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Pedro Sánchez decries ‘violation of territorial integrity’ as other EU countries criticise Madrid over incident - Europe live – latest updates At least 43 people have died trying to reach the Spanish enclave of Ceuta after as many as 50,000 migrants entered...

It’s clear that Europe cannot continue like this. The scenes at Ceuta over the past 24 hours—an estimated 49,000 people crossing the border by land and sea, including hundreds of unaccompanied minors; at least 19 bodies pulled from the water;...

Global coal consumption reached another record in 2025, seemingly contradicting years of discussion about phasing out the world’s most carbon-intensive fossil fuel. But the headline number does not tell the whole story. The latest Statistical Review of World Energy shows...

ADNOC is changing the pricing formula used for its flagship crude grades. The oil giant said Friday it will move away from its ICE Futures Abu Dhabi-based pricing methodology, which prices crude off the Murban futures contract two months ahead...

Shell has agreed to sell its wholly-owned subsidiary BG Cyprus Ltd to MOL Group of Hungary for $720 million, as the UK-based oil and gas supermajor targets to grow its LNG value chain. Shell on Friday announced the agreement with...

CoWoS-S and CoWoS-R are two versions of TSMC’s Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate advanced packaging platform. Both technologies are designed to combine high-performance processors, chiplets and high-bandwidth memory, or HBM, within a single package. This shortens the electrical connections between computing and memory components,…...

Iran on Friday claimed it launched attacks on U.S. military assets in Bahrain and Kuwait amid the latest re-escalation of hostilities in the region, which dashed the hopes from early this week that there could be a swift return to...

September WTI crude oil futures were trading at $84.12 late Thursday, down $6.35, or 7.02%, for the week. With Friday’s session still ahead, the weekly result is not final. But the week’s main story is clear: crude sold off hard...

Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict A drone attack reached Egypt’s Mediterranean gas infrastructure for the first time in the war. At least two drones struck the US-owned Energos Winter floating storage and regasification unit and a second gas-processing vessel at Damietta...

The mutually beneficial corruption arrangement between the rival Haftar and Dbeibah camps that has kept Libya from returning to civil war could be undone by a third force usually left out of political calculations: the citizens of Libya. For nearly...

During visit to Ghana, Sarah Mullally expresses regret and says controversial fund symbolises Christian belief in repentance At a former British castle where thousands of enslaved Africans were held before being shipped across the Atlantic, the archbishop of Canterbury expressed “lament”...

Half a dozen empty Saudi oil tankers have turned away in the Arabian Sea from the Red Sea chokepoint Bab el-Mandeb and headed south around Africa in the western direction, in highly unusual moves for tankers loading crude from the...

China’s approach to economic security, with Antonia Hmaidi H.Seidl Fri, 07/31/2026 - 13:15 Video Jul 31, 2026 1 min read China’s approach to economic security, with Antonia Hmaidi The People's Republic of China is set to pursue control across industries, technologies, and value chains as a prerequisite...

Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. Merz loses political control as Berlin’s troubles spreadDiego Faßnacht reports that Friedrich Merz’s botched personnel reset has deepened doubts about...

By: Toh Han Shih After millennia of folk belief in the efficacy of rhino horn for fever, tiger bone for strength, and captive bear bile for various ailments, China has emerged as a powerhouse in the global biotech sector, becoming a...

A bipartisan Russia sanctions bill championed by the late Senator Lindsey Graham is facing growing resistance in Congress as lawmakers debate provisions that would significantly expand President Donald Trump’s authority to impose tariffs on countries trading with Russia. While the...

Diaa al-Awadi claimed insulin was a fraud, smoking was safe and chemotherapy useless. But despite losing his medical licence and dying at early age, his reach continues to grow It had been a struggle with conventional treatments. For Fatima Adel, a...

Amid tightened vessel supply due to the Middle East crisis, Abu Dhabi’s national oil company ADNOC has paid about $590 million to buy five supertankers to better manage its crude deliveries, Reuters reported on Friday, quoting sources with knowledge of...

European stocks climbed to a record high on Friday as renewed confidence in technology shares and stronger-than-expected corporate earnings outweighed concerns over central bank policy uncertainty and escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle East. The gains extended a four-month rally...

