WASHINGTON — With just over two months until the November midterms, the U.S. Supreme Court gave way Monday for President Donald Trump to have a hand in regulating mail-in ballots nationwide, a voting method he has falsely claimed is rife...
MAWASI KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip / PNN / Report by Fidaa Mohammad Abdel-Jawad In the cramped corners of tents across Gaza, women hold on to fragments of mirrors almost as if they were pieces of their souls. In wartime, when a mirror...
Equinor sees a multi-billion LNG export project in Tanzania becoming more attractive for development amid the Middle East conflict that has crippled liquefied natural gas supply through the Strait of Hormuz, a senior executive at the Norwegian energy major said...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Report by Nesma Al-Harazin In a place where war has destroyed factories, closed businesses and upended livelihoods, some people are choosing to begin again — not from zero, but from what remains beneath the rubble. For some,...
The world’s biggest oil refiner, China’s state-held Sinopec, is looking to transform its business as domestic fuel sales crumble amid the electric vehicle boom. China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, as Sinopec is officially known, will be allocating more capital to...
Hey, Donald Trump couldn’t have made it clearer that he wanted to go to war with Iran, could he? You would think that even he wouldn’t have been dumb enough to start a war with that country, given the U.S. record...
Photo by Vitaly Gariev on Unsplash Yes, you may notice today’s title harkens back to Jack Nicholson as The Joker in Tim Burton’s first Batman movie. I’ve always liked that line, but I rarely use it. After all, he said it...
The war they chose: the Flying Tigers' fight against fascism By Einar Tangen Eighty-five years on, the Flying Tigers remain a reminder of what people from different countries can do when they choose to stand together against fascism. On Dec. 20, 1941, Japanese...
China’s Evolving Strategic Trade Settlement Framework While political chaos reigns a new economic order is evolving In reaction to the weaponization of SWIFT and aggressive trade moves by the US to contain China economically under Trump, then Biden, and Trump again, China...
Signoff-quality design tools are mandatory for signoff, though not so good for early design exploration. Signoff demands high accuracy in design description and high precision in analysis. The first requirement can’t be met early in design where architecture decisions are...
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi was in Jakarta from August 20 to 22, where he launched a new Comprehensive Strategic Dialogue, initiated a second round of the 2+2 dialogue between foreign and defense ministers, and held a separate meeting with...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (PNN) — Report by Nesma Al-Harazin As war has surrounded people in Gaza with fear, injury and displacement, veterinarian Mutasim Qadura has found himself confronting another, quieter kind of suffering: sick and injured animals in need of...
Norway’s energy major Equinor hopes to make a “pretty big” oil discovery offshore Namibia, the global exploration hotspot it has just entered, a senior company official said on Tuesday. Equinor hopes that the Petroleum Exploration License 90 (PEL 90) offshore...
A widening dispute over intellectual property protection may soon test whether the US-Vietnam Comprehensive Strategic Partnership is more than a mere diplomatic label. The Office of the US Trade Representative opened a Section 301 investigation into Vietnam in May after...
The three states in the Strait of Malacca, the vital shipping lane into Asia, have pledged to keep the world’s busiest maritime thoroughfare free and open to vessels amid the ongoing crisis in the Strait of Hormuz in the Middle...
Response in Colombia continues after the 7.4 earthquake. In Barrio Lleras, Buenaventura, more than 54 houses have been destroyed or are at risk of collapse. Credit: UNICEF By Oritro Karim UNITED NATIONS, Aug 25 2026 (IPS) Over the past week, the humanitarian crisis...
Thirty-seven Russian army officers were given two weeks of military training in Britain in September 1995, declassified files show. The “intensive military cooperation” involved the Russians “driving tanks and firing a range of weapons”, and was paid for by Britain under...
Al-Bireh / PNN / Dr. Rami Hamdallah, Chairman of the Central Elections Commission (CEC), met today, Monday a group of CSOs representatives at CEC HQ in Al-Bireh to discuss the ongoing preparations for conducting the legislative elections, emphasizing moving forward with...
Judged by the initial strategic goals set by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2022, Russia’s military lost its war against Ukraine some time ago. Yet Russia’s armed forces have not stopped fighting and continue to prosecute large-scale combat operations in...
JP Morgan and Santander will lead a fundraising operation for Argentina LNG, Bloomberg has reported, citing unnamed sources who said the total could reach $15 billion. One of these told the publication the companies involved in the project aimed to...
BETHLEHEM, West Bank / PNN / As economic hardship deepens and job opportunities shrink, many young Palestinians are looking for new ways to earn a living by putting their skills to work in unexpected fields. Among them is 29-year-old Waleed Salman, who...
Iran threatened an aggressive response to the latest U.S. sanctions announced on Monday by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, with a top government official noting Tehran was “fully prepared for the U.S. sanctions.” “Naturally, the enemies intend to launch an economic...
Some of the over 56,000 returnees the Malawian government brought back home are assisted upon arrival. Credit: Thomas Kachere/IPS By Charles Mpaka BLANTYRE, Malawi, Aug 25 2026 (IPS) When the Malawian government announced the conclusion of the repatriation of its citizens trapped in...
Organised by Movie Jabber, the annual Otamatsuri comic-con festival sees people dressed in costumes and accessories gather at Carnivore Grounds in Kenya’s capital to celebrate creative arts, gaming tournaments and comic book culture • This subheading was amended on 25 August...
