Pakistan’s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, announced that a two-week ceasefire had been agreed between the US and Iran in the early hours of April 8. Delegates from both sides are expected to attend further talks in the Pakistani capital of...
Intel, Musk, and the Tweet That Launched a 1000 Ships on a Becalmed Sea Why do professional executives running major corporations frame a major moment in their company’s history with a tweet? Jerry Sanders, who passed away just last December, spent...
Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to avoid any escalation in their armed conflict, during talks hosted by China in recent days, Beijing said on Wednesday. The neighbours and one-time allies have been locked in violent confrontation over claims...
By James Alix Michel VICTORIA, Seychelles, Apr 8 2026 (IPS) We live in a century of extraordinary achievement. Humanity has split the atom, mapped the genome, and sent astronauts to the Moon, with plans now underway to reach Mars. Our knowledge has...
Behind The Headlines – The F-15E rescue Iran operation, sold by the Trump administration as a ‘biblical’ triumph, stands exposed as one of the most costly and contradictory failures in modern military history. Not only did it set back the...
The ceasefire’s durability will hinge on whether Trump can restrain Israel from undermining the diplomatic track. On this point, there should be no illusions Trita Parsi is the co-founder and Executive Vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft Cross-posted...
In 1958 Senator John F. Kennedy, getting ready for his upcoming presidential campaign, said the United States faced a serious and dangerous missile gap. “The Soviet Union is rapidly building up a missile striking force that endangers our power to...
Before he became one of the great diplomats of the twentieth century, Henry Kissinger wrote his dissertation about the Austrian statesman Klemens von Metternich. Kissinger closely studied how European diplomats like Metternich constructed a new regional order after the defeat...
Modern automotive electronics are undergoing a rapid transformation driven by increasing compute demands, functional safety requirements, and the shift toward scalable semiconductor architectures. One of the most significant technological developments enabling this transformation is the adoption of multi-die system… com/eda/synopsys/368210-from-soc-to-system-in-package-transforming-automotive-compute-with-multi-die-integration/">From...
There are conflicting conditions demanded by the US and Iran for lasting peace, and Israeli and Iranian strikes continued after the ceasefire announcement. However, a cessation of hostilities and reopening of the Strait of Hormuz to international shipping appear to...
Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su This was always about Civilization. “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” History will register it with a gaze as pitiless as the...
On Tuesday, much to the relief of the world, US President Donald Trump pulled one of his biggest TACOs yet - and he wasn't serving up Mexican food. Known for dishing out threats on the global stage, ranging...
Just when a fragile glimmer of hope emerged in the Middle East, Israel has moved to extinguish it. By launching its largest wave of strikes in years against Beirut, the Bekaa Valley, and southern Lebanon — all Hezbollah’s strongholds —...
Five weeks into the US–Israeli campaign against Iran and its allies, the region is reeling from widespread destruction. From heavy industrial losses in Iran to shattered infrastructure across the Gulf and Lebanon’s mass displacement, the toll has...
Ceasefires are often presented as moments of relief – pauses in violence that open the door to diplomacy. But sometimes they reveal something more consequential: who has actually gained from the war. The emerging ceasefire between the US, Israel and...
Lebanon announced the reopening of the Masnaa border crossing with Syria starting Wednesday evening, state media said, after it had been closed for several days due to an Israeli threat to target it. "The Masnaa crossing will be reopened...
Over the past six weeks, Iran and Iraqi militias have subjected Iraq’s Kurdistan Region to a massive campaign of airstrikes . Regular drone and missile strikes have resulted in multiple deaths and caused significant economic and social disruption...
Uncertainty surrounds how the strategic Strait of Hormuz will operate following a two-week ceasefire between the United States, Israel and Iran. A major escalation of the Middle East war was narrowly averted on Tuesday evening after Iran...
A Rohingya rights campaigner spearheading a genocide complaint filed in Indonesia against Myanmar's next president urged the Muslim world on Wednesday to oppose the junta accused of the abuses. Yasmin Ullah is one of 11 plaintiffs who lodged the...
NEW YORK, (PIC) The UN said that preliminary findings from its probe into the deaths of three Indonesian peacekeepers in Lebanon last month showed that one was killed by an Israeli tank projectile and two by an improvised explosive that could...
Israeli settlers have for the first time established an illegal outpost within Jerusalem's city limits, according to local media. Residents of two Palestinian villages reported incursions by dozens of Jewish extremists, who attacked them with tear gas and rocks, and...
It will take months for jet fuel supplies and prices to normalise even with the Strait of Hormuz open, the head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said Wednesday. The Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping route for...
Sixty-five-year-old farmer Rabie Abdel Azim, from the village of Gardu in Fayoum Governorate, was caught off guard this week when the price of a 50-kilogramme bag of fertiliser jumped 50% overnight. The price went up to EGP 1,200 ($22) from EGP...
Oil companies Exxon Mobil, Empire Petroleum and their subsidiaries engaged in accounting fraud that could cost the state nearly $200 million, a lawsuit filed in New Mexico District Court alleges. If successful, the plaintiffs say the case could change how...
