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US-Iran war
Iran has been at war with the United States and Israel since roughly the start of 2026, in …
88 events · 16 Aug
Russia-Ukraine strikes
Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine continues to be fought in part through long-range missile and drone strikes on …
38 events · 16 Aug
Strait of Hormuz closure
The Strait of Hormuz is at the centre of a dispute arising from the ongoing war in the …
32 events · 16 Aug
Ukraine's drone warfare
Ukraine has built its defence against Russia around drones and ground robots rather than manpower, aiming to hold …
27 events · 16 Aug
Hamas disarmament deal
The dispute turns on the order of two steps: handing over weapons and withdrawing Israeli forces from Gaza. …
24 events · 16 Aug
Europe's heat and drought
Europe is going through a run of heatwaves in 2026, with a fourth wave now moving over the …
22 events · 16 Aug
Ceuta border crisis
Ceuta is a Spanish city on the North African coast, separated from Morocco by a fortified land border …
21 events · 16 Aug
China's military build-up
China has been expanding and modernising its armed forces for years, from missiles to space and military uses …
19 events · 16 Aug
China's open AI models
Chinese AI labs, among them Alibaba and DeepSeek, publish their strongest models as open weights, so anyone can …
16 events · 16 Aug
Israel-Hezbollah truce
Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah are bound by a ceasefire meant to stop their fighting in …
16 events · 16 Aug
Europe's low-water crisis
Hungary's only nuclear power station, Paks, stands on the Danube and draws its cooling water directly from the …
15 events · 16 Aug
Houthi Red Sea blockade
Yemen's Houthi movement attacks merchant vessels passing its coast and has extended its strikes to targets inside Saudi …
14 events · 16 Aug
Taiwan defence drills
Taiwan holds the Han Kuang exercises each year to rehearse the defence of the island against China's People's …
11 events · 16 Aug
Yemen truce collapse
Yemen's Houthi movement and the internationally recognised government have been at war for years, with the front lines …
10 events · 16 Aug
Data centre power demand
The build-out of data centres for artificial intelligence is driving up electricity demand faster than public grids are …
8 events · 16 Aug
AI infrastructure financing
Training and operating artificial intelligence requires data centres on a scale that outstrips what individual tech companies fund …
7 events · 16 Aug
Congo Ebola outbreak
The Democratic Republic of Congo declared an Ebola outbreak in Ituri province on 15 May. It has since …
7 events · 16 Aug
West Bank settler siege
The Al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem's Old City, holy to Muslims and revered by Jews as the Temple Mount, …
6 events · 16 Aug
Black Sea Grain Exports
Ukraine ships about 90 percent of its grain through Black Sea ports, one of the world's main grain …
6 events · 16 Aug
Colombia earthquake
A magnitude 7.4 earthquake, Colombia's strongest in a decade, struck the west of the country on Monday, 10 …
6 events · 16 Aug
El Niño crop losses
El Niño is a recurring warming of the tropical Pacific that shifts rainfall patterns worldwide, bringing dry spells …
5 events · 16 Aug
West Bank settlement push
Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967 and continues to build settlements there. Palestinian representatives and UN …
5 events · 16 Aug
Zambia election
Zambia, a major copper producer, has been working through a debt restructuring while households face high living costs. …
5 events · 16 Aug
US inflation and the Fed
This topic tracks US price data and what it means for the Federal Reserve's interest rate path. The …
4 events · 16 Aug
Venezuela opposition talks
Venezuela's government, headed by Delcy Rodríguez, and the country's opposition have stood apart without negotiations. For two decades …
4 events · 16 AugEtna eruption
Mount Etna is the volcano in eastern Sicily whose ash clouds drift over nearby Catania, home to the …
3 events · 16 AugFrance tax portal breach
Impots.gouv.fr is the French state's online tax portal, holding the tax records of practically every household in the …
3 events · 16 Aug
Japan war history dispute
The dispute is over how Japan accounts for the conduct of its Imperial Army in Asia, above all …
3 events · 16 Aug
OpenAI IPO run-up
This topic follows OpenAI's move towards an initial public offering and the executive turnover accompanying it. A run …
3 events · 16 Aug
Taliban women's rights
The Taliban have governed Afghanistan since retaking Kabul five years ago, and have used decrees to set what …
3 events · 16 AugZhu Rongji Death
Zhu Rongji rose from mayor of Shanghai to vice-premier in 1991 and later to premier, taking personal charge …
3 events · 16 Aug
Taliban bid for recognition
The Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in August 2021 and have sought formal diplomatic recognition ever since. …
2 events · 16 Aug
AI fund blow-ups
Situational Awareness is a US hedge fund run by Leopold Aschenbrenner that invests around artificial intelligence, a bet …
2 events · 16 Aug
AI lab revenue race
The topic follows the commercial contest between the leading AI developers, among them Anthropic and its bigger competitors, …
2 events · 16 Aug
