Hong Kong’s Legislative Council (LegCo) passed a bill that will allow for a joint-clearance arrangement at the revamped Huanggang Port border crossing with China. An artist’s impression of the new Huanggang Port. Photo: IDA Design Awards. The Huanggang Port Hong Kong Port...
Pressure is growing for the release of a probe of a US attack on an Iranian school that killed more than 120 children and more than 40 adults at the beginning of the US-Israel war on Iran , as the...
England’s World Cup semi‑final against Argentina in Atlanta on Wednesday night was played under the roof of one of the tournament’s flagship arenas – a stadium owned by a US billionaire whose fortune and philanthropy are deeply entangled with Israel...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog pushed for progress on normalisation between his country and Saudi Arabia in a rare interview with the Riyadh-based channel Al Arabiya aired on Thursday. "It is my dream to see peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia. I...
Manila lodged a diplomatic protest with Beijing on Friday over a “racist” video posted by Chinese state media portraying the Philippines as a cartoon monkey. Photo: China Daily screenshot. The China Daily post was the latest offshoot of a long-running dispute over...
The grandson of one of Africa’s most iconic post-colonial leaders has told a court in London why he helped the protest group Palestine Action. William Nyerere Plastow, 35, is charged with criminal damage in connection with a Palestine Action raid at...
US President Donald Trump has once again suggested that Syria should take on Hezbollah in Lebanon , saying President Ahmed Al-Sharaa “would be more precise than Israel” in confronting the group and would do so without “knocking down buildings”. Speaking to...
Much of the public commentary on economic matters, particularly pertaining to fiscal matters, is conditioned by incomplete information and the imposition of false constraints. The crisis narratives that then emerge are really without substance but serve to pervert economic policy making...
Israel's right-wing parliament dissolved early Friday after passing a marathon of bills, including more illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, in the last moments of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition. The Knesset , which was scheduled to break for...
For nearly three years, Gaza's children have learned wherever they could inside overcrowded tents , makeshift shelters, or, for many, nowhere at all. Classrooms were reduced to rubble, school buildings became shelters for displaced families, and the routines that once defined...
Welcome, Here are the key updates: - The US launched strikes on Iran for the sixth night in a row, with reports noting that civilian infrastructure were hit, including power facilities and a train station, has been hit - - Iran's military said it...
This month, multiple media outlets reported that satellite imagery showed a detailed, full-scale replica of a US Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer in China’s remote Taklamakan Desert. Construction of the 155-meter mock-up began around October 2025 at the Ruoqiang Test...
Three staff members of independent bookstores, who were arrested on suspicion of committing a sedition offence on Wednesday, have been released on bail, according to local media. Co-founder of Have a Nice Stay bookstore Sum Wan-wah leaving North Point police station...
Trump, in the midst of a rapidly escalating war with Iran, had nothing better to do on Thursday night than launch a verbal attack on China for alleged meddling in the 2020 election. Now let me state up front that...
A powerful naval force is now concentrated from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean in support of continuing operations against the Islamic Republic of Iran — including two aircraft carriers, six amphibious assault ships, and 19 cruisers and destroyers....
The Bunker appears originally at the Project on Government Oversight and is republished here with permission. Drones have the Pentagon turning on itself: One day, it’s seeking fleets of ever-cheaper uncrewed planes to wage war. Two days later, it’s pleading for...
The president was in a humiliating bind. The American people were obsessed with the harrowing images of blindfolded and bound hostages beamed into their homes by the nightly newscasts, and they prayed their government would find a way to free them....
Hong Kong’s security chief has said booksellers have the responsibility to ensure the titles they sell do not threaten national security, following this week’s raids on two shops and the arrest of five people. Secretary for Security Chris Tang announces the...
Read RFA coverage of this story in Uyghur Chinese authorities in Xinjiang’s regional capital Urumqi on July 4 arrested two Uyghur sisters and their mother for sending goods to their eldest sister in Turkey, and a third sister was arrested a...
Artificial intelligence should not be dominated by a single country, China’s President Xi Jinping said Friday, urging international cooperation on its development at a major conference in Shanghai. Chinese President Xi Jinping. File photo: The White House, via Flickr. Chinese AI models...
By: Kurniawan Arif Maspul - - - - The relationship between Pakistan and Afghanistan has officially shifted from fragile diplomacy into an outbreak of direct confrontation and open war. Since February 27, when Pakistan’s defense minister declared open war and Pakistani aircraft struck Kabul, Kandahar,...
Map of the Strait of Hormuz. Credit: Wikimedia/Goran_tek-en By Maximilian Malawista UNITED NATIONS, Jul 17 2026 (IPS) A continuation of hostilities within the Strait of Hormuz is once again threatening one of the world’s most critical supply chain arteries, posing another wave of...
UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk visit to the Al Afad IDP camp, in Sudan. Credit: Anthony Headley/OHCHR It has been three years since the start of war in Sudan. Survivors and human rights defenders struggle to keep human rights a...
