In a remarkable commentary published at the end of June, a former leading economist in the Trump administration acknowledges (and endorses) what many have suspected: The function of Trump’s foreign economic policy is to act like a 21st-century...
GAZA, (PIC) Israeli forces continued violating the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Thursday through airstrikes, demolitions, and gunfire across multiple areas of the territory. Three Palestinians were killed Thursday evening in separate Israeli strikes targeting different parts of Gaza, while several...
A popular Turkish comedian was arrested on arrival at Istanbul airport on Thursday for allegedly insulting Islam and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The arrest of Deniz Goktas, 32, came as the authorities have broadened a crackdown on...
China’s home prices continued to fall in the first half of 2026 as buyers held back, betting that values would drop farther. With sales volumes and prices both in decline, analysts see little sign of a near-term recovery. Data released on...
Egypt coach Hossam Hassan cast doubt on whether talisman Mohamed Salah will start their World Cup last-32 showdown with Australia on Friday in Texas following a hamstring problem. Salah took part in training with the rest...
The real promise of AI in EDA is not to replace EDA tools or reinvent design flows, it is to help engineers accomplish existing tasks even more complex design tasks faster, more safely, and with far less tool expertise than...
The United States has said it will prevent the United Nations from supporting an African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia starting next year, two documents showed, in a move that officials said is likely to end its operations. The...
When Roger Waters sings, "I feel your pain from New York City" to Mona Miari, he is doing more than revisiting a Pink Floyd classic; he is sending a letter into the ruins of Gaza. It...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Eleven Palestinians were martyred and 191 others were injured, while the Israeli occupation forces detained 866 citizens in Jerusalem during the first half of 2026, according to a report issued by the Palestinian Authority’s Jerusalem Governorate, which documented...
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani told Lebanon's president on Thursday that Damascus had no intention of intervening militarily in his country despite US pressure to do so, according to the Lebanese presidency. Shaibani, who also invited President...
Jerusalem /PNN / The Palestinian Higher Presidential Committee for Church Affairs in Palestine, headed by Dr. Ramzi Khouri, member of the PLO Executive Committee, has welcomed the historic resolutions adopted by the 227th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA),...
Foreigners are not to blame for unemployment, crime and the state of public services. Leaders should have the courage to say so more clearly Just over 30 years ago, Nelson Mandela expressed his sadness and anger at the rising hatred of...
Half a decade later and I still remember his voice. A young man lies on the ground, begging, pleading, screaming as another man, swinging a machete, forces him to place his right arm on a small wooden bench. The attacker...
The war on information in the West has tread new grounds since the genocide in Palestine. Journalists and media outlets who report on the imperialist endeavors of the ruling class increasingly find themselves under the boot of legislators who concoct...
Collective care should not be reduced to practices that merely keep us strong enough to survive hostile conditions. Collective care should also make us question, resist, and transform the very systems of power that generate harm. Credit: Humanis By Nisrina...
Fiscal consolidation packages reduce approval, drive protests and raise the odds of a major government crisis – especially in downturns Philipp Heimberger is an economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW) Anna Matzner is an economist at the...
The Sudanese army and its allied forces have advanced to within 70 kilometres of El Geneina , the capital of West Darfur state, as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) redeployed troops from Kordofan in...
Even if President Donald J. Trump was indulging in negotiating talk when he said he is “not looking to renew” the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the remark gave US agriculture a case of nerves. And now he has officially decided against...
A high-level Russian delegation led by Dmitry Medvedev traveling to Tehran for mourning ceremonies serves both as a gesture of respect toward Iran and as a warning directed at Washington. Deputy Chairman of Russia's Security Council Dmitry Medvedev will represent Russia...
Across the world, political uncertainty is being exploited to fan the flames of hatred. Now, the very principles that make South Africa great are at risk This week, South Africa has been rocked by protests that have caught the world’s attention....
The last time the United States celebrated a big birthday, the country wasn’t feeling so great about itself, either. But if America in 1976 was hungover from Watergate and Vietnam, the bicentennial was still celebrated with a national singalong conducted...
The Muslim International Film Festival (MIFF) returns to London's Leicester Square from 2 to 5 July, with the same aim each year: to provide a platform for Muslim filmmakers from around the world and to bring their stories...
The sight of the U.S. flag enrages me. Seeing the ubiquitous flag waving so boldly in Puerto Rico fills my soul with colonial fury and bitter resentment. The flag’s existence here is a sinister reminder of over a century...
