A small, aging fleet repairs the fiber-optic cables that carry data around the globe, and conflict zones can slow that work ...

Iran claims it will charge US tech companies fees for using undersea Internet cables that run beneath the contested Strait of Hormuz shipping lanes. The war has already halted multiple projects and ...

Emboldened by its successful wartime blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, Iran is turning to one of the hidden arteries in the global economy: subsea cables beneath the waterway that carry vast internet ...

Tehran signals it could target subsea data routes linking Europe, Asia and the Gulf Tehran's threats themselves highlight Iran’s growing willingness to weaponise every layer of the Strait of Hormuz — ...

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Iran has insisted for weeks that it has the right to charge international ships to transit the Strait of Hormuz, a key global shipping route off the coast of the Islamic republic. Now, two news ...

A new human-made landscape is taking shape along the contact zone, saturated with everything imaginable: debris, mines, unexploded munitions and toxic waste. Fibre-optic cables from drones are also on ...

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All viewers of this document can see this public note. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top American and NATO commander in Afghanistan, had argued that a rapid infusion of fresh troops was essential to ...

For those of us old enough to remember a time before WiFi, there's still something genuinely magical about it. Internet! In the air! Can you believe it? We've cut way down on cables and can now access ...

May 31, 2026 • This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. concludes his conversation with attorney Jason Green, former Special Assistant and Associate White House Counsel to ...