Today’s Numbers $126.4bn (China’s record H1 2026 Belt and Road engagement) · 8 (straight sessions of a stronger PBOC yuan fix, the longest streak since 2023) · Nov. 10 (when Beijing’s rare-earth export-control truce expires). Three levers, one direction: maximum...
On Tuesday, Iran and the United States signaled the possibility of restarting negotiations to resolve their ongoing conflict, coinciding with the UN General Assembly in New York, which will be attended by both President Donald Trump and Iranian official Masoud...
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) is proud to announce that our ‘Irish Artists’ Pledge to Boycott Israel’ has just passed the 2,500 signatory mark, a hugely significant milestone in support for the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement. After...
Every war produces its own vocabulary of loss—death tolls, displacement figures, damage assessments. But one number cuts across every current conflict and rarely makes the headline: the count of children who go to sleep each night with no parent left...
Treating the polycrisis as one undifferentiated agenda has never worked; treating them as three coherent families might. Credit: Isaiah Esipisu/IPS By External Source APEX, North Carolina / SAN FRANCISCO, California / VIENNA, Austria / SHEFFIELD, United Kingdom / GENEVA, Switzerland, Sep 22...
Iran has offered to open the Strait of Hormuz within seven days if the United States eases its pressure including taking steps toward ending the U.S. military blockade of Iranian ports and halting military operations in the Strait, a senior...
For many couples cohabitation has become an alternative to marriage rather than simply a step toward it. Credit: Shutterstock By Joseph Chamie PORTLAND, USA, Sep 22 2026 (IPS) Marriage is declining in many countries, with fewer people marrying and many postponing marriage until...
In this premium bonus episode, we’re sharing our full interviews with Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.). We ask AOC and Khanna the question at the heart of The Kingmakers ’ season finale: What should the next Democratic...
Iran has offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days if the United States eases military pressure and lifts its blockade on Iranian ports, creating a potential opening for renewed diplomacy between Tehran and Washington. A senior Iranian...
Neither a victory for Burnham’s Labour Party nor the Greens will advance the interests of the working class a single inch. What is necessary now is to carefully examine the bitter lessons of the political failure of Corbynism and the...
The European Union and the Philippines have reached an initial agreement on the main elements of a free trade deal, marking another step in Brussels’ effort to deepen economic ties with Southeast Asia. EU Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security...
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is expected to meet Secretary of State Marco Rubio in New York on September 22, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. Trade, investment, counterterrorism and regional diplomacy are likely to feature, alongside Pakistan’s...
Is the public entitled to know exactly where Oxford University invests billions of pounds of its endowment – and if that includes firms profiting from Israeli military operations? This is the question now facing a tribunal, following a legal challenge brought...
The disease is soaring as funding is cut. African nations are plugging the gap but they need help with the transition Botswana nearly defeated malaria. In 2024, we recorded just 290 cases and one death. Through our elimination efforts, many of...
This week, Cambodia welcomes foreign diplomats, law-enforcement officials and financial regulators to Phnom Penh for the “International Conference on Combating Online Scams.” Prime Minister Hun Manet’s administration is presenting the gathering as proof that it is ready to confront a...
Britain is seeking a closer economic relationship with the European Union by asking to participate in the bloc’s “Made in Europe” industrial strategy, as Prime Minister Andy Burnham argues that the UK and EU face many of the same economic...
Bangladesh has spent years trying to find the perfect name for a law governing what people say on the internet. It has had the Information and Communication Technology Act, the Digital Security Act, the Cyber Security Act, the Cyber Protection...
Soaring oil and gas prices will keep most other prices elevated for longer, with eurozone inflation only likely to approach the target rate of 2% towards the middle of next year, the chief economist of the European Central Bank has...
MERICS Media Briefing: Xi Jinping visits the USA J.Heller Tue, 09/22/2026 - 09:53 Video Sep 22, 2026 1 min read MERICS Media Briefing: Xi Jinping visits the USA Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to travel to the US and meet President Donald Trump at the White...
The United States, Denmark and Greenland are preparing to sign an agreement that could reshape the American military presence in the Arctic and ease a diplomatic dispute that has strained relations within NATO. US President Donald Trump is due to...
A public streetside sign advocates against gender-based violence in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Credit: Catherine Wilson/IPS By Catherine Wilson SYDNEY, Australia, Sep 22 2026 (IPS) In the remote Highlands region of Papua New Guinea (PNG), humanitarians are life-saving beacons to women...
Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is heading into an unusually consequential meeting with Donald Trump. The two are expected to meet in New York on September 22, just two days before Trump is due to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened Iranian airlines with a “shut-down” from tomorrow, by means of airports refusing to refuel them and sell tickets, in the latest verbal escalation in the U.S.-Iran war, despite reported efforts to achieve peace amid...
Taiwan remains one of the most sensitive issues in relations between China and the United States, combining questions of sovereignty, national identity, military security and the unresolved legacy of China’s civil war. Beijing considers Taiwan part of China and describes...
