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Civil society groups have slammed Prime Minister Keir Starmer's threat to crack down on pro-Palestinian protests, describing it as an attack on democratic rights and warning against conflating British Jews with the actions of the Israeli government. Starmer told...

World

Egyptian singer Hany Shaker, one of the Middle East’s most famed music icons, passed away at 74 on Sunday after battling a long illness. The musician died at a hospital in Paris where he was undergoing medical treatment. His death followed...

Offbeat

Egyptian singer Hany Shaker, one of the Middle East’s most famed music icons, passed away at 74 on Sunday after battling a long illness. The musician died at a hospital in Paris where he was undergoing medical treatment. His death followed...

Offbeat

GAZA, (PIC) A Palestinian child was martyred on Sunday morning, succumbing to shrapnel wounds following an Israeli attack in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip. According to local sources, an Israeli drone dropped a bomb in the Qizan Abu Rashwan area...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli ceasefire violations

Senior Israeli military officials are pushing to resume full-scale war on Gaza , arguing that current conditions are "the most suitable" to do so, according to reporting by Israeli Army Radio . In closed-door discussions, members of...

MENA

Sri Lankan police have arrested 37 Chinese nationals suspected of running a cyberscam centre in the capital Colombo, a spokesman said on Sunday, in the latest crackdown on foreign-run online fraud. A smartphone. Photo: freestocks, via Unsplash. The suspects, aged...

China, Law & Crime, AFP

NABLUS, (PIC) A Palestinian young man was martyred and others were wounded on Sunday when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened fire at them in the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank. According to local sources, Israeli forces opened fire...

News, Israeli crimes, Palestinian martyrs

Saudi Arabia, Russia and five other OPEC+ countries increased their oil production quota on Sunday in an expected move aimed at demonstrating continuity at the cartel after the shock withdrawal of the United Arab Emirates . The seven major producers...

Economy

Israeli forces killed a young Palestinian man during a military raid on the occupied West Bank city of Nablus on Sunday, amid an escalating wave of violence by the Israeli army and settlers . Soldiers stormed Nablus on...

MENA

Conditions placed by Washington on Iraqi prime minister-designate Ali al-Zaidi are expected to complicate his job in forming a new cabinet amid deep internal divisions , particularly in regard to Iran-backed militias. Zaidi’s appointment came after a months-long...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) Amid stalled reconstruction efforts and the continuing aftermath of war in Gaza, displaced Palestinians are resorting to primitive solutions to secure shelter, highlighting the depth of the humanitarian crisis and mounting living pressures. In the absence of any clear reconstruction...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli genocide

A paramilitary drone attack hit the family home of an army-aligned commander accused of atrocities, killing nine of his relatives, two sources within the militia he leads told AFP on Sunday. The sources said the strike, which occurred...

MENA

The Syrian army has begun to integrate brigades of Kurdish soldiers into its ranks, according to a senior military official. This comes several months after Syria's government reached an agreement with Kurdish authorities to gradually reunify the autonomous region...

MENA

ISTANBUL, (PIC) The Israeli occupation navy is making preparations to attack a new pro-Gaza flotilla expected to set sail soon from the town of Marmaris, Türkiye, heading to Gaza Strip in another attempt to challenge the blockade imposed on the war-ravaged...

News, Anti-siege journey, Gaza-bound flotilla

AL-KHALIL, (PIC) An Israeli armed settler has threatened a group of Palestinian children while they were playing football in the community of Khirbet Umm al-Kheir in Masafer Yatta, south of the occupied West Bank, in what officials describe as part of...

News, settler attacks, Settler violations

Respondents’ feelings about fighting for Ukraine were not as strong as their feelings about fighting for the United States or Israel. By Emma PALING Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Forty-four per cent...

Editor's Choice, Canada, Diplomacy

Israel’s extremist National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir celebrated his 50th birthday with a cake featuring a noose on it, in reference to a recent death penalty law targeting Palestinian captives. Videos online showed the ultranationalist at the...

MENA

Search and rescue operation launched after service members reported missing near south-western city of Tan Tan Two US service members are missing in south-western Morocco after taking part in annual multinational military exercises in the North African country, the...

US military, Morocco, Africa

A small boat carrying migrants trying to cross the English Channel ran aground on a beach in northern France, leaving two dead and 16 people injured, including three with serious burns, authorities said Sunday. The vessel, carrying 82 people,...

