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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...

News

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...

News

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...

Energy News, Economics, LNG

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...

World News, Romania

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...

World News, Energy, Russia

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...

Climate Change, Development & Aid, Economy & Trade

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...

War & Peace, decapitation, Regime Change

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...

News

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...

US foreign policy, South Africa, US news

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...

Technology, AI Regulation, AI Ubiquity

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...

COVID-19, Development & Aid, Global

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...

Northeast Asia, Alzheimer's Disease, Formula 1 Racing

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...

Africa, Biodiversity, Climate Change

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...

Arts & Culture, Art, Nigeria

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...

Economy, Finance, Health

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...

World News, Britain, Economics

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...

Environment

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...

Opinion, Trump-Xi summit, US-China AI Dialogue

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...

World News, Gender Equality, Human Rights

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...

War by Other Ledgers, Congress, Defense Industry

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,...

Economy, Defense, Economics

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...

Middle East, Bab el-Mandeb Strait, Block 2

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...

Politics

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...

News

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...

Health

A Sierra Leonean nurse detained, handcuffed and flown to Ghana. An Iranian dissident sent to Central African Republic . A Cameroonian deported to Equatorial Guinea. This is the face of the Trump administration’s policy since 2025 – striking deals with 35...

US immigration, ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement), Ghana

Media personnel watch a digital screen showing leaders of member states gather for a family photograph during the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi on 13 September 2026. Credit: Arun Sankar/AFP By Samuel King and Inés M. Pousadela BRUSSELS, Belgium / MONTEVIDEO,...

Active Citizens, Armed Conflicts, Civil Society

China has accused Taiwan’s government of distorting World War Two history, escalating a dispute over which side can claim the legacy of China’s wartime resistance against Japan. Beijing’s Taiwan Affairs Office said on Wednesday that Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party...

World News, China, Defense

Member of Smallholder Farmer Alliance in Haiti with tree she is about to plant. Credit: A.F. Cortes/SFA By Hugh Locke NEW YORK, Sep 30 2026 (IPS) Years ago, standing in a small farmer’s field in Haiti, I began to suspect that we had...

Biodiversity, Climate Action, Climate Change

On the morning of September 24, Abdel Fattah Burhan should have been standing at the podium of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Instead, he was in Khartoum. The general who leads Sudan’s army and chairs its Sovereignty Council...

Rsf, Abdel-fattah-al-burhan, Uae

The Iraq War was already four-years-old when I walked down the ramp of a C-17 at Al Taqaddum Air Base in April 2007. The fact that I am writing these words is proof that I survived that deployment and a...

Iraq, Us-military, Baghdad

In 1927, Augusto Cesar Sandino began an insurgent campaign against the U.S. occupation of Nicaragua. Under orders from President Calvin Coolidge, the U.S. Marines had intervened in Nicaragua to settle a civil war between a conservative government and liberal rebels. In...

Nicaragua, Venezuela, Nicolas-maduro

The prevailing criticism of the US-China summit in Washington is that it amounted to little more than diplomatic pageantry. But one outcome deserves recognition: it may have helped keep alive the prospect of renewed US-North Korea dialogue. North Korea, after...

Opinion, Denuclearization of Noth Korea, North Korean nuclear weapons

Every Senate Democrat but one voted to advance a resolution that would have forced the State Department to produce a report regarding violence against American citizens, as well as other Israeli violations of human rights, in the West Bank. With...

Congress, Congressional-democrats, West-bank

The last of the US-led coalition forces are leaving Iraq. It’s a significant bonus for Iran. The withdrawal date, September 30, was also the date by which Baghdad had pledged to bring numerous powerful Iran-backed militias under state control. But...

Middle East, al-Hashd al-Shaabi, Badr Organization

By: Toh Han Shih Xi Jinping was welcomed by Donald Trump at the White House in September 2026. Photo from China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs There was much friendliness and mutual respect between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping...

News

Washington is reportedly exploring a new diplomatic avenue with Moscow, one that moves beyond the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and centers on a potential prisoner exchange for sanctions relief. According to The Atlantic, former President Donald Trump has endorsed an...

World

Oil prices pulled back on Tuesday, reversing recent gains as investors weighed signs of export recovery by Middle Eastern producers against uncertainty surrounding the fate of the Iran war. Brent crude for November delivery fell 1.5% to trade at $103.72...

News

The principles of the Soviet mathematical school, once a hallmark of rigorous education in the USSR, are experiencing a resurgence in the United States, with American parents increasingly enrolling their children in specialized "Russian Math" programs. These supplementary classes, often...

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