Flores earthquake
This topic follows an offshore earthquake near Flores, in Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara province, and its aftermath. At …
2 events · 16 AugHenan floods
Henan, a province in central China, is facing flooding that has broken through river levees. Such emergencies activate …
2 events · 16 AugIndia youth protests
The topic follows confrontations between young protesters in India and the police. Marches in New Delhi have been …
2 events · 16 AugDrones over NATO territory
Drones entering the airspace of NATO members on the alliance's eastern flank have become a recurring security problem, …
2 events · 16 AugAI training data buying
Language models are trained on vast amounts of text, and books are among the most valued sources. Anthropic …
1 event · 16 AugAmazon mouth drilling
Brazil's state oil company Petrobras is pursuing a megaproject to drill for oil off the mouth of the …
1 event · 16 AugArgentina Milei Economy
Javier Milei won Argentina's presidency in December 2023 on a libertarian platform of deep spending cuts, deregulation and …
1 event · 16 AugAustralia outback riots
The topic covers unrest in Australia's outback triggered by the death of an Indigenous girl, which set residents …
1 event · 16 AugCanada-US rift
Canada and the United States are close neighbours and treaty allies whose relationship has deteriorated under President Donald …
1 event · 16 AugCentral Nigeria clashes
This topic follows deadly communal violence in central Nigeria, where the Kambari and Fulani communities have come into …
1 event · 16 AugErotic AI chatbots
Advances in text- and image-generating AI have opened a market for chatbots used for intimate role-play. It is …
1 event · 16 AugHormuz Tanker Oil Spill
A Russian tanker ran aground in the Strait of Hormuz, the shipping lane at the entrance to the …
1 event · 16 AugIndia Diaspora Fundraise
The topic tracks India's drive to raise foreign currency directly from its diaspora, a scheme paired with a …
1 event · 16 AugIndia Nuclear Opening
Nuclear power in India has been reserved for the state, with reactors built and run by government-owned entities …
1 event · 16 AugIndiana floods
The topic covers the flood disaster in the US state of Indiana, triggered by a week of heavy …
1 event · 16 AugIran-France row
The topic follows a confrontation between Tehran and Paris in which Iranian authorities accuse France of interfering illegally …
1 event · 16 AugIran Qatar Pilot Dispute
Iran and Qatar disagree over the fate of three Iranian air force pilots whose jets were shot down …
1 event · 16 Aug
Iran War Economic Fallout
The United States and Iran have been at war for almost six months. Alongside the fighting, Washington under …
1 event · 16 AugKariba Ferry Disaster
A passenger ferry sank on Lake Kariba, and police have been recovering bodies from the water since. Most …
1 event · 16 Aug
Korean War Peace Push
The Korean War was halted in 1953 by an armistice rather than a peace treaty, leaving South and …
1 event · 16 AugPanama Canal Drought
The Panama Canal lifts ships with fresh water, so dry spells force it to limit how deeply loaded …
1 event · 16 Aug
Perovskite solar scaleup
Perovskite is the most closely watched candidate to succeed or supplement silicon in solar panels, promising more electricity …
1 event · 16 AugRohingya Repatriation Push
The Rohingya are a stateless minority from Myanmar's Rakhine state; hundreds of thousands fled to Bangladesh after a …
1 event · 16 AugSouth China Sea Reserve Row
China claims most of the South China Sea, overlapping with claims by the Philippines and other neighbours. Beijing's …
1 event · 16 AugSyrian Refugee Status Review
Germany granted protection to Syrians who fled their country's civil war. German authorities can withdraw that status when …
1 event · 16 AugTurkey-PKK peace process
The Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have fought a long-running armed conflict, with efforts to …
1 event · 16 AugUK EV transition retreat
Britain's car industry is moving from petrol and diesel to electric vehicles, a shift that depends on domestic …
1 event · 16 Aug
US boat strikes
The US military has been attacking boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific that Washington says carry drugs, …
1 event · 16 Aug
India-Pakistan arms race
India and Pakistan are neighbours that both possess nuclear weapons and measure their militaries against each other, so …
9 events · 15 Aug
Mecca defence pact
The topic follows a defence alliance between Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan, formalised in Mecca in August 2026. …
8 events · 15 Aug
Social Media Youth Harm
At issue is what social media does to children and teenagers, and how far the state should regulate …
6 events · 15 Aug
Sudan humanitarian crisis
Sudan is in the grip of an armed conflict whose main victims are civilians, cut off from aid …
6 events · 15 AugICE enforcement tactics
The topic follows how US immigration agents operate on the street: the equipment they carry, the force they …
4 events · 15 AugIraq militia disarmament
Iraq is under pressure to bring Iran-backed armed groups, organised in the Popular Mobilisation Forces, under state control. …
4 events · 15 AugUS-Canada trade talks
