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Front-end SoC design has always been a balancing act between speed, accuracy, and the large amount of manual work required to get RTL, IPs, and collaterals to be aligned. In a recent webinar, Defacto CEO and founder Chouki Aktouf joined...

AI, Defacto Technologies, EDA

The IEA has slashed its 2026 global oil supply forecast, with output now expected to plunge 4.3 million barrels per day this year as the failure to reopen the Strait of Hormuz pushes the market deeper into deficit. The latest...

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We are seeing today a surge in heretical media outlets including Novara, Doubledown News, Drop Site, Byline Times, Middle East Eye – and of course Declassified UK. We have emerged thanks in part to a growing appreciation that the mainstream media...

Archive, Media, Iraq

Roberto Mosquera, a Cuban immigrant who has lived in the United States since 1980 and completed a prison sentence in 1996, was arrested by ICE last year and sent to a prison in Eswatini, a country in Africa he’d never...

Deportation, Immigration and Emigration, Prisons and Prisoners

On August 7, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey signed a defense pact that echoed Article 5 of NATO: an attack on one will be attack on all. The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement , for its vernacular, has sent shockwaves across...

War & Peace, Mecca Defense Pact, Pakistan

The UK could see a power supply margin shortfall during the solar eclipse on Wednesday amid high demand in the new heatwave that is sweeping through Britain and the rest of Europe this week. There is no risk to customer...

News

Turkey’s parliament has passed legislation creating a framework for the disbandment of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), opening the way for Kurdish militants to return from northern Iraq and potentially be reintegrated into society. The move has brought hope to...

World News, PKK, Turkey

When Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan signed their joint defense agreement in Mecca on August 7, the alliance’s first test was already taking shape. A day before the signing, Saudi Arabia was preparing for the possibility of attacks by the Houthis...

Saudi-arabia, Turkey, Houthis

South African scientist’s breakthrough research shows soil fungus could be used in fight against devastating crop pest Hearing about fields full of dead caterpillars enveloped in a mysterious white substance intrigued the South African scientist Letodi Luki Mathulwe. Something was killing...

Global development, Farming, Insects

The number of ships that have transited the Strait of Hormuz dropped to a week-low on Tuesday, according to shipping data, as vessel owners continue to avoid the key chokepoint in the Middle East. Only eight vessels moved in either...

News

Taiwan has condemned planned Chinese naval drills with an Indonesian warship off the island’s east coast, calling the exercise a dangerous provocation and accusing Beijing of trying to create the impression that it controls waters east of Taiwan. China’s Defence...

World News, China, Defense

Brent Crude oil prices rose above $89 per barrel in early trade in Europe on Wednesday as Iran and the United States offered contrasting claims about who controls the Strait of Hormuz. Brent Crude prices were up by 0.64% at...

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Exiled Nicaraguans hold a national flag in the Church of San Francisco in San José, Costa Rica, at a service held on 19 April 2026 to commemorate the anniversary of protests in 2018. Credit: Ezequiel Becerra/AFP By Inés M. Pousadela MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay,...

Active Citizens, Civil Society, Crime & Justice

US foreign policy, built on military intervention, sanctions, applying double standards, and making use of proxy conflicts, is not bolstering America’s global influence but is instead accelerating the emergence of alternative alliances, uniting countries opposed to Western dominance. After so...

Europe, Middle East, Politics

A drone has struck a power station at the Zawiya oil export terminal in Libya, suggesting continued attacks on one of the country’s main oil hubs. The power plant is in close proximity to the largest oil refinery in Libya,...

News

Iran is set to join the New Development Bank (NDB), the development lender established by the BRICS group, Iranian central bank governor Abdolnaser Hemmati said on Wednesday, as Tehran seeks to deepen financial ties with emerging economies amid sweeping international...

World News, BRICS, Economics

Editor’s note: This is the eighth 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,...

Arsenal of Innovation, Cogs of War, Military History

Carol Koech, Vice President for Africa at the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet By Benson Kunchezera LILONGWE, Aug 12 2026 (IPS) For years, Malawi’s electricity supply has been at the mercy of droughts, floods and cyclones that have repeatedly exposed the...

Africa, Aid, Climate Action

When war changes, schools change. New technology, the politics of mass mobilization and campaign design, and novel tactics that defined Napoleonic warfare led to Gerhard von Scharnhorst’s reforms and the idea of lifelong education as a professional obligation. The pattern...

Commentary, Future Warfare, Military History

By Anis Chowdhury SYDNEY, Aug 12 2026 (IPS) Should anyone be surprised that Israel has rebuffed Donald Trump? The unconditional support of the US and its Western allies for Israel has emboldened the rogue state. Thus, Israel continues its genocide against the...

Armed Conflicts, Crime & Justice, Headlines

In the weeks since the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding collapsed, Washington and Tehran have used the time to strengthen their respective positions in the event negotiations resume. For the United States, this has largely taken the form of overt threats by President...

