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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

US President Donald Trump told reporters that he does not believe Moscow will attack a NATO nation amid rising concerns that Russian President Vladimir Putin will strike a Baltic country or other member state to test the Western alliance’s resolve....

In November 2025, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul pulled an about-face on climate policy that caused a furor among the state’s environmentalists . Once an opponent of new fossil fuel infrastructure, the governor announced she would approve a new Trump-backed gas...

Islamabad found a way to preserve economic activity with Tehran while completely ignoring threats of secondary sanctions from Washington. Pakistan Will Not Comply With US Sanctions Pakistan declared that it does not legally recognize and does not intend to comply with unilateral...

Amazon has expanded Germany’s largest-ever power purchase agreement (PPA), signed in June, and announced another four deals to buy power from four wind farms in Sweden as the e-commerce giant and other electricity-intensive hyperscalers look to power their rising AI...

Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. Ratcliffe’s Moscow visit highlights strategic divisionsJames Davis reports that John Ratcliffe’s Moscow visit exposed the widening gap between Washington and...

Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict Hormuz is “open”, but nowhere close to functioning normally. The U.S. has cleared mines from the internationally recognized shipping lanes and can technically get vessels through, but Iran’s military capability will still keep most commercial operators...

The war with Iran has handed Russia a strategic advantage in Ukraine. Washington is burning through the weapons Europe needs to deter Russia, moving military capacity into the Gulf and simultaneously telling NATO governments to take over more of their...

For decades, the dominant idea in corporate governance was that governments should regulate markets, while shareholders should own companies. Indonesia’s Danantara represents a different model: the state is not merely the regulator of business, but an active shareholder. That makes...

Norway's King Harald V has died at the age of 89, bringing an end to more than three decades on the throne and closing one of the most distinctive chapters in the modern history of the Norwegian monarchy. Harald died on...

Munir’s Tehran mission was less about Iran joining the Mecca Pact and more about reviving U.S.–Iran talks and defusing regional tensions. Pakistan must now thread the needle between Riyadh and Tehran, turning the pact from a regional fault line into...

India is comfortably on track to meet its goal to have 500 gigawatts (GW) of non-fossil-fuel power capacity installed by 2030, after having just hit the 300 GW milestone, New and Renewable Energy Minister Pralhad Joshi said at an industry...

India Expands Defence Cooperation With US The Indian Army has signed an agreement with the United States to purchase Javelin anti tank missile systems, marking another step in the growing defence relationship between Washington and New Delhi. The value of...

Nepal Says It Can Manage Rescue Operations Nepal has declined offers from several countries to send search and rescue teams following the devastating Himalayan flash floods, saying its own security agencies have sufficient capacity to manage the ongoing rescue operation....

A Residual Instrument with Systemic Risks The EU Return Regulation creates a legal basis for transferring individuals subject to enforceable return decisions to third countries willing to accept them, even where they have no prior connection to that country. This makes...

When China’s Defense Minister Admiral Dong Jun visited Jakarta on August 21, he and Indonesia’s Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin agreed to deepen military cooperation. At a joint press conference, Dong said Indonesia and China would work together against the “malicious...

Walk through any major electronics hub in Shenzhen, Seoul or Taipei right now, and the neon glare of artificial intelligence is blinding. It’s also intensifying: order books for advanced chips are overflowing, stock tickers are melting upward and tech executives...

Haakon Becomes Norway’s New Monarch Crown Prince Haakon became Norway’s king on Friday following the death of his father, King Harald. The 53 year old monarch is now Norway’s fourth king since the country gained full independence from Sweden in...

Editor’s note: This is the first article in a new occasional series featuring battles that just didn’t matter, may look important, but in fact had negligible strategic or political effects or were absurd, anticlimactic, or structurally irrelevant to the wars...

Overflowing Lake Threatens Flood Hit Areas A landslide formed a lake along the Nepal China border that began overflowing on Friday, raising fears of another surge of water through communities already devastated by a deadly flash flood two days earlier....

The US and China are about to meet this September to talk about AI. As the world’s two leading AI superpowers, the US and China’s engagement with AI have strategic implications for not only the AI and chip industries but...

Mojtaba Khamenei Remains Out of Public View Six months into the war with the United States and Israel, Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has remained completely absent from public view, raising growing questions about his health, authority and ability to...

Seoul Backs Renewed US North Korea Dialogue South Korea has welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to restart talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, but Seoul wants any negotiations to produce meaningful progress on North Korea’s nuclear weapons...

Crude oil prices were on course to book another weekly loss despite no sign of any progress being made towards peace between Iran and the United States. At the time of writing, Brent crude was trading at $89.17 per barrel,...

Russia is not about to collapse. It still occupies a large part of Ukraine, continues to fire hundreds of drones and missiles at Ukrainian cities, and retains an enormous advantage in population and resources over its smaller neighbor. Yet four...

Other governments could seek similar concessions, while separate legal action is pending in places ranging from Kenya to the Netherlands In October 2021, Abrham Meareg’s father, a professor of chemistry in Ethiopia’s northern town of Bahir Dar, was shot at close...

Prof Pierre Akilimali, who heads DR Congo’s response to an outbreak that has so far killed more than 2,700 people, says tackling the disease requires trust and respect The statistics, says the man responsible for overseeing the Ebola response in the...

Ten years have passed since the International Arbitral Tribunal ruled in favor of the Philippines in its maritime case against China. The July 2016 award was hailed at the time as a landmark in international law, affirming Manila’s rights under...

By: Khanh Vu Duc Trump: like it or lump it Canada was supposed to be safe. America’s closest neighbor, a NATO member, a G7 democracy and a critical security partner, Canada is deeply integrated into the US economy. Energy, automobiles, minerals, food and...

When Donald Trump launched the Iran War on February 28, the usual suspects were in full support. From the moment the conflict ignited, many couldn’t help but immediately express admiration for the president, saying that only a brave, noble, and...