Washington and Ottawa are negotiating over the terms of their trade relationship, with US President Donald Trump's administration …
4 events · 15 AugBrazil election 2026
Brazil elects a president in October 2026. Incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers' Party is …
2 events · 15 Aug
China's chip self-reliance
This topic follows China's effort to cover its chip needs from domestic production. The benchmark is what the …
2 events · 15 AugHumanoid Robot Race
Humanoid robots, machines built to move and work in spaces designed for people, have become a contest between …
2 events · 15 Aug
Tokyo flooding
This topic covers a rain and flooding emergency in Japan's capital region. Heavy rainfall around Tokyo has led …
2 events · 15 Aug
Kuril Islands Dispute
Russia and Japan both claim the four southernmost Kuril Islands, which the Soviet Union took at the end …
2 events · 15 Aug
Tariff Transshipment Crackdown
US tariffs on Chinese goods can be sidestepped if the same products arrive from somewhere else, which makes …
2 events · 15 Aug
US drone tariffs
Washington treats its reliance on foreign-made drones and parts as a national security problem and has turned to …
2 events · 15 AugUS offensive cyber plan
Offensive cyber operations in the United States have traditionally been run by government agencies, while private companies were …
2 events · 15 AugJapan's yen defence
Japan's currency policy and its interest rates sit in different hands: the government intervenes in the foreign exchange …
2 events · 15 AugDeepfake abuse laws
Sexually explicit deepfakes, pictures generated or altered by software to depict real people without their consent, spread with …
1 event · 15 AugAsia's AI export boom
Global spending on AI computing has turned hardware and electronics into a main driver of export-dependent economies in …
1 event · 15 AugBangladesh shipbreaking
Shipbreaking yards in the Chattogram district of south-eastern Bangladesh dismantle a large share of the world's merchant fleet. …
1 event · 15 AugCentral Asia grid failures
Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are still wired together by a single power system inherited from the Soviet …
1 event · 15 AugChina's Covid wave
China's health authorities publish monthly tallies of Covid-19 infections and deaths, which state media including the Global Times …
1 event · 15 AugChina's environmental code
China has regulated pollution, resources and nature protection through a patchwork of separate laws. The Ecological and Environmental …
1 event · 15 AugUS pressure on Cuba
The topic follows Washington's pressure campaign against Cuba's government, aimed at the island's sources of income. It sets …
1 event · 15 AugGerman industry job cuts
The topic tracks the shrinking of Germany's industrial workforce, above all in carmaking and its supply chain, the …
1 event · 15 Aug
Indonesia's state firms
Indonesia's state sector comprises 1,074 companies, a total the government says it established only after setting up the …
1 event · 15 AugUnitedHealthcare CEO killing
The case concerns the killing of Brian Thompson, chief executive of the US health insurer UnitedHealthcare. Federal prosecutors …
1 event · 15 AugMercenary spyware alerts
Mercenary spyware is commercial surveillance software used to break into the phones of individual targets. Apple sends threat …
1 event · 15 Aug
Moldova election interference
The topic follows covert Russian efforts to shape politics in Moldova and the response of the pro-Western government …
1 event · 15 AugPayPal sale talks
PayPal and Stripe are competitors in online payments. PayPal is weighing a sale of the company to Stripe …
1 event · 15 AugQuantum network milestones
A quantum internet would connect distant nodes through entanglement and teleportation instead of conventional signals. The core obstacle …
1 event · 15 AugReform UK's rise
Reform UK is the party built around Nigel Farage, whose own Westminster foothold is the Essex seat of …
1 event · 15 AugRussia's financial strain
This topic tracks the state of Russia's financial markets and its currency: the ruble-denominated MOEX and dollar-denominated RTS …
1 event · 15 AugPhilippine-China energy talks
The Philippines and China claim overlapping waters in the South China Sea, where Chinese law-enforcement operations around features …
1 event · 15 AugSouth Sudan refugee aid
South Sudan shelters hundreds of thousands of refugees who depend on rations distributed by UN agencies. Those distributions …
1 event · 15 Aug
SpaceX-Cursor takeover
The topic covers SpaceX's acquisition of Cursor, a leading maker of AI-assisted software development tools. SpaceX, the rocket …
1 event · 15 AugTrump crypto ventures
World Liberty Financial is a cryptocurrency venture co-founded by US president Donald Trump and his sons. Its growth …
1 event · 15 AugTürkiye's gas supply shift
Türkiye covers much of its gas demand through pipeline imports, with Russia long holding the top position and …
1 event · 15 AugUrban malaria in Africa
Malaria is spread by mosquitoes and has long been treated in Africa as a mainly rural problem, countered …
1 event · 15 AugUS-Mexico visa dispute
The US government has been cancelling the entry visas of Mexican political figures, a practice President Sheinbaum has …
1 event · 15 Aug
US troop cuts in Europe
The United States under President Donald Trump has been reviewing its military presence in Europe, putting Washington at …
