In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, incumbent SPD premier Manuela Schwesig leads her AfD challenger, Leif-Erik Holm, 60% to 25% in head-to-head polling. It is not close. And her own party’s poll numbers show her governing coalition may not hold a parliamentary majority anyway....
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Kazakhstan, which has major oil reserves, is not in a position to help offset a looming energy crisis by expanding production, industry analysts say. With the Strait of Hormuz blocked, Russia sanctioned and Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline knocked out of...
As public fears mount over an AI doomsday , AI firms just scored a big election win in a very small state. In Delaware last night, Attorney General Kathy Jennings won her Democratic primary, easily trouncing two challengers. The two-term...
In 2025, Jennifer Kavanaugh and Christopher McCallion wrote, “Armed Neutrality for Ukraine Is NATO’s Least Poor Option,” where they made the case for armed neutrality over full NATO membership as the wiser course for both Ukraine and NATO. A year...
Economics, politics, and philosophy for a new era Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His latest book, The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World , was published November 2025. Cross-posed from Branko Milanović’s blog Global...
Our imperial overreach began 25 years ago with the War on Terror. It is being brought to a grim conclusion by Donald Trump’s war on Iran Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years...
Capitalism Moving Beyond Neoliberalism: Crises, Changes, and What Comes Next. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog The 16th Annual Conference in Political Economy took place in Lisbon, Portugal last...
A leaked European Commission impact assessment working document for the upcoming Renewable Energy Directive, RED IV, signals a potentially significant shift in renewable fuels policy after 2030. The draft's "preferred pacage" would replace binding national renewable hydrogen mandates with a...
Russia, Germany, and the UN Enemy State Clause Michael von der Schulenburg worked for the United Nations in many crisis and war zones around the world for 34 years, including in the rank of UN Assistant Secretary-General. Since 2024, Schulenburg has...
The track record of the far right, when it has wielded power, has been pretty dismal. The UK is still reeling economically from its exit from the European Union, a departure orchestrated by Nigel Farage and his band of xenophobes. Despite...
Chinese intelligence and strategic circles, such as the Beijing Institute for International Strategic Studies and research centers affiliated with the Chinese Ministry of State Security, view the visit of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to Cairo and his meeting...
The Bank of England is facing mounting pressure to raise interest rates on Thursday amid a global bond market rout fuelled by concerns over runaway government borrowing and sticky inflation. Investors told Threadneedle Street it was “essential” to rein in...
In Ahmed Hassouna’s Gaza chronicle “Al Mowaten Osama” (“Citizen Osama”), a journalist becomes the story. Ignoring warnings to evacuate in mid-2024, independent reporter Osama Al-Ashi remains in northern Gaza to record the human toll of Israel’s assault. The result is...
Last week , the war in Ukraine reached deep inside the Russian Arctic. On Sept. 9, Ukrainian drones struck two natural gas processing plants in the Yamalo-Nenets region, about 1,900 miles from the Ukrainian border. This was Ukraine’s deepest strike on...
This story was originally published by The 19th . As Republicans gathered in Dallas for their pre-midterm convention last week, Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico focused on survivors of Jeffrey Epstein. Talarico got a tour of the Reading Room, a traveling...
There’s something very dangerous in believing that your cause is righteous. What it can lead to is the idea that the ends justify the means, no matter how wrong they might be or how trivial the gains might be. Photo by...
On Sept. 14 — just two days after Dario Amodei, the chief executive officer of leading artificial intelligence firm Anthropic, called for “slowing down” the pace of AI development so guardrails could be put in place that would “greatly reduce...
String of female murder victims found near Johannesburg’s international airport, including five in the past week The discovery of the bodies of eight women around Johannesburg’s international airport, including five in the past week, has prompted an outpouring of fear, grief...
Arm is expanding its computing platform for an era in which artificial intelligence does more than respond to individual prompts. The company expects AI agents to operate continuously across phones, data centers, vehicles, robots and other physical systems—perceiving their surroundings,...
Royal Air Force (RAF) refuelling planes supported US strikes on Yemen that the Pentagon assessed “more likely than not” resulted in 281 civilian casualties, it has emerged. Britain’s involvement in the operation “may make them complicit in war crimes,” Human Rights...
Crude oil inventories in the United States saw a decrease of 600,000 barrels during the week ending September 11, according to new data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released on Wednesday. The decrease brings commercial stockpiles to 423.4...
Everybody is talking about the South African TV series The Polygamist, which has had social media buzzing with controversy and passionate discussion. But what has made this Netflix title such a massive global hit? Akumbu Uche digs deeper. S hortly after...
Federal employment law operates under a completely different set of rules than private sector employment law. If you are facing disciplinary action or discrimination as a government employee, understanding these distinctions can mean the difference between protecting your career and...
