Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to pass a law to revoke the citizenship of anyone who defames Israel’s soldiers, his latest threat against the Israeli directors of “NAZA”, a documentary about soldiers’ killing of Gaza civilians. “NAZA” is a British...
The United Nations human rights office has added 61 more companies to a list of those operating in Israeli settlements in the West Bank, which the UN considers against international law. This list, first created in 2020, now contains 214...
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 4 September 2026. More than a month after their arrest in northern Togo, the two French filmmakers, Gaël Mocaër and Sebastian Perez Pezzani, of the production company Tony Comiti Productions, along with their...
About twenty years ago I worked with Cliff Hou, LC Lu, and the TSMC PDK team on reference flows with emerging EDA and IP companies. This was the precursor to the OIP. Having a person with LC Lu’s depth of...
John Mearsheimer discusses the US’ dwindling options to end the war on Iran and the worsening economic crisis the globe faces if the war continues. Transcript Chris Hedges: The situation with Iran, despite talks between US and Iranian officials at the United Nations...
Military leaders from Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan are meeting to discuss how to help Saudi Arabia deal with attacks from Yemen’s Houthi rebels. Meanwhile, Iraq has reduced flights from Iran, following pressure from the United States, and an Iranian...
The US-built regional order is not collapsing in a single dramatic moment. It is fading quietly into the background – until one day people wake up to an entirely new reality Hesham Gaafar is a researcher specialising in Islamic thought and...
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 10 September 2026. The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) is deeply concerned for the safety of Nigerien journalist Moussa Kaka, Director-General of Radio-Télévision Saraounia (RTS) and a former Radio France Internationale (RFI)...
A Rohingya refugee carries Myanmar's national flag during a Genocide Remembrance Day rally marking the anniversary of their mass exodus at a refugee camp in Bangladesh on 25 August 2026. Credit: Abdul Goni/AFP By Andrew Firmin LONDON, Sep 25 2026 (IPS) On 15...
This statement was originally published on mediarightsagenda.org on 17 September 2026. Mr Pelumi Onifade, a young journalist with Gboah TV , who was reportedly shot and arrested while covering the #EndSARS protests on October 24, 2020, died from fatal injuries as...
The European Union is reportedly considering new measures to hinder the return of Russian and Belarusian athletes to international sports competitions. These potential actions include visa restrictions, personal sanctions against athletes and officials, and a reduction in funding for sports...
TODAY’S NUMBERS 5.17% (US 10-year yield, highest since 2007) · 54.3% (indirect bid at Wednesday’s five-year auction; average 65.2%) · $1.10trn (Japan’s Treasury holdings, down $51bn in a year). Yields up, big foreign creditors buying less: the world still lends...
Italy’s industry and energy security ministers will meet with executives from the Italian refining sector in early October to discuss how refineries could raise diesel and gasoline production to help lower the record-high fuel prices. Adolfo Urso, the Industry Minister,...
US lawmakers and national-security experts are pressing President Donald Trump to take tougher action against Chinese entities accused of helping Iran with satellite intelligence, weapons components, and oil revenue. The calls intensified as Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the White...
The most consequential sentence of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington may also be the simplest: “The Thucydides Trap can be overcome.” This line, delivered during Xi’s speech at the White House arrival ceremony, provides a better key to...
Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict The U.S. and Iran are back to negotiating over the same basic bargain that briefly ended the war in June: reopen Hormuz, ease the U.S. blockade, and use a temporary ceasefire to negotiate everything they can’t...
The European Union is urging the UK to raise tariffs on China-made cars that would bring its customs policy closer to the bloc’s and remove some barriers to including British products in the “made in Europe” policy, the Financial Times...
A twentieth-century story Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His latest book, The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World , was published November 2025. Cross-posed from Branko Milanović’s blog Global Inequality and More 3.0 When I...
Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. German state polls yield historic defeat, familiar paralysisDiego Faßnacht reports that the CDU’s historic losses in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Berlin...
African women were the toast of the continental soccer season after the end of the men’s version. Their thrilling championship in Rabat drew record live and TV audiences as a new champion was crowned. Enjoy our coverage of this and...
The failure of diplomacy that is orphaning children by the thousands in Sudan, Gaza, Ukraine, and Iran just moved to center stage. As world leaders gathered in New York for the UN General Assembly’s opening days, the gathering didn’t split...
India is weighing ideas to mandate imported coal blending at power plants as coal stocks at many facilities have crumbled amid logistics issues in recent months, government sources with direct knowledge of the discussions have told Reuters. If India initiates...
The Chechen Republic is shifting from a closed region to an active travel hub, blending the futuristic skyline of Grozny with the wilderness of the Argun Gorge. For travelers, the region now offers a developed infrastructure that ranges from specialty...
A defence agreement between Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan could evolve into a broader regional security arrangement involving other Muslim majority countries, including Iran, according to Turkey’s parliament speaker, raising questions over whether the emerging partnership could become a new...
