Day: October 26, 2026

Israeli prime minister increases alarmist rhetoric as his far-right coalition narrowly trails in polls Benjamin Netanyahu has resorted to increasingly alarmist rhetoric and reportedly put pressure on Israel’s military to take action against Iran as his far-right coalition narrowly trails in the polls ahead of Tuesday’s close-run elections. The Israeli ...

Badr Albusaidi calls for security pact involving Gulf states, Iraq and Iran with US no longer primary provider of security The Middle East’s ability to solve its problems has been held back by America’s 50-year insistence that the Gulf states should view Iran as a security threat, Oman’s foreign minister ...

After the rejoicing, it will be vital to learn the lessons. The rightward shift is neither inevitable nor irreversible, but progressives cannot rest for a moment The impossible happened. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won a fourth term in Sunday’s runoff election in Brazil, overturning Flávio Bolsonaro’s first-round lead ...

In her new book, Envy, Stacy Kim explains how to understand the feeling, identify your deeper desires and use them to achieve your goals In the 16th-century poem The Faerie Queene, envy is a ghoulish figure riding a ravenous wolf, sad to see the fortune of others and “wonderous glad” ...

The News Investors got a look for the first time at just how much money Anthropic is losing and how deeply entwined the frontier lab is with other players in the AI ecosystem. The company’s net loss was $81 billion in the first half of this year, according to its ...

Apollo Global Management is taking a stake in Mubadala Capital, the alternative-asset management arm of the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala, and will put additional capital into its investment strategies, deepening the US firm’s ties with one of the Middle East’s most prolific investors. Apollo, alongside others, will take ...

by Michael Rey and Oriana Zill de Granados. The authors unpack the mystery surrounding the “sonic attacks” at the US Embassy in Cuba and other American posts around the world, in which diplomats reported suffering brain damage and other severe ailments. The CIA and FBI called it “a case of ...

Tiisetso’s view The Trump administration has never hidden its diplomatic feud with South Africa — whether it be punishing tariffs, visa restrictions, or the US ambassador to Pretoria issuing thinly veiled threats that have left Pretoria sweating over its future in the African Growth and Opportunity Act. But geopolitics doesn’t ...

The EU goal of reducing global deforestation could have damaging consequences for Ethiopia’s coffee sector and wider economy, a think tank said. Some 15 million people in the country widely considered to be the birthplace of coffee are involved in the industry, which sends 30% of its output to the ...

Commanders suspected of sexual violence during the largest and fastest slaughter of civilians in more than 30 years have been subjected to travel ban and asset freeze Senior Sudanese commanders implicated in a “campaign of rape” have been targeted by the UK on the first anniversary of a mass atrocity ...