Enclave has been a diplomatic flashpoint and is seen as a destination for people trying to reach Europe Thousands of people have streamed into the tiny Spanish territory of Ceuta in north Africa from Morocco, with at least 18 dying in...

Hamas says implementation of the newly announced U.S.-brokered Gaza peace framework will depend on Israel first fulfilling commitments made under a previous agreement reached in Sharm el Sheikh last year. The statement came after U.S. President Donald Trump announced what...

Spain and Morocco have reinforced security around the Spanish enclave of Ceuta after an unprecedented surge saw around 49,000 migrants cross by land and sea in a single day, making it one of the largest border breaches ever recorded at...

BP on Friday launched a process to market its North Sea business as the UK-based supermajor looks to simplify its portfolio and invest in high-return projects. The formal launch of a potential sale comes after months of speculation that BP...

Indonesia’s defense diplomacy under President Prabowo Subianto (2024-2029) has entered a new phase marked by intensified relations with Eastern European countries. While Indonesia’s primary focus has previously been on the Asia-Pacific region and traditional partners like the United States (US),...

Kashmir remains one of the world’s most contentious geopolitical flash points. In April 2025 India and Pakistan, two nuclear-armed countries that share a tense border, came dangerously close to a major confrontation after militants attacked Indian tourists near the popular...

As the death toll rises to almost 1,500, and with a vaccine against the Bundibugyo strain potentially still months away, health workers face a battle to slow the outbreak The latest numbers of confirmed cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a fresh $1.8 billion disbursement to Egypt after completing the seventh review of the country’s economic reform programme and a review under its Resilience and Sustainability Facility. The funding brings total IMF disbursements...

Japan’s biggest buyer of liquefied gas has told media it has secured enough supplies until October and there is no risk of summer shortages during peak air-conditioning demand, Channel News Asia has reported. “We have secured sufficient LNG stocks for...

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

China’s latest coast guard patrols east of Taiwan mark another step in Beijing’s long-term strategy to reshape the security environment around the island without resorting to direct military confrontation. While Chinese authorities described Friday’s patrols as routine law enforcement operations...

The Caspian Pipeline Consortium has shut down again, following Ukrainian drone attacks on two tankers at the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, Reuters reported, citing the company operating the pipeline. According to the operator of the pipeline, the drone...

AI Training Technique Sparks New Tech Rivalry Model distillation, a widely used artificial intelligence training technique, has emerged as a new point of tension in the growing technology competition between the United States and China. While the method has long...

Asian Markets Rebound After AI Driven Selloff Asian stocks surged on Friday, tracking strong gains on Wall Street as investor confidence returned following robust earnings from major U.S. technology companies. South Korea’s KOSPI posted a record 17% rebound after suffering...

TOKYO — South Korea has outrun the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the 2008 Lehman shock, and the 2013 taper tantrum. Whether it can outrun its own AI boom is a harder test — and one the last week of Kospi...

Crude oil prices have been trending lower over the past couple of days, but the benchmarks are on course to book both a weekly and a monthly rise. On a monthly basis, Brent crude and West Texas Intermediate have both...

Two themes dominate Japan’s elite thinking at present: a blend of awe and fear about the ambitions of Japan’s powerful prime minister, Sanae Takaichi; and concerns about the US-Japan security alliance. Takaichi became prime minister last October through winning a...

Malaysia’s data center boom offers a revealing piece of arithmetic. Between 2021 and June 2025, the government approved 143 projects. Within that total, 25 projects granted Malaysia Digital status represented RM144.4 billion in investment and were expected to create 1,429...

Media reports published earlier this week about China’s plan to start making its own immersion deep ultraviolet (DUV) lithography machines have caused a sharp sell-off of European chip equipment stocks. But Chinese pundits say the situation remains very far from...

While the United States enjoys sufficient energy resources, thanks to shale oil, the European Union does not. To assure itself of the energy supplies in the Gulf that the European Union needs, the EU should consider assisting the Gulf States...

For over four decades, Israeli strategy has rested on an assumption so basic it rarely gets stated out loud: that the United States would remain the unrivaled organizing power of the Middle East, willing and able to underwrite Israel’s military...