1 event · 15 Aug
Venezuela's oil reopening
Venezuela's oil and gas sector is being opened to international companies after the US ousted Nicolás Maduro in …
1 event · 15 Aug
US defence procurement
The United States operates two of its most sought-after air and missile defence systems, Patriot and THAAD, whose …
19 events · 14 Aug
Hybrid attacks in Germany
Hybrid attacks are actions below the threshold of open war, such as sabotage or drones over sensitive sites. …
10 events · 14 Aug
Turkey-PKK peace process
The topic follows attempts to end the armed conflict between the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers' Party …
6 events · 14 Aug
Oman tanker oil spill
This topic tracks an oil spill off the coast of Oman, caused by a tanker under sanctions that …
5 events · 14 Aug
Assad war-crimes verdicts
Syria's civil war, in which about 500,000 people were killed, pitted Bashar al-Assad's government against an armed opposition …
3 events · 14 Aug
Lake Kariba ferry disaster
The topic follows the capsizing of an overloaded passenger ferry on Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe and the effort …
3 events · 14 AugRussia's domestic crackdown
The topic tracks how the Russian state controls what can be said and remembered inside the country, from …
3 events · 14 AugSyria's post-Assad transition
Syria is governed by a transitional administration under President Al Shara following the fall of Bashar al-Assad's rule. …
3 events · 14 AugGreenland Arctic Drilling
The dispute is over who sets the pace of oil drilling off Greenland. Greenlandic authorities control the permits …
2 events · 14 AugNigeria Offshore Investment
Nigeria's costliest oil and gas prospects lie in deep offshore waters, where developments have stalled and the government …
2 events · 14 AugPrediction Markets Scrutiny
Prediction markets let users stake money on the outcome of real-world events, from politics to flight delays. Polymarket …
2 events · 14 Aug
US anti-cartel strikes
The United States is waging a military campaign against drug trafficking in Latin America, including lethal strikes on …
2 events · 14 Aug
AI agent attacks
The topic follows intrusions in which attackers deploy AI agents that chain attack techniques instead of doing every …
1 event · 14 AugAI in the oil patch
Artificial intelligence is moving into oil and gas production, used to squeeze more out of existing fields and …
1 event · 14 AugAI Startup Megarounds
The topic follows the biggest private funding rounds in artificial intelligence, where data and AI companies raise billions …
1 event · 14 AugH5N1 in Australia
H5N1 is a strain of avian influenza that circulates in birds and can also infect mammals. In Australia …
1 event · 14 AugDangote Refinery Finance
The Dangote refinery is a privately owned industrial plant of Nigeria's Dangote Group, funded through large capital raisings …
1 event · 14 AugEurope Gas Storage Squeeze
The EU has decided to end imports of Russian pipeline gas and LNG by 2027. Europe refills its …
1 event · 14 AugFlock Camera Surveillance
Flock Safety is a US surveillance company whose licence plate reading cameras are used by police forces to …
1 event · 14 AugIndia Coal Expansion
Coal mining is expanding fastest in India, whose eastern states hold the bulk of the country's reserves and …
1 event · 14 AugItaly Ammunition Blast
Colleferro, about 40 kilometres southeast of Rome, hosts an ammunition factory run by the German-French arms manufacturer KNDS …
1 event · 14 AugLebanon death penalty
Capital punishment divides the world's legal systems between states that have abolished it and those that keep it …
1 event · 14 Aug
Mekong Floods 2026
The Mekong flows past Myanmar, Laos and Thailand, where farming villages sit directly on its banks. When heavy …
1 event · 14 AugNorth Korea IT scheme
North Korea earns money abroad by placing IT specialists in jobs at foreign companies under false identities. They …
1 event · 14 AugPanama Canal rivalry
The Panama Canal and the ports at its entrances have become a contested point between Washington and Beijing. …
1 event · 14 AugRobotaxis in Europe
Autonomous ride-hailing is moving from the United States and China towards Europe, where fleets can only go on …
1 event · 14 AugRussia energy tariffs
US lawmakers want to pressure states that continue purchasing Russian oil and gas by taxing their trade with …
1 event · 14 AugSwiss Bank Capital Rules
Switzerland is reworking the rules governing its banks after Credit Suisse collapsed and rival UBS was forced to …
1 event · 14 AugTurkey Egypt Alignment
Turkey and Egypt coordinate their relationship through a Joint Planning Group co-chaired by the two foreign ministers, Hakan …
1 event · 14 AugUK growth slowdown
This topic tracks the pace of the British economy: quarterly output figures set against inflation and the cost …
1 event · 14 AugUS execution surge
Capital punishment in the United States is applied state by state, with a handful of states carrying out …
1 event · 14 Aug
Iran war oil shock
The Strait of Hormuz, the corridor through which a large share of Gulf crude normally reaches world markets, …
58 events · 13 Aug
Gulf realignment
The war with Iran has left the states of the region reworking the order that governs it. According …
