“Wasians” are having a moment right now. Think of Winter Olympians Alysa Liu and Eileen Gu, singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo, actors Lola Tang (The Summer I Turned Pretty) and Hudson Williams (Heated Rivalry), or singer/dancer Megan Skiendiel from Katseye. In fact,...
Tutto ciò che era stato considerato una “invenzione della propaganda russa” si è rivelato vero. Gli Stati Uniti hanno finanziato laboratori biologici in Ucraina e in altri paesi per lo sviluppo e la ricerca sulle armi biologiche Segue nostro Telegram...
As India pursues its ambition of becoming a developed economy by 2047 — the centenary of its independence — reliable access to overseas markets has become a strategic imperative. Yet recent crises in West Asia — ranging from the Gaza...
BEIRUT, (PIC) A series of intense Israeli airstrikes targeting multiple towns across southern Lebanon from midnight through the early morning hours left 18 people killed and 33 others wounded, according to a preliminary toll released by the Lebanese Ministry of Public...
Long before she began assembling the fragments that would become Rehearsals for a Revolution , Pegah Ahangarani had already spent much of her life moving between cinema and memory. Born in Iran in 1984 and now based in...
The Islamabad Memorandum may have opened a diplomatic channel between Washington and Tehran, but its future remains fragile. Deep mistrust, conflicting narratives, and Israel’s exclusion cast serious doubt on its durability, raising the possibility that it will prove to be...
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has set up secretive new cells in Iraq to carry out attacks on Gulf countries that host American forces, bypassing established militia networks to avoid detection, eight Iraqi sources told Reuters...
Opening ceremony of RightsCon 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan. Credit: Equality Now By S. Mona Sinha and Mrinalini Dayal NEW YORK, Jun 19 2026 (IPS) RightsCon, the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age, has served for over...
A trope of racism is that all members of a racialised group must, at all times, be citizens of the most unimpeachable character. Should any members fail to meet that standard, no matter how big or small the infraction, the...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Israeli forces carried out a series of raids across several towns and areas in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem early Friday, conducting home searches, arrests, and confiscating a Palestinian vehicle. According to local sources, Israeli troops entered the...
The US’s airpower edge faces a growing paradox: the F-35 is indispensable for a war over Taiwan, yet increasingly unavailable for such a fight. This month, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that persistent supply chain bottlenecks and flawed...
Veteran UK Labour politician Andy Burnham emphatically won a crunch by-election on Friday, securing a parliamentary seat and clearing the way for a widely expected leadership challenge against beleaguered Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Burnham, a former government minister who...
Veteran UK Labour politician Andy Burnham emphatically won a crunch by-election on Friday, securing a parliamentary seat and clearing the way for a widely expected leadership challenge against beleaguered Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Burnham, a former government minister who...
Hong Kong Free Press won three honourable mentions at the prestigious Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Awards on Thursday night – a new record for the newspaper. Lulu Yilun Chen (far left) and Team HKFP at the 2026 SOPA...
China called Britain’s jailing of two dual Chinese-British nationals for spying on behalf of Beijing “a classic political farce” on Friday, urging the country to rectify its “erroneous actions”. The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in London. Photo: Wikimedia...
Well, that didn’t take long. If you placed a wager on the Polymarket that Iran and the US would fail to meet in Switzerland on Friday, then go collect your winnings and send me a tip. Israel ignored Donald Trump’s...
Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. Japan builds its own AI future as US tightens controlScott Foster reports that Trump’s restrictions on Anthropic AI models have...
“At this critical stage, relevant parties, including Israel, need to follow the overwhelming trend of peace and stability in the region,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian, following the signing of the first-stage US-Iran memorandum of understanding The Chinese...
As Gaza's high school students prepare for exams scheduled for 20 June, many said they have been forced to transform food aid boxes into makeshift notebooks amid severe paper shortages and soaring prices. For students in the...
As Gaza's high school students prepare for exams scheduled for 20 June, many said they have been forced to transform food aid boxes into makeshift notebooks amid severe paper shortages and soaring prices. For students in the...
Welcome! Here are the latest updates of the day: - The White House says US Vice President JD Vance has delayed a planned trip to Switzerland to lead a new round of talks with Iran following the signing of a memorandum...
The American strategy of global domination through proxies, aimed at wearing down adversaries without the direct involvement of its own troops, has collapsed. The cause was an underestimation of the resilience of Russia and Iran, which led to a redistribution...
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Nurina Malek KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jun 19 2026 (IPS) US President Trump’s policies are supposed to make America great again (MAGA), which means different things to various parties. Some of its consequences are inadvertent, including...
IDF raid targets the town of Douair in southern Lebanon. Well, that didn’t take long. If you placed a wager on the Polymarket that Iran and the US would fail to meet in Switzerland on Friday, then go collect your...
