The biggest U.S. legacy automakers look to turn the losses from their underutilized electric vehicle battery capacity into a new profitable business to seize the soaring demand for battery storage energy systems. GM and Ford, which, due to poor demand,...
The German Government, along with German universities, are sponsoring a project called MedWater which supports Zionist ethnic cleansing and land seizure in the West Bank. Cross-posted from Scheerpost Exploiting academic institutions as a cover, between 2017 – 2021 the German government surreptitiously...
The investigations published by The New York Times and The Washington Post should not be dismissed as another collection of allegations emerging from Sudan’s opaque civil war. Taken together, they present the most substantial publicly available evidence yet that elements...
A disastrous election for German chancellor Friedrich Merz in particular, and the German establishment in general. Ed Turner is Reader in Politics at Aston University in Birmingham and Co-Director of the Aston Centre for Europe. Cross-posted from The Conversation Picture by Roy Zuo The...
A ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements is the absolute minimum the UK could do towards meeting its obligations to international law, but even that is far too much for the powerful Israel lobby. Ben Jamal is a British Palestinian...
I've been writing for more than a decade and a half about a broad category of metals often nowadays dubbed "strategic" because they are crucial to high-tech applications such as solar photovoltaic panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles, flat screens, semiconductors,...
On August 7, 2026, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkiye signed a defence pact termed as the Makkah Defence Alliance. This is primarily an agreement for collective security, quite similar to NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)’s Article 5. The official announcement...
The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4), Sevilla, 2025. Credit: Forus By Justina Kaluinaitė NEW YORK, Sep 7 2026 (IPS) The 81st session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA81) opens tomorrow at a particularly important moment for multilateralism. The UN80 reform...
Copper is riding its longest weekly winning streak since 1994, and the physical market underneath the rally keeps getting thinner. Benchmark prices on the London Metal Exchange notched a 10th straight weekly gain through last Friday, trading near $14,300 a...
The Pentagon’s AI Rush Is Creating a Security Weakness The Department of War just announced at the end of August that it is expanding GenAI.mil with ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government , adding more corporate AI directly into the daily...
In recent years, the space around Kaliningrad has been getting tighter. Poland is building fortifications along the Russian border, Lithuania is restricting transit under the sanctions regime, NATO is strengthening its presence in the Baltic, and Western military officials are...
China has paused approvals for new battery storage factories amid a review of existing and planned capacity, Chinese financial news outlet Cailianshe reported this weekend, citing industry sources. The temporary suspension of approvals of plants that have not started construction...
Germany's political landscape shifted sharply to the right on Sunday, September 6, as the Alternative for Germany (AfD) won a record result in the state election in Saxony-Anhalt. The party secured 43.8 percent of the vote, more than twice the...
Legislative elections in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt have ended with a huge victory for the nationalist-populist Alternative for Germany (AfD). The final results have AfD with just under 44% percent of the vote and the incumbent Christian Democrats (CDU)...
Back on June 4, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Russian leader Vladimir Putin were all smiles amid the ceremonial groundbreaking for the construction of Uzbekistan’s first cluster of nuclear reactors, to be built by Russia’s nuclear entity Rosatom. “I am...
Indian coal companies are ramping up supply to the coal-fired power plants as coal stocks at dozens of the plants dropped to critically low levels, India’s Ministry of Coal said on Monday. More than 50 coal-fired power plants in India,...
The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have found themselves at the center of a major crisis following news investigations by leading U.S. media outlets that exposed their involvement in developing and deploying chemical weapons in the ongoing conflict against the Rapid...
Bottom line: Documented Ukrainian graft becomes diplomatic leverage on its own schedule, independent of its dollar value — the 2024 $40 million case and 2025’s NABU/SAPO law both proved that. This time, the reformer who was closing the exact loophole...
The global power of most Middle Eastern countries remains dependent on their oil and/or gas output, so it is little wonder they try to maximise this, either by pushing production higher or by pretending it is higher, or by forecasting...
The prices of crudes from Canada, South America, and Africa have jumped in recent weeks as Chinese oil import demand is rising from a decade-low, benchmark prices rally, and Middle East supply remains disrupted. The Djeno crude from Congo, one...
TODAY’S NUMBERS: $97.19 (Brent crude, a six-week high) · $5.85 (US retail diesel, a record) · 4.79% (US 10-year Treasury yield) War in the Gulf is repricing oil and diesel, while a hot jobs report keeps a Fed rate hike...
The renewed rally in crude oil and LNG prices and the higher freight costs are pressuring the marketing margins of India’s oil and gas sector, which has to contend with the fallout of the Iran war on global oil and...
It was around seven o’clock in the evening when we arrived at a church in the city of Hama, Syria, to attend the wedding of a friend. As guests gradually filled the courtyard, music began to echo through the building....
By CIVICUS Sep 7 2026 (IPS) CIVICUS discusses struggles for abortion rights in Liechtenstein with Gabriella Alvarez-Hummel, a journalist and reproductive rights activist who works with Fristenlösung für Liechtenstein, an organisation that campaigns for the introduction of a legal time-limit abortion model. Gabriella...
