The UK government announced plans on Monday to ban Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a foreign-backed threat to national security, in a "proscription-like" designation. Moreover, a series of arson and vandalism attacks on Jewish sites in Britain was the...
Less than a month after signing a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) , the US and Iran have resumed military escalation, exchanged accusations of violations, and clashed over shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. However, despite declaring the MoU ‘over’, neither...
The United States should pursue a pullback no matter how much Europe spends on defense. By Luke NICASTRO Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that a plan by Secretary of...
By: David Scott Mathieson - - - - Philippine Foreign Minister Theresa P. Lazaro The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) seems finally to have tired of the civil war and violence in Myanmar. Five years of feckless diplomacy, never ASEAN’s forte, have produced nothing. A...
GAZA, (PIC) Palestinian resistance factions said Mohammed Deif, the former chief of staff of the resistance and commander-in-chief of the Qassam Brigades, represented an exceptional model of a steadfast field commander. In a statement on Monday marking the second anniversary of his...
TEHRAN, (PIC) The United States launched strikes late Sunday on Iranian military systems and sites, while Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it targeted US military bases and positions in Jordan, Bahrain and Kuwait. US Central Command said it carried out a...
Former Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani's support for Lebanon and Palestine became one of the defining features of his regional legacy, marked by landmark visits to war-ravaged Lebanon in 2006 and the besieged Gaza Strip in 2012...
Lindsey Graham is dead. At least that’s one good thing. No matter what else happens today, they can’t take that away from us. Caitlin Johnstone Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The only positive thing about the...
With its lovable playboy and jaw-dropping twists, the South African drama has become Netflix’s latest breakout smash Are you bored with your summertime entertainment already? Did you devour that buzzy novel at the beach? Finish your third Suits rewatch on the...
The region has been rocked by US and Iranian attacks of a scale unseen since an April ceasefire, as fighting over the strategic Strait of Hormuz threatened to derail efforts to end the US-Israeli war on Iran permanently. As the US...
A decade after Turkey's failed 2016 coup, prosecutors ordered the arrest of nearly 1,000 suspects linked to an organisation that Ankara holds responsible, the justice minister said Monday. On 15 July 2016, a rogue military faction made a short-lived bid to...
The House of Representatives’ plenary session is set to review on Monday a bill that would formalize an exceptional role for the Future of Egypt for Sustainable Development Authority, spanning food security, agriculture and land management, supply and development roles...
Moroccan police arrested dissident commentator Ali Lmrabet for questioning upon his arrival at Tangier airport on Sunday, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Monday. Lmrabet is under investigation for "alleged dissemination of false information harming constitutional institutions", according to the organisation...
The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and their militant Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) wing — which carried out genocide against ethnic Poles and others in pursuit of an ethnically pure state — are considered by many the founding fathers of post-Maidan Ukraine. Ukrainian...
US Senator Lindsey Graham (in Russia, he appears on the list of terrorists and extremists), a Republican representing South Carolina, died at the age of 71 following a brief and sudden illness, according to a statement released by his office....
Qatar is mourning the death of former Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani , whose three decades of investment in sport laid the foundations for the country's emergence as a global sporting destination and culminated in its successful bid...
Leading Arab intellectual Azmi Bishara has paid tribute to Qatar's late Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani , describing him as a visionary Arab leader whose legacy transformed Qatar and left a lasting impact on the region. Speaking in an...
Italy has joined the ranks of countries that Russia must factor into a scenario of European war, Lorenzo Maria Pacini writes. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su It’s not about the money Four thousand euros per dossier....
Hong Kong authorities and eateries have said the implementation of a new dog-friendly scheme has been largely “smooth,” as the government steps up inspections in the first month of the policy that allows canines into restaurants for the first time...
For all practical purposes, the U.S.-Iran Memorandum of (Mis)Understanding is over. The dispute over how to manage the Strait of Hormuz in the interim has pushed the two sides back into open war. But to what end? There is little reason...
GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 73,231 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Monday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham (included in the list of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring) of South Carolina has passed. He was a man dedicated to his own lights which included American Outward Militarism and Israel. Whatever his faults, he served the United...
An uncensored journey to Kiev—facts and impressions that remain hidden from the West. The unvarnished truth, unfiltered, written by someone from Ukraine. By Peter Hanseler via ForumGeopolitica.com Editor’s Note: This report was written by an author who, for understandable reasons, wishes to...
DOHA, (PIC) The announcement of the death of the Father Emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, posed as a stage that brought back to the forefront one of the most prominent phases of the Qatari presence in the Palestinian cause. This...
A market downturn in the U.S. – exacerbated by an energy crisis – could spell disaster for Trump’s midterm hopes. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su When the U.S. Navy, in co-ordination with Qatar and Oman,...
Britain is "seriously considering" imposing a trade ban on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, in what pro-Palestine campaigners have described as "a major victory". The announcement came during a backbench House of Commons debate on Thursday evening, secured by...
