India is comfortably on track to meet its goal to have 500 gigawatts (GW) of non-fossil-fuel power capacity installed by 2030, after having just hit the 300 GW milestone, New and Renewable Energy Minister Pralhad Joshi said at an industry...
India Expands Defence Cooperation With US The Indian Army has signed an agreement with the United States to purchase Javelin anti tank missile systems, marking another step in the growing defence relationship between Washington and New Delhi. The value of...
Nepal Says It Can Manage Rescue Operations Nepal has declined offers from several countries to send search and rescue teams following the devastating Himalayan flash floods, saying its own security agencies have sufficient capacity to manage the ongoing rescue operation....
A Residual Instrument with Systemic Risks The EU Return Regulation creates a legal basis for transferring individuals subject to enforceable return decisions to third countries willing to accept them, even where they have no prior connection to that country. This makes...
When China’s Defense Minister Admiral Dong Jun visited Jakarta on August 21, he and Indonesia’s Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin agreed to deepen military cooperation. At a joint press conference, Dong said Indonesia and China would work together against the “malicious...
Lars Løkke Rasmussen (right), Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark and President of the Security Council for the month of August, addresses the Security Council meeting entitled ‘Food Under Fire: The Security Council's Role in Mitigating Global and Local Food...
Walk through any major electronics hub in Shenzhen, Seoul or Taipei right now, and the neon glare of artificial intelligence is blinding. It’s also intensifying: order books for advanced chips are overflowing, stock tickers are melting upward and tech executives...
Haakon Becomes Norway’s New Monarch Crown Prince Haakon became Norway’s king on Friday following the death of his father, King Harald. The 53 year old monarch is now Norway’s fourth king since the country gained full independence from Sweden in...
Editor’s note: This is the first article in a new occasional series featuring battles that just didn’t matter, may look important, but in fact had negligible strategic or political effects or were absurd, anticlimactic, or structurally irrelevant to the wars...
Overflowing Lake Threatens Flood Hit Areas A landslide formed a lake along the Nepal China border that began overflowing on Friday, raising fears of another surge of water through communities already devastated by a deadly flash flood two days earlier....
Credit: United Nations By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Aug 28 2026 (IPS) As the UN commemorates its 81st anniversary, one lingering question remains: what is the future of the world body.? Will a hostile US downsize its operations at the United Nations, cut down...
The US and China are about to meet this September to talk about AI. As the world’s two leading AI superpowers, the US and China’s engagement with AI have strategic implications for not only the AI and chip industries but...
Mojtaba Khamenei Remains Out of Public View Six months into the war with the United States and Israel, Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has remained completely absent from public view, raising growing questions about his health, authority and ability to...
Seoul Backs Renewed US North Korea Dialogue South Korea has welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to restart talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, but Seoul wants any negotiations to produce meaningful progress on North Korea’s nuclear weapons...
Crude oil prices were on course to book another weekly loss despite no sign of any progress being made towards peace between Iran and the United States. At the time of writing, Brent crude was trading at $89.17 per barrel,...
Russia is not about to collapse. It still occupies a large part of Ukraine, continues to fire hundreds of drones and missiles at Ukrainian cities, and retains an enormous advantage in population and resources over its smaller neighbor. Yet four...
Since the 2013 Edward Snowden leaks, surveillance and debates surrounding it have become part of the American experience. In recent years, Ring video doorbell users have successfully pushed back against the company’s policy of sharing data with police departments ....
This week, President Donald Trump formally submitted the U.S.-Saudi civil nuclear agreement to Congress for review, moving the deal forward despite continuing to insist that Saudi Arabia normalize relations with Israel before it can take effect. This condition could stall the...
Understanding global geopolitics is complicated and challenging, especially today. Governments have complex relationships with each other at both the bilateral and multilateral levels. This situation certainly applies to the Russian Federation, the People’s Republic of China, and the Democratic People’s...
Prof Pierre Akilimali, who heads DR Congo’s response to an outbreak that has so far killed more than 2,700 people, says tackling the disease requires trust and respect The statistics, says the man responsible for overseeing the Ebola response in the...
Other governments could seek similar concessions, while separate legal action is pending in places ranging from Kenya to the Netherlands In October 2021, Abrham Meareg’s father, a professor of chemistry in Ethiopia’s northern town of Bahir Dar, was shot at close...
Ten years have passed since the International Arbitral Tribunal ruled in favor of the Philippines in its maritime case against China. The July 2016 award was hailed at the time as a landmark in international law, affirming Manila’s rights under...
[Before diving into tonight’s featured article I want to offer a brief comment on John Ratcliffe’s strange visit to Moscow. The key for me is the C-17. Why use that plane? The CIA Director has a Gulfstream V (GV), which...
