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Elly Van Reusel remembers scratching a list of medical supplies into the metal wall as she tried to keep note of everything her comrades needed. The containers aboard the Israeli military ship were hot during the day, and no one...

Society

The death toll from a giant explosion at a fireworks factory in central China rose to 26, with 61 more injured, officials said Tuesday. Screenshot of social media footage showing continuous explosions accompanied by a vast cloud of smoke rising...

China, Community & Education, AFP

The US-Iran war is exposing a hard truth: Asia is a tiered system of energy access, where wealth determines resilience. Investors have for years treated Asia as a single growth engine. Capital flowed into the region on the assumption that,...

Opinion, Asia Energy Imports, Asia Energy Security

Hadi Ali Chatha (left) and Imaan Hazir Mazari (right) in the front seat, taking Asad Toor (at the back on the left) home after his release from Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail, on March 17, 2024. Credit: Asad Toor By Zofeen Ebrahim KARACHI,...

Active Citizens, Asia-Pacific, Crime & Justice

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) carried out demolitions and displaced families in Jerusalem today, Monday, and in recent days under the pretext of unlicensed construction. According to media sources, the Israeli municipality forced Mohamed Abu Tair last Sunday to...

News, Demolition policy, Israeli violations

A racism scandal has erupted in Norway after a political adviser linked to the country’s right-wing Progress Party (FRP) said people of Pakistani background "should preferably not" have more children, triggering widespread backlash and putting party leader Sylvi...

World

By Joy Chiang Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te said Tuesday the democratic island has the “right to engage with the world”, after he returned from a trip to Africa that Taipei has accused Beijing of trying to derail. Taiwan President Lai...

Defence & Foreign Policy, Taiwan, AFP

NABLUS, (PIC) In Palestine, stories do not need exaggeration to be painful. It is enough for a life to start in the same moment that death takes another, for a story unlike any other to be written. Yaman came into the world...

Zionist Terrorism, IOF crimes, Israeli terrorism

Hong Kong authorities have proposed tightening the regulation of claw machine shops by implementing a licensing regime to curb addiction risks. A claw machine in Hong Kong. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. The Home and Youth Affairs Bureau’s proposal, included in a...

Community & Education, Environment & Health, Hong Kong

On the sidelines of the UN Youth Forum, four climate leaders from across the continent and diaspora unite to call for stronger protection of Africa’s environment and vital resources. Sibusiso Mazomba (far left), member of the UN Secretary-General’s Youth Advisory...

Africa, Climate Change, Environment

The US Army’s fast-tracked anti-ship missile could fill a key Pacific gap, but its deterrent value will hinge on production capacity, launcher survivability and China’s continued preference for coercion over invasion in Taiwan. Naval News reports the US Army is...

Military, Balikatan, Balikatan Exercises 2026

The level of competence of current Western European leaders leaves much to be desired. Their political course does not correspond to today’s reality and is therefore coming in for increasing criticism. It is telling that retired European statesmen are increasingly...

Europe, Politics, EU

I have had the rare privilege of conducting on-the-ground equity research in both Korea and Taiwan at different stages of my career. They are often spoken in the same breath, partly because of their regional proximity and parallel growth trajectories,...

Technology, Block 1, GenInnov

Two months after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on February 28, a tense standoff prevails. There is no active warfare, but no signs of a diplomatic breakthrough either. The war is a culmination of a 47-year trajectory which set...

Iran, Islamic-republic, Israel

Recent reports revealed that the Trump administration has been quietly pursuing normalization of ties with Eritrea, a small nation in the Horn of Africa with a 700-mile coastline on the Red Sea, sitting directly opposite Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen at...

Iran-war, Strait-of-hormuz, Red-sea

In December 1982, South African Rodney Wilkinson walked four bombs into Koeberg power station – the crown jewel of the apartheid state – pulled the pins and then left on his bicycle. How did he do it? At 21, Rodney Wilkinson...

South Africa, ANC (African National Congress), Nuclear power

By: Salman Rafi Sheikh - - - - Photo by Anthony Kwan via AP Images At a moment when Washington is urging Beijing to step up as a global crisis manager, China is doing something far more unsettling: nothing....

Mass deception is a cornerstone of the state’s ability to maintain total control. One of the main methods used by government to convince the population of their legitimacy is the tool of propaganda. This is nothing new, and states throughout...

Uncategorized

Islam Times - The adoption of an asymmetric naval warfare strategy in the conflict between Iran and the United States must be understood as a “rational strategic choice under unequal conditions.” Rather than striving to match the superior power, this...

Iran

China has invoked a five-year-old legal instrument for the first time to block the enforcement of United States sanctions on five mainland “teapot” oil refiners, including the newly sanctioned Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refinery, which was accused of buying Iranian crude...

China, Bank of Kunlun, Block 2

While the US military has had many achievements in the Iran conflict, it’s been far from cost free. Iran conducted extensive retaliatory strikes targeting high-value US bases. According to international reports and satellite data, the damage to aircraft, radar, and...

Middle East, AWACS Aircraft, Block 2

From sun-drenched deserts to equatorial highlands, a growing number of countries now generate over 10%—and in some cases nearly 30%—of their electricity from solar power. The unlikely leader is Lebanon—a nation in the throes of state collapse. With its national...

INFOGRAPHICS, Australia, Bulgaria

Credit: UN Photo/Manuel Elías By Samuel King BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 4 2026 (IPS) In January, the government of Algeria succeeded in locking two civil society groups out of access to the United Nations (UN). It raised questions at the UN...

Active Citizens, Civil Society, Crime & Justice

By Patrick LAWRENCE Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The U.S. president has lost the war he started with Iran — or at the very least he has no chance of winning it...

Editor's Choice, Donald Trump, Establishment

By Stephanie SY Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su At a moment when there’s a lot of political attention around questions of affordability, rising health care costs are a growing concern for many...

Editor's Choice, Crisis, Medicine

Across much of the democratic world, voters have turned on governing parties with unusual force. In the United Kingdom, the Conservatives collapsed after years in power. In Argentina, voters elevated Javier Milei, a candidate who ran...

Democracy & Governance, contempt, Corruption

Israeli forces are still continuing with incursions into Syrian territory , amid an escalation in Israeli violations and raids in the southern part of the country. On Monday, three Israeli military vehicles entered the Wadi al-Raqad area in western Daraa...

MENA

At the recent RISC-V Now event hosted by Andes, the discussion underscored the fact that RISC-V is no longer just about instruction set architecture advantages or customizable cores. The real focus has moved up the stack to system-level design. This...

AI, Arteris, IP

Late last month, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) made headlines by announcing its decision to leave the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and OPEC+. On 1 May, the UAE officially left both, marking a significant shake-up for the...

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