To understand the lopsided gerrymandering war that started with Texas’s redistricting scheme last August, you have to go back to 2010. That was the year Republican operatives launched REDMAP, a coordinated $30 million initiative that poured money into local races...
After a series of false starts, the United States and Iran announced on Sunday that they had reached a memorandum of understanding that will reportedly extend the current ceasefire for another 60 days and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. As...
Hasso Plattner Institute and Citizen Lab doctoral fellow Swantje Lange spoke with Tagesspiegel about the Lab’s recent research on telecom surveillance campaigns . The report exposes how commercial surveillance vendors exploit vulnerabilities in...
The International Monetary Fund chief on Monday welcomed the ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran , but warned it would take time for energy and other supply disruptions to dissipate. "As we have said before, much...
Mexico modernized the legendary Azteca Stadium –now officially known as Banorte Stadium, to host five matches during the 2026 World Cup. However, residents have complained that the urban projects developed in the area do not address their needs, such as...
France and Britain are pushing plans for a multinational naval mission to safeguard shipping through the Strait of Hormuz if a US-Iran ceasefire materialises, although it is doubtful whether Tehran would be prepared to...
Sweden crushed Tunisia 5-1 on Sunday to leave the North African nation's defensive reputation in tatters and seize control of World Cup Group F. Graham Potter's men took the lead in Guadalupe in the seventh minute courtesy of Brighton...
The 2026 FIFA World Cup has begun on American soil, the first time the United States has hosted the tournament in 32 years. When it concludes, the country will begin preparing for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles....
During the night, a Patriot air defense interceptor reportedly struck the Kiev Pechersk Lavra. The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that the historic complex suffered damage due to an abnormal missile malfunction and the fall of a missile with an...
Albania, a small Balkan nation on the Adriatic Sea, seldom makes headlines. But protesters waving pink flamingo cutouts on an Albanian island the Trump family wants to turn into a resort have recently attracted international media attention. The dispute, which...
Two children were injured by security forces on Sunday, after authorities fired birdshot and tear gas at residents of Warraq Island who were demonstrating against police aggression, an eyewitness told Mada Masr. Security authorities clash periodically with the residents of...
- - - - Photo by Jonathan Harrison on Unsplash I get that there will always be a certain degree of effort put out by governments to shape public opinion. The White House press office tries to...
When the Football Association was founded in England in 1863, football was a game for rich boys. Poor children at the time were working 12 hours a day, six days a week, in mines, mills and factories, and had no...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has affirmed that the issue of Palestinian prisoners must remain central to the national agenda, despite the dire conditions and mounting pressures faced by Palestinians in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. “The prisoners are...
During the long and bloody war between Iran and Iraq in the 1980s the late Henry Kissinger used to half-joke that he wished that both sides could lose. The world now feels pretty much the same about the US-Israel-Iran war...
GAZA, (PIC) The three-year-old child, Rayan Bahaa Abu al-Ajeen, did not realize that his return with his father from a family visit east of the city of Deir al-Balah would be the last journey in his life. On Sunday evening, the return...
On June 14, the Israeli military confirmed that it killed Ali Mousa Daqduq, a wanted and dangerous Hezbollah military commander. Daqduq was a key architect of the Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and a top Hezbollah commander involved in leading attacks...
Welcome to our new live page where we're continuing to track reaction to the agreement between Iran and the US to end more than 100 days of war. Key developments: • Iran and the US have announced a deal to end more...
A court in Morocco has fined a football supporter 10,000 dirhams (around $1,000) after he repeatedly referred to a club president as a "donkey" in Facebook posts criticising his management of the team. The ruling was issued by a...
Iraq's government has begun reviewing and evaluating senior security and military leaders across the country as part of efforts to introduce changes, military and parliamentary sources in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad , said to The New...
Markets across the world greeted the US-Iran peace agreement in the predictable way. Oil prices fell sharply, equities rallied and investors are already calculating the inflation dividend that could follow if the Strait of Hormuz fully reopens and energy supplies...
Settler violence in the occupied West Bank reached a new level on Sunday when a 92-year-old Palestinian man was doused with gasoline during an attack on the town of Deir Dibwan, where illegal Israeli settlers also torched vehicles...
Australia's federal police said Monday they are investigating claims of abuse by Israeli officials made by citizens who were abducted by the Israeli navy in international waters from their Gaza-bound aid flotilla last month. Some members of a group...
By Frank LEDWIDGE Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Can Ukraine sustain the costs of a long war of attrition against a larger opponent while preserving the demographic, economic, and social foundations...
The memorandum of understanding announced by the United States and Iran on June 15 may prove to be one of the most consequential diplomatic developments in the Middle East in recent years. President Donald Trump declared that “the deal with...
