Geopolitics & international affairs
Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei on Saturday issued an aggressive statement accusing President Trump of violating the U.S.-Iran agreement and pledging a strong response by Iran and its proxies if the fighting continues to escalate. The statement, carried by state media, came as the fragile U.S.-Iran truce continued to unravel following a week of escalating […]
The artificial intelligence race is splitting into two competitions, and the one China is winning may matter more than the one America thinks it controls. On July 16, Chinese lab Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model that is now the largest publicly available AI system ever built. On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence […]
Israel’s defense and finance ministers have announced plans to establish new illegal settlements in both Gaza and the occupied West Bank, marking a significant escalation in the government’s annexation drive. Defense Minister Israel Katz said he is seeking to establish three Nahal military outposts in northern Gaza, at sites where Israeli communities existed before Israel’s […]
Less than a month after hailing a ceasefire, Donald Trump resumed strikes on Iran, a move experts warn could prolong the war and inflict lasting damage on Republicans ahead of the November midterms. “There’s basically no timeline in which this makes any sense for preserving [Republicans’] midterm performance,” one analyst told the Guardian. The numbers […]
The cease-fire agreement between the United States and Iran collapsed because the White House did not understand, or did not care, what it had signed, according to a former UN diplomat who argues that sloppy drafting by the Trump administration destroyed the best chance to end the war. David Raikow, a former UN diplomat who […]
China is exploiting the worship of Mazu, a sea goddess widely venerated in Taiwan, to push unification narratives, using religious pilgrimages, subsidized hospitality, and political messaging to turn a sacred tradition into a tool of influence. Mazu is the island’s most popular deity. Well over a million people participate annually in the Dajia Pilgrimage, a […]
The European Union has renewed its call on Israel to halt the expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank, warning that continued construction and settler violence, including attacks on Palestinian children, are pushing the region toward further instability. The EU’s statement came as reports emerged of Israeli settlers attacking Palestinian children in the West […]
President Trump has threatened to raise tariffs on Canada over wildfire smoke drifting across the border, blaming Ottawa for failing to manage its forests as hazardous air conditions spread across much of the eastern United States. More than 100 million people in 18 states and the District of Columbia are under air quality alerts as […]
The United States has bombed bridges and energy infrastructure in the seventh straight night of attacks on Iran, cutting off water supplies to towns in the country’s southern Hormuzgan province. Officials in Hormuzgan said one strike destroyed water distribution infrastructure that served several communities, leaving residents without drinking water as summer temperatures in the region […]
Iran has abandoned its policy of negotiating while under attack, a senior military advisor to the Supreme Leader has warned, raising the prospect of a dramatic escalation in the conflict with the United States. Mohsen Rezaee, a former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and now a senior military advisor to Supreme Leader Mojtaba […]