35 events · 13 Aug
Gaza stabilisation force
The topic follows the international stabilisation force envisaged for Gaza under the framework overseen by the so-called Board …
25 events · 13 Aug
Schengen suspension row
The Schengen Agreement lets people cross most EU internal borders without passport checks, and it has no mechanism …
16 events · 13 Aug
Russia's war economy
Russia's economy has been reshaped by military spending since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. That …
12 events · 13 Aug
China's export engine
China is the world's largest exporter, and the shape of that trade, what it ships and in which …
8 events · 13 Aug
Thai school shooting
Thailand's firearms rules are a long-running point of contention, with mass shootings periodically reviving calls for tighter controls …
6 events · 13 Aug
Chinese EVs in Europe
China's export drive is the counterpart to soft demand at home: when consumption lags, output goes abroad, and …
4 events · 13 AugICE force-feeding
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement holds people facing deportation in detention centres across the country, including in Texas. …
3 events · 13 Aug
Benghazi power struggle
Benghazi is the main city of eastern Libya and the seat of the country's eastern power structures. This …
3 events · 13 Aug
Shipping chokepoint squeeze
Global trade runs through a handful of narrow sea passages, and the Panama Canal is one of them. …
3 events · 13 Aug
US vaccine schedule
The Trump administration is rewriting which vaccines US health agencies recommend for children, with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. …
3 events · 13 AugPublishers versus AI
News publishers are fighting over how tech companies use their journalism to generate AI answers, which they say …
2 events · 13 AugUS sanctions on the ICC
The International Criminal Court in The Hague investigates war crimes, including Israeli conduct in Palestine. President Trump has …
2 events · 13 AugAdani fraud case
The topic covers the fraud case that US prosecutors pursued against India's Adani group in an American court, …
1 event · 13 AugAI biosecurity rules
Advanced AI models that can assist with biological research have raised the question of who must prevent their …
1 event · 13 AugAI lab acquisitions
This topic follows takeovers among AI developers, where the larger labs buy smaller startups to add technology and …
1 event · 13 AugAluminium smelter bailout
Australia's aluminium smelting depends on a handful of energy-intensive plants, among them operations run by Rio Tinto. Whether …
1 event · 13 AugAyotzinapa 43 Case
In 2014, 43 students from the Ayotzinapa teacher training college disappeared in the Mexican state of Guerrero. The …
1 event · 13 AugCritical Minerals Race
Critical minerals are the raw materials behind batteries, electronics and defence hardware, and China controls much of their …
1 event · 13 AugEcuador Fishing Attacks
Crews from Ecuador fishing in the Pacific have become the target of repeated armed attacks at sea, carried …
1 event · 13 AugEclipse and Europe's grid
A solar eclipse briefly cuts the sunlight reaching photovoltaic panels, so electricity network operators have to cover the …
1 event · 13 AugIntelligence law reform
Germany's foreign intelligence service, the BND, and its domestic intelligence service operate under legal restraints that the federal …
1 event · 13 AugGoogle Gemini Scale
Gemini is Google's artificial intelligence assistant, built and run by the company's AI unit under chief executive Sundar …
1 event · 13 Aug
Iran Protest Crackdown
Iran's courts have imposed and carried out death sentences against people prosecuted over their part in protests. The …
1 event · 13 AugIraq US withdrawal
At issue is the future of the US-led military coalition that Baghdad invited into Iraq in 2014 to …
1 event · 13 AugNorway Oil Fund
Norway channels its oil and gas revenues into a sovereign wealth fund invested in global markets, at $2.3 …
1 event · 13 Aug
Polish health data breach
Poland's health care runs on private medical software that holds patients' consultations, prescriptions and other treatment documents. Since …
1 event · 13 Aug
Russia Europe Shipping Standoff
The dispute pits Russia against the European Union over merchant shipping: European states have been confiscating Russian vessels, …
1 event · 13 AugSerbia Ukraine Arms Row
Ukraine has been seeking artillery shells from Serbia, which means dealing with President Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade. Kyiv …
1 event · 13 AugTata Sons succession
Tata Sons is the company at the top of India's Tata group, whose listed firms include the IT …
1 event · 13 AugTruth Social paywall
Donald Trump publishes his messages on the social network Truth Social, where a paid service offers subscribers early …
1 event · 13 Aug
Typhoon Dolphin Floods
Typhoon Dolphin's remnants have moved over northern China, bringing heavy rain to Beijing. Chinese authorities grade rainstorm alerts …
1 event · 13 AugUS-China summit prep
Washington and Beijing are trying to turn leader-level meetings into concrete agreements on investment and scientific cooperation. Donald …
1 event · 13 AugUS Pacific force posture
The United States maintains a network of military bases across the Pacific that underpins its posture in the …
