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Asian stock markets extended their sharp selloff on Wednesday as investor concerns over artificial intelligence (AI) valuations deepened ahead of a crucial round of earnings from major U.S. technology companies and the Federal Reserve’s latest monetary policy decision. The decline...

World News, Artificial Intelligence, Economics

In the early hours of August 5 (UTC), an abandoned SpaceX rocket stage is expected to slam into the Moon at around 8,700 kilometers per hour. Launched in January 2025, the rocket sent two commercial lunar landers toward Earth’s nearest...

Technology, 1967 Outer Space Treaty, Elon Musk

The Israeli war on Gaza and the US-Israeli aggression against Iran have radically altered the situation in the Middle East. One of the most significant consequences of the current conflict is the objective weakening of Israel’s position on the world...

Israel, Politics, USA

The Caspian Sea forms a strategically vital direct supply route between Russia and Iran (Source: BBC) On Friday, even as the US President Donald Trump was announcing the end of the latest round of the conflict with Iran, Pentagon unobtrusively...

Articles, Caspian Sea, Israel-Azerbaijan

The US military’s fighter fleet is projected to become stealthier but less available, widening the gap between technological sophistication and the combat mass needed for a prolonged war. This month, the US Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report showing...

Military, Block 2, Drone Warfare

Former President Juan Orlando Hernández, the convicted drug trafficker pardoned by President Donald Trump last December, flew triumphantly home to Honduras on Sunday in full, ambitious glory. He stepped off a private plane wearing a crisp white shirt, looking clean...

Narco-terrorism, War-on-drugs, Donroe-doctrine

Encouraged by Ukraine’s sustained advances in drone warfare, Western media is abuzz with the idea that Kyiv just might be able to defeat Russia after more than four years of bitter fighting. In May, TIME hailed Ukraine’s drone industry as giving...

Ukraine-war, Media-bias, Russia

Faced with another summer of punishing energy costs, EU governments are once again reaching for the same short-term fixes—excise cuts, tax credits, and price caps—that have failed to deliver a lasting solution in previous crises. Behind the scramble, a more...

Energy Security, Economics, energy security

Vietnamese banks started deleting more than 86 million bank accounts last September. Of the roughly 200 million accounts on the country’s books, only 113 million personal accounts and some 711,000 organizational ones survived the biometric verification requirements introduced by the...

Opinion, State Bank of Vietnam, Vietnam

Israel’s right-wing government is intensifying its half-century-long campaign to take over the West Bank fully by unleashing bands of settler militias to harass Palestinian residents, destroy their homes and livelihoods and restrict their movement throughout the occupied territory. The aim...

Middle East, Benjamin Netanyahu, Block 2

By: John Elliott Behind the emotional scenes and confrontations between brutal police and peaceful young demonstrators in Delhi that have gripped international attention in recent weeks, lies India’s unrealized “demographic dividend” which was expected to boost the country’s economy with expertise...

News

On June 21, 2026, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense announced that its armed forces would launch a five-day, four-night “Immediate Combat Readiness Exercise” from June 22 to June 26, intended to strengthen the ROC Armed Forces’ immediate response capabilities under...

Defense, China, front

Potential toxic substance detected in several of 15 elephants found dead in Kenya’s Amboseli national park Officials are investigating the deaths of 15 elephants over the past month in Kenya’s Amboseli national park. The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) said 10 of the...

Kenya, Wildlife, Africa

It is summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and we are attempting an experiment that may not please everyone. With fewer eyes in the peak holiday period, and a lesser appetite for the presumed permabull piece in these bearish weeks, we...

Technology, AGI, Artificial Intelligence

TOKYO — Investors hoping President Prabowo Subianto might learn from Indonesia’s past economic mistakes should get used to disappointment. Since taking office in October 2024, Prabowo has worked to drag Southeast Asia’s biggest economy back into its past. Which past...

Southeast Asia, 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, Bank of Indonesia

Amidst scorching temperatures and raging wildfires on the European continent, tropical storms and flash floods in the US, and severe drought in sub-Saharan Africa, high-level negotiators and state representatives gathered for a high-level retreat summit in Shamakhi, Azerbaijan on July...

Climate & Sustainability, Climate Crisis, Climate finance

Just recently, in a span of about six weeks, one impressive company was selected by the U.S. Army to build and operate rare earth processing facilities on an American military base…the first time the Army has ever done this. That...

