the highest pace since March, when the start of the Iran war and the...
Seaweed farmers tend their crop off Zanzibar, where rising sea temperatures are putting pressure on a vital coastal livelihood, according to the new Copernicus ocean report. Credit: Zuberi Mussa/IPS By Kizito Makoye DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Sep 30 2026 (IPS) Fatuma Makame learned...
Rooted in African lineages yet refusing replication, Mbari Kola is Nigerian curator and art collector Ugoma Ebilah’s striking new cultural institution in Lagos. It is a living space where art, ideas, community and hospitality converge, writes Toni Kan . When you...
Africa’s health sector is not confined to health issues – it has direct and indirect influence on how economies perform. Africa’s health financing challenge is therefore not only a health problem, it is an economic one. This is the crux...
Britain’s economy grew faster than previously estimated in the second quarter of 2026, strengthening its position as the fastest-growing Group of Seven economy during the first half of the year but setting up a tougher test for the government ahead...
This story was published in collaboration with the Investigative Reporting Lab at Yale . I grew up walking the boardwalk in downtown Wilmington, North Carolina, peering into the froth of the Cape Fear River. The name came from 16th-century mariners who...
For years, relations between Washington and Beijing seemed stuck on an escalation treadmill. Every quarter brought new semiconductor restrictions, naval jockeying in the South China Sea or retaliatory tariffs, locking the world’s two preeminent powers in an apparently irreversible downward...
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has described violence against women as a “national shame” after the discovery of another woman’s body intensified public anger over the country’s persistent gender-based violence. Eleven women’s bodies have been found in Ekurhuleni, a municipality...
“We want to stop the North Koreans as far from Pusan as we can. Block the main road as far north as possible. Contact General Church. If you can’t locate him, go to Taejon and beyond if you can. Sorry...
In January, this article series opened with a blunt question: Economic statecraft is back, but is America ready?Driving the question, in part, was the fact that the United States had not yet articulated (at least overtly) a strategy for economic...
The global investment boom is no longer being driven by artificial intelligence alone. Governments are preparing to pour trillions of dollars into defence, creating a powerful new link between military spending, AI and technology while raising fresh concerns about inflation,...
When Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan agreed to a mutual defense pact in August, it was principally seen as a political commitment. The “Mecca alliance,” as it was dubbed, stipulated that an armed attack on one would be treated as...
As this year’s UN General Assembly wound up its various activities, it was time to reflect on what the world’s various leaders had to say about our times and each other. Some spoke boldly, some timidly and some rudely. How...
Crude oil prices ticked higher today, after dipping on Tuesday, following reports that President Trump has no intention of easing sanction pressure on Iran, which has decimated exports from one of OPEC’s biggest producers. At the time of writing, Brent...
Quitting smoking initiates bodily regeneration within 20 minutes, yet complete organ function recovery may take up to a decade. Russian Ministry of Health data indicates that tobacco smoke causes not only inflammation but also fibrosis, an irreversible scarring of tissues. The...
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