After four week of war, a ceasefire between Iran and the US has been reached. While the details remain hazy, it is a welcome development, and the region has taken a step back from the edge. But in Lebanon, the...
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New study describes what may be the first case of a unified community of chimps, in Uganda, turning on itself On a June day in 2015, primatologist Aaron Sandel was quietly observing a small cluster of the Ngogo chimpanzee group in...
David Hearst – Trump’s ‘Apocalypse Now’ is a busted flush. Iran has proved it and China knows it
Full ArticleTwo factors will now determine the fate of the ceasefire: what happens in Hormuz, and whether Israel continues pummelling Lebanon David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. He is a commentator and speaker on the region and analyst...
yieldHUB is a unique company that focuses on yield optimization for the semiconductor industry. The company aims to bring engineering teams together with a platform that allows sharing of data analytics and knowledge about products to improve yield. This goal...
“There will be a considerable rebalancing of strategic and political power in the world in the next few years” Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: FreePik Over the last couple of weeks , I’ve...
UK Green Party leader Zack Polanski has called for his country to withdraw from its trade agreement with Israel and to impose sanctions on Tel Aviv, following Israel's deadly strikes on Lebanon , which killed over 250...
An American delegation, led by Vice President JD Vance and including Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, arrives in Islamabad Friday for talks with Iranian delegation led by Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s speaker of parliament, who is a former mayor of...
Vice President J.D. Vance is investigating reports that senior Pentagon officials in January held a tense, allegedly threatening meeting with Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the Vatican’s ambassador to the US. According to multiple reports, the official told the cardinal that...
Trump blasts NATO after closed-door Rutte meeting
Full ArticleUS President Donald Trump bashed NATO and appeared to renew his threats over Greenland after a closed-door meeting with alliance chief Mark Rutte, during which he was expected to discuss possibly leaving the pivotal security bloc. Trump's outrage at...
Twenty-one-year-old Waad Al-Shafei recites verses from the Quran as she rocks and pats her son Jawad. Their home is barely fit to live in: cramped and dark even during the day, with worn-out furniture, it is only accessible through narrow passageways...
GAZA, (PIC) The Guardian published a report on Thursday highlighting the suffering of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip who lost limbs during the war, saying that many now face complex humanitarian and legal challenges after moving to Egypt for medical treatment. Ola...
GAZA, (PIC) The markets of the Gaza Strip live in a state of continuous turmoil as a result of an undeclared policy based on entering certain goods and preventing others alternately, in light of Israel’s control over the crossings and the...
Dozens of states issued a joint statement at the United Nations on Thursday condemning "unacceptable aggressive behavior" toward UN peacekeepers in Lebanon and calling for increased protections after the deaths there of three Indonesian soldiers. The 63 countries and...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday he has instructed ministers to begin peace negotiations with Lebanon "as soon as possible", hours after the Israeli military ordered the evacuation of swathes of southern Beirut ahead of a new...
Whether by design or indecision, Donald Trump continues to keep the world guessing. Even after the Pakistani-brokered, fragile two-week ceasefire, odds are split on whether he sticks to diplomacy or is simply using negotiations as a smokescreen to transition the...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Israeli occupation authorities are planning to establish 34 new settlement outposts across the northern West Bank and the al-Khalil area, in what Palestinian officials describe as a major escalation of settlement expansion. Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission head...
Why Gulf states turned to Ukraine for defence deals
Full ArticleWhen Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy concluded his Middle East tour with 10-year defence cooperation agreements signed with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE, the headlines focused on diplomacy. The more consequential story is what those agreements reveal about how...
As the US-Israel war on Iran continues with no final resolution yet, can anyone still doubt that the state of Israel makes the world less safe? The ferocious US-Israel war on Iran has lasted six weeks, raining death and destruction on...
A chorus of hawkish Israeli politicians is urging the country’s military to intensify its weekslong ground and air campaign against Hezbollah and pave the way for a more permanent presence in the country’s south. On April 5, 18 Israeli lawmakers...
Pakistan has declared two days of local holidays in the capital at short notice from Thursday, authorities said, ahead of talks between the United States and Iran due to take place in Islamabad. No reason was given in the...
The Justice Department has just launched a criminal investigation of Cassidy Hutchinson. Remember her? Hutchinson was the young, courageous former White House aide whose testimony before Congress implicated President Donald Trump in the violence that erupted at the...
The ‘Opposition Party’ Has Done Nothing to Stop the Iran War and Much to Goad Trump Into Continuing It
Full Article- - - - Chuck Schumer holds a press conference to discuss the Iran War on April 8, 2026. Image courtesy of PBS News via YouTube. NOTE FROM GLENN GREENWALD: This article is part of our Outside Voices...
At least 2.5 million low-income people quickly lost help affording groceries under a Republican-passed law that added new requirements for the nation’s largest nutrition program and shifted hundreds of millions of dollars in costs from the federal government to...
The head of Iran's nuclear energy agency on Thursday ruled out any restrictions on the country's enrichment of uranium , saying the demand by the United States and Israel "will not come true". "The claims and demands of our enemies...