1 event · 13 AugUS shell-company rules
The Corporate Transparency Act, adopted in 2021, was meant to end anonymous ownership of US companies by requiring …
1 event · 13 Aug
Russia's summer offensive
Russia's forces have been pressing along Ukraine's northeastern border regions, and Moscow reports its gains there village by …
24 events · 12 AugVenezuela transition talks
The topic covers efforts, backed by the United States, to negotiate a democratic transition in Venezuela. They set …
7 events · 12 AugInfantino's FIFA crisis
Gianni Infantino leads FIFA, football's world governing body, and is standing for re-election as president in March. Media …
4 events · 12 AugBOJ rate hikes
The Bank of Japan is stepping away from ultra-loose policy toward higher interest rates. Its board has to …
3 events · 12 Aug
Japan Semiconductor Buildout
Japan once dominated chip manufacturing and has since lost ground to producers elsewhere in Asia. The government and …
3 events · 12 Aug
AI memory chip crunch
Demand driven by artificial intelligence has outpaced the semiconductor industry's ability to supply chips, memory in particular. Chipmakers, …
2 events · 12 AugAllied naval shipbuilding
This topic follows the entry of allied shipbuilders, above all South Korean groups, into naval shipbuilding in the …
2 events · 12 Aug
China Humanoid Robots
Humanoid robots are general-purpose machines built for factory, commercial and service work, a sector that has only recently …
2 events · 12 AugMadagascar mpox
Mpox is a viral disease that spreads mainly through close physical contact, causing fever and a characteristic rash, …
2 events · 12 Aug
Transnistria tensions
Transnistria is a Russian-backed breakaway region on Moldova's eastern edge, outside the control of the government in Chisinau …
2 events · 12 Aug
North Korea missile tests
North Korea has built and test-fired ballistic missiles for decades, in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions banning …
2 events · 12 Aug
Syria Nuclear Material
The topic covers undeclared nuclear material held at a secret location in Syria, referred to as 'Site 99', …
2 events · 12 AugAfD in German states
In several eastern German states the AfD has grown into a leading force, while the other parties have …
1 event · 12 AugAfghan girls' education ban
The Taliban have barred girls from secondary education in Afghanistan since returning to power in 2021. UN bodies, …
1 event · 12 AugLabelling AI content
Music, text and video generated by AI are increasingly hard to tell apart from human work. That has …
1 event · 12 AugChina property crisis
Land in China belongs to the state and is leased to buyers for fixed terms, so flats sit …
1 event · 12 AugComac C919 rollout
The C919 is a narrowbody airliner built by the Chinese manufacturer Comac, China's bid to enter a market …
1 event · 12 AugCuba-US backchannel
Havana and the Trump administration are feeling out a negotiated opening through a private backchannel rather than formal …
1 event · 12 AugDuterte-Marcos feud
The Philippines' two top offices are held by rivals: Vice-President Sara Duterte-Carpio and President Marcos. Their falling-out has …
1 event · 12 AugEgypt farm labour deaths
This topic follows deaths among agricultural labourers in Egypt, including children who work in the fields and are …
1 event · 12 AugHungary after Orban
The topic follows Hungary after Viktor Orban's years in government. A new governing majority is filling the country's …
1 event · 12 AugIsrael-Venezuela ties
Israel and Venezuela have had no diplomatic relations since 2009, when the two governments broke off ties, leaving …
1 event · 12 AugLebanon death penalty
Capital punishment has been anchored in Lebanon's penal code, as it is in the laws of most Arab …
1 event · 12 AugManus AI deal unwind
Meta struck a $2 billion deal to buy Manus, an AI platform founded in China. Chinese authorities assessed …
1 event · 12 AugObesity drug race
Weight-loss and diabetes medicines have become one of the pharmaceutical industry's most contested markets, with Eli Lilly and …
1 event · 12 AugSouth Africa illegal mining
Unauthorised miners work South Africa's disused and abandoned mine workings, digging for leftover ore outside any licence or …
1 event · 12 AugSouth Sudan cattle raids
Cattle are the main store of wealth in much of rural South Sudan, and armed raids between herding …
1 event · 12 AugTrump's Turkey plane swap
This topic follows the security arrangements around US President Donald Trump's trip to Turkey in July 2026, after …
1 event · 12 AugUS midterm election fight
The White House under President Donald Trump has moved to tighten the rules for mail-in voting ahead of …
1 event · 12 AugUS prisoners in Russia
The topic follows Americans imprisoned in Russia and the routes out of Russian custody: negotiated exchanges between Washington …
1 event · 12 Aug
US AI safety framework
How advanced AI systems should be tested for security risks is being settled in the United States between …
12 events · 11 Aug
Super El Niño 2026
El Niño is a recurring warming of the tropical Pacific that shifts rainfall, heat and storm patterns far …
10 events · 11 Aug
Fed under Warsh
The US Federal Reserve sets interest rates under a mandate that includes keeping inflation in check, and its …
8 events · 11 Aug
Typhoon Dolphin
