Day: October 15, 2026

Retaking Towns Is Not the Same as Winning Tigray

What actually happened One correction first. Adwa fell without a fight. Federal troops and the Tigray Peace Force, a federally backed Tigrayan militia, entered on Sunday 11 October after TPLF-aligned fighters withdrew, according to residents. Mekelle was different. Al Jazeera reported nearly two weeks of heavy fighting, with federal air

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Retaking Towns Is Not the Same as Winning Tigray

What actually happened One correction first. Adwa fell without a fight. Federal troops and the Tigray Peace Force, a federally backed Tigrayan militia, entered on Sunday 11 October after TPLF-aligned fighters withdrew, according to residents. Mekelle was different. Al Jazeera reported nearly two weeks of heavy fighting, with federal air

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What the Chip Selloff Is Really Saying

Thursday’s slide in European and Korean chip stocks looks, on the surface, like a rates story. US inflation came in hotter, talk of Federal Reserve tightening grew louder, and technology valuations fell. For anyone building or buying AI, the more useful reading is different. The sector’s central question is shifting

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What the Chip Selloff Is Really Saying

Thursday’s slide in European and Korean chip stocks looks, on the surface, like a rates story. US inflation came in hotter, talk of Federal Reserve tightening grew louder, and technology valuations fell. For anyone building or buying AI, the more useful reading is different. The sector’s central question is shifting

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The Price of an African Grand Prix

Why Rwanda, and why now Africa’s absence from the calendar was hard to defend. Kyalami hosted the South African Grand Prix from the 1960s to the mid-1980s and again in 1992 and 1993, and Lewis Hamilton has long said he wants a race on the continent before he retires. South

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