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President Xi Jinping’s visit to Cairo was not a protocol visit. It was a doctrine declaration. At a highly sensitive moment: an open war in Iran, threats to close the Strait of Hormuz, and a sharp division within the BRICS...

Vietnam’s Prime Minister Le Minh Hung traveled to New Delhi for the 18th BRICS Summit, where he met bilaterally with Narendra Modi and laid out Hanoi’s vision for international cooperation. The visit drew heavy coverage at home, but it did...

The country has one of the highest femicide rates in the world, and women are yet again being asked to remove themselves from public life to counter it When I heard the authorities advising women in and around Kempton Park, the...

At any other time in American history, it would end the career of somebody like Scott Bessent, our limited-intelligence Treasury Secretary. It came out yesterday when Illinois Congressman Sean Casten was questioning him about the “billions of dollars” that Trump keeps claiming...

This summer the Nuclear Regulatory Commission concluded that restarting Three Mile Island’s Unit 1 — the plant synonymous with nuclear disaster since 1979 — would have no significant environmental impact. Constellation Energy now expects the renamed Crane Clean Energy Center...

The famous American MQ-9 Reaper drone often makes the news, and usually for rather scandalous reasons. Its appearance in the sky is always a harbinger of trouble — either immediately or shortly afterward. The Reaper is like a scavenging bird,...

Every export increasingly carries two products: the good itself and the evidence that makes it admissible. The cost of producing the second may determine who can sell the first. This is an overlooked consequence of selective US–China decoupling. Production costs...

The Middle East crisis has reverberated through key global shipping chokepoints thousands of miles away from the Strait of Hormuz. Following the crippled tanker traffic through the Middle East’s main oil and LNG export outlet, the Panama Canal and the...

The artificial intelligence energy crisis is catalyzing the development pipeline for space-based solar energy. As the world rushes to build up more energy production capacity in a scramble to keep up with skyrocketing demand from data center hyperscalers, the public...

Unlike many ungulates that establish a strict social hierarchy led by a dominant male, sheep lack an internal leadership structure. Both wild and domestic flocks demonstrate a tendency to follow almost any entity that moves with confidence-be it a goat,...

Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. ***IranSenior officials from Iran, Oman, and neighboring Gulf states were scheduled to meet in Salalah on Monday...

TotalEnergies and BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) have signed a partnership agreement under which GIP will invest $1.8 billion in capital contribution toward some of the French supermajor’s oil and gas infrastructure assets in Africa. In exchange for the $1.8...

Why are stadium owners angry? Is the Strait of Hormuz still blocked? And whose campaigns is Big Tech funding? The answers to these questions and many more can be found in LeverMind , our weekly news quiz testing your knowledge of...

Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. Germany’s CDU is entering a leadership crisisDiego Faßnacht reports that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is facing a deepening leadership crisis...

Ten-year Bund yields hit their highest level since 2011 the week the AfD won 43.8% of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt — the worst state result the CDU has ever suffered, delivered to a chancellor already polling at 13% approval, the...

An INEOS-led carbon capture and storage project in Denmark was launched on Friday to become the first full-scale CO2 storage site in the European Union, UK-based chemicals and energy group INEOS said. The Greensand CO2 storage facility, led by INEOS...

TSMC reportedly plans to double its Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate capacity from approximately 130,000 300mm-equivalent wafers per month at the end of 2026 to 260,000 by 2028. The estimate is not formal company guidance and should be treated as a supply-chain projection. Nevertheless,...

The Chinese presence in the Red Sea and Horn of Africa ports and projects is deeply significant, given its connection to trade and supply chains and its potential to grant China future influence over maritime security, shipping lanes, and military...

For years, digital influence followed a familiar path. Someone searched Google, looked through the results, clicked a website, and decided what to do next. Businesses fought for clicks through SEO, advertising, content, and brand building. However, all of that is...

Sovereignty is usually understood as a legal status: a state is recognized, possesses territory and institutions of government, and formally has the right to make decisions independently. Yet in today’s international system, that definition is no longer sufficient. Formal independence...

The new generation Audi 100 enters the market positioned between the traditional luxury of Mercedes-Benz and the driver-centric focus of BMW. The range consists of three variants: the base 100, the mid-range 100S, and the top-tier 100CS. All three utilize...

Seaweed communities on Kunashir Island are undergoing a structural shift driven by rising ocean temperatures. During an expedition from September 6 to 15, phycologists from Vladivostok surveyed the littoral and upper sublittoral zones—down to a depth of two meters—finding that...

Four of Nurat Osman’s alleged abductors were killed during rescue after she was taken from outside her home last week A British woman kidnapped in Malawi last week has been rescued by police after a shootout in which four of her...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for Fayuvi, a novel gene therapy developed by Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. designed to combat Sanfilippo syndrome type A, a devastating rare neurological disorder. A Devastating Childhood Disease Sanfilippo syndrome type A, also...

India’s coal power generation did not grow between the first half of 2024 and the first half of 2026, for the first such two-year period in over 50 years in which coal power has remained flat in the world’s second-largest...

Russia's projected budget deficit for 2027 is expected to reach approximately 2% of GDP, according to President Vladimir Putin. This figure marks an increase from the 1.2% of GDP outlined in the current law. To address the growing fiscal pressure,...

The debate about AI consciousness is growing, in academic articles, newspaper opinion pieces, and even among AI bots themselves. I doubt this is a passing wave of interest. As AI systems become more capable and human-like, and more involved in our lives, the question will...

Venezuela’s government and opposition are nearing an agreement to transfer about $4 billion in central bank gold reserves from the Bank of England to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Financial Times reported on Friday. Reuters could not...

Protests broke out in central Nigeria after 33 people detained during a crackdown on suspected illegal gold mining were found dead while in the custody of a paramilitary agency. Reuters footage showed 33 bodies at a hospital in Minna, the...