The pro-democracy Hong Kong Professional Teachers’ Union (HKPTU) has officially dissolved – nearly five years after it announced steps to disband . The Registry of Trade Unions gazetted on Friday that the HKPTU – the city’s largest teachers’ union –...
- - - - Wang Qishan. AP Photo The investigation of a deputy director of the National Financial Regulatory Administration raises the question whether the trackers are circling his former boss, China’s former anti-corruption czar Wang Qishan, 77. Wang was...
A pro-establishment Hong Kong politician has faced renewed scrutiny after a Wang Fuk Court resident slammed a “shady” tendering process for a controversial renovation project at the fire-hit Tai Po housing estate. Tai Po South councillor Peggy Wong,...
Wars often begin with confidence in distance — through precision strikes, remote control and minimal personnel exposure. It is a familiar American instinct, visible from the early days of the Gulf War to the opening phases of the campaign against ISIS. Air power...
European powers on Thursday accused Russia of helping Iran target US forces in the Middle East war and said they would raise the issue with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a meeting of G7 foreign ministers...
Pakistan, along with Türkiye and Egypt, is mediating between the United States and Iran to stop the war. However, analysts see these efforts with skepticism due to the past record. Breakdown of Trust Amid Conflicting Narratives As per reports from...
The World Bank Group said on Thursday it will support client governments as they deal with challenges caused by the Middle East conflict, including increases in energy costs, by leveraging fast-disbursing policy financing instruments. The development lender said in a...
Israel’s defense minister said in a statement this week that Israeli forces are working to implement the “Rafah and Beit Hanoun model” in southern Lebanon, sparking fears that Israel is planning to flatten entire towns in an attempt to defeat...
A new poll released Wednesday found that, although 63% of Republicans support airstrikes against Iranian military targets, only 20% are in favor of deploying U.S. troops. That’s only about 2 in 10 Republicans in favor of boots on the ground. Again,...
Silicon Valley’s tech titans descended on Washington this week for the Hill and Valley Forum, an all-day event created to bridge the gap between the government and the tech industry. Startup executives, billionaire investors, and government officials alike waited in lines...
We are publishing here the remarks by Johannes Stern introducing the book presentation Where Is America Going? Fascism or Socialism with David North at Humboldt University in Berlin. David North’s lecture at Humboldt University, titled “American Imperialism and the Subjugation...
Iran's security forces are recruiting children as young as 12 to man checkpoints and perform other duties during the war in the capital, a Revolutionary Guards official told state TV on Thursday. Checkpoints have sprung up all around Tehran...
Turkey kept their hopes of a first World Cup appearance since 2002 alive as Ferdi Kadioglu scored a second-half winner in a 1-0 victory over Romania in their play-off semi-final on Thursday. Vincenzo Montella's Turkey will face either...
Iran has banned its sports teams from traveling to countries it considers "hostile" Iranian state TV reported on Thursday ahead of Tractor FC's scheduled football game in Saudi Arabia. The ban announced by Iran’s Ministry of Sports in Tehran...
BETHLEHEM, (PIC) A Palestinian young man succumbed to his wounds after being shot by an armed settler on Thursday evening in the Harmala area east of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. Local and medical sources reported that the young man, Mohamed...
Republicans at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference largely rallied behind US strikes on Iran on Thursday, backing President Donald Trump on an issue that has dented his wider approval ratings and could jeopardise the party's prospects in...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Jerusalemite activists have urged their compatriots to rally in large numbers at the nearest access points outside the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem and to perform their Friday prayers there. They called on Muslim worshipers to intensify their presence...
Algeria and Spain will boost their "strategic" energy partnership at a time when Algiers has been Spain's leading gas supplier for three years, the Spanish foreign minister said on Thursday. Beginning a two-day visit and with no end in sight...
US President Ronald Reagan once declared that “Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men.” While the ideological descendants of President Reagan love to incessantly describe Iran as the “#1 State Sponsor of Terrorism,” the US and its...
In the Western imagination, Taiwan is cast almost exclusively as a flourishing democracy under siege by a totalitarian neighbor, a moral clarity that fuels calls for military defense and ideological solidarity. Sulmaan Wasif Khan’s magisterial new history, The Struggle for...
War is the most horrific series of events upon which any government can engage. It is systematic, industrialized, indiscriminate killing. It kills innocent adults and little girls. It often ruins the post-war lives of the killers. It is young men...
A leader of a now-defunct Hong Kong group that held annual vigils to commemorate the Tiananmen crackdown has said it had concerns that the national security law could be used for “political suppression.” Alliance leaders (second from right to left)...
Lebanon said it would complain to the United Nations Security Council over Israeli assaults , ongoing since early March amid the US-Israeli war on Iran. In a sign of divisions, Lebanese ministers from Hezbollah and its ally Amal boycotted a...
