Italy appealed on Friday for the release of two Italian pro-Palestinian campaigners detained in eastern Libya who, along with eight other activists, had been refusing food and water for four days. Israeli forces arrested 430 people on board 50...
Several Palestinian factions are set to discuss Gaza's future at a meeting in Egypt on Saturday, where the possibility of a role for Mohammed Dahlan, a rival of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, is likely to come up, sources...
There is a version of the West Bank that exists in official statements and diplomatic briefings — one of “security operations,” “clashes,” and a conflict contained by law, however imperfectly applied. And then there is the version described...
A seven-month-old Palestinian baby was killed, and his parents were wounded by Israeli gunfire in the Tel Rumeida area south of the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday evening, the Palestinian health ministry said. The ministry identified the...
France has opened an investigation into an alleged "war crime" and "torture" over Israel's treatment of French activists who took part in a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, a prosecutor's office said Friday. The probe was opened at the government's request,...
In the first quarter of 2026, seasonally adjusted GDP decreased by 0.2% in the euro area and by 0.1% in the EU , compared with the previous quarter, according to an estimate published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the...
GAZA, (PIC) Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said on Friday that Israel continues to carry out deadly attacks against civilians in the Gaza Strip, while mediators, guarantor states, and the “Peace Council” have failed to stop the bloodshed or even condemn it. In...
CAIRO, (PIC) A Hamas leadership delegation headed by Khalil Al-Hayya, the Movement’s leader in Gaza, arrived in Cairo on Friday evening for a new round of negotiations scheduled to begin on Saturday and continue for several days. In a statement, Hamas said...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Three members of the same Palestinian family were injured, including a seven-month-old infant in critical condition, after Israeli forces opened fire on their vehicle in the Tel Rumeida area south of al-Khalil on Friday. Palestine’s Health Ministry said medical...
Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone expose how the Soros-run Open Society Foundations plotted to “prevent the continuation” of Indonesia’s elected government by bankrolling opposition media, youth activists groups and lawfare operations to remove President Prabowo Subianto. Ever since the...
The massacre at Starobelsk three weeks ago was yet another example of the BBC and Western media serving as blatant propaganda outlets to distort and prolong the conflict. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us:...
There are titles one should never write. “The End of History” is one. “Permanent Plateau” is another. As such, anything with the word “permanently” in it may belong on the same list, because the arrow of time tends to find...
Islam Times - The Deputy Minister for Legal and International Affairs at the Foreign Ministry stated that, in negotiations over a draft understanding between Iran and the US, Tehran is insisting on the immediate release of at least 50% of...
The Houthis in Yemen reiterated support for their partners in the Iran-led Axis of Resistance, singling out Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza. While leaving the door open to further involvement in the ongoing regional conflict, the group stopped...
Ireland announced on Friday that it has banned Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich from entering the country, slamming their behaviour towards pro-Palestinian activists. Justice Minister Jim O'Callaghan "has instructed immigration...
Subscribe to our Lens on Sudan newsletter here . Armed with the heavy weaponry that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) continues to distribute among its allies across Darfur, the Salamat and Beni Halba tribes have been locked in days of...
Iran's World Cup football players have been granted visas to enter the United States, a White House official told Reuters on Friday, just 10 days before their first match in Los Angeles amid a conflict between...
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun accused Iran of using Lebanon as a bargaining chip in its negotiations with the United States on Friday, in some of his toughest criticism yet of Tehran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah. In a...
The US House of Representatives adopted an amendment on Thursday to increase funding for an agricultural research project with Israel, a decision that underlines how Washington’s scientific cooperation is increasingly entangled with Israeli institutions embedded in the illegal...
The US-Israel war on Iran not only severely impacted regional insecurity, geopolitics, diplomacy, energy and trade, but it also signified a breakdown of the traditional international relations (IR) vocabulary used to interpret it. Words like war, deterrence, self-help, national security, and...
Is the Western economy on the brink of a worrying collapse? There are different views on this, but there is enough real world evidence to suggest our failure to prepare could be something we seriously regret. Robin McAlpine is Head of...
Ahead of their sentencing, four Palestine Action activists are applying to remove the judge in their case over his alleged bias, after news broke in May that he intends to sentence them as terrorists. Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona...
The British government has awarded US spy tech firm Palantir a multi-million-pound contract to manage a national police database despite growing public concern about the secretive company's influence over UK public services. The £9 million contract will see the...
Santa Claus and satire, postmen and prisoners – these are tiles in the rich mosaic of stories produced by Palestinian playwrights, given the prompt to write on whatever they want. These stories form part of Tomorrow Will Be A Palestinian...
An Israeli lawmaker who chairs the Knesset Education Committee was filmed attempting to cut through the fence of an Arab school during class hours on Thursday, prompting condemnation from Palestinian political leaders and local officials. Tzvi Succot,...
