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Europe
Europe’s 2026 drought is spreading through the continent’s physical economy. From nuclear shutdowns on the Danube to restricted shipping on the Rhine and declining harvests in England, the crisis is exposing how electricity, industry, food production and new data centres all depend on increasingly scarce water.
Defence
Economics
Defence
Economics
Britain
Europe
Economics
Africa
Africa is building the financial infrastructure its continental market has long lacked. PAPSS, direct African currency trading and regional settlement networks are beginning to connect economies once linked more efficiently to London, Paris and…
Economics
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Middle East
Middle East
The confrontation with Iran is becoming something larger than a war. From the Strait of Hormuz to Yemen,…
Defence
Russia’s larger population, deeper industrial base, greater energy resources and superior capacity in missiles, aircraft, air defence and…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial intelligence is entering a new phase. The world’s leading laboratories are no longer focused only on building…
Japan
Economics
Economics
Spain
Iran
A Ukrainian drone has killed an Iranian sailor in the Caspian, Russia has paralysed Ukraine’s Black Sea corridor, and the Iran war is consuming…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Ukraine
Germany
Germany’s industrial model once appeared unassailable, built on engineering excellence, affordable energy and global exports. Today suppliers are cutting thousands…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
China has not won the artificial intelligence race, but Kimi K3 shows that American chip restrictions have failed to stop…
Iran
America prepared a wider attack on Iran, but senior commanders warned Trump that further bombing might expose US forces without breaking Tehran’s control of Hormuz. As Washington tests a diplomatic pause, Netanyahu arrives to…
Germany
Germany has committed almost €80 billion in assistance and pledges to Ukraine, but the AfD says Berlin has…
Germany
The AfD could win more than 40 per cent in Saxony-Anhalt without entering government. Germany’s anti-AfD firewall remains…
Iran
America’s Gulf bases, ports and pipelines were built to contain Iran. They now expose the region’s water, energy…
Iran
The conflict is moving beyond military bases and missile sites towards the systems that sustain modern Gulf life. As bridges fall in Iran and…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Iran
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Defence
Economics
China
Economics
The world’s energy problem is no longer a shortage of oil. It is the steady erosion of the buffers that…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial intelligence may yet transform the global economy. But the unprecedented investment pouring into data centres, chips and power infrastructure…
Iran
Iran says it has launched coordinated missile and drone attacks against American military facilities across the Gulf and closed the Strait of Hormuz after renewed US strikes. Western reporting confirms a major escalation in…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Iran
United States
Medicine