The IDF announced on Saturday and Sunday that it carried out new deadly strikes across Gaza even as the Trump administration announced a new disarmament roadmap for Hamas to bring a lasting peace to the enclave.
Category: 4 August 2026
GEN Z REVOLUTION: INDIA’S ‘COCKROACH PARTY’ INSPIRES NEW ANTI-GOVERNMENT PARTIES
India’s so-called “Cockroach Janta Party,” a youth movement with a focus on corruption and the lack of economic opportunities, has inspired new protests against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the entrenched establishment.
ZELENSKY SAID HE TALKED TO TRUMP ABOUT WEAPONS PRODUCTION
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said last week that he spoke to President Donald Trump about weapons production and licenses for Kyiv to begin domestic production of Patriot missiles, which has been a top agenda item for his government.
CHINA BEGINS MAKING KEY CHIP-PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY
China has begun mass-producing domestically developed immersion deep-ultraviolet (DUV) lithography machines, a technology crucial to manufacturing advanced computer and AI chips, Reuters reported.
UKRAINE STRIKES MORE RUSSIAN ENERGY TARGETS AS WAR EXPANDS
The Ukrainian military last week launched new strikes on Russia’s energy sector to cripple the country’s economy and keep Brussels and the U.S. interested in supporting the war.
TRUMP SAYS CALLED-OFF ATTACKS ON IRAN WOULD HAVE BEEN THE BIGGEST ‘SINCE WW II’
President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One late Sunday that the strikes on Iran that he called off would have been the biggest the world has seen since WW II.
TOP TREND 2022: SELF-SUFFICIENT ECONOMIES
In 2023, after the U.S. restricted China’s access to the most advanced AI chips and chip-making machinery, China’s technology czar assembled a group of leading technologists from its academic, business, and scientific circles.
UKRAINE KNOCKS OUT MORE THAN 45 PERCENT OF RUSSIA’S REFINING CAPACITY
Ukraine has ramped up its drone strikes on Russia’s energy infrastructure and managed to knock out more than 45 percent of the country’s nominal capacity, according to a report last week in the Financial Times.
ECONOMIC UPDATE
What a difference a day makes. Last week, as he has said scores of times, President Trump threatened that if Iran did not agree to a ceasefire deal, it would be bombs away saying, “We were going to hit them very hard.”
U.S. GROCERY PRICES UP 33 PERCENT SINCE 2018
U.S. grocery prices have risen by a third in the past seven years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported.









