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NEW YORK — The moment the US debt crossed US$40 trillion, it stopped being a number and became a gravitational force — one powerful enough to bend Asia’s bond markets, currencies and policy priorities. Officials in Tokyo know this better...

Finance, 30-Year Treasury Yields, Bank of Japan

Photo highlighting the activities and successes of the 'Promoting Nature-based Solutions for Land Restoration while Strengthening National Monitoring Technical Working Group in Kenya: Phase 2' project funded by UK PACT. Credit: Anthony Ochieng/CIFOR-ICRAF By Lulseged Tamene Desta and Cargele Masso NAIROBI, Kenya,...

Active Citizens, Armed Conflicts, Biodiversity

South Korea is betting extraordinary sums on artificial intelligence. President Lee Jae-myung has backed an 800 trillion won (US$578 billion) semiconductor expansion involving Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, promoted a new chip hub in the country’s southwest and joined Korean...

Opinion, AI Boom, Anti-Japan Tribalism

Results of the vote on the approval of the appointment of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, UN General Assembly, 24 July 2026. Credit: UN Photo/Loey Felipe By Samuel King BRUSSELS, Belgium, Aug 26 2026 (IPS) On 24 July, the United Nations...

Active Citizens, Armed Conflicts, Civil Society

In March 2006, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) denounced the essay by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," as a "a classical conspiratorial anti-Semitic analysis invoking the canards of Jewish power and Jewish control." In their...

Israel, Foreign-influence, Aipac

A series of crises have roiled Libya over the last month, undermining a U.S.-led initiative to resolve the country’s profound political predicament and open its markets to American investment. Violent protests over deteriorating living conditions have surged in western cities under...

Trump, Boulos, Haftar

For decades, the assumption underpinning global politics was simple: American power, however imperfect, anchored the system. Allies might occasionally foster frustrations surrounding US unilateralism but stayed close to Washington because the alternative, a world without a clear anchor, seemed riskier....

US-China, Block 1, China Overcapacity

Darline Graham won the Republican primary Tuesday and will likely win a full-term to fill her late brother Lindsey Graham’s U.S. Senate seat in the ruby red state of South Carolina in the upcoming November election. According to the latest tallies...

South-carolina, Darline-graham, Lindsey-graham

By: Tim Daiss The disruption of liquefied natural gas (LNG) flows through the Strait of Hormuz has exposed an uncomfortable reality for Taiwan. Its energy imports remain acutely vulnerable to events thousands of kilometers from its shores. However, the more troubling...

News

After decades confined largely to laboratories, nuclear fusion is beginning to attract the kind of money and industrial planning normally reserved for technologies expected to make it onto the grid. Global private investment in fusion hit a record $4.48 billion...

News

Three days after a prominent artificial intelligence investor and his wife donated $1 million to a political action committee boosting Nevada Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo’s reelection campaign, Lombardo publicly endorsed the state’s booming data-center buildout. A week later, the PAC...

National Politics

The reported move of Amit Gupta, Jeff Dyck, and Ryan Silk from Siemens EDA to Synopsys matters because this is more than a routine transfer of experienced executives and engineers. Together, the three represent a concentrated body of expertise in...

EDA, Synopsys, AI

Bloomberg's continuous front-month uranium futures contract (UXA1 Comdty) briefly surged above $100 a pound in late January, driven by tightening supplies, renewed government support for nuclear power, and rising electricity demand from the AI infrastructure boom. Uranium futures then retreated...

News

Andy Burnham has suggested tax rises could be on the cards in the looming Autumn Budget, warning he “won’t be unrealistic” over the state of the public purse. The Prime Minister quickly pledged to give people “breathing space” and ease...

News

Yemen’s shift from coffee to qat crops intensified ecological pressures in in the impoverished north, creating the conditions for the Houthis’ rise. Ibrahim Al-Marashi is Associate Professor of Middle East history at California State University San Marcos (CSUSM). He obtained his...

Environment, Food Production, Geopolitics

A full-scale trade war has erupted between the United States and Canada, with consequences that could have significant implications for Russia. The U.S.-Canada trade war turns personal In short, U.S. negotiators failed to reach an understanding with Canada over new tariffs on...

World

With Russian infrastructure being pummeled by Ukrainian drones, the Kremlin is hoping to sustain its war effort in Ukraine going by deepening defense cooperation with Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. It is uncertain, however, whether Astana and Tashkent will go along with...

News

China on Tuesday signaled it would not end its ties and trade relations with Iran following the U.S. sanctions unveiled on Monday that target Chinese and Hong Kong entities for helping Iran do business. On Monday, the U.S. Administration announced...

News

The artificial intelligence boom is supercharging the development of next-gen nuclear energy technology. Big Tech and private equity are catalyzing the research and development of cutting-edge approaches to round-the-clock clean energy production as hyperscalers add power-hungry data centers to the...

News

JENIN, West Bank /PNN / In a promising agricultural venture, Palestinian agronomist Amani Abu Naeem has successfully launched a local blueberry cultivation experiment through her project, “Blueberry Karm,” turning a small-scale trial into a budding enterprise after two years of work...

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You’d never know it by the title, “Dancing in the Dark,” but the Washington Spectator’s recent investigation is about the various steps (mostly illegal) President Donald Trump is taking, including the use of enforcement tools and violence, to prepare to...

News, Opinion, 2026 elections

This is a web version of The Lever ’s daily email newsletter. 🔥 ICYMI in The Lever : Private prisons are wading into our elections again. 🎧 Listen: How Obama waged his secret drone war . 👇 Further down in this newsletter: - The...

Lever Daily

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...

News, Politics, donald trump

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...

News

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...

News

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...

News

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...

News

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...

News

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...

News

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...

3D IC, AI, Chiplet

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...

Opinion, China-Indonesia, Indonesia Resource Nationalism

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...

News

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...

Opinion, Section 301, US-Vietnam

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...

Aid, Development & Aid, Education

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...

Archive, Intelligence, Military
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