GAZA, (PIC) The head of the Hamas Leadership Council, Mohammad Darwish, confirmed in a legal memorandum addressed to several Arab and Islamic countries, including Türkiye, that the approval of the law to execute Palestinian prisoners constitutes a dangerous shift in the...
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi raised "ceasefire violations" by Israel with Pakistani mediators on Wednesday, an Iranian ministry statement said, as reports citing senior officials warned that Tehran could pull out of the truce over attacks on Lebanon. Araghchi "discussed...
Donald Trump loathes mail-in voting — except, of course, when he uses this method to cast his own ballot, as he did in a recent Florida special election . Frustrated by congressional inaction, Trump issued an executive...
- - - - Photo by Artists Eyes on Unsplash I get that the left doesn’t like President Donald Trump. I didn’t like Biden or Obama, so it’s fair. However, I try to be fair to my opponents....
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer travelled to the Gulf on Wednesday to meet with regional leaders in an effort to bolster the ceasefire in the Middle East war, Downing Street said. "I welcome the ceasefire agreement reached overnight, which will...
Yesterday began with President Donald Trump issuing genocidal threats against Iran on social media and ended — just 10 hours later — with the announcement of a 14-day ceasefire, on Iran’s terms . Even by the volatile standards of Trump’s presidency, the whiplash...
Five teenagers went on trial in Sweden on Wednesday for the alleged attempted murder of a dissident Iranian researcher. The victim, Arvin Khoshnood, a supporter of the son of the last Shah of Iran , maintains that the...
Israeli opposition leaders have reacted to the ceasefire between Iran and the US with fury, slamming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for failing to achieve regime change in Tehran. Iran and the US agreed to...
Agentic AI workloads are reshaping the compute requirements of modern data center infrastructure by shifting performance bottlenecks from GPU-centric inference to CPU-heavy orchestration and workflow management. Traditional AI inference pipelines relied primarily on GPUs performing a single forward pass, where...
Israel launched a sweeping wave of at least 100 airstrikes across Beirut and the rest of Lebanon on Wednesday afternoon, shattering hopes that the ceasefire in the region would allow displaced families in Lebanon to return home quickly. Dozens were...
Arab states have made progress in establishing a MENA transport corridor, spurred on by the ongoing crisis in the Strait of Hormuz . Syria, Jordan and Turkey signed a memorandum of understanding on Tuesday that sets out a...
BEIRUT, (PIC) Hundreds of people were feared dead and injured Wednesday when the Israeli occupation army struck more than 100 sites “within 10 minutes” across Lebanon, including crowded commercial and residential areas in Beirut. The massive attacks, which disregarded the US-Iran ceasefire,...
More than two years after the start of the war between Israel and Hamas on October 7, 2023, Gaza remains caught between destruction and diplomacy. Ceasefire agreements reached in late 2025 reduced the intensity of the conflicts but failed to...
In Sbeïtla, in Tunisia’s center-west, a mother lives by the silence of a phone that no longer rings. Her son, Aymen, had left for Russia to study business administration. He had a side job to support himself. Then came the...
A fire contractor that notified the government about deactivating Wang Fuk Court ‘s fire safety systems did so despite never conducting inspections at the estate, the firm’s director has said. Wang Fuk Court residential buildings after the fire. Photo:...
US President Donald Trump's two-week ceasefire with Iran is unlikely to provide immediate relief to the global aviation industry as it reels from its worst crisis in years, executives said on Wednesday, even as airline shares rallied after...
By Larry C.JOHNSON Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Iran’s air defense system succeeded on Friday, April 3, in downing a US F-15E over Iran. There is some dispute and confusion...
Yesterday, Tuesday, 7 April, marked the second anniversary of the death of prisoner Walid Daqqa (Abu Milad), who died in Israeli prisons after 38 years of detention and intellectual and political struggle. This anniversary comes as Israeli...
The Citizen Lab submitted recommendations to the UN Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries calling for states to stop relying on the private sector for digital operations. The authors note that because accountability mechanisms are lacking, the...
By Kit KLARENBERG Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Ahmed al-Sharaa’s Downing Street visit offered him a reunion with the British intel operatives who groomed the former Al Qaeda warlord to become president...
Senior researcher Ksenia Ermoshina spoke to the New York Times about how Russians may start acquiescing to the limits imposed by state censorship technology. As Russian authorities block apps and websites, sometimes even turning off mobile internet,...
The announcement of a two-week ceasefire between the US, Israel , and Iran early on Wednesday saw all parties claim victory; however, on social media, there appeared to be another winner. Boosted by their country's role in brokering...
President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday welcomed home two French nationals released after three and a half years in detention in Iran , calling their return "the end of a terrible ordeal." Cecile Kohler, 41, and Jacques Paris, 72, had been...
Arab states have broadly welcomed the ceasefire between Iran and the US, framing it as a first step towards de-escalation while urging a permanent end to the war. The two-week truce, announced early on Wednesday, has drawn cautious support...
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