Americas
This Sunday , Brazilian voters head to the polls to decide whether leftwing incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will win a historic fourth term. Lula’s challenger is Flávio Bolsonaro, who has styled himself as…
Activism
When it burst into widespread use as a result of the 1976 movie All the President’s Men , the phrase “Follow the money” referred to political influence or corruption and how to track it. Fifty years later, the meaning of…
Activism
For years, a subculture of amateur investigators has been publicly performing a by-now familiar script. Posing as children online, they arrange meetings with unsuspecting adult men, then show up with cameras and…
Democracy & Governance
For much of the year, the war with Iran was treated in Washington as a foreign-policy problem: a question of military objectives, nuclear policy, deterrence, and negotiations. As the November 3 midterm elections…
Activism
With a month to go before the midterm elections, conservatives are escalating their attacks on transgender Americans in the belief that transphobia is an effective strategy for galvanizing voters. Elon Musk ’s super PAC…
3D IC
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The TSMC OIP Ecosystem Forum highlighted many accomplishments across TSMC’s vast ecosystem. Specific achievements with TSMC as well as collaborative work across several companies were all on display. And there was an…
Middle East & Africa
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Fighting is happening in northern Ethiopia between federal troops and a rebel alliance led by Tigrayan forces. This conflict resembles the earlier civil war from 2020 to 2022, which resulted in massive casualties…
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November WTI crude oil futures spent the week caught between two opposing trades. Gulf crude flows improved as Saudi Arabia restored export routes and producers found ways around the Strait of Hormuz disruption. That was…
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The U.S. last month sent two additional Patriot missile batteries to protect energy infrastructure in Saudi Arabia and Qatar from Iranian strikes in case the war escalates again, U.S. officials and a Persian Gulf…
Europe
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British police have arrested a dual UK-Iranian national in connection with an alleged terrorist plot involving RAF Fairford, an airbase used by the US to target Iran. This incident began when police received a tip from a…
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Europe’s energy crisis isn’t over. Gas prices remain punishingly high across the continent as Europeans stare down the barrel of a long winter. In response to back-to-back-to-back energy crises stemming from Europe’s…
Society
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Reports of pneumonic plague in the Irkutsk region have not yet been officially confirmed, but the situation has prompted swift action from regional authorities and public health officials. Unconfirmed Reports Spark…
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Japanese energy firm JERA is creating an oil storage company which will exclusively manage the operation of the national petroleum stockpiling bases that JERA currently operates, as the Middle East crisis has upended the…
Energy News
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European Union countries discussed a French proposal to release diesel stocks due to US pressure related to soaring fuel prices and the Iran war. The proposal suggests that Europe should release 50 million barrels of…
AI
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For decades, chipmakers improved computing performance largely by putting more capable circuitry on a piece of silicon. That remains important, but AI is exposing its limits. Large models demand enormous amounts of data…
Human Rights
For a dissident living abroad, repression does not always arrive as a threat from an intelligence service. It may appear at an airport check-in desk, a border crossing, a bank compliance review, or an immigration…
Politics
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With Democrats leading competitive races and poised to reclaim the House, the American political map is shifting under Trump’s weakening hold, the impending exits of McConnell and Pelosi, and a familiar warning: never…
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The deserts were deserted but for traveling on foot or by animals. From city to city were scattered thorny bushes, hot sand, and a lonely well – much like our 21st-century pit stop exits for rest, gas, and lavatory…
Economy
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Europe wants to build a competitive artificial intelligence industry, but a new financing divide is emerging between European companies and their US counterparts. While American technology giants are borrowing hundreds…
Active Citizens
At the Africa Food Systems Forum in Kigali, Rwanda, experts explored how renewable energy can ease the burden on farmers. Here Shifra Ainomugisha poses beside a solar-powered irrigation system in Uganda. She was named…
Opinion
Netflix’s phenomenal hit, The Polygamist, demonstrates the power of great storytelling and, in the process, changes how people see Africa and themselves. I usually approach a 22-episode TV series with suspicion and…
Middle East
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The war between the United States and Iran is no longer just a confrontation between Washington and Tehran. A second contest is taking shape alongside and behind it. China is not fighting the United States directly, but…
Aid
Shehnaz Ali from Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan, has been living with a fistula for 16 years. Credit: Zofeen T. Ebrahim/IPS By Zofeen Ebrahim KARACHI, Pakistan, Oct 2 2026 (IPS) “You’re living a life drained of joy,” is how…
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A potential ban on exports of diesel fuel from the United States would affect Latin America the most, Goldman Sachs has said, despite reports that the pain from such a ban would be the greatest for Europe. U.S. diesel…
