1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (616+ words) Japan’s utility faces a leadership crisis after allegations that earthquake-risk data was falsified during regulatory reviews for the restart of two reactors at the Hamaoka nuclear plant. Chubu Electric Power Co.’s top two executives are set to step down…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1073+ words) Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on BRICS countries and the wider Global South to take a greater role in shaping the future of artificial intelligence, urging governments to develop the technology “for the positive and for good” while accelerating…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (563+ words) Exports face a five-to-seven-day stockpile window as damage to a vital Red Sea route deepens an already severe global supply crunch. Saudi Arabia could run out of oil stocks available for export if it does not restart its major east-west…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (337+ words) The countries of the Global South have a particular interest in the success of this visit. President Xi Jinping’s forthcoming visit to the United States must be understood as more than an encounter between two heads of state, but it…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1400+ words) A British ban on imports from Israeli settlements collides with a deeply entrenched religious and political conviction in the occupied West Bank The Jewish New Year being marked this weekend, followed by the approaching Sukkot holiday, would normally be a…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (769+ words) Our imperial overreach began 25 years ago with the War on Terror. It is being brought to a grim conclusion by Donald Trump’s war on Iran. Donald Trump, whose war on Iran is the greatest strategic blunder in United States history,…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (413+ words) The capture of a strategic Hezbollah stronghold in southern Lebanon has exposed the fragility of a U.S.-brokered regional ceasefire and complicated efforts to bring Washington and Tehran back to negotiations. Hezbollah and the IRGC refused. Their apparent calculation was that…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (365+ words) The most relevant terrorist organisations have consequently moved towards more horizontal, networked and digital forms of command. Leadership has become increasingly depersonalised, with individual commanders less central to the ability of extremist movements to maintain ideological influence or inspire violence....

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (736+ words) Saima Wazed steps down as WHO Southeast Asia chief after nearly a year on unpaid leave, as investigations by the UN agency and Bangladeshi authorities continue Saima Wazed, the World Health Organization’s Southeast Asia regional director and daughter of ousted…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (827+ words) Spain’s newly declassified files show that intelligence and security agencies were tracking a rapidly changing migration pattern, including mass social-media calls to cross into Ceuta. But the warnings did not anticipate the extraordinary scale of the breach. by Our Diplomatic…...