The global financial architecture needs a deeper reset; it should build a country's capacity to withstand shocks and grow over time. Credit: Shutterstock By External Source Jun 15 2026 (IPS) When G7 leaders arrive in Evian-les-Bains this month, France will...
Shipping groups warned Monday that it was too soon to start sailing through the Strait of Hormuz following US and Iranian promises that the trade route would reopen under their agreement to end the war . US President...
Myanmar’s coup-commander turned President Min Aung Hlaing touched down in China on Monday for talks with Xi Jinping, his first visit since taking over as civilian leader after Beijing-backed elections rejected by democracy monitors. Myanmar’s President Min Aung Hlaing (left)...
What began as a protest against the sale of homes in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank ended with activists pinned to the ground by police, allegations of excessive force, and accusations that officers targeted those...
GAZA, (PIC) Three Palestinian civilians, including a woman and a child, were martyred and another one was injured in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Monday. According to media sources, a civilian was killed this afternoon when an Israeli strike targeted...
Chatbots and AI companions have rapidly moved from science fiction into everyday life. Credit: Shutterstock By Joseph Chamie PORTLAND, USA, Jun 15 2026 (IPS) AI chatbots and AI companions designed to simulate human-like conversation and provide relationships and...
US actor Kevin Spacey has given an extensive interview to journalist Ksenia Sobchak, discussing his alleged connection to Jeffrey Epstein, his exclusion from Hollywood and the financial hardships he says followed years of legal battles over sexual misconduct allegations. The interview...
By Bill ASTORE Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Sad to say it doesn’t seem to matter what we the people think about war and military spending.. President Trump doesn’t care that at...
Hong Kong’s consumer watchdog has urged claw machine operators to exercise greater transparency amid a surge in complaints over the past two years. The Consumer Council said on Monday that the number of complaints related to claw machines had...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Israeli settlers carried out a series of attacks across the West Bank on Monday, torching vehicles, attacking homes and farmers, and establishing a new settlement outpost amid a continuing escalation in settler violence. In Deir Debwan, east of Ramallah,...
GAZA, (PIC) Israeli occupation forces continue to violate the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, amid growing indicators of a widening gap between declared commitments and actual implementation on the ground, in light of a rapid humanitarian deterioration. A report by the...
Thousands gather outside Istanbul City Hall to mark one year since the arrest of Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu on 18 March 2026. Credit: Yasin Akgul/AFP By Inés M. Pousadela MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Jun 15 2026 (IPS) When Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán...
The United States continues pursuing its decades-spanning policy of maintaining global primacy by encircling and containing rivals as described in the 1992 New York Times article, “U.S. Strategy Plan Calls for Insuring No Rivals Develop.” As part of this long-standing...
The 2026 FIFA World Cup has begun on American soil, the first time the United States has hosted the tournament in 32 years. When it concludes, the country will begin preparing for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. In...
Late on Sunday, Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced that, following months of negotiations, the United States and Iran had agreed to a peace deal aimed at ending the war and preventing a wider regional conflict. The...
Few names carry as much political weight in Lebanon as Chamoun. For generations, the family has occupied a prominent place in the country's political life, from former president Camille Chamoun to National Liberal Party leader Dany Chamoun,...
Sources from Palestinian resistance armed groups told The New Arab that they delivered a redraft text of a " roadmap for completing the implementation of US President Donald Trump's comprehensive peace plan in Gaza" to the mediators...
NEGEV, (PIC) The Israeli authorities demolished, on Monday morning, all the tents and structures in the Palestinian Bedouin village of Araqib in the Negev desert for the 249th consecutive time, displacing its residents. According to local sources, Israeli police forces and employees...
Armenia’s Pashinyan won the election but inherited a cage. Can he juggle EU trade, U.S. TRIPP, and Russian energy – or will his Western gamble collapse under constitutional crisis, closed borders, and a broken opposition? Join us on Telegram ,...
By: Salman Rafi Sheikh - - - - Singapore’s Shangri-La Hotel has hosted Asia’s premier security forum for more than two decades. This year, it hosted something rarer: a region confronting the gap between what it says it wants and...
GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 73,003 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Monday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...
The UN rights chief on Monday condemned a "sharp increase" in the use of drone warfare in Sudan, where more than 1,000 civilians were killed in such strikes in the first five months of this year. Drone warfare has...
BEIRUT, (PIC) At least seven people were martyred and several others wounded in Israeli strikes across Lebanon on Sunday and Monday, as Israel continued to violate the ceasefire and rejected provisions reportedly linking Lebanon to a broader US-Iran agreement. Lebanon’s Health Ministry...
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