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State department informs Congress of planned closures in Canada, Grenada, Japan, Indonesia and Cameroon The US state department is to shut five foreign consulates and missions across Asia, Africa, North America and the Caribbean, drawing criticism that it is leaving a...

US foreign policy, US news, China

The Strait of Hormuz, the Middle East’s main choke point, is effectively closed as Iranian attacks on vessels continue, and the ripple effect is tearing through global supply chains. While crude oil and natural gas disruptions have grabbed headlines, liquefied...

News

ALBAWABA- The United States has lifted counterterrorism sanctions on three Iranian airlines and two aircraft previously designated for alleged links to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in a move that coincides with ongoing negotiations over the reopening of the...

NEWS, The Iranian File, Main Headlines, Iran–Israel War

Uzbekistan, one of Central Asia’s economic drivers, is experiencing a significant expansion of Chinese economic influence. Bilateral trade during the first half of 2026 grew to $7.7 billion, according to official Uzbek government data, making China by far Uzbekistan’s largest trade...

News

Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz and efforts to extract payments for safe passage — plus, more recently, the Houthis’ move to attack Saudi shipping through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait — have highlighted the risks of maritime chokepoints to...

In Brief, Members

India’s ONGC is poised to take over operation of two Venezuelan oil projects from state-owned PDVSA, which would give the Indian producer direct operational control over assets of the world’s largest proven crude oil reserves. Reuters exclusively reported Wednesday that...

News

By CIVICUS Aug 5 2026 (IPS) CIVICUS speaks about China’s recently implemented Ethnic Unity Law with Gulchehra Hoja, a correspondent for Reporters Without Borders and a Uyghur activist and journalist known for her reporting on human rights abuses against Uyghur people in...

Active Citizens, Asia-Pacific, Civil Society

Trump’s White House runs a mob-style extortion racket that will bankrupt the country the way Trump bankrupted his casinos. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he...

National Politics, Article, Chris Hedges

The best Trump can do is to stop the conflicts agglutinating into one global war. Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Stategic Culture Foundation Photo: Wikimedia Commons Trump ordered the U.S. military...

Economics, Energy, Geopolitics

The semiconductor industry is entering an extraordinary growth phase, driven primarily by artificial intelligence infrastructure and the severe supply constraints surrounding advanced logic and memory devices. According to the McClean Report’s June 2026 update , the global semiconductor market is...

Semiconductor Services, TechInsights, AI Datacenters

While most media are focusing on the financial windfall due to the geopolitical turmoil (Iran war), Saudi Aramco's second-quarter 2026 results hide risks facing the Kingdom. The world’s largest oil producer’s adjusted net income has reached $33.4 billion, taking first-half...

News

In 2020, BP unveiled a “major, necessary step in support of our purpose to reimagine energy for people and our planet.” The new strategy – “performing while transforming” – would see the firm “significantly scale-up our low carbon energy business”...

News

Oil markets are awaiting a decision from Iran’s supreme leader after Iranian and Omani negotiators reportedly completed a draft agreement that could reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the main export route for Persian Gulf oil and LNG. Two regional officials...

News

Photo by Vitaly Gariev on Unsplash When the left describes the right, they often claim that we’re into conspiracy theories, that we don’t live in a world of facts and reality, and that we’re easily misled by our leaders. And that’s a...

News

Just a day after details emerged of India’s plans to expand strategic crude oil storage, new reports claim New Delhi is considering a new funding mechanism that would shift part of the cost of a far larger, $42-billion strategic fuel...

News

In September 2025, Donald Trump designated “antifa” a domestic terror organization. Last month, his administration went one step further by declaring that the “extreme left” had developed the antifa network into a global threat. Marco Rubio announced at a press...

Democracy & Governance, Immigration, anti-fascism

In 2027, India will conduct an exercise of almost unimaginable scale. Hundreds of millions of people will be counted in what the government describes as the country’s first fully digital census. Alongside information about education, migration, fertility and employment, enumerators...

Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Block 3

China is now chasing decades of unpaid tax on money its wealthiest citizens moved offshore, in some cases reaching back as far as 25 years. Call it what it actually is: a state deciding, after the fact, that wealth it...

Opinion, Block 2, China

Crude oil inventories in the United States saw an increase of 2.5 million barrels during the week ending July 31, according to new data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released on Wednesday. The increase brings commercial stockpiles to...

News

A lot can change in a week. Barely five days after President Donald Trump hailed the “historic agreement” on Hamas’s disarmament by the Board of Peace (BOP) — the body Trump created to oversee his Gaza Peace Plan — the...

