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For decades, the United States has been Canada’s most important energy partner, absorbing the lion’s share of its oil and gas production. After meeting its domestic refining needs, Canada exports ~80% of its crude output, with roughly 90% going to...

As public anger against the Nepalese government mounts after deadly landslides in Nepal, files show the country’s new prime minister and several of his colleagues came to power thanks in part to a covert program sponsored by the US government....

An event addresses a moment; a process creates continuity.An event manages adjustment; a process builds order. Complementing the proposed Muscat/Oman process, diplomatically in circulation since June through the Group of Friends of the Process, Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi...

OpenAI’s Jalapeño is a custom accelerator designed specifically for AI inference, particularly the low-latency, multi-chip workloads behind interactive and agentic systems. Its central idea is that useful performance cannot be reduced to peak floating-point operations or memory bandwidth. What matters...

Europe desperately needs to ramp up its energy storage capacity if it wants to avoid another energy crisis. In the wake of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine back in 2022, the European Union made major strides in building up its...

On September 5, Russia and South Africa observed 20 years since the signing of the Treaty on Friendship and Partnership. This was concluded in Cape Town in 2006 as part of the official visit by President Vladimir Putin. The treaty...

After signing what President Donald Trump touted as “the biggest oil deal in world history” to take majority control of 65 billion barrels of proven crude oil reserves in Venezuela, the U.S. Administration is setting its sights on the South...

A new British report offers households an attractive deal: abandon net zero and save more than £500 a year. At a time of painfully high energy bills, that claim deserves attention. A transition households cannot finance will eventually lose political...

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In 1973, after it was discovered that the U.S. had secretly bombed Cambodia, Congress took action. In an effort to assert its power over matters of war and peace, Congress pushed through the War Powers Resolution despite then-President Richard Nixon’s veto,...

Uganda is approaching its entry into the oil export market, but getting its new Pearl Sweet grade to buyers will be harder than its low sulphur content might suggest. The country’s two projects are expected to produce 230,000 b/d at...

Google will invest at least €13 billion ($15.1 billion) in Finnish AI infrastructure over 2027 and 2028 and has signed a 22-year power purchase agreement with Fortum for up to 50% of the output from the Loviisa nuclear plant, Google's...

China’s aid model to Nepal, especially during crises and natural disasters, is a prime example of Global South solidarity, presented by Beijing as a development alternative to Western aid that is often contingent on political and structural reforms. This partnership...

Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey has warned inflationary pressures are still buffeting the UK economy and energy prices could rise further next year if the war in Iran continues. Speaking to MPs on Tuesday, the Bank chief said inflation...

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Angola's National Oil, Gas and Biofuels Agency, ExxonMobil and its Block 15 partners confirmed a new oil discovery at the Vicango Este-01 well on Wednesday, the deepwater block's 20th find since production began. Some 370 kilometers (230 miles) northwest of...

TODAY’S NUMBERS: $4,388 (gold, per ounce) · 98.6 (dollar index, four-month low) · 4.8% (10-year Treasury yield, highest since 2023). Gold and yields normally move apart. When both rise together with a falling dollar, markets are pricing something bigger than...

By discarding Washington’s open-door policy toward NATO enlargement and embracing prudent, interest-driven economic diplomacy, the United States can safeguard European stability, secure vital resource supply chains, and free up critical national security resources that are necessary for managing greater challenges. The...

Péter Magyar’s government has officially announced a foreign policy break with Viktor Orbán’s course; however, this rhetorical shift toward the European consensus poses serious risks for Hungary due to the country’s continued critical dependence on Russian energy resources. On August...

Coalition-building requires new joint capital committed at the moment of political signaling. Hedging requires only showing up where the money already flows and collecting the credit for it in front of cameras. This week, in Bishkek and Cairo, Xi did...

The 2026 Ceva Edge Symposium will bring together engineers, technology leaders, ecosystem partners, and innovators to explore a major shift in computing: moving artificial intelligence from distant cloud infrastructure into the devices that interact directly with the physical world. Scheduled...

The tight global diesel market is set to further tighten in the coming months and keep fuel prices high, raising the prices of all goods and threatening the inflation targets of the central banks. Industry officials, who gathered at the...

A report in the Israeli press alleging that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was personally warned by the leader of the United Arab Emirates about Hamas’ attack in October 2023 has triggered a political firestorm in the country, with the premier...

The Strait of Hormuz has become the central pressure point in the escalating confrontation between the United States and Iran. Before the conflict, roughly 20 million barrels of oil moved through the narrow waterway each day, equivalent to about one...

President Donald Trump and the Republican Party are taking an unusual approach to the 2026 midterm elections by holding a national Republican convention in Dallas, just weeks before voters head to the polls. Unlike traditional party conventions, the gathering is...

PARIS / PNN / France will end trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, joining 11 other countries that have made similar commitments, the French government said, citing the deteriorating situation in the West Bank. France said the West...

Iraq has asked the OPEC leadership for a significantly higher crude oil production baseline for future quotas, Bloomberg has reported, citing unnamed sources with knowledge of the matter. According to these sources, Baghdad wants its future quotas in the group...

When the US-Israeli war against Iran began, few in Beijing or Moscow likely expected Tehran to withstand military pressure from two of the world’s most capable powers. In the early days, US and Israeli air, intelligence and technological superiority were...

Malaysia’s ruling coalition has said that people convicted in high profile corruption and abuse of power cases should serve their full sentences, as reports emerge that former Prime Minister Najib Razak may be seeking another royal pardon. Najib has been...

The United States has accused Chinese artificial intelligence companies of systematically copying technology from American AI firms, escalating an already tense technology relationship between the world’s two largest economies. US law enforcement and intelligence officials allege that Chinese companies are...

Radhika Desai is a prominent Marxist political economist known for her work on geopolitical economy—a framework analyzing international relations through the lens of capitalist contradictions and the economic role of states . She is a Professor at the Department of Political...