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Five months of mostly closed Strait of Hormuz have not sent oil prices spiking to $150 or $200 per barrel, as many analysts had warned in March. Even as more than 10% of global crude oil supply suddenly disappeared from...

News

State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a ⁠global conference in Brazil ⁠this week, ​causing a stir...

US foreign policy, US news, Africa

Why Optical Probing Is Becoming a Manufacturing Boundary for Silicon Photonics Silicon photonics has already shown that extremely precise optical alignment is possible. In controlled laboratory environments, engineers can align fibers, waveguides, grating couplers, edge couplers, modulators, detectors, and electrical… com/photonics/371218-from-photonics-precision-to-repeatable-evidence/">From Photonics...

Photonics, CPO, formfactor

A failure to fully acknowledge the extent of Europe’s energy insecurities could lead to national security vulnerabilities, according to former United States Secretary of State John Kerry. NATO’s summit in Ankara, Türkiye this month displayed a recommitment to cohesion and...

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Saudi Arabia’s quarterly budget deficit shrank by nearly three-quarters in the second quarter, courtesy of the same war that hammered its oil industry and sent the economy into its steepest contraction since the pandemic. The Kingdom posted a 34.3-billion-riyal—or $9.1-billion—shortfall...

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In an age of affirmations and self-help mantras, Islam offers timeless du’as that cultivate happiness, contentment, and trust in Allah. Happiness and the Source of Good As public awareness of mental health issues increased in the 2000s, professionals and influencers have recommended...

#Islam, featured, Featured Home

Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz slightly increased as US-Iran negotiations remained ongoing in an effort to restore peace after the memorandum of understanding collapsed amid two weeks of tit-for-tat strikes, according to Pakistan's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tahir Andrabi,...

News

After a night of speculation, the Egyptian Cabinet said on Thursday morning that the fire that broke out aboard two energy vessels at Damietta Port the day before was caused by a drone strike, though it did not disclose who...

Egypt-Iran relations, US-Israeli war on Iran

China’s trade turnover with Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, the largest economies in Central Asia, showed strong growth in the first half of 2026, as did trade with Tajikistan. Meanwhile, the numbers for Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan fell, according to the PRC’s General Administration...

News

While another lull in direct combat between the United States and Iran has come into effect, other fronts begin to expand and threaten to drown the region in a much broader conflict. In the latest episode of The Target, Robert...

Behind The Headlines, Daily Digest, Foreign Affairs

The landmark nuclear cooperation agreement between the United States and Saudi Arabia marks a major geopolitical shift that could reshape the balance of power across the Middle East while triggering debate over nuclear security and regional stability. Historic Nuclear Cooperation Agreement...

World

In Abby Martin’s new film, ‘Earth’s Greatest Enemy,’ she exposes how the US military has unleashed death, devastation and more pollution than any other institution in the world on the global populace. In their most recent documentary, “Earth’s Greatest Enemy”, Abby...

Climate Crisis, Environment, Geopolitics

U.S. refineries are producing the most gasoline and diesel since before the pandemic lockdowns, refining margins are running at record highs, but the world is still short on fuels. And it would take a while—and maybe a peace deal in...

News

Russia has extended restrictions on gasoline and diesel exports through January 31, 2027, just five days after saying the diesel ban would disappear once its domestic fuel market recovered. Recovery, it seems, has been rescheduled. Moscow first banned diesel exports...

News

Through a meme and a movement, Indian students have once again mobilized, this time in response to Chief Justice Surya Kant’s comparison of unemployed youth to “cockroaches” and “parasites” attacking the system. This remark led to the creation of the...

Democracy & Governance, Cockroach Janta Party, digital organizing

French teens are about to start the school year with access to one less vice. On July 23, France’s Parliament approved legislation that will ban children under the age of 15 from accessing social media. Under the law — which President Emanuel...

Activism, Courts & Law, Ear to the Ground

As President Donald Trump ’s tariffs and his war with Iran drive up prices of everything from oil to steel, you’d think big American corporations would be screaming bloody hell. Presumably, Trump’s tariffs and war are squeezing their profits just...

Business & Economy, Column, Courts & Law

Texas Democrat James Talarico is, frankly, bizarre. It’s like Democrats there figured a less masculine Beto O’Rourke would be the way to draw all Texans together or something. Tilting At Windmills is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support...

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A container ship used by the US military to supply its airbases in Britain with bombs docked in south Wales last week, it can be revealed. The move came as President Trump resumed using RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire to bomb Iran...

Archive, Arms Trade, Middle East

Homage to Rojava

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In October 2019, President Donald Trump gave Turkey the green light to launch a military operation against Syrian Kurdistan, the Kurdish-led autonomous region known as Rojava . As journalists and nongovernmental organization workers fled toward the sole border crossing linking...

Activism, Column, Military

Following a subdued start to the year, sales of electric vehicles (EVs) jumped in the second quarter after the Middle East crisis slashed crude supply and hiked oil and fuel prices, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in a report...

News

Shell has said it will continue its bumper share buyback programme after revealing the Iran war’s effect on oil prices and trading volumes helped it book a near-record profit. The Anglo-Dutch giant’s net profit spiked to $9.8bn between April and...

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Samsung just posted an operating profit of 89.5 trillion won, roughly US$62 billion, for the second quarter. That’s a jump of 1,814% from a year earlier. Revenue climbed 130% to 171.5 trillion won, a company record. And Samsung’s shares fell...

Opinion, AI Boom, AI Bust

US President Donald Trump has remade American foreign policy into a dangerous mix of belligerence, atrocity crimes and incoherent lunacy. The broad elements of the Trump administration’s almost non-existent Myanmar policy are well known. The gutting of the US Agency...

Opinion, Adam Castillo, Block 2

The Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal’s characterisation of the reports suggesting the US could impose a 100 percent tariff on countries such as India that import Russian oil as speculative cannot be taken as a statement of fact. “We...

Articles, Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act, Ukraine war

Extending hardware acceleration to formal verification is a powerful idea to extend hardware acceleration to a verification domain that has not got much attention for acceleration. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur, former Synopsys CTO...

Cadence, EDA, bernard murphy

Analysis of samples collected from carcasses found traces of toxic chemical compound, says Kenya Wildlife Service The recent deaths of 15 elephants near a park in southern Kenya in the past month were likely caused by the animals ingesting pesticides used...

Wildlife, Animals, Kenya

Explaining stock market movements is always a little bit of a fool’s errand; no one really understands why stocks boom or crash on a given day or in a given week. Over the long run, the stock market displays lots...

Northeast Asia, AI Bubble, Anthropic

For two weeks, American aircraft and warships pounded Iran’s southern coast, night after night. On Friday the strikes stopped. By Monday, July 27, the quiet was holding, oil prices were sliding, and traders had decided the worst was behind them....

War & Peace, iran war, Missiles

The murderous Zelensky regime has yet again attempted to drag the open-minded Iran into its desperate calculation of war. It also wants to broaden the scope of the war. On 25 July 2026, Ukraine’s de facto president, Volodymyr Zelensky, said...

Iran, Politics, Ukraine

Two oil tankers that had attempted to transit the Strait of Hormuz with U.S. support via the southern lane close to Oman have turned back after one of them caught fire, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Thursday,...

News

By Shuli Wong UNITED NATIONS, Jul 30 2026 (IPS) The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is battling the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record, with United Nations officials warning that hunger is actively undermining efforts to contain the spread. “Ebola feeds on delay, fear...

Africa, Armed Conflicts, Food and Agriculture
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