On 26 June 2026, groups search through rubble in the state of La Guaira, Venezuela, after two major earthquakes on 24 June caused homes and buildings to collapse. Thousands remain unaccounted for, and many may still be searching for loved...
USS Boxer During my interview the other night with Sulaiman I reacted with astonishment and skepticism to the CENTCOM announcement that the USS Boxer was being sent to the Sea of Oman. It deployed in early March and was widely...
Protests in Seoul have now been under way for more than twenty days; the head of the Central Election Commission has resigned and a criminal case has been opened against him; President Lee Jae Myung’s approval rating, once triumphant, has...
Hong Kong police have arrested 125 people in a crackdown on a triad group accused of monopolising the food takeaway business for construction workers and operating illegal gambling dens. A construction site. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. Police said on...
By Gabriele Koehler and Catherine Mbengue MUNICH / BRUSSELS , Jul 7 2026 (IPS) The 2030 agenda cum SDGs are due to be completed in 2030, with negotiations towards a follow-up agenda to begin formally at the UN General Assembly...
On June 16, the Pentagon announced that U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) would revert to its 1947 name, U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM). U.S. officials called it a restoration of "deep historical roots" and insisted that the command's area of responsibility, stretching...
In the iconic final sequence of The Godfather, Michael Corleone eliminated his rivals one by one while his son was being baptized. The scene stands as one of cinema’s most compelling depictions of power and the consolidation of control, and...
The outbreak of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz catalyzed an energy market shock that reverberated globally, creating “the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market,” according to the...
Thunderstorms and strong winds have killed at least eight people and injured 275 in central China, state media said Tuesday, as heavy rains and flooding left two more dead in the south. An aerial view shows flooding in Pingshan village...
By: Tita C. Valderama - - - - The Philippine Senate, sitting as an impeachment court, opened Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial on Monday in what could become the country’s most consequential constitutional proceeding since the conviction of former...
Zalando is slashing 2,700 jobs at its Erfurt logistics hub to boost profits—and the Verdi union bureaucracy is helping the company do it by haggling over severance pay instead of fighting to keep the facility open. Workers must seize control...
Pakistan has quietly begun mediating between Libya's rival eastern and western power centres , news agency Reuters reports- citing two Pakistani sources- in a previously unreported Pakistani effort that would further raise its diplomatic profile if it...
The UN aid chief held a phone call Monday with Sudan's RSF paramilitary leader on hostilities around El-Obeid, and stressed the need for sustained humanitarian access to the city, his agency said. Tom Fletcher spoke to Mohamed Hamdan Daglo,...
More than 13 hectares of protected wetlands in Hong Kong’s sprawling Northern Metropolis development plan have been damaged by “industrial-scale” shrimp farming, NGO Greenpeace has found. Large swathes of aquaculture farms inside a protected wetland area in Hong Kong’s Northern...
Morocco 's counterterrorism agency said on Monday it had foiled attack plots targeting sensitive sites and public security by a cell loyal to Islamic State's affiliate in the Sahel . Ten suspects were arrested in coordinated operations in the cities...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government has threatened to fight a Supreme Court order regarding a media regulator, reigniting a judicial dispute that shook Israel in the months leading up to Hamas' October 7, 2023 attack . The decision comes ahead...
A Syrian ex-general and a former police officer were handed eight-year jail sentences by a Viennese court on Monday for torturing opponents of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad . The trial is the latest to see suspects from the Syrian civil...
Lebanese state media said an Israeli strike on a car in the country's south on Monday killed four people, including three women, despite a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah . Lebanon's official National News Agency (NNA) said a...
The Israeli parliament approved a bill in its first reading on Monday to set up a commission of inquiry into the security failings that led to the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 . "The purpose of the proposed law...
NEW YORK, (PIC) The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Monday called on Israel to immediately release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, describing his detention as “arbitrary.” In a statement, the UNHRC said Israel’s...
A Gaza doctor was abducted and has been held captive in an Israeli dungeon for more than 550 days, for the crime of trying to save Palestinians caught up in the Israeli slaughter. James Smith is a lecturer in Humanitarian Policy...
The rise of ‘Pax Americana’. Read part 1 of this series, on the American revolution, here . Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog President Monroe,...
‘In Serbia, the connivance between politicians and multinational capital has fed a sustained protest movement. Current protests in Albania, resisting a luxury development project backed by Jared Kushner, target a similar cronyish capitalism.’ In Jacobin . Read the article...
What Marx thought about the role of the individual in history. Norman Solomon is the national director of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. The paperback edition of his latest book, War Made Invisible: How America...
The global football community has found itself on the brink of a major split over behind-the-scenes decisions affecting one of the fundamental principles of the disciplinary regulations. UEFA Accuses FIFA of Crossing a Red Line A controversy has erupted at the...
