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The prospect of regime change in Iran has once again entered international debate as exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi intensifies his campaign to position himself as the face of a post Islamic Republic Iran. Speaking to Western governments, engaging with...

Canada’s entry into the Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) highlights a broader strategic dilemma: how to modernize its air force without deepening dependence on any single supplier or undermining the interoperability on which its defense commitments rely. This month, multiple...

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has launched a renewed diplomatic effort to revive Cyprus peace negotiations, holding separate meetings with Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders before planned joint talks aimed at ending nearly a decade of political deadlock....

Eni and TotalEnergies have taken the final investment decision to develop the Cronos gas field in deep waters offshore Cyprus, in the Mediterranean country’s first hydrocarbon development expected to bring first gas to market in 2028. The Cronos project, operated...

Vietnam’s effort to modernize Da Nang’s maritime infrastructure may look at first like another Asian port-development project, but it is considerably more important than that. The transformation underway along Vietnam’s central coast brings together three priorities that increasingly define Hanoi’s...

Nasdaq futures declined on Tuesday as investor concerns over artificial intelligence chip demand, rising corporate spending and intensifying Chinese competition weighed on technology stocks ahead of a crucial week of earnings from Wall Street’s largest companies. Chipmakers led the premarket...

The crisis of European democracy is caused by the fact that the political establishment has lost touch with society, replacing real political discussions with moralizing and branding any justified skepticism of citizens as “extremism.” Much of Europe’s political establishment has...

Japan is planning to join the rush to diversify oil export routes away from the Strait of Hormuz by investing in pipeline projects abroad, notably in the Middle East. Citing a document produced by the country’s economy ministry, Bloomberg reported...

Editor’s note: This is the sixth article in a limited series celebrating American defense technologies born from wartime and their effects on broader national security, politics, and society. This series will run for several weeks to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary,...

France is preparing for its fourth major heatwave of the year as soaring temperatures and prolonged drought continue to fuel one of the country’s worst wildfire seasons on record, with firefighters battling a massive blaze near Bordeaux that has already...

In the Pacific War, the U.S. Navy’s underwater demolition teams prepared the way for U.S. and allied amphibious landings on enemy-held islands. Through beach reconnaissance, obstacle breaching, mine clearance, and other missions, these teams paved paths for the first waves of amphibious assaults conducted by naval task...

Australia’s government has launched a feasibility study for an oil refinery that, if approved, would be the first such facility to be built in the country in six decades. According to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, a new refinery would strengthen...

In the speech announcing his invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin took only minutes to arrive at the original sin in his catalogue of Western crimes. Before Iraq, before Libya, before Syria, came Belgrade: “First a bloody...

U.S. President Donald Trump is set to host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Washington on Tuesday, as the wars in Iran and Ukraine enter critical phases that could reshape U.S. foreign policy and regional...

Saudi Arabia may raise the price of the crude it ships to Asia via the Suez Canal, Reuters has reported, to reflect higher shipping costs due to the Houthi maritime blockade in the Red Sea. The price hike could reach...

Major central banks are confronting an increasingly difficult inflation landscape as multiple price pressures converge, raising questions over whether policymakers can continue treating inflation shocks as temporary. The U.S. Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan and the Bank of England...

U.S. President Donald Trump will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Washington on Tuesday as the wars in Iran and Ukraine enter critical phases, with both leaders seeking U.S. backing on major security challenges....

The Indian Ocean has reemerged as one of the world’s most consequential geopolitical theaters. Carrying nearly 80 percent of global seaborne oil trade and a significant share of international commerce, the region has become central to the strategic calculations of...

North Korea does not necessarily need to start a nuclear war to benefit from its nuclear arsenal. Instead, Pyongyang could use the increasing possibility of nuclear escalation to threaten South Korea, undermine its alliance with the United States, limit Seoul’s...

“Saudi Arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb, but without a doubt, if Iran developed a nuclear bomb, we will follow suit as soon as possible.” This sentiment from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman might come true...