World

By Emma SALISBURY Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The Royal Navy is set to take a leading role in a multinational “ Hormuz Coalition ” to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and...

Editor's Choice, Middle East, Persian Gulf

Disputes between the Legislative and Judiciary are escalating. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The rejection by the Brazilian Senate of the nomination of Jorge Messias to the Supreme Federal Court marks a...

Americas, World, Brazil

The European Union will once again be under attack, and with it, this model of Europe that has now reached its end. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su On the offensive, yes, but...

Americas, Europe, World

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Around 8,000 Palestinian bodies are believed to remain trapped beneath the rubble of buildings in the Gaza Strip, where less than one percent of debris has been cleared following Israel’s two‑year genocidal war, according to a recent Israeli...

News, Gaza Strip, Missing citizens

Israel on Sunday approved a multi-billion-dollar deal to acquire two combat squadrons of fighter jets from the United States , with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying it would "reinforce" its air superiority. The purchase includes a squadron of F-35 multi-role...

MENA

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) When the question of who is the muezzin of al-Aqsa Mosque is raised, the intention is not merely to identify the name of a person who raises the call to prayer from the minarets of the blessed Mosque....

Jerusalem, Aqsa Mosque, Occupied Jerusalem

RAMALLAH, (PIC) A group of extremist Jewish settlers uprooted and destroyed at least 1,000 olive trees in the town of Turmus Ayya, northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, on Sunday morning. Abdullah Awad, a member of the Turmus Ayya municipal...

News, Olive trees, Settler crimes

Sudan ’s paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed at least five people in a drone attack that hit a civilian vehicle on the outskirts of Khartoum, a local Sudanese rights group said. The attack on Saturday morning...

MENA

The Israeli military issued new evacuation orders for 11 villages in south Lebanon on Sunday and continued its airstrikes across the war-battered region, despite a truce. Warnings were issued for towns and villages in the Nabatiyeh district, outside the security zone...

MENA

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit Rome and the Vatican this week, an Italian government source said Sunday, just weeks after a clash between Donald Trump and Pope Leo . Rubio, who is a Catholic, is expected to...

World

GAZA, (PIC) Hundreds of Palestinian workers demonstrated, on Saturday, in Khan Yunis city south of the Gaza Strip to demand their rights to work, food, and shelter, which the Israeli war of genocide deprived them of. This came in a march called...

News, Gaza workers, Israeli genocide

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) launched an arrest campaign in the West Bank on Sunday morning, raiding homes and kidnaping several Palestinian citizens. According to the Palestinian Prisoner Society, the IOF kidnaped two young men from their homes in...

News, Arrests, IOF raids

Two foreign activists from a Gaza-bound flotilla who were brought to Israel for interrogation will appear in court on Sunday, an Israeli rights group said. The flotilla of more than 50 vessels had set sail from France, Spain and...

MENA

Israel’s security cabinet is set to meet on Sunday to consider resuming the war on Gaza , the I sraeli Public Broadcasting Corporation reported, after the Israeli army killed three Palestinians in the enclave amid...

MENA

Whilst African countries have never imported so many solar panels from China, some are also developing their own production and assembly capabilities. Fifty countries recorded all-time highs in imports of Chinese solar panels in March 2026, whilst 60 others reached...

Business & Economy

Iranian authorities plan to turn a bombsite at a university in central Iran into a museum about the impact of US-Israeli strike s, an official said. "The current damaged site will be preserved as a war museum at the university...

MENA

Trump’s reported decision to withdraw 5,000 US troops from Germany is a curious symbolic gesture that has been greeted with alarm from many German politicians. The United States still maintains a robust military presence in Germany, with approximately 35,000–40,000 troops...

Larry C. Johnson

Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te on Saturday announced his arrival in Eswatini — Taipei’s only diplomatic ally in Africa — after an earlier trip was cancelled when several countries revoked overflight permits. This handout photo taken and released on May 2,...

Defence & Foreign Policy, Politics & Protest, Taiwan

US President Donald Trump said Saturday he was going to review a new Iranian peace proposal but cast doubt over its prospects, as a senior military officer in Tehran indicated renewed fighting was "likely." The dour outlook came after...

MENA

As we mark Sunday’s UN World Press Freedom Day , ahead of HKFP’s 11th anniversary next month, our team of seven are soldiering on. We remain on the ground despite unprecedented political and financial pressure last year, including threats and...

HKFP Announcements, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP)
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