For decades, the potential closure of the Strait of Hormuz has been considered the ultimate doomsday scenario for global oil markets. So, when Iran effectively closed the Strait earlier this year in response to the joint U.S.-Israeli assault, many analysts...
For decades, the United States treated the prospect of an Iranian nuclear weapon as an intolerable threat. Yet when Washington and Tehran went to war twice in roughly a year, America’s own nuclear arsenal provided remarkably little leverage. In June 2025,...
For two years, Israel's war in Lebanon has been measured largely in a human toll: the dead, the wounded, the displaced. What has drawn far less attention is the destruction of the land itself. Across southern Lebanon, a combination of incendiary...
A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report finds that the maintenance backlog for military installations has ballooned to more than $285 billion — leaving many facilities in disrepair, while risking readiness and service members’ quality of life. This figure is a...
Actor Mark Ruffalo issued a powerful statement in response to the efforts of Paramount Skydance to slander him as an antisemite for publicly denouncing the Ellisons’ support for Israeli genocide and the media monopoly’s merger with Warner Brothers Discovery as...
Bessent Announces New Iranian Sanctions There was one sentence in Scott Bessent’s Monday sanctions announcement that gave the whole game away. Anyone who launders money for the Iranian regime, the Treasury Secretary warned, “will be removed from the US dollar system.”...
By: Salman Rafi Sheikh The new Saudi-Pakistan-Turkey defense pact may look like the beginnings of an “Islamic NATO,” but it is much more a political signal than a functioning military alliance. The Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, signed by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and...
In this issue: - Xi meets Jordan’s king - Sixth Plenum of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection - “Zhong Caiwen 钟才文” on the economy - Fiscal revenue grew in July - Formaldehyde-dipped cabbage - US-China The Feed: Business, Economy and Trade - Politics and Law...
Millions have rightly turned to John Mearsheimer for compelling critique of US foreign policy, but it’s also important to recognise the limits of his ‘realist’ worldview. Gerald Sussman is professor emeritus of urban studies and international studies at Portland State University....
Iran’s economy is capable of withstanding American punishment because it had already adapted to isolation from the Dollar for many years before this war began. Mahyar Ramezankhani is a professor of economics and an economic analyst. He holds a PhD in...
A way to make use of decommissioned oil infrastructure that solves the problem of renewable energy storage. Stuart Jones is Professor of Sedimentology & Geoenergy at Durham University. Andrew Crossland is Professor in Practice in the Department of Engineering at Durham University. Chris...
TotalEnergies will invest in two major oil pipelines designed to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, backing Abu Dhabi’s expansion of its Fujairah export route and a planned pipeline carrying Iraqi crude through Syria to the Mediterranean. CEO Patrick Pouyanné announced...
The United States has fingered over 40 countries, including Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, as alleged accomplices in helping China engage in tariff evasion schemes designed to maintain the country’s US-bound exports, according to a Trump Administration white paper. Titled...
This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . The world has become hotter and, in many places, drier than ever before in recorded history. Just this summer, as some U.S. states battle over...
The pro-Israel lobby is dominating American headlines during the current election because of its outsized role in competitive House and Senate races — a role that's drawn scrutiny as Israel's popularity among American voters declines. Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick’s new...
Starvation is a particularly cruel and horrible way to die. Beginning with intense hunger and pain and followed by exhaustion and mental deterioration, starvation continues with the body gradually consuming its own tissues on a downward spiral toward death. The major...
Artificial intelligence performance is increasingly constrained by memory rather than arithmetic throughput. Scaling laws show that model quality improves when parameter count, training data, and compute grow together, but this balance fails when processors cannot obtain operands quickly enough. Contemporary...
17 August marked the 240th anniversary of American folk hero Davy Crockett -- ‘King of the Wild Frontier’, as the old song goes. It also marked the official end of the 60-day period for negotiations to end the conflict between...
Below is a roundup of the 2026’s top media coverage of stories of repression and resistance featuring Palestine Legal clients, attorneys, and attorney network members from outlets including The Guardian, The Hill, Inside Higher Ed, The Intercept, and Truthout. Inside Higher...
Russia has undergone a profound transformation in the structure of its economy over the past five years. The shift accelerated under unprecedented Western sanctions, forcing the country to rely increasingly on its own domestic market, investment resources and technological capabilities. Deputy...
This is a web version of The Lever ’s daily email newsletter. 🔥 New by David Sirota: Is Bernie Sanders the new Barry Goldwater ? 👇 Further down in this newsletter: - The devastating downstream effects of Hollywood’s mega-merger. - Even Republicans are distancing...
Trump buddy Larry Ellison (one of the richest people in the U.S.) and his son David are a hair’s breadth away from being able to decide what many Americans learn about what Donald Trump is doing to America. The only thing...
An attack on an energy facility which was shut down for four days last month was carried out by hackers linked to the Iranian regime. The cyberattack, which is believed to be the first time Iranian-affiliated hackers have successfully infiltrated...
Events in the Middle East regularly put Israel at the center of the world's media attention. It is portrayed sometimes as the attacking side and sometimes as the defending side; sometimes as a US ally following Washington's lead, and sometimes...
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