The answer depends on a combination of steadfast official Chinese pronouncements that hinge on self-identity and how “developing country status” is defined. The truth is that there is growing criticism of the distinction between these two-group-only categories. A more recent...
By: Khanh Vu Duc Trump: like it or lump it Canada was supposed to be safe. America’s closest neighbor, a NATO member, a G7 democracy and a critical security partner, Canada is deeply integrated into the US economy. Energy, automobiles, minerals, food and...
When Donald Trump launched the Iran War on February 28, the usual suspects were in full support. From the moment the conflict ignited, many couldn’t help but immediately express admiration for the president, saying that only a brave, noble, and...
One of the great foreign policy disappointments of Donald Trump’s first term was the failure to advance his initial promising initiative to begin normalizing relations with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Trump had abandoned the threats and bluster...
Egypt’s gas sector is running short of domestic gas just as Cyprus prepares to become a producer. The recently approved Cronos project offshore Cyprus (expected to deliver up to 2.8 million tonnes per year of LNG from 202 offers...
The High Commission of Jamaica in Pretoria marked Jamaica's 64th Independence with a vibrant Jamaica 64 Sports Day, bringing together members of the diplomatic community, friends of Jamaica and guests for a day of friendly competition, camaraderie and Jamaican spirit. Jamaica...
Africa's economic narrative is changing — driven not by sentiment but by investment, infrastructure, innovation and a growing determination to turn the continent's enormous potential into tangible opportunities. This was the message at a recent engagement hosted by Africa Rising Global,...
The Trump administration is no friend of wind and solar. Axed subsidies and project suspensions have been the attitude towards those alternative forms of energy. Geothermal, however, is something else. The current Department of Energy is very much for it....
Intel’s Crescent Island is a discrete data-center GPU designed for agentic AI inference, where performance is constrained by more than matrix arithmetic. Multi-step agents impose latency through repeated model calls and tool interactions, consume large memory capacity for weights and...
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MANY GOVERNMENTS’ pro-Israeli votes in international forums like the U.N. starkly disregard the expressed views of their people, and they get away with it with help from media inattention and misdirection. From Albania to Morocco vociferous crowds show their low opinion...
The Trump administration is reportedly in active discussions with Venezuela’s interim government to acquire a direct U.S. ownership stake in key Venezuelan oil fields. According to senior U.S. officials cited by Axios, the talks involve equity stakes in a select...
When Donald Trump and Xi Jinping meet again in Washington, the most important question will not be whether they shake hands, announce another trade arrangement or produce a carefully worded communiqué. It will be whether two governments that increasingly treat...
United States President Trump has strongly criticised wind power since coming into office, introducing several executive actions aimed at restricting the development of wind farms. Trump has particularly targeted offshore wind, leading to several projects being put on hold or...
Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are tossing figurative darts at a US trial balloon connected to the intensifying race between the United States and China for leadership in AI development. Reuters reported on August 14 that the US State Department had drafted a note stating that...
As part of our continuing series, Geopolitics Made Simple, devoted to developments in the Middle East, we have already discussed the military power of the United States, Iran's response, the objectives of the war and the way domestic politics influences...
Energean is in exclusive talks to buy a package of BP’s Egyptian oil and gas assets in a deal that could raise about $1 billion for the British energy major, Reuters reported Thursday exclusively, citing two people involved in the...
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The Trump administration increased its attacks on press freedom last week when the Department of Defense fired Stars and Stripes editor-in-chief Erik Slavin and reporter Lara Korte from the 165-year-old news outlet serving the U.S. military community. The outgoing editor...
The Nordic-Baltic warmongering under the current conditions is therefore (i) irresponsible, (ii) hypocritical, (iii) immoral, and (iv) flirts with a disaster of immense proportions. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His latest book, The Great Global Transformation:...
The following story is co-published with Matt Bivens’ Substack newsletter, The 100 Days. By late 2022 , Ukraine had rallied, with Western backing, and Russia’s invasion had wavered. The war was only several months old, but it already appeared the Russians...
Architect Labs says it has created Redwood, an AI accelerator designed and verified almost entirely by artificial intelligence in less than two weeks. If independently validated and successfully translated from a programmable prototype into manufactured silicon, the project could represent...
With geopolitical situation heightening, the world’s players are strategically expressing their interest in Africa, and African countries are also choosing their development partners. Many researchers, often, say Africa is currently experiencing the ‘second political re-awakening’ as foreign players aggressively partition...
In Robin Andersen’s new book, she chronicles how the U.S. media utilized their massive reach to help shield Israel from scrutiny as it perpetrated a genocide in Gaza. Chris Hedges: Robin Anderson, the author of “The Complicit Lens,” documents how the Western...
The United States’ plans to revitalize Venezuela’s oil sector are moving at a snail’s pace. But it seems that plans are finally falling into place, with two different U.S. companies – SLB and Hunt Oil – announcing deals with the...
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