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How SIM Registration Is Changing Mobile Security in Southeast Asia
A mobile number in Southeast Asia is no longer used only for calls and text messages. It can be connected to a bank account, e-wallet, delivery app, social media profile, government service, and one-time password used to confirm online transactions. That has made the humble SIM card part of a much larger digital identity system. As Southeast Asia becomes more connected, governments and telecom operators are paying greater attention to who is behind a mobile number.
AI in credit markets as investment races ahead of corporate profits
30-09-2026 • Insight Almost four years into the generative-AI boom, the money has certainly arrived. But the profits, at least across much of the corporate universe, have been slower to follow.
What the UN can do
_As the UN General Assembly opens its 81st session, an old order is dying and no one has agreed on what replaces it_ There is a particular kind of tiredness that settles over the world in years like this one, not the tiredness of a single crisis, but the tiredness of too many crises arriving together and refusing to leave.
A Quarter Century of Bleeding: The True Cost of Terrorism to Pakistan
Pakistan ends up funding the military response to an insurgency at the expense of the development spending that would address some of the underlying grievances feeding it, particularly in Balochistan, where a sense of economic marginalisation is one of the drivers cited for the BLA’s staying power.
Washington Naval Blockade Strategy
A regime that can only claim victory by insisting, against visible evidence, that a chokepoint under American naval pressure is somehow “under its control” is a regime negotiating from desperation, not strength. The United States Navy has the reach, the rotation capacity, and the alliance network to sustain exactly this kind of pressure for as long as it takes, something Iran, an isolated economy already gasping under sanctions, manifestly does not have.
Gulf in the Crossfire
A conflict Saudi Arabia spent years trying to bury is now, again, live on its border, not because Riyadh chose it but because a war between Washington and Tehran left no room for neutrality. Commentators sympathetic to Tehran will point to a US-Israeli strike that killed Iran’s Supreme Leader and ask what state, faced with the assassination of its head of state, would not treat that as an act of war demanding a response. In that kind of war, the fighting does not stop because someone wins.
Trump reopens the Saudi nuclear deal
On Wednesday, US Energy Secretary Chris Wright and his Saudi counterpart signed a civil nuclear cooperation agreement, a deal years in the making, offering American firms a foothold in a market Riyadh has long promised and long withheld.
Why the Iran US Truce Was Always Built on Sand
What followed was not de escalation but a naval blockade, oil losses running into billions of dollars for Iran, and months of tit for tat mining, strikes, and threats in and around Hormuz, the chokepoint through which roughly a fifth of the world’s oil and LNG once flowed without incident. Within days of Israel continuing strikes in southern Lebanon, a party not even bound by the US Iran memorandum, Iran declared the ceasefire violated and shut the strait once more.
Is the Iran Deal a Win for US Foreign Policy?
I do not think Hezbollah disarms because Washington and Beirut agreed it should on a page Hezbollah never signed. Azhar’s point about the structural weight of pro Israel lobbying on congressional funding is not new, but it is rarely stated as plainly as she states it, and I think that plainness is doing real work here. But I am unwilling to call this peace, and I do not think Azhar is either.
Why Europe Is Burning
By late June, the World Health Organization had counted more than 1,300 excess deaths linked to the heat, with France alone reporting around 1,000 more deaths than expected since June 24. “In the 50 years since the historic heatwave in 1976, Europe as a whole has warmed by around two degrees.” That single fact explains why heat that used to be rare is now becoming routine.
The War Israel Fought, the Peace It Didn’t Write
Israeli commentary captured the contradiction precisely: Israel had bludgeoned Iran’s proxies and military infrastructure in ways analysts say will take years to rebuild, while the diplomatic outcome answers the question of what comes next for Tehran with three hundred billion dollars in reconstruction money and a fast track back into the global oil market.
Victim of Its Own Success: How Israel Won the War and Lost the Peace
As BBC Middle East correspondent Lucy Williamson observed, Israel’s leadership is now engaged in a concerted effort to frame the achievements of the Iran war as having changed the Middle East, even without the regime change in Tehran that Israel’s prime minister had focused on. Williamson notes the uncomfortable question Netanyahu now faces: without regime change, how long before the next time, a pointed echo of the fact that this was, after all, Israel’s second war against Iran in barely a year.
Trastuzumab Deruxtecan Resistance via Loss of HER2 Expression and Binding
Antibody–drug conjugates (ADC) represent a groundbreaking class of therapeutic agents that are designed to combine the specificity of antibodies with the efficacy of chemotherapy. These complex molecules consist of a mAb targeting tumor-specific antigens, a cytotoxic payload to eliminate cancer cells, and a linker that connects them.
Web‐Based Sustainable Detection and Treatment Recommendation System for Wheat Plant Diseases Using Convolutional Neural Networks
1 Introduction Agriculture is important to economies of countries like Pakistan that aren't as well off as others. Agriculture is a main part of Pakistan's income. The agriculture industry makes up 21% of Pakistan's GDP and grows by 2.7% each year (Abade et al. 2021; Azam and Shafique 2017; Bose and Kiran 2021). 44% of the labor force finds work in the agricultural sector, while 62% of rural residents depend on it for their primary source of income.
The XRP ETF paradox: Ripple's legitimacy came at the cost of crypto's promise
The launch of the first U.S. spot XRP exchange-traded fund should be an unqualified triumph for Ripple. After years of brutal legal warfare with the Securities and Exchange Commission, culminating in a $125 million settlement in August 2024, the company finally has what it desperately sought: a regulated investment product that gives institutional investors frictionless access to XRP. But look closer, and the victory reveals an uncomfortable paradox.
Bank of England's proposed £20K stablecoin cap sparks debate over innovation versus safety
The Bank of England’s proposal to cap individual stablecoin holdings at £20,000 has ignited fierce debate about whether the UK is protecting consumers or ceding its competitive edge in digital finance. While regulators cite systemic risk and deposit flight from traditional banks, critics argue the limit could drive innovation to more permissive jurisdictions like Singapore and the UAE. A move that’s rattling the crypto scene A bold move is stirring things up in crypto.
Navigating Sustainability in Pharma 5.0: The Role of Digital Twins in a Responsible Future
This version is not peer-reviewed. Atif Ali *,Syed Adnan Ali,Nawal Zaheer Atif Ali *,Syed Adnan Ali,Nawal Zaheer This version is not peer-reviewed. Sustainability has become an essential priority across industries, as organizations grapple with the need to reduce environmental impact, conserve resources, and adapt to evolving regulations.
The Role of ESP32 in Enabling Industry 4.0 and 5.0: A Comprehensive Narrative Review of Edge Intelligence, Human-Centric Automation, and Sustainable Innovation
This version is not peer-reviewed. Atif Ali *,Syed Adnan Ali,Nawal Zaheer Atif Ali *,Syed Adnan Ali,Nawal Zaheer This version is not peer-reviewed. Industry 4.0 and 5.0 mark two closely related yet distinct phases of industrial evolution.
Molecular docking and pharmacological investigations of folenolide for its analgesic, anti-inflammatory, and antipyretic applications
ORIGINAL RESEARCH article Volume 16 - 2025 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2025.1658610 This article is part of the Research TopicComputational Approaches in Pharmacological Research and Drug Development: How to Overcome the Challenges of Complex Matrices in Ethnopharmacology, Therapeutics, and Formulation DesignView all articles 1 Introduction Historically, natural products have been the main source of medicine used to treat various human ailments.
Raspberry Pi in Industry 4.0: A Comprehensive Review of Applications in Industrial IoT and Digital Twin Systems
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