Israeli nationalists swept through the narrow streets of Jerusalem's Old City on Thursday, chanting "Death to Arabs" and "May your villages burn" during the annual Jerusalem Day march, while many Palestinian residents remained barricaded indoors. Every year, tens of...
President Donald Trump just can’t quit tariffs. He suffered a major defeat when the Supreme Court ruled in February 2026 against the sweeping emergency tariffs he’d announced the previous year. Then, on May 7, a federal court knocked down the...
Iraq's new Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi was sworn in on Thursday with only a partial cabinet after lawmakers failed to reach a consensus on key postings, including interior and defence. Basim Mohammed was appointed as the country's new oil...
Lebanon and Israel began direct negotiations in Washington on Thursday in a bid to end decades of conflict, as Israel's ongoing offensive and occupation of southern Lebanon threaten to derail efforts toward a lasting ceasefire. While both sides have...
The construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline became a testing ground for architectural improvisation driven by necessity. Cylindrical barrel-shaped homes, known as TsUBs, evolved from temporary shelters into symbols of northern Soviet pragmatism. Engineers adapted metal structures to survive permafrost, hurricane-force...
The family of film director and screenwriter Omar Saleh Marei repeated their appeal to authorities Wednesday to disclose his whereabouts after security forces raided his home and forcibly disappeared him on Monday night. No official information has yet been provided...
Israel says it is taking legal action against The New York Times for defamation, after the US outlet published a story citing Palestinian survivors' accounts of rape by Israeli forces. The move was announced by Israel on its...
As the results for last week’s UK local elections came in, one thing became abundantly clear: the Green Party, which campaigned on a pro-Palestine stance, is a serious threat to the governing Labour Party. Many commentators - and even...
Israel's ruling coalition on Wednesday submitted a proposal to dissolve parliament to pave the way for early elections as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came under mounting attack from ultra-Orthodox parties. The move, initiated by Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party...
Damascus is pursuing a security agreement with Israel aimed at guaranteeing stability and respecting the sovereignty of both sides, Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani said, while rejecting any path toward normalisation imposed through military or political pressure . Speaking...
French first lady Brigitte Macron reportedly slapped her husband just before they emerged from an aeroplane on a visit to Vietnam last year after she discovered flirty text messages between the president and Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani...
Now that Christian Schmidt , Bosnia and Herzegovina’s (BiH) high representative, has announced his resignation this week, pundits, diplomats, and citizens are buzzing about what this could mean for BiH’s overall stability. The more consequential question, however,...
The opening headlines from the summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in Beijing signal an openness on the Chinese side towards stabilizing relations with the US. In his opening remarks, the Chinese president noted that China and the US...
Germany’s federal system of government makes the country’s politics seem so complicated that most people outside Germany give up trying to understand it. At the federal level, there is the federal parliament (the Bundestag), a ceremonial president and a chancellor....
Iranian authorities on Wednesday hanged a man convicted of spying for Israel and another man in a case linked to January protests, the latest in a spate of executions against the backdrop of the US-Israeli war against the Islamic...
This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . “Tell you what,” Drew Maciel told his Instagram followers in April, “I’m sick of finding dead moose.” He zoomed in on a dead...
The Eurovision Song Contest has faced a sharp decline in viewership as the first semi-finals were broadcast on Tuesday, as calls to boycott the competition grew over Israel’s participation. When comparing viewership from 2025, there was a loss of...
The United Nations rights chief on Wednesday called on Israel to repeal a newly established special military tribunal to try Palestinians accused of taking part in Hamas's October 7 attacks. Israel's parliament passed a law establishing the tribunal, with...
A Jewish-led organization dedicated to fighting antisemitism was among the groups and individuals who have condemned attacks on The New York Times and one of its most prominent columnists, who published accounts by alleged Palestinian victims of sexual abuse perpetrated by Israeli soldiers and...
- - - - Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash Generally, I want my government to be accountable to the people. They work for us, and we have a right to know what they’re doing and why....
President Donald Trump calls the entourage of 12 CEOs accompanying him to China an “incredible gathering” of America’s “greatest businessmen/women.” Well, it may be an incredible gathering. But to characterize them as America’s greatest business leaders — who...
If you ask Sen. Elissa Slotkin , D-Mich., President Donald Trump ’s trip to China is nothing short of disastrous. “He wants that deal so bad that he can taste it,” Slotkin warned this week at a Politico event. “The guy...
A US judge on Wednesday imposed a temporary injunction on sanctions imposed last year by Washington on a United Nations expert on the occupied Palestinian territories. UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese was sanctioned in...
The fall of Bashar Al-Assad’s government in Syria in December 2024, coupled with successive Israeli military campaigns against Iran since October 2024 and the setbacks endured by Hezbollah during the 2023–24 conflict, have fostered a prevailing sense in...