US President Donald Trump on Thursday pushed back his deadline for strikes on Iran's energy assets to 6 April, saying it was at Tehran's request and that talks were "going very well". Trump had denied earlier that he was desperate...
On this week’s MintCast podcast, MintPress director Mnar Adley is joined by Robert Inlakesh, a staff writer at MintPress and political analyst specializing in Middle East geopolitics — they discuss Hezbolla’s military wins against Israel. As Israel intensifies its military...
As a result of military action by the US and Israel against Iran since February 28, the Strait of Hormuz – a vital choke-point between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman — has been effectively closed to most...
Shadowy pro-Israel group Terror Alarm is crowdfunding a $1 million bounty for the capture of a well-known Iranian academic and media personality – and Twitter is refusing to remove it. But who are Terror Alarm? MintPress traces the company back...
Pakistan's military resumed operations against Afghanistan after a temporary pause, Pakistan's foreign ministry said on Thursday, dashing hopes of a permanent ceasefire. Pakistan and Afghanistan's worst fighting in years erupted last month , claiming heavy human losses on...
Against a backdrop of mounting regional instability, political and military developments in the MENA are now inseparable from the legal considerations surrounding them. Indeed, when sovereign states face a large-scale armed attack, they have a legal right to self-defence. This is...
Is the Iran war the starting gun on a multipolar world? Cross-posted from Michae l Hudson’s blog NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, March 19, 2026, and our dear friends, Richard Wolf and Michael Hudson, are here with us....
Iran doesn’t have to strike a knockout blow, it just has to endure and continue to place high costs on its enemy, something it is achieving with aplomb so far. Bamo Nouri, honorary Research Fellow, Department of International Politics, City...
The Iran war has proved that oil & gas markets are too volatile for the global economy to rely on, with a shift to renewables likely to be the long term outcome of the war, and one that will further...
Blue Nile Cascade project: An ‘East African energy hub’ or a catalyst for ‘direct confrontation’ on the Nile Fulfilling a decades-long plan to transform Ethiopia into a regional hydropower hub, the country’s Water and Energy Ministry announced this week it...
Lebanon's Hezbollah on Thursday again denied it had any presence in Kuwait, a day after the Gulf country announced more arrests of people allegedly linked to the Iran-backed group. "For the third time, Hezbollah reiterates its complete denial of...
Iran says more than a million troops and fighters have been mobilised to counter a possible US ground invasion , claiming that masses of people have come forward requesting to take part in defending the country Iranian authorities claimed...
As the consensus on climate action frays, the world needs to stop waiting for negotiations and start implementing what has already been agreed. That is according to the Brazilian diplomat André Corrêa do Lago. The president of COP30 in Brazil last...
Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s parliament speaker, has emerged as the highest-profile political figure in Tehran The profound significance of the two successive Iranian missile strikes on Dimona nuclear research centre, the most heavily guarded site in the whole of Israel, is...
Doha has openly begun speaking about the need to coexist with Tehran, placing the survival of its national economy above the political ambitions of the United States. A representative of Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Majed Al-Ansari, stated during a weekly...
Officials from Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states have responded cautiously to the prospect of an Iran-Israel-US ceasefire , as the war launched by Israel and the US against Iran which began on 28 February continues to engulf the Middle...
Such has been the intensity of events in the Persian Gulf, and the relentlessness of the media coverage, that the Iran war can feel older than it is. In fact, some of the oil tankers that left the Middle East...
The World Health Organisation is finding other routes to deliver emergency medical supplies from its Dubai hub to crises such as Lebanon via long overland journeys, an official said, but rising fuel costs could hamper shipments if the...
Ugand a’s military chief General Muhoozi Kainerugaba expressed solidarity with Israel in a barrage of posts on X, suggesting the East African country could enter the Iran war "on the side of Israel". "We want the war in the Middle East...
Economist Mikhail Khazin has proposed replacing protocol politeness with a regime of strict defense. Speaking on Govorit Moskva, he outlined a plan to halt all contacts with Western elites until they fully lift sanctions pressure. The logic is simple: no...
As semiconductor technology advances into increasingly complex and expensive process nodes, the economic and technical risks associated with ASIC design have grown dramatically. At advanced nodes such as Intel 18A, the cost of a single design error can escalate into...
GAZA, (PIC) Two people were injured on Thursday after a wall collapsed onto tents sheltering displaced families near central Gaza City, amid heavy rains and strong winds brought on by the low‑pressure weather system affecting the region. Gaza’s civil defense service reported...
GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 72,267 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Thursday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...
Had I not read Angus Deaton’s Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality , I would not have learned that one of the most devastating blows to the economics profession was delivered by the film...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Saudi Arabia on Thursday for an unannounced visit, as the war in Iran spurs interest among Gulf countries in Ukrainian arms technology. The two countries are set to sign an agreement on "security...
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