News

Oil price movements since the start of March this year have become the topic of dozens of discussions. Many have been puzzled by futures prices and why they haven’t gone through the roof given the severe disruption in Middle Eastern...

News

Three days before its 67th sitting, the OPEC Secretariat did something it rarely bothers to do: it told the market, in writing, not to expect much from the meeting. In a statement issued ahead of the Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee’s...

Oil & Gas, energy security, front

Modern power grids require a constant, real-time balance between supply and consumption. Unfortunately, the integration of wind and solar energy makes power grids unstable due to the intermittent nature of renewable energy generation. To prevent localized grid blackouts or harmful...

News

Simon Davidmann is a renowned EDA industry pioneer and serial technology entrepreneur with more than 40 years of experience in simulation and verification. After Synopsys acquired Imperas, which he founded in 2005, he was Synopsys Vice President responsible for Processor...

CEO Interviews, AI, EDA Researcher

Oil prices have just come off a fresh two-month high as the crude oil market has tumbled this week amid signals of de-escalation in the U.S.-Iran conflict. Despite the slump in crude prices and the extreme volatility in the past...

News

The American Petroleum Institute (API) estimated that crude oil inventories in the United States fell by 3.296 million barrels in the week ending July 24. In the week prior, US crude oil inventories grew by 2.603 million barrels. Commercial crude...

News

OPEC+ is preparing to approve one more production increase for September and then put the monthly quota parade on hold through the end of the year. Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, Kuwait, Algeria, Kazakhstan, and Oman are expected to raise their...

News

Author of a new book titled ‘Capitalism and the Media’. Des Freeman is a professor of media and communications at Goldsmiths, London. Cross-posted from Counterfire Could you tell us a little about yourself and your background? I’m currently a Professor at Goldsmiths University, but...

Media, Media Concentration, Article

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's remarks about the difficulty of understanding the Russia-Ukraine conflict have once again highlighted what many in Moscow view as shortcomings in Russia's information strategy. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov acknowledged the issue directly. "That means we have not...

World

A recent investigation by OCCRP found that the co-founder of NSO Group, which develops Pegasus spyware, travelled to Panama in 2013 on an Israeli diplomatic passport. Senior researcher John Scott-Railton spoke with OCCRP, saying that the finding “raises questions about NSO’s...

News

Uzbekistan appears to be hedging its bets when it comes to Afghanistan’s ability to serve as a trade corridor. Over the past year, Tashkent has ramped up its engagement with Afghanistan, setting an ambitious target of almost tripling annual bilateral...

News

Saudi Aramco shut its 400,000-barrel-per-day Jazan refinery on July 27 after a Houthi attack damaged the facility, according to an IIR note seen by Reuters. IIR said the strike damaged the refinery’s Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle complex and tank farm....

News

As Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky arrives in Washington, much indicates that he is no longer merely trying to draw greater American support into its war against Russia. Increasingly, it appears to be pursuing something far more consequential: merging the Ukraine war...

Volodymyr-zelensky, Iran-war, Donald-trump

Water disputes can directly drive conflict, but more often, water scarcity acts as a catalyst — one that, combined with other pressures, raises the risk of conflict. This is nothing new; water has shaped human conflict for millennia. What’s changed...

In Brief, Members

Quadric has extended its Series C financing to $46 million through a second close led by the International Finance Corporation, the private-sector investment arm of the World Bank Group. The transaction raises Quadric’s total capital secured to approximately $90 million...

IP, Quadric, AI chip technology

Israel has approved the future deployment of the International Stabilization Force (ISF) in Gaza, a significant step in implementing the US-backed peace plan. The planned multinational force is expected to support humanitarian efforts, stabilization, and a transition toward new Palestinian...

Long War Journal, News, Board of Peace

A public dispute at the United Nations Security Council has unexpectedly brought together countries with sharply opposing geopolitical interests while raising new questions about the future of relations between Paris and Washington. During a Security Council meeting, U. S. diplomats walked...

World

When U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Manila in mid-July for regional diplomatic talks, the trip was framed as a direct sign of American commitment to Pacific security. Before the week was out, however, a Chinese coast guard...

War & Peace, China, Philippines

For generations , the United States has been a global advocate for freedom, democracy and the rule of law. Today, however, the world is calling on the United States to uphold those same principles at home. Last month, the International Trade...

Activism, Column, Courts & Law
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