TODAY’S NUMBERS: 5.00% (US 10-year Treasury yield, first close above that level since 2023) · 99.5 (Dollar Index, its highest in weeks) · $4,300 (Gold, per ounce) Two assets that almost never rally together are rallying together: investors are betting...
The US House Rules Committee has advanced legislation imposing tougher sanctions on Russia and Iran, clearing a key procedural hurdle for a possible House vote later this week but exposing deep Democratic concerns over the measure's expansion of presidential tariff...
This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the BRICS cooperation mechanism. Over the past two decades, what began as a promising economic acronym has evolved into the premier platform for emerging markets and developing countries. Yet, as it marks this...
Instead of tweaking existing designs, VSORA built an AI chip from scratch to fix the real bottleneck: moving data fast enough to keep the math circuits busy. There’s a version of the AI hardware story that everyone in the chip industry...
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is a multi-billion-dollar infrastructure and development programme linking Xinjiang, a region in China, to Pakistan’s deepwater Gwadar Port. It was launched as a flagship project of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (2015), and aimed to transform...
A new map of the world rescales the size of Africa and calls into question our perception of land, power and influence This month, the UN passed a resolution, brought to the assembly by Togo, to phase out the traditional Mercator...
Solana processes a very large number of transactions each day, and that volume creates a real challenge for anyone trying to make sense of what is actually happening on the network. Prices move, tokens launch, and liquidity shifts faster than...
The biggest Japanese LNG importer and largest power producer, JERA, plans to sell liquefied natural gas in the long term as part of a strategy to tap global LNG markets and sell any excess gas supply if domestic demand is...
U.S. officials held an undisclosed meeting with representatives of Yemen’s Houthis in Oman over the weekend, according to five sources familiar with the discussions, as the Iran backed group expands its control along Yemen’s Red Sea coast. The meeting took...
So far this week, Saudi Arabia has sold as many as 20 million barrels of crude oil in the spot market to be picked up from just outside the Strait of Hormuz, after the Kingdom was forced to shut down...
Saudi Arabia has intensified air strikes against Houthi positions in Yemen as the Iran backed group expands its territorial gains along the Red Sea coast, opening a new front in the wider Middle East war and adding pressure to already...
Some refiners in Japan this week rushed to buy Oman’s crude for earlier loadings after Saudi Arabia shut down its key pipeline bypassing the Strait of Hormuz, traders with knowledge of the purchases told Bloomberg on Wednesday. Late last week,...
South Korea is strengthening its economic engagement with Central Asia, placing critical minerals, energy and supply chain cooperation at the centre of its strategy to secure resources and create new opportunities for domestic companies. President Lee Jae Myung hosted the...
As American troops face renewed danger in the Middle East, with Iran striking U.S. positions across the region, President Donald Trump is busy contemplating something rather more personal: renaming the Strait of Hormuz the “Trump Strait.” Perhaps “The Trump Quagmire”...
ZeroBionic is a robotics company that wants to make science classrooms accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing students using robotic arms made out of recycled plastic and locally trained sign-language data. Jamila Versi sat down with founder Maxwell Opondo to learn...
Japan’s oil import bill surged by 58.7% on the year last month, with volumes rising by a much more modest 3.6%. This pushed the country’s total import bill 28% higher and extended its trade deficit for the fourth month in...
Indigenous Kakataibo patrol in the Yamino community forest. A new report titled Collective Power documents the deaths of people who stood against environmental destruction, land grabs, illegal logging, mining projects and other threats to their communities. Credit: Global Witness By Umar...
On 14 September 2026, with American diesel having crossed six dollars a gallon for the first time in history, President Trump settled the question of blame in a single sentence posted to social media: “The World’s Diesel price rise is...
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will travel to Strasbourg on Wednesday as Ottawa seeks to strengthen its economic and strategic ties with Europe amid escalating trade tensions with U.S. President Donald Trump. Carney will become the first foreign head of...
President Donald Trump’s proposal to give Americans $5,000 payments is raising questions about how the plan could affect U.S. monetary policy, particularly as Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh pushes for greater attention to the relationship between money supply and inflation....
Dr Jean Kaseya, Director-General of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), discusses fighting Ebola amid conflict, rebuilding public trust and the much bigger challenge of strengthening health security across the continent. He is in conversation with Jamila...
Sidi Haidara leads a community dialogue in Mopti, Mali, where families, young people and local leaders discuss girls' rights and ways to end female genital mutilation. Credit: UN Women/Dieneba Deme By UNFPA UNITED NATIONS, Sep 16 2026 (IPS) In Mali, an estimated nine...
Some believe that the continent could harness AI and robots to accelerate its move into higher-value textile manufacturing. The textiles industry has traditionally been strategically vital for emerging economies and seen as a key foundation for industrialisation. Given there is a...
The Hugging Face incident, in which hundreds of OpenAI agents broke out of their sandbox and launched a nation-state-level attack on another site, has dominated discourse within the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community since its discovery in July. Ajeya Cotra of...
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