Central banks’ record, price-insensitive gold buying is a more credible signal of the dollar’s structural trajectory than this year’s currency markets, because FX markets are structurally bad at pricing the discontinuous, wartime-style tail risk central banks are actually hedging —...
The United States and China each have initiatives racing to shape the future of artificial intelligence, and Kazakhstan may have to choose a side. As the only country to have joined both the American-led Pax Silica initiative and China's World...
A total of 6,307 individuals were apprehended by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Michigan from the start of 2025 through early August 2026. But once taken into custody, what exactly happens to them is harder to follow. Based on a...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump tried to maintain power following his loss in the 2020 election by exerting pressure on state election officials to, in some cases, “find” the votes . Loyalist Republicans in Congress then attempted to deny Joe Biden...
I grew up watching science fiction. I wasn’t much of a reader until I was in the Navy; then I made up for lost time. Again, science fiction. Photo by Igor Omilaev on Unsplash The doom of mankind coming from artificial intelligence...
Uniper announced on Monday an agreement to sell its 20% stake in the OPAL gas pipeline as part of the EU’s conditions on state aid that allowed Germany to bail out the German energy giant in 2022. Back then, the...
As the United States has struggled to secure its four primary objectives in the Iran War — achieving regime change, dismantling long-range ballistic missiles, eliminating nuclear enrichment, and halting Tehran’s support for regional proxies — U.S. officials have rolled out...
The left’s winning streak in Democratic primaries has sparked panic among party centrists. As more Democrats warm to democratic socialism, they correctly intuit that their grip on the party is finally, at long last, slipping. This panic was evident last week...
Ansarallah-led government forces have liberated the entire west coast of Yemen from Saudi-backed forces, triggering an Israeli media meltdown. Meanwhile, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have taken out a series of US assets and began firing new-generation electro-optical missiles...
The clearest sign Germany’s “firewall” against the far right no longer means what it says came four days after Saxony-Anhalt voted. BSW co-chair Amira Mohamed Ali, holding the balance of power with just 5.3% of the vote, did not propose...
In the 1980s and earlier, Africa’s attempts to use import substitution as a stepping stone towards an industrialised status failed miserably, mainly because of fragmented, tiny markets. Can the same approach now succeed under the unique opportunities offered by the...
TODAY’S NUMBERS: $108 (Brent crude) · 4.98% (US 10-year Treasury yield) · $4,330 (Gold) Oil is pricing a wider Gulf war, yields are pricing the Fed hike war-driven inflation now demands — and gold, the classic war hedge, is losing...
St Barts is one of many UK institutions whose benefactors were involved in the trafficking of enslaved Africans Inside the Great Hall of St Bartholomew’s North Wing, alongside stately portraits of the apostle from whom London’s oldest hospital takes its name...
Samtec is using two major 2026 industry events to make a clear engineering argument: faster accelerators alone will not determine the performance of next-generation artificial-intelligence infrastructure. The copper and optical links connecting chips, packages, boards, racks and data centers must...
This article originally published by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom ProPublica is republished with permission. On May 24, Donald Trump Jr. was celebrating in the Bahamas, as scantily clad dancers in stilettos and sailor caps performed for him and his guests....
Public offering of Aliko Dangote’s Nigerian oil refinery business could swell his net wealth by two-thirds The fortune of Africa’s richest person could swell by two thirds to nearly $60bn (£44bn) after his refinery in Nigeria listed publicly in the continent’s...
A defunct German software wiki became a message board this spring for a swarm of OpenAI’s own agents . They posted roughly 18,000 times, pooling techniques for working around their restrictions and notes on routing traffic through Tor. This episode...
Dr. Samaiya Mushtaq’s book “A Beautiful Patience: A Memoir of Marriage, Motherhood, and a Mission to Gaza” pulls readers into the story of her husband, Dr. Mahmoud Sabha , who went to Gaza on multiple medical missions – and takes...
China and the United States are competing to lead the development of increasingly powerful artificial intelligence systems, but both countries are also confronting a growing concern: what happens if advanced AI becomes capable of acting beyond effective human oversight? Recent...
Middle East diplomacy has hit another setback as a planned regional meeting on the Strait of Hormuz was postponed, while attacks around the region’s two major oil transit routes increased concerns about global energy supplies. The meeting had been expected...
A report Rebuild Trust: Rigged Economies, Fractured Societies and the Case for Change found that people everywhere believed the system was rigged. Credit: Earth4All By Umar Manzoor Shah SRINAGAR, India, Sep 14 2026 (IPS) An international survey released by Earth4All has found a...
What Turkey’s Africa Engagement Reveals about Its Defence-Industrial Model Turkey’s defence engagement in Africa is often read through the lens of geopolitics, drone use, and conflict dynamics. Yet the deeper story is industrial and strategic. Africa remains central to Turkey’s defence-export...
The recent spike in crude oil prices will likely result in a fresh rate hike by the Fed this week, according to data from CME Group, cited by The National today. As much as 90% of respondents from trading circles...
