In a statement from the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s US arm, organisers say Israeli forces carried out a prolonged assault on civilian aid boats in international waters, using gunfire, water cannons and violent boardings against unarmed volunteers attempting to reach Gaza Read...
In July 2000, Mohamad Hammoud and his brother ran a multi-million-dollar cigarette smuggling operation in the US by transporting $7.9 million worth of cigarettes from North Carolina to Chicago – taking advantage of different tax regimes to turn...
TOKYO — Few market visuals are more striking than the South Korean won and the Kospi index suddenly tearing off in opposite directions. The won has slumped 4.5% this year, putting it among Asia’s weakest currencies. The Kospi, meanwhile, has exploded — up...
The Islamic Society of San Diego Tragedy struck the Muslim community of San Diego in a murderous attack by a pair of armed teenagers who killed three people, including a security guard, before shooting themselves at a mosque on 18...
An Ankara court on Thursday annulled the 2023 leadership election of Turkey's main opposition CHP party , in a sharp escalation against the country's embattled opposition, court documents showed. The move is the latest in a string of legal moves...
RAMALLAH /West Bank — PNN Economist Nabil Kukali said the strengthening of the Israeli shekel against the U.S. dollar and the Jordanian dinar is intensifying economic pressure on Palestinian households, amid a deep economic slowdown and structural...
The community works to preserve its identity amid pressure from real estate development and non-Indigenous settlers. Credit: Samuel Tremembé By Carla Ruas BELÉM, Brazil, May 21 2026 (IPS) On Brazil’s northeastern coast, the Indigenous community, Tremembé da Barra do Mundaú, lives...
The HAJJ. The Hajj is the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and is one of the Five Pillars of Islam — the core religious obligations that define Muslim practice. Every Muslim who is physically and financially able is...
Africa CDC says restrictions could increase public health risks and highlight ‘deeper structural injustice’ in global health A US travel ban for people coming from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda or South Sudan in response to the Ebola outbreak...
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Texas Democratic congressional candidate Maureen Galindo has called for American politicians who accepted money from pro-Israel groups to face treason charges, as a new report by rights group Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) renewed scrutiny of the deep...
ANKARA, (PIC) Following global outcry over their inhumane treatment in custody, the Israeli occupation regime deported on Thursday all the foreign activists kidnaped by Israeli forces from a Gaza-bound aid flotilla earlier this week. According to different media sources, the Global Sumud...
Dr. Mansoor Malik is a professor of psychiatry at John Hopkins. For most of his career, his work has been what you’d expect from a clinician-educator at a major academic medical center: healthcare worker wellbeing, peer support programs, minority physician...
Accurate, complete, and consistent technical documentation is a critical element of success for any embedded system design project. This includes IP, SoCs, and the associated hardware and software infrastructure. When documentation contains errors, the consequences go beyond engineering inefficiency. Errors...
A new public artwork in New York City's historic "Little Syria" district has sparked backlash among Lebanese communities at home and abroad after several renowned poets, including Gibran Khalil Gibran, were described as Syrian rather than Lebanese. The installation, titled...
GAZA, (PIC) Hazem Qassem, spokesperson for Hamas Movement, said that the request by Nikolay Mladenov, the so called High Representative of the “Peace Council” in Gaza, for the UN Security Council to pressure Hamas by all means to fulfill its commitments,...
Saudi Arabia has reportedly urged the Trump administration to avoid any major military action against Iran until after this year's Hajj season , amid growing fears across the Gulf that renewed conflict could destabilise the region during one of...
GAZA, (PIC) In Gaza, forced evacuation does not seem to be an emergency event read within a limited military context, but rather turns with each new wave into a moment of complete collapse of daily life, and a forced resetting of...
18 May 2026 Lena Petrova: Welcome, everybody! Thank you so much for joining us. I’m Lena Petrova with a new episode of World Affairs in Context. Today, I have the privilege of welcoming back to the program a renowned American...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) Hamas leader Mahmoud Mardawi stated that what prisoners, especially female detainees, are subjected to in Israeli prisons, particularly Damon prison, reflects a dangerous escalation manifested in repeated raids on women’s sections and what he described as brutal repression, alongside...
Israeli forces beat Brazilian activist Thiago Avila unconscious, threatened to kill him and subjected activists aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla to torture and abuse after intercepting the Gaza-bound aid mission in international waters last month, Avila...
Long before today’s attacks on leftist politicians and Palestine solidarity movements, Zionist leaders sold their movement as a defence against socialism and communism Joseph Massad is professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University, New York Cross-posted from...
- - - - Photo by Alen Kajtezovic on Unsplash AOC doesn’t think anyone can earn a billion dollars. Well, she doesn’t think, but that doesn’t stop her from saying stuff like how it’s impossible to earn...