Israel is only at the beginning of a "revolution in settlement" building, far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Monday, declaring that the government's expansionist ambitions would extend beyond the occupied West Bank to the Naqab and Galilee. "I...
GENEVA, (PIC) The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has warned that Israeli authorities are turning the Gaza Strip into a “genocidal ghetto,” imposing a tragic reality whose severity and intensity surpass that of the infamous Srebrenica enclave. “Israel is legitimizing and enforcing a...
On July 6, 1976, the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 21 lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome carrying commander Boris Volynov and flight engineer Vitaly Zholobov. Officially, the crew was embarking on a 60-day mission aboard the Salyut 5 orbital station. Behind...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party has become ideologically inseparable from its far-right coalition partner Otzma Yehudit, Israeli and Palestinian politicians and analysts told The New Arab , after a Likud minister publicly acknowledged there were...
French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Damascus on Monday for the first visit by a Western European head of state since Syria's new authorities took power in 2024. Macron, who will depart on Tuesday, will advocate for "a free,...
As a funeral ceremony for Iran’s slain Supreme Leader began over the weekend, the Islamic Republic appeared to use an unusual form of diplomatic signalling through Qur’anic recitation. Delegations from across the region and beyond travelled to Tehran to...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Palestine Center for Prisoners’ Studies (PCPS) has affirmed that 25 Palestinian prisoners have been held continuously in Israeli jails for more than 25 years. In a statement released on Monday, PCPS said that eight of these detainees were arrested...
Islam Times - Maybe the greatest thing a scholar can hope for is that their teachings outlive them, to have students of religious seminaries and seekers of knowledge associate your name with the ideas they research, or have laypeople see...
The city of El Obeid faces catastrophe. Governments are shirking their duty to challenge all those sustaining this war “This is not a drill. It is a red alert,” said the UN rights chief, Volker Türk, on Friday. He was warning...
Islam Times - Martyr Ayatollah Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei is best remembered as the Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the leader who preserved the legacy of the Islamic Revolution founded by Imam Khomeini and strengthened the institutions of...
In the early 1980s, when computer-aided engineering (CAE), the precursor to modern electronic design automation (EDA), was just taking shape, my professional trajectory shifted in a way that would prove foundational. I joined Teradyne, the Boston-based leader in automated test...
Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim that Christian villages in southern Lebanon had asked to be annexed by Israel has been emphatically rejected by Lebanese Christian leaders, who accused the Israeli prime minister of peddling a dangerous falsehood designed to inflame sectarian tensions...
BEIRUT, (PIC) Four civilians, including three women, were killed Monday in an Israeli airstrike targeting a vehicle in the southern Lebanese town of Nabatieh al-Fawqa. According to the National News Agency, Esperanza Ghandour, the principal of “Youssef Shamoun” School in Nabatieh al‑Fawqa,...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday urged the United States not to sell its F-35 fighter jets or components to Turkey, arguing it would "upset the power balance" in the region. US President Donald Trump travels later...
After 20 years ruling over the Gaza Strip, Hamas dissolved its government on Monday, the movement announced in a statement . The head of Hamas’s government emergency committee and the government follow up committee is stepping down, and the emergency...
The Israeli government blocked the creation of a specialist prosecution unit designed to dismantle organised crime networks in Palestinian communities inside Israel , reigniting long-standing accusations that successive governments have failed to seriously confront spiralling violence...
Israel’s continued imprisonment of prominent Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu Safiya is "political, not legal" and keeping him behind bars despite mounting evidence of torture brings him "closer to death", Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) has told...
A jury has acquitted an activist of violent disorder at an Israeli-owned arms factory targeted by Palestine Action in August 2024. William Plastow, 35, was acquitted on Monday at the Old Bailey due to what presiding Judge Patrick Field said was...
Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) appear to be preparing a major offensive on North Kordofan’s capital of El-Obeid . In recent weeks, they have reportedly amassed troops around the strategic city, which links southern and western Sudan with...
GAZA, (PIC) The announcement of the resignation of the head of the Government Work Follow-up Committee in the Gaza Strip, and the dissolution of the government emergency committee, constitutes a political and administrative development that goes beyond the procedural dimension to...
In the heart of historic Philadelphia, community activists have spent more than a year fighting to preserve Black history against Trump administration attempts to rewrite it. On June 18, a federal appeals court sided with...
Elon Musk became — at least temporarily — the world’s first trillionaire on June 12 after his space, telecommunications and AI company SpaceX had the largest initial public offering in history. Initially priced at $135 per share...
- - - - Photo by Adrian Fleur on Unsplash I’ll be the first to admit that the United States is not perfect now, nor has it ever been. Nothing created by man ever will be. I...
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