In March , Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow attacked Abdul El-Sayed over his plans to hold campaign rallies with pro-Palestinian Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, igniting a protracted, acrimonious debate over the future of the Democratic Party and criticism...
Welcome, We continue our coverage of the US-Iran war , Lebanon, Gaza, and the wider Middle East. Pakistani and Qatari mediators have said the indirect talks that concluded in Doha on Wednesday yieled 'positive progress' as both parties touched on contested...
- - - - From time to time, we hear about someone who did something awful getting pardoned. As someone who really does believe in things like redemption and second chances, I usually don’t lose a lot of sleep over...
A new study by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) warns that current plans to deploy more than 1.7 million satellites in Earth's orbit could cause serious damage to ground-based astronomy. To preserve the capabilities of modern telescopes, the total number...
A Hamas-affiliated security body in Gaza executed an alleged collaborator with Israel this week, accusing him of helping the Israeli military assassinate the commander of the group's armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, Izz al-Din al-Haddad...
If you had to go by the landing page for Freedom250, the mascot for the semiquincentennial celebration of America’s founding is Donald Trump . There is no better symbol. He tough-guys a finger out beneath the announcement, “WELCOME TO...
A bomb went off at a cafe in central Damascus on Thursday, killing at least five people and wounding 16, Syrian authorities said. The blast took place near the capital's Palace of Justice, a key government building, sparking scenes...
An explosion went off at a cafe in central Damascus on Thursday, killing at least six people and wounding 22, Syrian authorities said. The blast took place near the capital's Palace of Justice, a key government building, sparking scenes...
A bomb blast at a cafe in central Damascus on Thursday killed nine people and wounded 20, Syrian authorities said. The blast took place near the capital's Palace of Justice, a key government building, sparking scenes of panic in...
Every morning, crowds of people pack into the Karameh (King Hussein) border crossing between Palestine and Jordan . Children cry, patients wait, and expatriates watch their holidays disappear while remaining unable to cross. The crisis at the Karameh crossing (also...
Few Palestinians have crossed the King Hussein Bridge without returning with a story of long waits, delays, hardship—and, at times, even exploitation. Over the years, the bridge has ceased to be merely a border crossing connecting Palestinians with the outside...
Over the past several years, Muslim Americans across the US have seen a continuous string of attacks and threats against their mosques and community centres, amid wars in the region and domestic crackdowns on civil society. A fatal...
Syria has completed the formation of its new People's Assembly, appointing the final 70 members of parliament as part of the country's political transition following the fall of the Assad regime. Meanwhile, security tensions persist along the Israeli border, where...
The last time Lebanon and Israel signed an American-brokered agreement, it took less than a year to die. The 17 May Agreement of 1983 ended the state of war between the two countries, set out mutual recognition of sovereignty,...
By Vijay PRASHAD Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su On June 23, the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel released one of...
By Rafael PINTO BORGES Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su If not for the piles of regulation produced by the Berlaymont, air conditioning would likely be far easier and cheaper to obtain...
GAZA, (PIC) One thousand days have passed since the start of the genocide war launched by Israel on the Gaza Strip, but they were not just passing days in the lives of Palestinians, rather they were one thousand days of bombardment,...
GAZA, (PIC) Palestinian resistance factions marked 1,000 days of Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip on Thursday by calling for national unity, an escalation of resistance and urgent action to end the war, as Gaza’s Government Media Office detailed the scale...
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Dozens of media workers were left in financial limbo this week after one of the UK's largest banks closed the account of the left-wing outlet The Canary , preventing it from paying staff and contractors. The publication, known...
Even with advances in AI, automation, and advanced process technology, many semiconductor test operations still rely on reports generated hours after production has occurred. This creates a significant and growing problem. By the time engineers discover a yield excursion, parametric...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Dozens of Jewish settlers stormed the courtyards of the Aqsa Mosque on Thursday morning under heavy protection from Israeli forces, where they performed Talmudic rituals inside the compound. According to local sources in Occupied Jerusalem, the settlers entered through...
GENEVA, (PIC) The Board of Peace’s announcement of its intention to end the role of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip is extremely concerning, the Euro-Med Monitor said in a statement on...
Susan George passed away in February of this year. It is good to have waited this long for the movement to give her a proper send-off, for we have finally absorbed the shock of her departure and realized what a...
This article was first published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. It is republished under a Creative Commons license. Last month, my colleagues and I published an investigation into a Texas oil refinery startup, America First...
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