As drones dominate warfare in the Middle East, Ukraine and beyond, civilians are caught in the crosshairs. Hailing the machines as the future of war , the Pentagon is pouring funds into their development and procurement, as are other militaries...
Two British nationals are among five activists who were forcibly brought into a Stuttgart courtroom by police on Wednesday after statements they wished to read were seized from them. This was the latest escalation in a case that their lawyers have...
Not long ago , a social media creator named Ludovico “Pato” Cordoni appeared on the TikTok account of the Italian utility company Plenitude. In the video, Cordoni takes the channel’s 116,600 followers on a trip to the company’s headquarters, where...
Young people in the U.S. have won a major unsung victory: Starting in December, they will no longer be required to register or report their addresses for a possible military draft. But Congress has given the agency tasked with...
Is the United States headed for a second Civil War? According to a survey of likely midterm voters published by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights , 57% of Americans believe it is. Sixty-nine percent...
Demands grow for launch of formal discussion process on how country should address legacies of enslavement Emmanuel Macron is under pressure to open discussions on reparatory justice for France’s role in hundreds of years of enslavement of African people as he...
A single bug on a full-chip SoC can pull engineers off roadmap work for days or even weeks. It involves massive waveforms, thousands of files of RTL and UVM, and dense specs that aren’t always perfect. Finding these bugs have...
On 4 May, a barrage of drones struck Sudan’s international airport and several military installations in the capital of Khartoum. Sudan’s official army, known as the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF), blamed Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)...
Video footage of bound Egyptians pleading for their release sent to relatives on Monday underscores the perilous fate of the crewmembers on board an oil tanker seized by Somali pirates off the coast of the Horn of Africa country at...
Before Hamas. Before Al Qaeda. Before the Islamic State. There was… the Muslim Brotherhood. And for nearly a century, it has played the long game by building influence across the Middle East and even deep inside the West. Bill Roggio...
The majority of Jews worldwide could be living in Israel within the next decade, according to a new report by the UK-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research . The report, written by Professor Sergio Della Pergola and published on Wednesday,...
GAZA, (PIC) The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced on Thursday the recording of more than 125,000 cases of skin infections linked to rodents and parasites in the Gaza Strip, during the first five months of...
Comments by the father of Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa about people from the eastern Syrian province of Deir al-Zour have sparked outrage across Syria, prompting Sharaa to later issue an apology on behalf of his father. Hussein...
As the economies of BRICS countries continue to diversify and evolve, there is a growing need to align innovation, industrial growth, and entrepreneurial development with the principles of equity, sustainability, and inclusion. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and...
A recent article by Robert Kagan highlights the serious consequences of Trump’s military adventure. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su For years, the Western political and media establishment promoted the narrative that a...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Extremist Jewish settlers committed a series of crimes on Thursday in the occupied West Bank, reportedly stealing dozens of sheep and attacking Palestinian civilians and vehicles. According to local sources, a group of armed settlers infiltrated a sheep pen...
The recalibration of relations between the GCC and Iran, and their views of Israel, will be Trump’s legacy. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su In recent days, a number of respected analysts have...
Russia’s hand is being forced to hit the new front to restore deterrence and avoid a total escalation. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The shooting down of a Ukrainian drone by a...
A Hezbollah drone attack in southern Lebanon on Wednesday seriously injured an Israeli military commander from the army unit identified as responsible for the killing of six-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza City. Colonel Meir Biderman, 41, is...
Tensions have arisen between US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over a potential deal with Iran, as the Israeli premier reportedly pushes to resume the war. Israel’s Channel 12 reported on Wednesday that a "difficult"...
Mourners gathered in a southern Lebanese town on Thursday to bury victims from an Israeli airstrike earlier this week that killed 14 people, the deadliest single bombing raid on Lebanon since the announcement of an alleged ceasefire last...
Pro-Palestine activists abducted and detained after Israel intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) in international waters are being transferred for deportation to Turkey amid mounting allegations of abuse and mistreatment, according to Israeli legal advocacy group Adalah. In a...
Russia today wants to intensify its relationship with China and complains that China is not equally warm in return, treating Russia as a junior partner. Francois Godement observed acutely that Russia had “let out some public anxiety about China’s behavior. On...
Washington brokered a 45-day ceasefire extension between Israel and Lebanon last week, scheduling a fourth round of talks for June 2-3. Presidential Special Envoy Simon Karam is leading the Lebanese delegation. Hezbollah is not at the table, and...
A 55-year-old man has pleaded guilty to making and distributing “seditious” materials, including ones that called for a boycott of the “patriots only” legislative elections last year. West Kowloon Law Courts Building. File photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. Raymond Wong,...
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