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang earlier this month celebrated their decades-long alliance, with both sides vowing to elevate their ties to “new heights.” However, the summit reflected a marriage of convenience...
To commemorate World Refugee Day (June 20) without confronting the American militarism driving the crisis is just plain hypocrisy. Data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees shows global displacement has reached record highs, with more than 117 million...
For the past year, the Trump administration has undertaken a lethal campaign of strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, killing at least 200 people. It could soon gain a major new ally in this fight...
I have no legs, so the thought of tackling the nearly 6,000-metre peak seemed crazy. But after reflection, and hard physical training, I decided to give it a go I was born with a rare genetic disease called sacral agenesis, which...
Islam Times - The 40-day war between Iran and the US and the Zionist regime was not a conventional or previously experienced military conflict. It was a confrontation between two complex offensive and defensive networks. In an interview with Iranian...
An annual Reuters Institute report on the global news industry has said that Hong Kong journalists are facing “a widening range of intimidation, including tax investigations,” amid a deepening financial crisis among local media outlets. Local and international...
Earlier this week, the United States Department of War restored the US Indo-Pacific Command’s name to the US Pacific Command, reversing an eight-year-old title change and restoring operational clarity. The announcement comes in the same week that a growing chorus...
Islam Times - Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf has stated that Iranian officials will treat the directives of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyed Mojtaba Khamenei as their guiding light in upcoming negotiations, promising never to let...
About three years ago, someone asked me why, with my physics undergrad background and a PhD in economics, I had decided to become a professional blogger. I told him that blogging seemed like the highest-leverage thing I could do, in...
A British court on Thursday jailed two dual Chinese-British nationals after they were convicted of spying on Hong Kong dissidents in the UK on behalf of China. From left: Hong Kong Economic Trade Office (HKETO) official Bill Yuen and former...
Jonathan David bagged a hat-trick as Canada secured their first ever World Cup finals victory and boosted their chances of reaching the knockout stages with a 6-0 thrashing of hapless nine-man Qatar on Thursday. The co-hosts' joy at the...
By: Majid Maqbool - - - - On June 9, India opened a strategically vital 13.15 km tunnel linking the Kashmir region to Ladakh beneath the 3,529-meter Zojila pass, the world’s longest single-tube bi-directional road tunnel at the world’s highest...
Islamic Society of Milwaukee President Salah Sarsour, a Palestinian American activist and community leader detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in March, was released from detention on Thursday after an order by a federal judge. "Mr. Sarsour has...
Reprinted with permission from Trita Parsi’s Substack. I have spent years fighting against Trump’s push toward war with Iran, and I have the scars to prove it. When Trump withdrew from the JCPOA in 2018, I warned that it would...
Reprinted from The Realist Review. There are certain episodes in Cold War history that modern conservatives are expected to treat as either sinister fantasy or liberal delusion. The McCloy–Zorin Accords of 1961 occupy a curious place. Explain the concept today...
Donald Trump’s second term has precipitated a tsunami of criticism from Democrats over his foreign policy. Yet when it comes to Washington’s efforts to dominate Latin America and the Caribbean, the substantive dispute – if there is any substance remaining,...
Hong Kong leader John Lee has said that China’s top official Xia Baolong concluded his two-day visit by giving “affirmations” and “recognitions” to the local government. Beijing top official Xia Baolong (front row, second from right), Hong Kong Chief Executive...
Ukraine hopes a set of sweeping reforms will help redress its chronic shortage of manpower by providing clear terms of service and better pay. However, its promises to begin discharging long-serving troops and reform controversial mobilization procedures raise questions about...
“Illegal” has become one of the most used words in the Middle East’s expanding wars. In Gaza, Israel's conduct has been repeatedly recognised as genocide , collective punishment and violations of international humanitarian law. Israel's continued occupation of Palestinian territories has...
Eight Muslim-majority countries including regional heavyweights Saudi Arabia and Turkey said on Thursday that they held Israel responsible for arson attacks on two West Bank mosques , which Palestinian officials said were torched by settlers. The foreign ministers of Saudi...
The Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding marks the greatest diplomatic breakthrough in the American-Israeli war on Iran since it began almost four months ago. Yet, for Israel, to say this development is a major blow is an...
Assume, for the sake of argument, that you think the U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) just signed by President Donald Trump in Versailles is a disaster for both the United States and especially for Israel. Who would you want to...
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said on Thursday that he had approved despite reservations a deal signed by President Donald Trump to end the Middle East war, as the US lifted a blockade of Iranian...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Palestinian Center for the Defense of Prisoners has launched a media campaign titled “Who Is Next?” following the death of Palestinian detainee Imad Sarhan inside an Israeli prison. According to the organization, Sarhan is the 90th Palestinian prisoner...
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