Meta has revealed a new line of hardware centered on its Muse AI assistant, shifting from pure software to integrated wearables. The product roadmap spans from immediate releases to 2027, focusing on reducing device weight and addressing privacy concerns. VR Glasses:...
When Bangladeshi Prime Minister Tarique Rahman addressed the United Nations General Assembly for the first time on Thursday (September 24), he became the third member of his immediate family to speak from the UN podium. His father, President Ziaur Rahman,...
A national debt exceeding 210% of a country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) creates a financial dead end from which recovery is impossible, according to financial analyst and Doctor of Economics Mikhail Belyaev. Belyaev stated in comments to Pravda.Ru that the critical...
A powerful explosion tore through a residential building in the heart of Athens on Friday, causing the structure to collapse and injuring three people in a crowded tourist district near the Acropolis. The blast damaged nearby homes, shops and vehicles...
Dr John Nkengasong, a former WHO adviser who worked with Biden administration on Aids policy, says innovation and investment are key to unlocking potential of continent’s graduates African governments need to shake off the legacy of colonialism and underfunding if their...
India will keep exporting diesel to help meet global demand and ease the fuel crunch, Oil Minister Hardeep Puri said. “We honor our commitments,” the minister said at an industry event in New Delhi, noting that India’s refining capacity continues...
The Romans advised that to secure peace, you must prepare for war. The preparation was the point: weapons kept ready so they need not be used, readiness standing in for the fight. Their word for peace, pax, came from pacisci...
World leaders have warned that the most vulnerable people have been left behind as the right to development has promised more than it has delivered, with development seemingly the preserve of the superrich and powerful. Addressing a session on the...
Declassified journalists have been banned from the Labour Party’s annual conference for the third year in a row. The event in Liverpool next week is the first under new prime minister Andy Burnham and is traditionally an opportunity for reporters to...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a combative defense of Israel’s actions in the region at the United Nations on Thursday, as dozens of delegates walked out of the chamber in protest, highlighting Israel’s growing diplomatic isolation ahead of its...
On September 11, drones launched from Iraq struck Saudi Arabia’s East West Pipeline, the 1,200 kilometer link that carries up to seven million barrels of crude a day from the Eastern Province to the Red Sea port of Yanbu. The...
Before the vote for the next president of the International Chess Federation China Daily published an extended piece on Timur Turlov, founder of Freedom Holding Corp. and head of the Kazakhstan Chess Federation. At the close of the campaign, the...
Participants at the fourth UN High-Level Meeting on the Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health (NCDs), held in September 2025. Credit: UN Photo/Eric Kanalstein By Shreya Komar UNITED NATIONS, Sep 25 2026 (IPS) On September 21, just prior to the opening of...
Moderator Arif Ullah of Anthropocene Alliance joins LaTricea Adams of Young, Gifted, and Green; Dionne Delli-Gatti of Continuum Strategies; and Dr. Katlyn Turner of CU Boulder Information Science and KTLN Consulting to discuss AI’s environmental justice impacts and how frontline...
As the headquarters to the U.S. military, the Pentagon is surrounded by billions of dollars worth of surveillance and security technology. These systems provide multiple layers of protection for the building but they also carry a risk of backfiring: any surveillance...
Since the U.S. war against Iran started earlier this year, Washington has pressed its allies in Europe and Asia to “ step up ” with military aid to help the United States reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Despite persistent pressure from...
When the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran ultimately ends, it will be remembered for its bloody onset. On the same day airstrikes killed the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, a U.S. missile incinerated an elementary school in Minab, killing 123...
The investigation below raises a disturbing question: What if rogue AI agents are learning from the secrecy and rule-breaking of the humans who created them? Lever founder David Sirota explores that idea in a companion analysis exclusively for paid subscribers. Two...
“Misalignment.” In the wake of artificial intelligence hacks, break-ins, and mini-disasters, that’s what technologists call the terrifying gap between what we want AI to do and what AI is actually doing. But much of what we are seeing is better...
Thanks to Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism who flagged a recent interview that Professor Robert Pape did with Mario Nawfal. During the interview, Pape argued that Vladimir Putin is caught in an “escalation trap.” In his telling, Russia launched a...
Europe’s energy debate continues to be influenced by assumptions that belong to a different era. Throughout much of the period that followed the end of the Cold War, policymakers, markets and consumers became accustomed to a world in which major...
By: Salman Rafi Sheikh Photo from the Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs Pakistan and China formally launched their Boundary Joint Commission in Islamabad on September 16-17, activating a mechanism provided for under their 2013 Agreement on the Boundary Management System but left...
Beijing has agreed to work with Washington to improve governance of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and to enhance cooperation as Chinese President Xi Jinping and United States President Donald Trump met face-to-face at the White House on Thursday. Xi made...
“The word ‘security’ is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment.” ~ Justice Hugo Black, New York Times Co. v. United States (1971) “National security” has become the government’s all-purpose permission slip to behave...
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