Egypt and Israel edge into new Horn of Africa standoff over Somalia
Egypt and Israel are locked in a sharpening regional contest centered on Somalia and the wider Horn of Africa, as Cairo expands its military footprint in the country in response to Israel’s recognition of the breakaway region of Somaliland. An assessment by the Hebrew-language outlet Natsiv Net, shared by regional media, argues that......
Moroccan TV channels air 105 ads on first day of Ramadan
Morocco’s national television channels marked the start of Ramadan with an unusually heavy advertising load, broadcasting 105 commercials on the first day alone, highlighting fierce competition among brands during one of the year’s most watched periods. According to exclusive data obtained by Walaw, the advertisements were clustered......
Amazon outage linked to AI coding tool sparks debate over blame and safeguards
Amazon Web Services suffered a 13-hour disruption in mid-December after its internal AI coding assistant, known as Kiro, executed changes on a live, customer-facing system that resulted in the environment being deleted and recreated, temporarily knocking a cost-analysis service offline in one of the company’s mainland China regions.......
Inflation in Morocco under seven heads of government: who really kept prices in check?
Against a backdrop of repeated droughts, energy shocks and the economic fallout from the war in Ukraine, Morocco has managed to keep inflation relatively low compared with many emerging economies. Periods of sharp price increases did occur, but they were followed by phases of marked disinflation. The Walaw platform consulted economic analysts......
Eurozone wage rebound complicates ecb rate cut timing
Negotiated wages in the eurozone picked up again at the end of 2025, with collectively bargained pay rising 2.95% year-on-year in the fourth quarter, according to fresh European Central Bank data released on Friday. The increase marks a clear acceleration from the revised 1.89% recorded in the previous three-month period, when the fading impact......
Euro slips to four-week low as hawkish Fed and tensions unsettle markets
The euro weakened toward a four-week low against the dollar on Friday, as investors responded to a more hawkish tone from the Federal Reserve and rising geopolitical tensions involving Iran. The euro was last trading just below 1.18 dollars and was heading for a weekly loss of around 0.8 percent, putting it on track for its sharpest weekly......
Antarctic emissions cuts seen as last chance to avoid irreversible damage
Scientists warn that Antarctica’s most accessible region is heading toward irreversible damage unless global greenhouse gas emissions fall sharply within the next few years. Drawing on new modeling of the Antarctic Peninsula, they say decisions made in this decade will lock in environmental changes that will unfold over centuries, reshaping......
Norway rejects Trump peace board while hosting Gaza aid talks
Norway has reaffirmed that it will not join U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, even as it prepares to host a key international donor meeting on Palestinian aid in the spring. Oslo’s position directly contradicts Trump’s recent claim that Norway had agreed to host an event for the new initiative, which is formally......
Netanyahu warns Iran as US-Israel military buildup accelerates
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned Iran that any direct attack on Israel would trigger a response of a scale Tehran “cannot even imagine,” as coordinated military preparations with the United States intensify across the Middle East. Speaking at an Israel Defense Forces officers’ graduation ceremony, Netanyahu......
Antarctica nears irreversible climate tipping points, scientists warn
Antarctica is edging toward a series of climate tipping points that could trigger irreversible ice loss and long-lasting disruption of global sea levels, according to new research spanning the Antarctic Peninsula, the continent’s vast ice basins and a multimillion-year geological record. Scientists say the choices made this decade on......
Russia prepares rolling draft of reservists as war losses outpace recruitment
Russia is quietly setting conditions for a phased call-up of reservists as mounting battlefield losses in Ukraine begin to exceed the country’s ability to recruit new troops. Analysts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) say the Kremlin appears to be moving toward a system of limited, rolling mobilization to avoid a repeat of......
US energy chief threatens IEA withdrawal over climate focus
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright has warned that Washington could pull out of the International Energy Agency unless the body sharply scales back its work on climate change and returns its focus to traditional energy security. Speaking after a two‑day ministerial meeting in Paris, Wright said the United States would use “all the pressure......
European gas prices jump as us-iran standoff threatens lng chokepoint
European gas prices have surged as rising tensions between the United States and Iran revive fears of supply interruptions through the Strait of Hormuz, a key route for liquefied natural gas shipments from the Gulf. The Dutch TTF benchmark, Europe’s main gas price reference, climbed back above recent lows in mid-February, extending gains......
China uses Thailand as hub to funnel drones to Russia
China has quietly developed a new channel for supplying drones to Russia, rerouting exports through Thailand as Moscow seeks to evade Western sanctions over its war in Ukraine. A Bloomberg investigation identifies little-known Thai companies acting as intermediaries in a fast-growing trade that turns Bangkok into a key transit point for Chinese......
Estonia and Latvia launch joint tender for 600 border bunkers
Estonia and Latvia have issued a joint public tender to procure hundreds of concrete bunkers along their borders with Russia, marking a significant escalation in Baltic fortification efforts under the Baltic Defense Line initiative. The Estonian Centre for Defence Investments, working with Latvia’s Ministry of Defence, published the......