Japan will finance up to $21 billion in new semiconductor manufacturing capacity in the United States, with GlobalFoundries (GF) building and operating the plants. According to a GF news release filed with the SEC on October 14, 2026, the company has been selected as technology provider and operator for two…
South Korea has completed its first Arctic round trip with a containership and has committed to expanding the effort. According to The Maritime Executive on October 13, 2026, the Panstar Acro returned to Busan on October 11 after a 50-day round trip to Europe and back along Russia’s Northern Sea…
Europe has much to gain from artificial intelligence, but it is entering the AI era from well behind the United States and China. That is the message of remarks by Philip R. Lane, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at The International AI Summit in Dublin…
China is on course to lead the world in research and development, a shift with direct consequences for technological competition and the balance of global power. That is the conclusion of a news feature by Xiaoying You in Nature, published on October 14, 2026. The scale of the change is…
Lithuanian authorities stopped an attempted arson attack overnight on October 18 at a company that stores Starlink satellite communications equipment, and Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevicius has pointed to Russia. According to Linda Hourani’s report in The Kyiv Independent on October 18, 2026, the attackers tried to set fire to satellite…
Russia is looking to Africa for new gas buyers as Gazprom struggles to replace the European customers it lost after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. According to The Moscow Times on October 16, 2026, Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilyov told Russian Energy Week that Russia was ready to supply gas to…
Fiji is moving ahead with plans for a shipbuilding and ship repair facility in Lautoka, on the western side of its main island, Viti Levu. According to a report carried by PINA on October 15, 2026, Cabinet has endorsed a feasibility study that puts capital costs at FJD$792 million (US$396…
The Taliban has opened a new road through one of Afghanistan’s most remote regions toward the Chinese border. According to Shadi Khan Saif, writing in the Lowy Institute’s The Interpreter on October 15, 2026, the project may prove to be little more than a rough mountain road, but it could…