Typhoon Dolphin is a storm tracking towards Japan's southwestern islands. When such systems approach, Japan's weather agency issues …
4 events · 11 AugChina Arctic Push
The topic covers China's expanding activity in the Arctic Ocean, a region it seeks to open for research …
2 events · 11 Aug
North Korean troops in Russia
North Korea has been supplying Russia with soldiers for its war against Ukraine, and Kyiv publicly tracks the …
2 events · 11 AugRare Earths Supply Race
Rare earths are inputs for defence and high-tech manufacturing, and Western governments are trying to build supply chains …
2 events · 11 AugSerbia Kosovo tensions
Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, and Belgrade still does not recognise it. Serbia's government presents itself …
2 events · 11 AugAdani US case
The case set the US Justice Department against Gautam Adani, an Indian billionaire who faced criminal fraud and …
1 event · 11 AugAircraft Production Ramp
Airbus and Boeing are the two builders of large commercial aircraft and compete on how fast each can …
1 event · 11 AugAzad Kashmir protests
Azad Kashmir is the part of Kashmir administered by Pakistan, a territory also claimed by India since partition …
1 event · 11 AugLong March 7A failure
The Long March 7A is one of the carrier rockets China's state space programme uses to put satellites …
1 event · 11 AugEuropean Conscription Debate
Where conscription exists in Europe, it has historically applied to men. The open question is whether states should …
1 event · 11 AugGolan Recognition
The Golan Heights are territory annexed by Israel, a claim almost no other state endorses. The United States …
1 event · 11 AugGulf migrant worker deaths
Gulf states including Saudi Arabia rely heavily on migrant labour from South Asia, with Bangladesh among the largest …
1 event · 11 AugRussian oil in India
India has become one of the largest buyers of Russian crude, and Washington is trying to curb those …
1 event · 11 AugJharkhand exam protests
Civil service posts in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand are filled through state-run qualifying examinations. The dispute …
1 event · 11 AugLicense Plate Surveillance
Flock Safety sells cameras that automatically read and log vehicle licence plates, sold to law enforcement agencies across …
1 event · 11 Aug
Meta's open AI models
Meta gives its AI models away for free download instead of keeping them behind a closed service, putting …
1 event · 11 Aug
Russia Duma Election 2026
Russia elects a new State Duma in September 2026. Yabloko is the only party on the ballot campaigning …
1 event · 11 AugSyrian Kurds Return
Kurds driven from a town on Syria's border have been displaced for close to seven years and are …
1 event · 11 AugUK drone supply chain
The topic follows the security of parts built into British military drones and who supplies them. At issue …
1 event · 11 AugUS food ingredient rules
The Food and Drug Administration decides what US food makers must declare on their labels and which ingredients …
1 event · 11 AugUS visa revocations
A US visa is the permit that lets a foreigner travel to and stay in the country, and …
1 event · 11 AugUS withdrawal from Iraq
American troops have been stationed in Iraq as part of a US-led military coalition. That presence is being …
1 event · 11 Aug
China's chip push
China is pursuing technological self-sufficiency in semiconductors while US export controls restrict its access to advanced chip technology. …
13 events · 10 Aug
Dollar under pressure
A firm dollar has left Asian currencies on the defensive, and monetary authorities in the region are spending …
12 events · 10 Aug
Ukraine grain exports
Ukraine is a major exporter of grain and oilseeds, moved mainly through its seaports. When those ports are …
7 events · 10 Aug
AI agent safety tests
As AI models are given tasks they carry out with little supervision, developers and state bodies test whether …
6 events · 10 Aug
Japan's rearmament
Japan sets out its security assessment in an annual defence white paper, which names China, North Korea and …
6 events · 10 Aug
West Bank escalation
Israel has held the occupied West Bank under military control since 1967, and its forces operate regularly in …
5 events · 10 Aug
Global food price spike
The FAO's monthly index tracks world market prices for cereals, vegetable oils, dairy, meat and sugar, and is …
3 events · 10 AugBiden's cancer
This topic follows the prostate cancer of Joe Biden, the former US president. What is known about his …
2 events · 10 Aug
Canada wildfire emergency
This topic follows a wildfire emergency in southern British Columbia, in the populated Okanagan Lake region of western …
2 events · 10 AugGlueball discovery
A glueball is a form of matter made entirely of force rather than of ordinary particles of substance. …
2 events · 10 AugMyanmar junta diplomacy
Myanmar is ruled by a military junta under Min Aung Hlaing, which faces armed rebel groups across the …
2 events · 10 AugSerbia-Ukraine ties
Serbia is an EU candidate that has kept close relations with Russia, leaving its position on Ukraine contested …
2 events · 10 AugUS water utility cyberattacks
The topic covers cyberattacks on water utilities in the United States, where drinking water is run by local …
2 events · 10 AugBanks' AI dependency