Two Shia Saudi citizens were executed in the kingdom's Eastern Province after they were convicted of "terror offences", Saudi authorities announced on Thursday. Mustafa Ali al-Subaiti and his nephew Ali Hassan al-Subaiti were found guilty of "joining a foreign...
As edge AI systems become more centralized and compute-dense, on-chip data movement is increasingly the architectural bottleneck. NXP’s expanded deployment of Arteris network-on-chip (NoC) and cache-coherent interconnect IP highlights a broader industry trend: interconnect architecture is now a first-order design...
While Iranians had been holding their breath in anticipation of possible targeting of the country’s power stations and the resulting repercussions affecting various aspects of daily life, many exhaled with the announcement of a ceasefire and its entry into force...
BEIRUT, (PIC) The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said on Thursday that Israel’s large-scale and ongoing attacks on Lebanon may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, calling for an urgent international investigation. In a statement, the group said field data from...
Beirut, Lebanon - One hundred and sixty bombs in ten minutes. That is how Israel ushered in ‘Operation Eternal Darkness’ - the bloodiest day of the war in Lebanon - with devastating attacks across the...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation police in Jerusalem released pro-Aqsa activist Muntaha Amara after arresting her earlier on Thursday morning near the Aqsa Mosque, which was reopened after 40 days of closure. “I came today to perform prayers at the Aqsa...
The Israeli government has quietly approved 34 new settlements in the occupied West Bank on 1 April, as ministers accelerate the territory's de facto annexation ahead of this year's elections, according to Israeli media reports. Netanyahu's far-right...
By Ian PROUD Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The U.S.-Israel conflict is not a matter pertinent to NATO for the blindingly obvious reason that Washington is the aggressor and not the victim....
President Trump’s threat to destroy “a whole civilization” if Iran did not open the Strait of Hormuz sparked fear around the world. However, Pakistan’s astute diplomacy led to a two-week ceasefire. Ceasefire Achieved Amid Global Anxiety Just under two hours...
Israel lifts restrictions at holy sites in Jerusalem
Full ArticleWorshippers were able to pray again at Jerusalem's holy sites Thursday after Israel lifted restrictions it imposed on large public gatherings throughout the war with Iran nearly six weeks ago. Jerusalem’s police said on Wednesday that they would lift...
Israeli settlers entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem shortly after worshippers were once again permitted to pray at Jerusalem’s holy sites on Thursday, following Israel’s decision to lift restrictions on large public gatherings...
The Stories They Carried
Full ArticleA friend asks me if I’ll write about the latest violence between the United States and Iran. I tell him no: I am out of words. This is an era of machines killing machines , and humans are the...
Liberties Rule of Law Report 2026 By Eleanor BROOKS Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Liberties’ seventh annual rule of law report assesses governments’ respect for the rule across four thematic areas: justice,...
Israel’s death penalty law constitutes discriminatory regime of capital punishment: UN experts Israel’s new law effectively providing for the death penalty solely against Palestinians constitutes a discriminatory regime of capital punishment and manifestly violates Israel’s obligations under international human rights...
Mediators are engaging in intensive diplomatic efforts to salvage a ceasefire between the US and Iran after Washington appeared to U-turn on a promise that Lebanon was included in the truce, as the country was hit by a...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's long-running corruption trial will resume on Sunday, the courts' spokesperson said on Thursday, hours after Israel lifted a state of emergency imposed over its war with Iran. Iran began targeting Israel with ballistic missiles...
MANILA – Legislators, nationalists and other experts in the Philippines on Thursday questioned a proposed oil exploration deal with China in the disputed and mineral-rich South China Sea, which they warned would send mixed messages to a territorial foe. Talks...
Lebanon woke up in mourning on Thursday, a day after one of the deadliest days in the country's recent history , in a wave of deadly, indiscriminate Israeli air strikes that lasted just minutes but left over...
On Wednesday, the Israeli army killed Palestinian journalist Mohammed Wishah , a correspondent for Al Jazeera Mubasher , using a missile launched from a drone that struck his car on Rashid Street near the Nabulsi intersection,...
BETHLEHEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation army uprooted dozens of olive trees in the town of Teqoa, southeast of Bethlehem in the West Bank. Teqoa mayor Mohamed al‑Badan reported that Israeli bulldozers escorted by soldiers uprooted dozens of olive trees in the al‑Baq’ah...
Israeli forces shot and killed a young female student on Thursday while she was attending a class held in a tent in the town of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, health and education officials said. The education...
Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, after Washington said it rejected key facets of Tehran's 10-point peace plan, and Israel ramped up its bombing of Lebanon, risking the US-Iran truce. Iran has demanded as part of its...
GAZA, (PIC) The Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza said the number of journalists martyred since the start of the Israeli genocide in the Strip has risen to 262, following the death of another reporter. In a statement on Wednesday, GMO announced...
Vietnam confirmed on Thursday that top leader To Lam will visit China next week at the invitation of counterpart Xi Jinping, his first foreign trip since becoming president. To Lam, general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, takes an...
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