Global money is fracturing. As central banks hoard physical gold at record rates, weaponised sanctions, politicised payment networks, and persistent global inflation have exposed the structural vulnerabilities of relying on a single dominant reserve currency. For emerging markets, building domestic...
Crude oil prices, which had been falling since last week, today reversed course and made gains ahead of a UN General Assembly session that many hope will yield some progress on peace talks between the U.S. and Iran. As indicated...
Chinese and Hong Kong stocks rose on Tuesday, led by gains in artificial intelligence companies, as investors responded to signs of renewed US China cooperation on AI safety and looked ahead to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s meeting with US President...
This article is not designed to skip the facts, just because its author is simply pro-BRICS. It’s an honest, realistic, friendly, and necessary analysis, that readers interested in a summarized diagnosis of the current state of geopolitical affairs need to...
Solar energy panels installed in a dry rural landscape powering agricultural irrigation infrastructure alongside a traditional windmill. Credit: Katja Forster/iStock By Debisi Araba KIGALI, Rwanda, Sep 22 2026 (IPS) Africa is emerging as the world’s fastest-growing technology market, with its innovation ecosystem attracting...
Washington talks about “influence” as though it were a mystical vapor that leaks out of every military base closure. But Beijing’s rapidly growing clout in the Middle East shows that influence can come in many forms. While the Pentagon debates whether...
As Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Washington for his third meeting in less than a year with U.S. President Donald Trump, calm seems to prevail in the relationship. This is a dangerous illusion. The sense of stability is breeding complacency...
News items heralding the AI apocalypse are ubiquitous. The panic started shortly after the ex-Anthropic, ex-OpenAI researcher-turned-whistleblower, Jacob Coxon sounded the alarm on X , writing that AI companies are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” Coxon’s...
The United States went to war with Iran in the belief that American power could quickly overwhelm Tehran’s ability to threaten the Middle East. For Saudi Arabia, the war is producing nearly the opposite result. Iran has been badly hit, but...
Julia Braunmiller, Senior Private Sector Development Specialist with the World Bank Group’s Women, Business and the Law, and Antonia Kirkland, Director of Legal Equality and UN Liaison at Equality Now, discuss the importance of family law reform during the UNGA...
A week after Elizabeth ‘Tsontso’ Moselakgomo’s body was found, runners took part in a morning run to honour her name and demand more protection The runners smiled and laughed, congratulating each other on finishing their 5km or 10km Saturday run, their...
In late July, two tankers loaded with Saudi crude for Asia left the Red Sea port of Yanbu and headed south toward Bab al-Mandeb. Then they stopped and turned around. The Rodos and the Xin Long Yang were carrying a...
India China Relations Xi Modi Summit 2026 I had an excellent over hour long conversation with Raj Chengappa ( https://www.indiatoday.in/author/raj-chengappa ) about the BRICS+ meeting focusing on the Modi Xi meeting and what it meant for the future relations of India...
By: Clare Rewcastle Brown Image from Free Malaysia Today The background to Malaysia’s East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project, due to begin operations in January, is widely known among Asia watchers. The proposal had been worked on for decades as an important...
For decades, America has been associated with the story of poor immigrants who came to the country with little more than the determination to work and eventually built successful lives for themselves. Since September 18, 2026, that romantic model has...
Migraine is no longer considered a simple headache treatable with over-the-counter painkillers. Neurologists warn that ignoring episodes of throbbing pain and photophobia is dangerous due to sharp changes in vascular tone, which can trigger ischemic processes in the brain. Distinguishing Migraine...
With 17% of Qatar’s LNG export capacity disabled and Gulf shipments disrupted, buyers arrived at Gastech looking for gas from somewhere else. Organizers valued the agreements announced or advanced in Bangkok at an estimated $60 billion, including a 20-year U.S....
India’s imports of cheaper Russian crude oil have come under scrutiny in recent days after U.S. lawmakers passed a new sanctions bill against Russia’s energy sector. The “Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026,” which authorizes and...
The charge is simple, and Donald Trump has built a very public demand on Kyiv around it: Ukraine’s strikes on Russian refineries are starving the world of diesel. Here is what that charge misses. Russia’s sour crude does not vanish...
The Politburo held its September meeting Monday and announced that the Fifth Plenum will convene October 26-29. The PRC officially confirmed that Xi will travel to the US to meet with Trump from September 23-25. Trump will greet Xi on arrival...
Power technologies are usually compared by asking how much their electricity costs. That is no longer enough. Electricity demand is accelerating, driven by data centers, electrification, new factories and cooling. The International Energy Agency expects global data-center consumption alone to...
Extreme temperatures are beginning to reshape the European labor market, starting with the beaches of Mallorca. Following a record-breaking summer in 2026, the MarSenses hotel group introduced a "heat premium"-a 100-euro bonus for staff working outdoors. The payment targets employees maintaining...
“The roar of the engines does not herald true dominance, but the absolute silence that precedes the strike." “Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt." The last decades of silence...
The United States and China have agreed to open a formal channel to flag dangerous artificial intelligence (AI) activity, including runaway agents, cyberattacks and bioweapons development, marking the first such effort by the world’s two largest AI powers. US Treasury...
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