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Palestinians in the West Bank and a central area of Gaza cast their ballots in municipal elections Saturday in the first vote since the Gaza war , marked by a narrow political field and widespread disillusionment. Nearly 1.5...

Gaza’s healthcare system, devastated by over two years of Israeli war, now requires $10 billion in investments over a period of five years, the World Health Organization said on Friday. Reinhilde Van de Weerdt, WHO Representative for the...

US software giant Palantir Technologies is expanding its work with several UK public bodies despite growing controversy over its political relationships, military contracts and the potential impact of its technology on privacy and civil liberties. Founded in 2003, Palantir builds...

The closure of a UK Foreign Office unit tasked with documenting, recording, and verifying incidents and attacks where Israel has potentially breached international law has closed, citing funding cuts. The unit focused on Israeli activities in Gaza and, more...

The manifesto published by Palantir Technologies last week is neither a technical document nor an economic vision. It is an explicit political document announcing a new phase in the trajectory of digital capitalism, a phase in which it has...

GAZA, (PIC) The Gaza Center for Human Rights has strongly condemned the escalating targeting of police and security personnel in the Gaza Strip by Israeli forces, describing it as part of a recurring pattern aimed at weakening the structure of public...

A saint, a prophet, a dragon-slayer. Saint George has made his mark on religion, folklore, and as a national symbol. He is the patron saint of dozens of countries and cities, including England, Ethiopia, and Stockholm but Saint George probably never...

Israeli soldiers have been accused of widespread looting of civilian property in southern Lebanon , with commanders failing to intervene, according to soldiers and officers. Troops taking part in the invasion of Lebanon have stolen significant amounts of property...

The European Union could agree to impose sanctions on Israelis involved in settler terrorism in the occupied West Bank "in the coming days", France's top diplomat said on Thursday. Israel has relied on the support of Hungary to block settler-related...

RAMALLAH, (PIC) “If there is no struggle, there is no progress, power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” These words by Frederick Douglass, originally spoken in the context of the fight against slavery, resonate strongly...

Eight Arab and Muslim-majority countries have issued a statement condemning the rise in Israeli raids on holy sites in Jerusalem, including the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. The statement was signed by the foreign ministers of the UAE, Jordan, Indonesia , Pakistan,...

Tensions in the standoff between the US and Iran over the Strait of Hormuz intensified Friday after US President Donald Trump said he ordered the US military to “shoot and kill” Iranian small boats in the strait, while...

We knew she was alive beneath the rubble — a real, breathing presence. Not in the abstract, not as rumour or hope. The 40-year-old female journalist, Amal Khalil , whose voice had just reached her family and colleagues, her...

If populists do not correct their structural flaws, they will remain a protest movement rather than a definitive political solution. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The most significant contemporary political phenomenon in...

Civil rights advocates are ramping up their demands for the release of Milwaukee-based Muslim leader Salah Sarsour from ICE detention . The 53-year-old president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, a Palestinian from the occupied West Bank who has been...

GAZA, (PIC) The Gaza Strip has recently witnessed a noticeable surge in the spread of infectious diseases, most notably chickenpox, especially among children, amid humanitarian and health conditions that can only be described as “catastrophic.” Field reports indicate that the spread of...

MEK Logo I have previously addressed the lie that Iran is the number one sponsor of terrorism. Now I want to look specifically at the question of how many Americans, both civilian and military, have been killed by proxies who...

In 1863, Francis Lieber, the Prussian-American jurist commissioned by Abraham Lincoln to codify the laws of land warfare, wrote that no soldier may kill an enemy "who has laid down his arms." War, however brutal, must remain an act performed...

In 1863, Francis Lieber, the Prussian-American jurist commissioned by Abraham Lincoln to codify the laws of land warfare, wrote that no soldier may kill an enemy "who has laid down his arms." War, however brutal, must remain an act performed...

Israel and Lebanon on Thursday extended a shaky ceasefire by three weeks, President Donald Trump announced Thursday , as he voiced hope for a historic three-way meeting soon and a potential peace deal. Trump, at a standstill in negotiations with...

Top UK rights groups have slammed the recent conviction of two prominent pro-Palestine activists as an attack on civil society freedoms, amid growing concern over a crackdown on pro-Palestine activism in the UK. In a joint statement ,...

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued demolition and land-leveling operations on Thursday across various parts of the West Bank, targeting agricultural structures and vital infrastructure, causing widespread damage to land and property. In the city of Beit Jala, west...

We cannot separate fossil fuels from the ongoing U.S. and Israeli war on Iran . The volatility surrounding the Strait of Hormuz has shaken the global economy, restricting the passage of oil from the largest producers in the Gulf...

What the Germans cannot comprehend is why the world is questioning their virtuousness Mathew D. Rose is an Investigative Journalist specialised in Organised Political Crime in Germany and an editor of BRAVE NEW EUROPE Photo: Screen Grab In February of this...

On the country’s Independence Day, the nostalgia of liberal Israelis for a better, earlier state is a comforting illusion. The Nakba and the occupation were there from the beginning Gideon Levy is a Haaretz columnist and a member of the newspaper’s...

A US student was arrested after a joke referencing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was interpreted as a bomb threat, resulting in criminal charges and a court appearance. Gabriela Saldana, a 23-year-old student at Florida International University (FIU),...

Despite rampant human rights violations, European elites refuse to break pact giving Israelis access to business and over a billion euros through 2027 Eldar Mamedov is a Brussels-based foreign policy expert and Non-resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute. Cross-posted from...

Frames from White House video. Original video: https://telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/10/19/king-trump-bombs-protesters-with-brown-liquid-in-ai-video By Peter Costantini SEATTLE. USA, Apr 23 2026 (IPS) After Donald Trump’s second election as president in November 2024, he said coyly that he wanted to be a dictator … but just for a...

The joint Egyptian-Pakistani military drills currently underway in the south Asian country are not unprecedented. But the two-week exercises bringing together special combat forces come as Pakistan, Egypt, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia edge towards a growing security alliance...