Jacobin cites recent DSA election victories to argue, in the form of friendly advice, that the Democratic Party establishment and trade union bureaucracy should not be distracted by the supposed “socialism” of the DSA. For their own good, they must...
Islam Times - Israel is approaching an election in which war, the crisis of confidence in Benjamin Netanyahu, and growing tensions with Washington have become deeply intertwined. Although Likud remains narrowly ahead in the polls, it is still far from...
Islam Times - The release of new evidence detailing crimes committed by the British Army in Afghanistan, alongside London’s continued support for the Israeli regime and its escalating political pressure on Iran, has once again exposed the stark contradiction between...
Islam Times - The Iraqi Prime Minister’s visit to Washington cannot be viewed merely as an economic or diplomatic trip. At a time when Iraq is still influenced by the historic funeral procession of Iran’s martyred Leader and the enduring...
“Deliberate cheating” by renovation contractors and professionals with oversight authority caused last year’s massive Tai Po fire and its rapid spread, a lawyer representing the Hong Kong government has told a public inquiry. People form a long queue in Tai Po...
“Just because someone is reentering the country does not mean their constitutional rights evaporate,” declared ADC President Jenin Younes. The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) filed a time-sensitive motion in the Eastern District of Virginia’s federal court on behalf of journalist Max Blumenthal,...
Today’s top items: 1. World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization - Ahead of the Friday opening of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), Xi hosted a welcome banquet and Wang Yi signed an agreement with representatives from 29 countries for the establishment...
- - - - Our Q&A discussions are a lot of fun, and we’re grateful to everyone who submits their questions. If you missed any of our live shows, the full streams are available here on Substack. But this week is a little different! Instead...
Power of Siberia 2, a landmark natural gas pipeline that would link Russia and China, has hit a deadlock, with a gas-price gap so vast that Beijing has told Moscow to stop raising the subject altogether. Neither side has formally...
Agentrys is pioneering Agentic Design Automation (ADA) , a new paradigm for semiconductor engineering. Electronic Design Automation (EDA) has transformed the industry by automating engineering algorithms . Today, frontier AI can automate many engineering tasks by understanding specifications, generating RTL...
From Kosovo to migration, the Batista’s deal with the West is rotting from within. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su On 12 May, Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, was the scene of a brutal gangland murder...
Increasingly short of men to fight, Ukraine is relying on foreign mercenaries to feed the meat grinder that the battlefield has become Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su In Ukraine, Latin mercenaries are becoming increasingly common,...
"On July 17, at 10.00 a.m. New York time (2:00 p.m. GMT), an informal meeting of the members of the UN Security Council on the Arria formula, convened by Russia, will be held under the theme 'The Power of Terror:...
Iraq’s Ministry of Finance issued an order imposing sanctions on Hezbollah-linked individuals and entities that mirrors US designations from March and June. Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al Zaidi is currently visiting the United States, where he hopes to garner support...
KYIV – The dismissal of popular reform-minded Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has sent shockwaves through Ukrainian politics and society, leading to impromptu protests in Kyiv and other cities across Ukraine on July 16. On the evening of July 15, Fedorov announced...
Related Blood and ICE in Minneapolis On July 7, agents in Houston shot and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo ; six days later, agents in Biddeford, Maine, shot and killed 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Durán Guerrero. These two killings during ICE traffic stops — along...
How Western capitalists use China-bashing to deflect attention from their soaring profits Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His latest book The Visions of inequality, was published October 10, 2023. Cross-posed from Branko Milanović’s blog Global Inequality and More...
Professional video workflows demand a difficult combination of image quality, editing responsiveness, high throughput, and manageable silicon cost. Chips&Media’s WAVE-P addresses that combination as a dedicated hardware IP core for the Advanced Professional Video, or APV, codec. Designed for professional...
For decades, the EU has devised ever more convoluted ways to avoid penalising Israel’s illegal settlements, even as they devour a two-state solution it claims is the only path to regional peace Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on...
Only a popular uprising against globalist leaders in Europe and their proxy in Ukraine, will do A Sustainable Peace in Ukraine: Diplomacy, Neutrality, and the Limits of the Current Order Ian Proud was a member of His Britannic Majesty’s Diplomatic Service from...
President Donald Trump has suggested that another country could carry out a ground operation against Iran if the US decided to seize Kharg Island , raising questions over which of Washington's allies, if any, could realistically undertake such a mission. Speaking...
Creation of a Palestinian state next to Israel seemed feasible when President Bill Clinton hosted the signing of the Oslo accords at the White House in September 1993. The goal was reaffirmed in 2011 when 90 percent of the Senate...
Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al Zaidi met US President Donald Trump and other US officials during his first official visit to Washington since taking office. The talks focused on security cooperation, investment, and Iraq's plans to bring weapons held by...
On Jan. 6, 2021, in the aftermath of the attack on the Capitol in Washington, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Trump critic turned staunch ally, came full circle when he denounced the attack on the Capitol and the attempt...
A very political FIFA and an unsportsmanlike United States of America. Welcome to FIFA 2026. The most glaring story which was hardly covered in the international press was the fact that these grand sporting events, such as UEFA, such as the...
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