Oil prices continued to trend lower in early Asian trade on Tuesday as a fourth night passed without any attacks from either Iran or the United States. At the time of writing, WTI crude was trading at $80.98 per barrel,...

North Korea’s renewed ballistic missile exports are helping Russia sustain its campaign in Ukraine while accelerating weapons development and military learning that may ultimately reverberate across Northeast Asia. This month, multiple media outlets reported that North Korea has resumed shipments...

In The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran, shortlisted for the 2026 International Booker Prize, the 1979 Islamic Revolution is the primary force propelling the story forward. However, the narrative is less concerned with major events or key figures of the...

You can kill a revolutionary but never kill the revolution. A revolutionary can be silenced, imprisoned or exiled but ideas have a remarkable ability to outlive those who champion them. Thousands of young protesters took to the streets of Delhi...

Central Claim The United States has spent eighteen months applying economic, judicial, and now electoral pressure on Latin America’s largest democracy, and at each step China has been positioned to catch what Washington pushed away. The Xi-Lula call this week...

On the sidelines of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers meeting in Manila, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The meeting was planned ahead, hence the US and Russian flags were prominently displayed. Yet the...

By: Khanh Vu Duc The war with Iran has forced an overdue reckoning that reaches well beyond the Middle East, illustrated dramatically when US Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently stated that the United States cannot protect global shipping indefinitely, he...

Since the early days of the U.S. war against Iran, the global economy has been reeling from the impact of the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz. The waterway, which serves as the path used to export roughly 20%...

Reprinted with permission from Trita Parsi’s Substack. A few points on the shocking U.S.–Saudi nuclear deal announced. 1. This reflects a weaker American bargaining position, not a stronger one. The broader context is China. The Biden administration pursued a nuclear...

In February 2026, residents of Iskandar Puteri in Johor protested against the construction of a 300-megawatt data center complex. Their concerns ranged from falling water pressure and construction dust to the loss of the green landscape around their homes. Reuters...

When House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries sent out a recent “dear colleague” letter, its second sentence cited “the position articulated by… pro-peace organizations like J Street.” The congressman and J Street were opposing an amendment to block $3.3 billion in...

In 1937, the Army guarded the first shipments of a critical resource, U.S. gold, as it was transferred into Fort Knox. Nearly 90 years later, Washington faces a similar situation with a very different resource. The Army picked REalloys (NASDAQ:...

Managing the risks of frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models and protecting intellectual property are set to top the agenda when United States President Donald Trump hosts Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington on September 24. Chinese state media and commentators...

Crude oil prices are retreating after Brent hit $100 again last week as the United States and Iran took a break from hostilities over the weekend. Yet with the outcome of the war still highly uncertain, the outlook for stock...

The July Politburo meeting should happen this week, and should include as part of its agenda “analyzing and studying the current economic situation, and deploying economic work for the second half of the year 分析研究当前经济形势”. The 2025 July meeting was...

While this author has long called for a United States Wealth Fund to be started by excise taxes on mineral wealth extracted from federal lands, President Donald Trump’s use of executive power to invest in private industry also points a...

The fresh spike in jet fuel prices in July upended the profit guidance of U.S. airlines, whose management teams had to readjust earnings estimates for the year just days ahead of reporting second-quarter results. The re-escalation in the Middle East...

By Mauli Shah, Product Engineer, Siemens Analog and mixed-signal design teams face a persistent challenge that directly impacts tape-out schedules and project predictability: symmetry violations discovered at signoff trigger expensive respins, delay schedules and create unpredictable iteration cycles. Despite symmetry… com/eda/siemens-eda/371569-how-early-symmetry-validation-eliminates-costly-late-stage-respins/">How...

“I feel like a jackass caught in a Texas hailstorm -- I can’t run, I can’t hide and I can’t make it stop.” U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson’s desperate comment to aide, Bill Moyers, came after a massive and sustained...

The widespread student protests that erupted across India in July 2026 over the alleged NEET UG examination paper leak and concerns surrounding the CBSE evaluation process are more than a domestic political controversy. They represent a broader global phenomenon in...