Banks are moving artificial intelligence into their operations, a shift that demands large investment and ties them to …
1 event · 10 AugChina Africa Trade
The topic follows China's deepening economic presence in Africa, carried not only by Beijing but by individual Chinese …
1 event · 10 Aug
China's AI capital push
China is channelling investment into artificial intelligence and robotics, and domestic developers of AI chips are among the …
1 event · 10 AugColorado River Water Crisis
The Colorado River supplies water across the American west and feeds Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the …
1 event · 10 AugDR Congo peace process
The Doha framework is a mediation track meant to end the war in eastern DR Congo, where the …
1 event · 10 AugHaiti Deportation Crisis
Armed gangs control large parts of Haiti, driving mass internal displacement and pushing Haitians to seek protection abroad. …
1 event · 10 AugIran Executions
The topic tracks death sentences carried out by the Iranian state and the human rights organisations abroad that …
1 event · 10 AugKinahan Cartel Case
The Kinahan Organised Crime Group is an Irish-led network accused of smuggling weapons and drugs worth tens of …
1 event · 10 AugNorth Korean AI hacking
This topic follows reporting on cyberattacks attributed to hacking groups linked to the North Korean state, and on …
1 event · 10 AugSaudi-US nuclear deal
Saudi Arabia is seeking American help to build a civil nuclear industry, while Washington ties such cooperation to …
1 event · 10 AugStranded Gulf Seafarers
The topic follows the merchant crews caught in the Gulf by the war between the United States and …
1 event · 10 Aug
Syria Russia Bases
Russia operates two military installations on Syria's Mediterranean coast: the Hmeimim air base near Latakia and the naval …
1 event · 10 AugUN secretary-general race
The United Nations is working toward picking a successor to secretary-general António Guterres. Candidates from several regions are …
1 event · 10 Aug
Scarborough Shoal standoff
Scarborough Shoal, which China calls Huangyan Dao, is a reef in the South China Sea where Chinese and …
7 events · 9 AugUS deportation drive
Temporary Protected Status is a US designation that lets nationals of countries affected by disaster or crisis remain …
6 events · 9 AugBirthright citizenship
Birthright citizenship is a right anchored in the US constitution for people born on American soil. Trump has …
3 events · 9 Aug
Colombia bomb attacks
Colombia is preparing the handover of power to president-elect Abelardo de la Espriella, whose inauguration is due to …
3 events · 9 Aug
Cuba's power crisis
Cuba's state-run electricity system leaves the island exposed to repeated blackouts, feeding discontent with the government and demands …
3 events · 9 Aug
De la Espriella era
Colombia's state is in a long-running confrontation with armed groups, among them the ELN guerrilla, bound up with …
2 events · 9 AugADF attacks in Congo
The Allied Democratic Forces are an armed group blamed for deadly attacks on civilians in the Democratic Republic …
1 event · 9 AugAI deepfakes of children
AI image tools can turn ordinary photos of real people, including children, into sexualised or "nudified" pictures. In …
1 event · 9 AugAmazon deforestation
The Amazon is the world's largest rainforest, shared by Brazil, Bolivia and neighbouring states. Its clearing for timber, …
1 event · 9 AugArgentina protest crackdown
The topic covers how Argentina's federal security forces police street protests at the National Congress in Buenos Aires. …
1 event · 9 AugBerkshire after Buffett
Berkshire Hathaway is the US conglomerate long led by Warren Buffett. Greg Abel has succeeded him at the …
1 event · 9 AugBulgaria drone incident
The topic follows drones reaching Bulgarian territory against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine. At its centre …
1 event · 9 AugChagos Islands return
Britain expelled the population of the Chagos Islands roughly 60 years ago; the Indian Ocean archipelago hosts the …
1 event · 9 AugHungary's power shift
Hungary's head of state is chosen by parliament, not by voters. Viktor Orban's Fidesz and the KDNP, long …
1 event · 9 AugJustice Department under Blanche
The attorney general leads the US Justice Department. Donald Trump picked Todd Blanche, who had served as his …
1 event · 9 AugPakistani Kashmir unrest
Pakistan-administered Kashmir is part of the territory disputed between Pakistan and India. Protest movements there put local residents …
1 event · 9 AugSouth Africa migrant crackdown
South Africa is enforcing a crackdown on undocumented migration, setting the state against African migrants living and working …
1 event · 9 AugSpaceX after its IPO
SpaceX, Elon Musk's space company, went public in mid-June 2026. Since then its ambitions have been measured against …
1 event · 9 AugUS biotech blacklist fight
The US Defense Department designates companies it identifies as Chinese military companies, a label that constrains their business …
1 event · 9 AugUS crypto bill
At stake are federal rules for digital assets in the United States, sought by a crypto industry that …
1 event · 9 AugUS shutdown standoff
US federal agencies can only spend money that Congress appropriates; when that authority lapses, large parts of the …
1 event · 9 Aug