Major powers are increasingly trying to shut out their rivals. Russia invaded Ukraine in part to prevent the latter’s further integration with the West. The United States is restricting China’s access to advanced semiconductors and encouraging allies to do the...
An AfD election poster with the message: “Youth come to us”, reminiscent of both Nazi and Communist propaganda. By Jan Lundius STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Sep 14 2026 (IPS) During summer months there is a certain news drought. Nevertheless, this year social media has been...
Alain Antil, Director of the Sub-Saharan Africa Centre at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), is in conversation with Hichem Ben Yaïche . He talks about Rwanda’s soft power, Russia’s Africa strategy and the fraught situation in the Sahel. What...
A delegate walking past a billboard at the Africa Food Systems Forum at Kigali Convention Centre in Rwanda's capital. Credit: Farai Shawn Matiashe/IPS By Farai Shawn Matiashe KIGALI, Sep 14 2026 (IPS) When the African continent experiences erratic rains, crops fail, leaving millions...
Japan is edging closer to a once-unthinkable choice: whether nuclear propulsion should underpin its next generation of undersea deterrence. This month, the Japan Times reported that Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi confirmed that Japan is keeping the option of acquiring...
This was the week that AI safety hit the big time. A 27-year-old AI researcher named Jacob Coxon quit his job at Anthropic, declaring that OpenAI and Anthropic are racing to create technology that could destroy the human race: Other...
A report that Iran obtained satellite imagery of a U.S. military base in Jordan from Chinese entities before a deadly attack has raised questions about the extent of China’s ties with Tehran and whether Chinese commercial or other entities are...
For most of modern history, the household was a bundle. Under one roof, families pooled rent and meals, raised children, cared for parents, kept each other company and insured one another against bad luck. Nobody itemized it, and national accounts...
On August 27, Reps. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) and Bill Keating (D-Mass.) introduced the SRBIJA Act , which would impose sanctions and visa restrictions on “malign actors” accused of undermining democracy, the rule of law, human rights, and stability in the...
Only a few days ago, Moldova’s ambassador to the U.S. said it was likely “ not an accident ” that a Russian jet-powered drone flew across his country’s territory while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s plane was preparing to depart from...
As the United States has struggled to secure its four primary objectives in the Iran War — achieving regime change, dismantling long-range ballistic missiles, eliminating nuclear enrichment, and halting Tehran’s support for regional proxies — U.S. officials have rolled out...
By: Ainur Rohmah Photo from tribun-medan.com In Indonesia under President Prabowo Subianto, political power and private wealth are finding a new point of convergence. Few businessmen illustrate that shift more clearly than Andi Syamsuddin Arsyad, known as Haji Isam, a former truck...
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Sep 14 2026 (IPS) Most free trade advocates falsely claim that comparative advantage ensures developmental gains from trade liberalisation. Mainstream trade theory does not promise that partial trade liberalisation guarantees optimal international specialisation. Jomo Kwame Sundaram Specialisation? Developing...
A chokepoint is not a wall. It is a tollbooth — expensive, annoying, survivable — and the traffic always finds another way around. That is the single lesson I would press on anyone in Washington who believes the dollar can...
China can leverage its membership in the BRICS group and its direct investments in Africa as complementary tools to build growing economic influence that gradually translates into sustainable political, security, and strategic influence. Although Beijing consistently emphasizes that its partnerships...
This week’s oil price surge sharply raised the odds of a Fed interest rate hike next week and re-launched the recession conversation, for the first time since the early weeks of the Iran war. The price spike this week saw...
The United States’ existing dams could produce an additional 15.2 terawatt-hours of electricity per year, enough to power more than 1.4 million homes across the country. A new study from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory found that...
The 18th summit of BRICS , a grouping with ten members including Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russia, and South Africa, concluded in New Delhi with a leaders declaration — a clear success for an event that brought together a deeply...
On February 1st, the G7’s price cap on Russian crude oil quietly reset itself to $44.10 a barrel — down from $47.60, and a long way from the $60 ceiling the coalition set with great fanfare back in December 2022....
Jensen Huang’s declaration that “AGI has arrived” is less a scientific verdict than a compressed statement about infrastructure, economics and momentum. His evidence is OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, reportedly trained on more than 100,000 Nvidia Grace Blackwell NVL72 systems, followed by...
Construction on a trade corridor seen as the lynchpin of the Armenian-Azerbaijani peace deal is facing a delay, according to a top Azerbaijani official. The provisional peace agreement was signed in Washington in August 2025. At that time, the Trump...
New data on France, Europe and China reveals a striking story. Jason Hickel is a Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and...
Egypt can leverage the US-China rivalry and its strategic partnership with Beijing to bolster its national security and its position as a global logistics hub through several strategic avenues: 1) Enhancing its status as a global logistics and trade center,...
The United Kingdom has dramatically increased its wind energy capacity over the last decade, producing record levels of wind power in 2025. With several more projects in the pipeline, wind power is expected to contribute a significant share of the...
The Pentagon’s extraordinary use of polygraph tests on senior military personnel is not merely a hunt for leakers; it is a warning that loyalty to the president may increasingly matter more than loyalty to the institution, accelerating the ultimate American...
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