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More than 6 in 10 Americans now say President Donald Trump’s war in Iran was a “mistake,” according to a poll out Friday from the Washington Post, ABC News and Ipsos. Within two months, the war – which has inflicted thousands...

Middle East, Block 2, Donald Trump

Have you heard that the assassination attempt last weekend was faked? Whatever your brand of media, you probably did. This latest version of the “ Trump arranges fake assassination attempt to become more popular” theory goes something like this:...

Opinion, TD Original, conspiracy theory

As a gentle breeze sweeps across the Greek island of Syros, a giant Palestinian flag adorning the docked sailboat begins to stir. Activists here are busy at work, stocking up supplies and tightening the ropes ahead of what is meant...

Society

By External Source May 1 2026 (IPS) On May 3rd, the world marks World Press Freedom Day – a United Nations observance dedicated to the fundamental principles of press freedom. First proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1993, the day...

Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Global

Subscribe to our Lens on Sudan newsletter here . A surge in violence over the past week has swept through the village belt of North Darfur’s Tina locality and nearby areas, as abuses by Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters against...

2023 Sudan War, Sudan Nashra

A single bug on a full-chip SoC can pull engineers off roadmap work for days or even weeks. It involves massive waveforms, thousands of files of RTL and UVM, and dense specs that aren’t always perfect. Finding these bugs have...

Bronco AI, EDA, bronco ai

Arne Slot said Mohamed Salah "deserves a big send-off", confirming he expected the departing superstar to return from injury before the season is over. The Egypt forward, who will leave Anfield at the end of the campaign, was forced off in...

Sports

Former One Direction singer Zayn Malik’s family are encouraging his fans to donate to Palestine instead of giving flowers, as the singer recovers in hospital from a reported heart condition. The British-Pakistani singer pulled out of several...

World

Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza are living with untreated complex fractures more than two years into Israel’s genocidal war on the enclave , as a collapsed healthcare system and restrictions on travel leave many unable to complete...

MENA

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted an AI-generated video to social media on Wednesday of political rivals Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett transforming into Palestinian Knesset members, in an attack on the coalition formed...

MENA

The sole suspect in the Golders Green stabbings on Wednesday had left a mental health hospital just days before the attacks, according to reports. Channel 4 News reported that the suspected attacker, British national Essa Suleiman, had...

MENA

Al-Qaeda-linked insurgents have called on Malians to rise up against the military-led government and transition to Sharia law, as multiple security sources said the group had set up checkpoints around the capital and seized a northern town. The latest...

World

When news of the Epstein files first broke , I watched it unfold on a television I do not own, in a room I cannot leave, on a TV channel I did not choose. The framing I received about Jeffrey...

Opinion, fox news, jeffrey epstein

A top Israeli general has warned that rising Jewish settler violence in the occupied West Bank could trigger a violent Palestinian uprising. Major General Avi Bluth, head of the Israeli military's Central Command, described the phenomenon...

MENA

Members of the Solidarity Across Land Trades (SALT) trade union this week launched a campaign urging for the full boycott of companies linked with Israel , and urging workers to take action against organisations who they say benefit from...

World

The extension of the ceasefire between the United States and Iran, reached on 8 April 2026 through Pakistani mediation and renewed on 22 April, reflects more than a temporary diplomatic adjustment to include a wider regional shift and...

Perspectives

As the smoke from intensified Middle East conflicts shrouds the Strait of Hormuz in spring 2026, the global economy finds itself teetering on a precarious edge. With the artery that carries about 20 percent of the world’s crude oil...

Labor, Trade, & Finance, China, economy

Across Mali, jihadis are seizing territory, encircling the capital, and pushing a fragile regime toward collapse. Backed by a sprawling network and in an effort years in the making, Al Qaeda’s Sahel affiliate has launched its most ambitious offensive yet—one...

Generation Jihad, Long War Journal, FLA

- - - - Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash Tomorrow will mark one week since the latest assassination attempt against President Donald Trump transpired. As I noted on Monday, that was largely driven by the left’s...

The following is published in partnership with Project Censored . President Donald Trump came back to the White House and picked up right where he left off, insulting and attacking the press on an almost daily basis, suing...

Activism, Column, Courts & Law

This story was originally published by High Country News . High atop a plateau in northern New Mexico , Los Alamos National Laboratory is facing its biggest expansion since the World War II-era Manhattan Project, the top-secret government effort...

Environment, Military, News

A camp hosting Iranian Kurdish opposition members and their families in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq has been struck by drones, in what local officials say is the latest in a series of cross-border attacks blamed on...