Claude Gascon, interim CEO of the GEF and Aziz Abduhakimov, Minister of Environment of the Republic of Uzbekistan, at the closing ceremony of the Eighth GEF Assembly in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Gascon was presented with a traditional Uzbek outfit. Credit: Stella...
When President Ronald Reagan was staffing up the Pentagon for his first term, an obvious choice was the director of defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. That was Lawrence Korb, former naval flight officer and professor of...
A few months after Hamas' October 7 attack , filmmaker Gillian Mosley was talking to a friend in Lebanon about the devastation unfolding in Gaza as Israel's genocidal campaign intensified. Like millions around the world, they were watching...
Most discussion of artificial intelligence and work is about the future: which jobs may disappear, which skills may lose value, which workers may be replaced. But for millions of gig workers who work for online platforms such as Uber,...
- - - - Photo by Vitaly Gariev on Unsplash Normally, this would be a paywalled post, but I’m a little too pissed right now to bother. We all know who Graham Platner is. He’s the commie with...
Hello, For those joining us, here are the key updates: - Israeli strikes continue across Lebanon despite the announcement of a new "ceasefire" by Lebanese and Israeli officials in Washington, DC. Israeli strike in the south on Friday killed five people...
Organizers in several cities across the country say they were forced to cancel historic Pride celebrations this month. Groups in several cities, including Tampa, Florida; Arlington, Texas; and Tucson, Arizona, cited a political environment that has made supporting queer...
“I have never written a memorial for a glacier — no one has,” laments the poet Andri Snær Magnason during Sara Dosa’s “Time and Water.” In 2019, Magnason was given the extraordinary task of writing an epitaph to Iceland’s Okjokull...
As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, millions of Americans who live outside the 50 states are excluded from full participation in its democracy. Roughly 3.6 million residents of US territories – including Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the...
DUBLIN / PNN/ Monjed Jadou Ireland on Friday banned Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich from entering its territory, according to an official statement. Ireland’s Justice Ministry said Justice Minister Jim O'Callaghan had instructed immigration authorities...
The US-China Summit of May 14, 2026 in Beijing was an attempt to mitigate great power competition and promote bilateral ties through “constructive strategic stability.” Chinese President Xi Jinping argued against the inevitability of the “Thucydides trap,” which expects an...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Palestinians and Arabs recall on June 5 of each year the anniversary of the 1967 war, known as the “Naksa” (setback), which formed a pivotal turning point in the history of the Palestinian cause and the region, after...
The Philippines is more of an object than a subject of the political processes unfolding in Southeast Asia. Nevertheless, everything connected with this country, one way or another, is not only under close observation by leading regional players but also...
In a Gaza workshop, a group of men patch up pleasure dinghies with reclaimed fibreglass, wood and door frames pulled from the rubble, racing to get the boats ready for a tougher line of work. The small vessels, which...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research issued a new policy analysis paper under the title “From Bab al-Silsila to Khan al-Ahmar: Re-engineering the environs of Jerusalem.” It provides an in-depth analytical reading of the most dangerous...
GAZA, (PIC) Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has documented testimonies from five Palestinian journalists from Gaza who were detained by Israeli occupation forces after Oct. 7, 2023, saying their accounts reveal abuse, interrogation and violations directly linked to their journalistic work. The journalists,...
NEW YORK, (PIC) The Arab Group at the United Nations has called on the international community to take decisive action to halt Israel’s ongoing violations in the occupied Palestinian territories. In a statement delivered by Saudi Arabia’s UN envoy Abdulaziz al-Wasel at...
There will be no agreement with Lebanon, and Israeli forces will not leave southern Lebanon unless Hezbollah agrees to a ceasefire and disarms, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet on Thursday evening. Hezbollah struck down a US-brokered proposal...
AL-KHALIL, (PIC) Two Palestinians were injured on Friday, one of them critically, after Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened fire at Palestinian citizens and Jewish settlers attacked others during a raid in the al-Jallatiya area east of Ethna, west of al-Khalil in...
New satellite imagery has appeared to show damage at an American air base in Kuwait following an Iranian strike on Wednesday, contradicting claims by the US military that it had successfully thwarted the attack. The high-resolution imagery, released by...
Reports of an explosion and alleged drone attack at Oman's Mina al Fahal port have raised questions about a further escalation of tensions in the Middle East, despite authorities insisting that crude export operations are continuing as normal....
A Model of Attritional Warfare Suggests Yes Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The Persian Gulf war of USA/Israel against Iran has largely displaced reporting on the Ukraine-Russia conflict. Reading the news on...
Dr. Daniel Schall is CEO and Co-Founder of Black Semiconductor. He holds a PhD in graphene optoelectronics from RWTH Aachen University. His work has shaped integrated photonics for over a decade, driving innovation in chip-to-chip communication. As co-founder of Black...
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