London police were on Thursday gearing up for one of their largest operations in recent years, a deployment of several thousand officers to keep the peace when far-right activist Tommy Robinson and pro-Palestinian groups hold duelling weekend marches. London's...
International Finance Corporation (IFC) managing director Makhtar Diop has delivered a strong call to action for African leaders and investors, urging a shift from ambition to execution to unlock the continent’s vast economic potential. Speaking at the...
Saudia Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) on Thursday signed a partnership with FIFA to become an official tournament supporter in North America and Asia of the upcoming World Cup. The PIF partnership incorporates the fund's different companies, "the Savvy Games...
GAZA, (PIC) The Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Affairs in the Gaza Strip said on Thursday that more than 10,000 Palestinians from the Strip were deprived of performing the Hajj pilgrimage during three years of the Israeli war of genocide. It mentioned...
Originally published by Pacific Forum, this article is republished with permission. Iran’s response to the latest US peace proposal and President Donald Trump’s fulsome rejection of it is another setback for the cumbersome, indirect Iran-US negotiations being conducted through Pakistan....
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Thursday, coinciding with what Israel calls “Jerusalem Day,” and ahead of the annual “Flag March” marking Israel’s occupation of East Jerusalem in 1967 according to the...
The internationally recognised Yemeni government and the Iran-aligned Houthi group will exchange more than 1,600 prisoners, the office of the UN special envoy for Yemen said on Thursday, marking the largest release of detainees since the outbreak of...
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Iranian media reported Thursday that naval forces had allowed a group of Chinese ships to pass through the strategic Strait of Hormuz since the night before. Iran has largely blocked shipping through the strait since the outbreak of...
Iranian media reported Thursday that naval forces had allowed a group of Chinese ships to pass through the strategic Strait of Hormuz since the night before. Iran has largely blocked shipping through the strait since the outbreak of...
GAZA, (PIC) In Gaza, the Nakba is no longer a memory in which Palestinians recall the stories of displacement in 1948, but has turned into a daily reality lived by more than 1.5 million displaced people, amidst tents, hunger, and fear,...
Saudi Arabia 's public finances are facing unprecedented dual pressures, with official data revealing that the fiscal deficit in this year's first-quarter budget widened to $33.5 billion (125.7 billion riyals), more than double the deficit recorded in the same period...
Modern geopolitical competition is increasingly shaped not only by military capabilities or economic leverage, but also by the ability to shape narratives. States now compete simultaneously across diplomatic, informational and psychological domains, where perception can influence legitimacy almost as much...
An attempt to bomb an Orthodox Christian cathedral in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo was thwarted on Wednesday. The Syriac Orthodox Archdiocese of Aleppo said that the attempt to attack the Saint Ephrem Syriac Orthodox Cathedral in the...
Shocking footage of a French nun being assaulted in broad daylight in Jerusalem’s Old City at the end of April sparked widespread outrage among church figures, amid warnings of a surge in attacks by Israeli settlers and the...
Israel is expanding civilian security preparedness in communities near the Gaza border through a new training program led by Magen 48, a non-profit civilian-led initiative, in cooperation with the Israel Defense Forces. The program, created after the October 7 Hamas...
Fanatical Israeli settlers, headed by a Knesset member, stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Thursday, performing Talmudic rituals and provoking worshippers under heavy Israeli police protection. The latest attack on Islam's third holiest site coincides with Israel’s annual " Flag Day...
More than 81,000 complaints have been filed against several British right-wing newspapers over their coverage of Misan Harriman , the photographer, activist and chair of London's Southbank Centre, in an unprecedented backlash against a "smear campaign". Following the...
Israel pursues its own interests; can America? By Bruce FEIN Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su President George Washington warned in his timeless Farewell Address: A passionate attachment of one nation for another...
With the launch of its new P570 Gen 3 processor family, SiFive is making a broader statement about the future of edge computing and the growing role of RISC-V in mainstream application processors. Rather than simply unveiling another CPU core,...
When President Trump warned that the Iran ceasefire was “ on life support, ” the statement landed like a threat. But threats have become the rhythm of this policy, not its climax. A deadline has been announced. Iran is warned....
A vessel was boarded by unauthorized personnel on Thursday while at anchor northeast of the United Arab Emirates port of Fujairah and was heading towards Iranian territorial waters, United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations said. Two maritime security sources said...
The Hong Kong government said it has issued buyback offer letters to homeowners of the fire-hit Wang Fuk Court, moving forward with its plan to acquire property titles from displaced residents. Residents collecting their belongings at Wang Sun House, Wang...
Israel is pressing ahead with plans to build a major military and government complex over the ruins of the former UNRWA headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem, months after Israeli authorities bulldozed parts of the compound in a move...
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