MENA

The cost of sending some aid to Sudan - the world's largest displacement crisis - has more than doubled since the Iran war disrupted shipping, pushing up transport costs and delaying deliveries, the U.N. refugee agency said on...

MENA

Israeli forces on Thursday chased, assaulted, and detained a Palestinian child identified as Mahdi al-Arabi, who has Down syndrome. In footage that has since been widely circulated on social media, four armed Israeli soldiers can be seen chasing...

MENA

Israel received 6,500 tons of military equipment from the United States over a 24-hour period, the Israeli Defence Ministry announced on Thursday. The shipments, which included thousands of ground and air munitions, light armoured utility vehicles, and military trucks,...

MENA

The U.S. Navy is ramping up its AI capabilities to hunt for Iranian mines in the Strait of Hormuz , one of the world's most critical shipping lanes, a recently awarded contract shows. President Donald Trump has said the U.S....

MENA

As a fragile US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon approaches its 17 May deadline, uncertainty is mounting over what comes next. Agreed in mid-April and extended to allow negotiations, the truce has been repeatedly violated, with continued Israeli strikes and...

The Brief in

Ilyas Abu Safiya, the son of renowned Palestinian doctor Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, is calling for his father's release after an Israeli court extended his detention as friends, family and supporters worry for his health. "We cry, we suffer,...

MENA

L.C. leads efforts in design enablement, ensuring that the company can meet the diverse and evolving requirements of its global customer base. Prior to this, he headed the Design and Technology Platform organization starting in 2018. Since joining TSMC in 2000,...

Events, Foundries, TSMC

Amidst rapidly evolving global geopolitics in 2026, Pakistan faces a pivotal moment to secure BRICS membership as a strategic economic necessity to avoid the high costs of exclusion from an increasingly influential bloc. Shifting Geopolitics and Pakistan’s Diplomatic Resurgence In...

Locations, Pakistan, Politics

Thousands of cities and towns across the US will be holding May Day rallies on Friday amid high inflation and record-low poll numbers for US President Donald Trump. On 1 May, International Workers Day, millions of Americans have pledged to ditch...

World

Some lawmakers have grown so alarmed by the Trump administration’s actions in Latin America that they are beginning to accuse the administration of gangsterism. Representative Stephen Lynch (D-MA) saw the possibility of gangsterism at the start of the second Trump administration...

War & Peace, Cuba, gangsterism

Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei , survived a strike on the country’s leadership compound in Tehran after leaving the building minutes before it was hit, a senior official said on Friday, as authorities sought to counter rumours...

MENA

Pakistan is betting on Hangor-class submarines to sharpen its undersea edge as its deterrent increasingly rests on deepening military integration with China rather than any single platform. Last month, multiple media sources announced the commissioning of Pakistan’s first Chinese-built Hangor-class...

Military, Block 3, China-Pakistan Deense

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Tens of thousands of worshipers performed Friday prayer at the Aqsa Mosque despite measures imposed by Israeli forces at military checkpoints, throughout the streets of Occupied Jerusalem, and around the Old City and the Mosque compound. According to media...

News, Aqsa Mosque, Occupied Jerusalem

Venezuela signed deals with US companies on Thursday in a bid to boost oil and gas production, the latest sign of thawing relations after Washington deposed leftist leader Nicolas Maduro. The South American nation is currently led by interim...

Economy

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Jerusalem enters the month of May amidst a state of anticipation tinged with caution, with expectations of escalating tension in the vicinity of al-Aqsa Mosque during three consecutive Fridays, coinciding with Israeli religious and national occasions, amidst warnings...

Jerusalem, Aqsa Mosque, Occupied Jerusalem

By Giuseppe MASALA Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Analyzing the combined effect emerging from the four activities listed above undertaken by Europe (drone-ization, militarization, privateer war in the Baltic, and nuclearization), it...

Editor's Choice, Baltic Sea, Conflict

AL-KHALIL, (PIC) Settler violence has intensified in the Masafer Yatta area south of al-Khalil, with a series of coordinated attacks targeting Palestinian property, farmland, and religious sites, reflecting a broader escalation across the West Bank. According to local sources, armed settlers raided...

News, al-Khalil, settler attacks

Steel scrap has become an increasingly strategic resource for countries and their steelmakers as a key input for emissions reductions. India, the world’s second largest steel producer, has set ambitious targets to double the share of scrap use in its...

Business, Carbon emissions, Industry
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