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The majority of people on the Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) board are not Labour party members, it has emerged. This means the group does not have to tell the Electoral Commission who has donated to the organisation…
Energy Transition
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The global energy transition is creating a problem that could increasingly undermine its own momentum: the enormous quantities of minerals needed to electrify economies may be harder to secure than the technologies that…
Active Citizens
By CIVICUS Oct 2 2026 (IPS) CIVICUS discusses life as a refugee with an exiled Sudanese civil society activist who has asked to remain anonymous for security reasons. Over three years into Sudan’s war, millions of people…
Commentary
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For much of the modern aviation era, geography was something the global aviation industry learned to overcome. Simply put, unlike a railway, a pipeline, or a highway, an aircraft does not require a continuous physical…
Commentary
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A cyber operator can spend a shift tracking an adversary halfway around the world, walk to the parking lot, and be home in time for dinner. There is no flight home, no demobilization, and no transition from an…
Lever Time
LISTEN NOW: Anthropic’s leaked IPO documents show the company had a net loss of $42 billion in 2025 and still insists that its technology could pose a “catastrophic or existential risk to humanity.” It’s either the most…
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ConocoPhillips and Venture Global have signed a deal that would see the liquefied natural gas major supply 1 million tons to Conoco beginning in 2030. The deal is part of a broader trend in energy to boost LNG exposure…
Aid
Mariam Daher preparing for her Tawjihi examinations in the temporary learning spaces in Gaza. Credit: Education Above All Foundation By Hani Shehada DOHA, Qatar, Oct 2 2026 (IPS) In the 21st century, getting a pencil…
Fashion
From Nigeria’s handwoven aso-oke and indigo-dyed adire to Burkina Faso’s faso dan fani, traditional fabrics are being reimagined. At African Fashion Week Sandton, Botswana designer Keabetswe Mogatusi’s Technicolour…
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Crude oil prices are set for a modest weekly decline today, as reports of a strong rebound in oil flows out of the Persian Gulf trumped news of more U.S. troops moving to the Middle East and China’s Thursday decision to…
Climate Action
Members of Smallholder Farmer Alliance in Haiti with first harvest of regenerative cotton. Credit: Thomas Norielle/SFA By Hugh Locke NEW YORK, Oct 2 2026 (IPS) In November 1952, the United States detonated the world’s…
Military
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Faced with rising great-power suspicions and the challenge of verifying clandestine, cavity-muffled detonations, the US is turning to high-precision subterranean blast experiments in the Nevada desert to strip covert…
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This Sunday, Brazilian voters head to the polls to decide whether leftwing incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will win a historic fourth term. Lula’s challenger is Flávio Bolsonaro, who has styled himself as a…
Oil
On Monday, as the war with Iran crossed the seven-month mark, Governor Greg Abbott declared a statewide disaster in Texas as a result of a massive increase in diesel prices and a deepening fuel shortage. Texas is hardly…
Middle East & Africa
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The All-China Women’s Federation (ACWF), as the highest Chinese women’s organization concerned with the issues of women in China and around the world, and all Chinese women’s federations, welcomed the appointment of…
Finance
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On September 30, SK Hynix’s American depositary shares closed at US$184.15 on the Nasdaq. Earlier that day in Seoul, one ordinary share closed at 1,776,000 won, about $1,308.80. Ten ADSs represent one Seoul share, so…
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[NOTE: The image on the right shows the area of Moscow known as Moscow City. I stayed in the Novotel hotel in that complex of buildings.] Con Coughlin’s September 30 column in the Telegraph tells readers that Vladimir…
Oil & Gas
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A Pipeline Back On, and Nowhere to Go On 22 September, Saudi Aramco began pumping crude again through the East-West pipeline, the 1,200-kilometre line that carries oil from the Gulf coast to the Red Sea port of Yanbu…
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By: Tim Daiss Photo from Philippine News Agency Southeast Asia could face a double energy shock over the coming months as a strengthening El Niño threatens hydropower generation just as the region struggles with elevated…
World
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Russia and Brazil call each other strategic partners, meet within BRICS and advocate a more multipolar world order. But a new joint study by the Russian International Affairs Council and Brazil's CEBRI has revealed an…
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With three quarters of the current year in the books, the U.S. stock market is on track for a fourth consecutive year of double-digit gains, with massive AI infrastructure spending coupled with exceptionally strong…
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China, already dominating the global lithium-ion battery market, plans to expand this position to solid-state batteries, too. The government in Beijing will seek to cut solid-state battery costs, boost their performance…
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Dr Nikita Sahadew did not always know podiatry would become her career. Growing up in Verulam, KwaZulu-Natal, she was drawn to a profession that brought together medicine, biomechanics, surgery and diabetes care.Most of…
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Nontuthuko KaMashimane grew up in Pietermaritzburg with her three brothers and was raised by parents who were civil servants. She attended Pietermaritzburg Girls' High School where she developed leadership skills through…