Day: September 14, 2026

Impasse comes amid growing Saudi anger with Tehran over Houthi advances and strikes on airbase and pipeline Oil prices rise after drone attacks shut down Saudi Arabia’s east-west pipeline Gulf states have postponed a critical meeting with Iran on the future of the strait of Hormuz owing to a lack ...

We must stop companies from allowing AI to self-improve into an uncontrollable level of intelligence Major AI lab CEOs advocated for slowing the pace of AI development this weekend. They are right to be concerned: the field runs an extremely dangerous race towards superintelligent AI. We can and should be ...

The 42-year-old liberal commentator regularly co-hosts the network’s 5pm talk show, taking flak from her conservative colleagues and harsh insults from the president. Jessica Tarlov is the left-leaning Fox News host that some of the network’s most conservative viewers, including Donald Trump, love to hate. The US president regularly bashes ...

Burnham has previously said his father did not know he had become prime minister due to his Alzheimer’s. ...

The News Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote tapped the opening gong this morning on the floor of the Lagos exchange to open Africa’s largest initial public offer. The $20 billion Dangote Refinery built on swamp land on the outskirts of Lagos becomes the fourth Dangote Industries subsidiary to go public ...

The Scene “These are national resources that are now being monetized for the nation,” Pandu Sjahrir tells me when we meet. Sjahrir is the chief investment officer of the global sovereign-wealth club’s newest member, Indonesia’s Danantara. But it’s a sentiment popular these days with, among others, US Treasury Secretary Scott ...

At a moment when the US is reconsidering the extent and purpose of its engagement abroad, I find myself returning to a lesson I confronted often in my time in government: After more than five decades working on Africa, one of the most important things the US can do is ...

Beijing warned that AI advancements threatened China’s political, economic, and social stability even as it dismissed US calls to slow the technology’s development. China’s minister of state security wrote in a weekend essay that AI posed six principal risks from his perspective, including threatening the security of the country’s political ...

Sweden’s center-left opposition appeared poised to retake power after a neck-and-neck election that nonetheless underlined the strength of the country’s far-right parties. Rising anti-immigrant sentiment has upended politics in Sweden, once one of the most welcoming countries to asylum seekers, as it has across Europe’s biggest economies: Marine Le Pen, ...

Forget the bombing: the Trump administration keeps insisting this isn’t a war. But it’s not just a matter of semantics “I will not send you to fight and die in stupid foreign wars that never end,” Donald Trump promised a crowd in Pennsylvania in 2024. While the disastrous conflict in ...