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Nepal Pays the Price for Climate Change

Melting glaciers and devastating floods are hitting the Himalayas.

Where and how Putin could expand his war in Europe beyond Ukraine

The CIA director’s recent unannounced visit to Moscow has raised speculation about Russian plans to escalate attacks. Th...

AI Model Evaluator METR Hit by Credential Theft, Probing

In one attack, threat actors stole an API key that ultimately led to the consumption of $600,000 in public AI model cred...

Mladic and the Genocide That Wasn’t

The genocide committed in Srebrenica will dominate discussion of Ratko Mladić’s legacy. But a second alleged genocide ho...

Nuclear weapons: the global outlook in an unstable new era

The stalled US–Iran negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear program and President Donald Trump’s announcement of a US-Saudi nuc...

Women’s earnings and support for women’s education in Afghanistan

Even if Afghanistan's bans on women's education were lifted tomorrow, household attitudes would still shape access. New ...

Nonprofit wants to launch 80,000-year mission to Alpha Centauri in 2029 (video)

The Fermi Explorer Mission plans to launch a small, cheap probe to Alpha Centauri in the next few years, to inspire furt...

The Ukraine war is intensifying, expanding and stuck

The bleak view from Sweden, a Ukrainian ally braced for 50 years of confrontation with Russia

Europe should already start planning for a post-Lukashenka Belarus

There is nothing about today’s Belarus that suggests a country on the verge of change. Nevertheless, European policymake...

Kymeta Lands $20M DoD Order for Osprey u8 Satcom Terminals

Kymeta secured an order from a branch within the U.S. Department of Defense for 100 Osprey u8 multi-orbit satcom termina...

Carney Tells Trump Officials to ‘Stop Throwing Shade’ Over Canada-U.S. Trade Talks

Amid a trade war, Canada’s Liberals swept three special votes and new polling suggested strong support for Prime Ministe...

Telesat Considers Space-to-Ground Optical Coms with Cailabs 

Telesat will consider adopting space-to-ground optical communications capabilities through a new strategic collaboration...

Japan Budget Requests Record $55.6B for Unmanned, Long Range Strike Capabilities

Japan’s Ministry of Defense has requested a record 8.9 trillion yen – or $55.6 billion – for its Fiscal Year 2027 Defens...

What the US executive order on bulk-power systems gets right—and what’s missing

The recently announced executive order on the US bulk-power system orders a sweeping review of security vulnerabilities....

ROK Navy Selects GE Aerospace to Power New KDDX Destroyer

GE Aerospace will supply 12 LM2500+G4 marine gas turbine engines to power six ships of the Republic of Korea Navy’s next...

Russia wants to sell ‘sovereign AI’ abroad. Here’s what it’s really selling.

Russia’s new AI law puts domestic models under state control. Moscow now wants to sell the same model abroad. The post R...

Stopgap funding bill temporarily extends key cyber info-sharing law

The short-term package pushes the sunset date for the bedrock cyber legislation to Dec. 11.

The Renminbi Appears to be Undervalued by 30 Percent

China’s official current account data understate the scale of its external surplus and, by extension, the degree of renm...

House defers potential shutdown with a stopgap spending bill

Continuing resolution will fund the federal government through Dec. 11

U.S.-Canada Relations

1908 – 2026 For more than a century, the United States and Canada have forged a strong partnership built on shared geogr...

Launch Site and Facility Progress ahead of East Coast Starship debut

As SpaceX prepares to launch Starship Flight 14 in the coming weeks, work in Florida… The post Launch Site and Facility ...

US approves possible $800 million military helicopter sale to Iraq

The United States has approved a potential $800 million sale of Bell helicopters, weapons and related equipment to Iraq,...

US launches new barrage of strikes on Iran around Strait of Hormuz

The U.S. launched new air strikes on Iranian targets Tuesday following attempted attacks by the IRGC against American tr...

As the World Nomad Games Come Home, Japarov Expands Kyrgyzstan’s National Story

The opening of the games coincided with Kyrgyzstan's 35th independence anniversary and a major Shanghai Cooperation Orga...

Attackers Exploit Critical JFrog Artifactory Flaw to Mint Admin Tokens Days After Disclosure

Threat actors are exploiting a newly patched critical security flaw impacting JFrog Artifactory merely days after public...

Trump Orders Study To Establish US Space Academy

Is the US about to add a new service-academy rivalry to college football Saturdays? The post Trump Orders Study To Estab...

Marines Stage Hornet Maritime Strike Package off Japan

The U.S. Marine Corps sortied anti-ship missile-equipped Hornets off Japan last month, showcasing its maritime strike ca...

Gold price erases 2026 gains as Fed hike bets climb to 70%, silver slides

Bullion’s three-day slide has erased almost all of its 2026 gain, but the miners are coming off their best August since ...

Breeze Comet Executes Hundreds of Fraudulent Transactions via Brazilian Payment Systems

Brazilian financial services, retail, and e-commerce organizations have become the target of a financially motivated thr...

Four questions on the US-Venezuelan oil deal

The impact of the "historic" oil deal between the US and Venezuela will remain uncertain until several unresolved issues...

The Fed’s forecasts keep missing, so it may stop making them

The Fed has been a bad forecaster for a while. Warsh is probably right that the “dot plot,” which tracks where Fed offic...

To Secure the Natuna Sea, Indonesia Needs More Than New Ships

Maritime security is one of Indonesia’s most demanding defense domains. And at its current stage, Indonesia needs signif...

Leaked Russian Cyber-Operations Training Materials

This is interesting: The records describe a force-generation mechanism for several General Staff components, including t...

ACG Metals produces first copper concentrate at Turkish mine 

The company transitioned its Gediktepe mine from precious metals and zinc to copper production.

Copper price stalls short of record as Chile’s storm-hit output slumps to 2011 low

Comex stockpiles have swollen to almost three times the copper left in LME warehouses as traders keep pushing metal into...

Boris Vujčić: Listening to households: expectations, behaviour and monetary policy

Cognitive Dissonance Dominates Hormuz

Ships can’t navigate a reality that exists only in Trump’s head.

Fighting Proxy Wars in Latin America, the US Risks Repeating Mistakes from its War on Terror

How the Trump administration’s push to reframe insecurity in Latin America in counterterrorism terms has set the stage f...

Drone wars deepen West’s critical minerals squeeze

15 million drones are set for deployment in the Russia-Ukraine war, marking the start of mass drone warfare.

Japan, South Korea, and the New Logic of Nuclear Energy Security in Northeast Asia

The two neighbors are reshaping the nuclear politics of Northeast Asia – and doing so increasingly in concert with Washi...