Ranjana Kumari, activist. By Kumkum Chadha NEW DELHI, Jul 13 2026 (IPS) To say that the men scored over women yet again would be an understatement. To say that the women lost and men have won would be an oversimplification and to say...
ALBAWABA - As vultures circling carrion, Republicans in South Carolina are eyeing late U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham's seat; which of them will succeed the late Republican?It is worth noting that Lindsey Graham, the American senator and close ally of President...
JAKARTA – Indonesia fell to 48th place out of 70 economies on this year’s International Institute for Management Development’s (IMD) World Competitiveness Ranking, down from 40th in 2025 and far below its peak position of 27th in 2024. The decline...
At least 2,700 people could have died in England and Wales as a result of heatwaves that struck in May and June, according to a study released Monday. Experts from Imperial College London, the Met Office and the London School of...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) A Palestinian citizen was martyred on Monday morning after Israeli police forces opened fire at him in the north of Occupied Jerusalem. The Red Crescent said its ambulance crews evacuated the body of a citizen who was shot and...
Hong Kong’s welfare chief has defended the government’s decision to abolish an income-based poverty line , as lawmakers question how the authorities will gauge the city’s poverty levels going forward. A woman pushes a trolley full of cardboard boxes in Hong...
Welcome, Here are the key updates of the day: - A new wave of US attacks on Iran comes amid a standoff over the Strait of Hormuz, with explosions reported in the port cities of Bandar Abbas, Sirik and Jask, as well...
"Europe is for Christians only; go back to Muslim countries." M.Q.*, a Sudanese refugee, says these were the words a Croatian police officer shouted at him before he was "beaten, robbed of his phone, passport and money, and forced to walk...
As the US keeps fighting in Iran, China is watching not only what the US can destroy, but how quickly it can replace what it fires. Yet depleted US stockpiles do not make an invasion of Taiwan any less perilous...
Nineteen years ago, on February 6, 2007, Pakistan signed away Gwadar Port’s commercial future for four decades. The government would build the roads, the airport, the expressway, and the breakwater. A private concession-holder would run the port, fill the Free...
By CIVICUS Jul 13 2026 (IPS) CIVICUS speaks about efforts to use the 2026 FIFA World Cup to highlight Mexico’s enforced disappearance crisis with Ana Enamorado, a Honduran national who continues to search for her missing son in Mexico, and founder of...
Security Council. Credit: UN Photo/Manuel Elías By Shihana Mohamed NEW YORK, Jul 13 2026 (IPS) As the United Nations (UN) Security Council prepares for its first round of closed-door straw polls this month to select the tenth Secretary-General, the organization stands at a...
In a dimly lit red-brick house in central Taiwan, film hunter Wang Wei and his team haul out ageing film reels, salvaging the fragile remnants of a cinema boom that nearly vanished from history. Film collector Wang Chin-ting (R) points out...
In early July, an Iranian civilian aircraft landed in Houthi-controlled Sana’a, breaching a Saudi air blockade in place for nearly a decade. Then, as the Saudi-led coalition publicly threatened strikes of "unprecedented force" against targets such as Hodeidah port and Sana’a...
When the Trump administration decided to "run" Venezuela through Acting President Delcy Rodríguez, the aim was to keep things quiet following its January 3 raid to snatch the country’s president, Nicolas Maduro. Stability, oil, no messy transition, no open-ended commitment. The...
The European reaction to an American pullback from its leading role in continental defense has sparked a drive to coordinate a pan-European response with a large role for the European Union. But this effort has met resistance from a broadly...
An activist wanted by Hong Kong’s national security police has reportedly been blocked by Thai authorities from flying to Canada for resettlement, according to local media. Zhang Xinyan. Screenshot: Hong Kong Parliament, via YouTube. Zhang Xinyan, who has been detained in Thailand...
During the July 2026 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Ankara, Prime Minister Carney announced Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) as Canada’s primary supplier for 12 diesel-electric Type 212CD submarines over the Republic of Korea (ROK)’s Hanwha Ocean to...
AI-driven semiconductor systems are the next major transformation in chip design and manufacturing. The central idea is that semiconductor workflows are becoming too complex, too data-intensive, and too time-sensitive to be managed only through traditional human-driven engineering processes. Modern chips...
By: Thai Scam Watch - - - - Photo courtesy of Amnesty International In April, Thai Police Lt. Gen. Jirabhop “Kong” Bhuridej, boss of the Thai government’s new “Anti Cyber Scam Center,” was photographed having lunch in a Bangkok restaurant with a notorious Cambodian cyberscam center...
Hong Kong will investigate whether any civil servant has been negligent over a 16-year delay in the medical watchdog’s handling of a complaint against a paediatrician found guilty over a blunder that left a boy permanently disabled. Secretary for Health Lo...
Israel is set to hold a national election on October 27, according to Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition, its first since the Gaza war and the wars on Lebanon and Iran. The precise ballot date had been unclear since the Israeli parliament voted...
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