The Kremlin said Monday that it does not rule out restarting trilateral peace talks between Russia, Ukraine and the United States, although it stressed that there is currently no agreement on when or where negotiations could resume. The comments followed...
The November 3 US midterm elections could determine which party controls the Senate, with Democrats facing a difficult path to reclaim the chamber. Republicans currently hold the advantage, meaning Democrats need to gain four seats to secure a Senate majority....
After International Energy Agency executive director Fatih Birol labeled the ongoing global energy turmoil the “biggest energy security threat in history” in April, events over the summer vindicated his warning. The United States authorized the grid operator Southwest Power Pool,...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned that increasingly powerful artificial intelligence could eventually pose an existential threat to humanity. Speaking at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Türk called for urgent international action to establish strong...
164 members of the United Nations backed the African Union’s ‘Correct the map’ campaign (presented by Togo) to shift away from the 16 th Century Mercator map of the world which has erroneously depicted Africa as much smaller than it...
Oemwa Johnston, a fourth-generation nuclear survivor from Kiribati Island. Credit: Naureen Hossain/IPS By Naureen Hossain UNITED NATIONS, Sep 7 2026 (IPS) More and more, global disarmament discussions are encompassing the humanitarian and environmental impacts of the testing and use of nuclear weapons, as...
Previously secret military files reveal links between the use of torture by British forces in Oman and Northern Ireland during the 1970s. An army major who led the worst of these interrogations in the Gulf would later earn a senior role...
Torrential rain causes widespread damage; while north-west South Africa hit by thunderstorms and central-southern US faces oppressive heat Typhoon Saudel brought days of torrential rain to Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian and Guangdong provinces in south-east China last week. The city of Putian,...
Iran says it will announce a new restricted zone in the Gulf and publish maps for a new shipping corridor through the Strait of Hormuz in the coming days, adding another layer of tension around one of the world’s most...
Editor’s note: This is the tenth article in a limited series celebrating American defense technologies born from wartime and their effects on broader national security, politics, and society. This series will run for several weeks to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary,...
North Korea and Russia have opened their first road bridge across the Tumen River, marking another step in the rapidly expanding relationship between the two countries. The bridge is located near the existing Friendship Bridge, a rail crossing that has...
On August 5, two years to the day after a mass uprising drove Sheikh Hasina from power, she announced from India that she would return to Bangladesh in December. Read as a forecast, the statement is implausible. Read as a...
When Israeli warplanes struck the Abu al-Duhur airbase in Syria on Aug. 18, 2026, the smoke rose over the demolition of an old geopolitical assumption about the Middle East. This time, Israel directly targeted a strategic sphere of influence where...
South Korea has reportedly agreed to invest $22.3 billion in a gas-fired power plant in Texas as part of its trade deal with the Trump administration. The investment would be South Korea’s first under the trade deal, Reuters noted in...
They fled a brutal civil war to reach safety in Egypt, but now many Sudanese women and girls are falling prey to sexual exploitation Sudanese women who fled to Egypt to escape the war in their country are facing increasing levels...
A female fish seller at a Saigon market was contacting her clients via her a smart phone. Digital technology has accelerated and facilitated business operations in South-East Asia. Credit: Unsplash / Robson Hatsukami Morgan By Ruhimat Soerakoesoemah, Andrey Panteleev and Philip...
Ouattara, senior midwife and head of the maternity unit at the Ayaou-Sokpa Health Centre in Côte d'Ivoire, consults with Awa, a pregnant woman, during a routine antenatal visit. Credit: UNFPA Côte d'Ivoire/Miléquêm Diarassouba By Diene Keita and Jean Kaseya NEW YORK /...
Figs mean summer — they represent the summer heat, where the sweet scent of fig trees mingles with the chirping of crickets and the singing cicadas. The scent of fig leaves on sleep-inducing lazy afternoons and the indescribable honey-like taste...
Western coverage of Chinese artificial intelligence still tends to treat the competition as a model contest: can a Chinese company match the best American system? China is certainly in that race. But it is also pursuing a quieter route. Chinese...
A Truth Social post in which President Donald Trump declared that there are "too many non-working holidays in America” and demanded that “it must change,” went viral on X this week, with analysts — incorrectly — labeling the post Trump’s...
In his first non-Congressional public speech since his Republican primary loss to Ed Gallrhein, Thomas Massie brought some of the loudest energy to the Ron Paul Institute’s Washington conference on Saturday. He was full of jokes and promise for the...
China’s endorsement of Egypt’s right to protect its water and food security marks a significant diplomatic development in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) dispute. It does not amount to a formal rejection of Ethiopia’s dam, but it gives Cairo’s...
One problem with following innovation is that the extraordinary now arrives disguised as the weekly. A frontier model trained on more than 100,000 GPUs, several leading AI services stumbling in the same morning, a camera-chip company redesigning itself around edge...
American bombs are now falling on Tehran, and while Donald Trump ultimately pulled the trigger, administrations before him—Republican and Democrat alike—constructed the gun, and even loaded it. In 1995, US president Bill Clinton issued executive orders banning US investment tied...
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