Middle East, Block 2, Donald Trump

This week’s market headlines have been dominated by Gulf tensions, inflation, bond market concerns and renewed political pressure on the Federal Reserve. But beneath those developments, investors are watching three broader trends: the surprising strength of European bank stocks, Japanese...

Economy, Economics, Europe

Oil and gold prices climbed on Wednesday as geopolitical tensions intensified ahead of key U.S. inflation data, while investors assessed the potential impact on Federal Reserve interest rate policy. U.S. crude rose 0.61% to $83.71 a barrel, while Brent crude...

Economy, Economics, Security

Russia has started importing fuels from India, Bloomberg reported today, citing Kpler data that shows one cargo of 42,000 tons of gasoline from Nayara Energy’s Vadinar refinery arriving in Russia earlier this month. The Vadinar refinery is partly owned by...

News

Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz fell to its lowest level in a week on Tuesday as vessel operators continued to avoid the strategically vital waterway amid ongoing hostilities in the Middle East. Kpler data showed that only eight...

World News, Iran, Security

Renewable energy became an essential issue in G20 meetings due to the reality of climate change in recent decades. The campaign of the energy transition is one of the efforts to change energy resources from fossil fuel and coal to...

Energy Transition, Economics, G20

One of the things that surprised this tourist in Oslo last February was the vast number of electric vehicles. EVs were everywhere. Every taxi I rode in was electric. I shouldn’t have been surprised. Norway has long been a leader...

US-China, Block 2, Chinese EVs

The Trump administration has launched a series of measures to ensure that US defense contractors source critical minerals domestically or from allied nations, building a supply chain that officials hope would break China’s monopoly over materials such as scandium and...

US-China, Block 1, China

On July 19, President Donald Trump’s top Africa adviser, Massad Boulos, held a series of talks in Cairo with the foreign ministers of Egypt, Eritrea and Somalia. The participants framed the discussions as an effort to bolster security in the...

Eritrea, Egypt, Red-sea

When the Taliban reclaimed power five years ago, China appeared poised to capitalize on Afghanistan’s new realities. Beijing quickly took important steps to establish de facto relations with the Islamic Emirate, such as keeping its embassy open in Kabul, maintaining direct...

China, Afghanistan, Pakistan

Trump’s renewed talks with Tehran expose an uncomfortable reality: once war begins, foreign allies and their domestic networks can raise the political cost of ending it on American terms. President Donald Trump said this week that the United States was...

Americas, front, Geopolitics

The migrant influx prompted recriminations and a tit-for-tat dispute between Italy and Spain. Putin, Erdoğan and others will have taken note Within hours of the first pictures of tens of thousands of migrants swimming the short distance from Morocco to the...

Spain, Migration, Morocco

NEW YORK – Earlier hopes that China had beaten deflation took a hit this week. China’s consumer prices rose just 0.5% year-on-year in July, down from June’s 1% rate — the slowest pace in six months and the third straight...

China, Block 2, China Deflation

The Trump-class battleship risks becoming more of a prestige project than a practical answer to the US Navy’s longstanding challenges in fleet modernization, emerging technologies and power projection. This month, the US Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report estimating...

Military, Block 3, DDG(X) Destroyer

On July 30, Gaza’s parties signed a disarmament roadmap that Washington called a historic breakthrough, the latest turn in a sequencing fight this outlet has tracked closely for months. But a disarmed Gaza still cannot rebuild itself, and the deeper...

Middle East & Africa, Analysis, Defense

By: Pham Phan Long Humanity has entered the Anthropocene, an era in which human activity shapes Earth’s climate, ecosystems, rivers, and natural processes at planetary scale. Yet many institutions guiding development were built around a narrower vision of environmental impacts, focusing...

News

They took her trainers. That is the detail that survives, once the rest is stripped away – the belongings removed from the corpse, the shoes pulled from her feet, the shallow hole in woods sixty kilometers west of Kyiv. Anastasiia...

Uncategorized

Over the last few years, there has been a significant change in how governments conceptualise and approach climate change. Climate change was previously seen as an environmental problem, and as a quandary that existed in a separate, often subordinate, sphere...

Diplomacy, Climate Crisis, energy transition

The Trump administration marked the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of U.S. independence with a series of statements in support of American empire. Despite the fact that Trump campaigned against endless war and the White House issued a National Security Strategy that rejected...

Uncategorized

The war between the United States and Iran is rooted in events stretching back more than seventy years. As the major media continues to ignore the history, it is important to understand this essential backstory. If you’re wondering why the...

Uncategorized

Whatever officially occurs next in the on-again/off-again negotiations towards a peace deal between the U.S. and Iran, unofficially Tehran knows that it has established de facto control over both the world’s two key maritime energy transit routes -- the Strait...

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