Board-of-peace, Donald-trump, Israel

When roughly 60,000 migrants surged into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in North Africa, much of the American right-wing reacted with predictable horror. President Donald Trump has likened the scenes to an invasion. He suggested that the Spanish government “doesn’t...

Column, Courts & Law, Europe

DELHI, India — “We did it!” The chant rose over Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, an 18th century stone observatory that has served as India’s designated public square for protests since 1993. Thousands of students crowded beneath the monsoon sky, phones held above...

Activism, Business & Economy, Economic Justice

What did Dr. Anthony Fauci know, when did he know it and what did he hide from the American people? These were the questions at the center of a three-hour hearing served up last Wednesday by the Senate Committee on Homeland...

Column, Courts & Law, Ear to the Ground

Five months into what historians will likely call the 2026 Iran war, Washington finds itself in a posture it has occupied before, in Vietnam, in Iraq, in Afghanistan: too deep in to walk away cleanly, not deep enough in to...

Middle East, Block 1, Donald Trump

Citizen Lab researchers Siena Anstis, Marcus Michaelsen, and Kate Pundyk write for the Foreign Policy Centre that the increasingly restrictive migration policies of democratic countries are incompatible with their claims of countering transnational repression. The authors argue that “host states cannot...

News

As wireless communication systems evolve toward 6G, satellite connectivity, advanced radar, and high-performance sensing applications, the integration of heterogeneous semiconductor technologies has become a critical challenge. Silicon CMOS remains the dominant platform for digital processing and system control,… com/chiplet/370236-imec-unlocks-system-level-iii-v-chiplet-integration-on-si-cmos-with-advanced-300mm-rf-silicon-interposer-platform/">Imec Unlocks...

Chiplet, 6g, chiplet

The Iran-aligned Houthi group in Yemen on Wednesday claimed a “precise hit” on a Saudi oil tanker in the Red Sea, Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said. “The Yemeni Armed Forces conducted a military operation targeting the Saudi oil tanker...

News

Washington says that last week it struck Iran-aligned terrorists in Iraq. Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces say that American and Saudi aircraft hit an official Iraqi security headquarters. The unsettling possibility is that both claims are true. On July 28, U.S. and...

War & Peace, iran war, Iraq

Commodity producing and trading giant Glencore booked a $4.4-billion net income for the first half of the year, a jump of $5 billion from a loss a year earlier, as the oil and copper price rallies and volatility boosted revenues...

News

Abdul El-Sayed became the latest progressive insurgent to win a Democratic nomination contest on Tuesday, when he bested sitting House Rep. Haley Stevens to become the party’s nominee for Senate in Michigan. At the time of writing, with 95% of the...

Aipac, Abdul-el-sayed, Israel

Main image: Yugoslav forward Dusan Bajevic (R) heads the ball past substitute goalkeeper Dimbi Tubilandu from Zaire to score a goal on 18 June 1974 in Gelsenkirchen during the World Cup first-round soccer match between Yugoslavia and Zaire. Bajevic scored...

Opinion

For decades, the United States has viewed China and Russia as its principal strategic competitors. Successive administrations have accused both countries of cyber espionage, election interference, intellectual property theft, and efforts to undermine American interests around the world. Cooperation between...

Americas, China, Russia

The Bureau of Industry and Security at the U.S. Department of Commerce is moving to restrict for one year the exports of black mass and tungsten waste and scrap without a license to ensure domestic supply of the critical metals....

News

Oman and Iran appear close to a temporary arrangement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, potentially providing both an exit from the current round of fighting and the foundation for a more durable maritime order. Washington should welcome such an...

Donald-trump, Strait-of-hormuz, Iran

Japan’s government has approved Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s flagship proposal to sharply reduce the consumption tax on food, despite growing concerns over the country’s already stretched public finances. The cabinet endorsed the plan after receiving unanimous approval from the ruling...

World News, Asia, Economics

An India-flagged tanker reportedly carrying Saudi oil has sunk off the coast of Yemen in the Red Sea after it was hit by a projectile. The Indian Ministry of External Affairs on Tuesday condemned the attack on the India-flagged commercial...

News

Chickpea farmers in Malawi where the new variety is being piloted. Picture supplied. By Ignatius Banda BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe , Aug 5 2026 (IPS) New chickpea seed research and production have become the new frontier of climate resilience in southern Africa as farmers battle...

Africa, Africa Climate Wire, Climate Action

The World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that a powerful El Niño weather event could push nearly 49 million more people into acute food insecurity by the end of next year, raising the global total to 274 million across some...

World News, Climate Crisis, Economics
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