The national security trial of Hong Kong’s now-defunct Tiananmen vigil group has been adjourned to May after the defence called its last witness to the stand. [DO NOT REUSE] Chow Hang-tung, barrister and an ex-leader of the Hong...
President Donald Trump has told his aides that he is willing to end the war on Iran even if the Strait of Hormuz remains under Iranian blockade, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on...
Last week, Sarah al-Qadi was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the town of Bazaliyah in Lebanon's Bekaa region . But the young teacher was not killed alone — the twins she carried for seven months with care and...
Euro area annual inflation is expected to be 2.5% in March 2026, up from 1.9% in February according to a flash estimate from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union . Looking at the main components...
On Monday, the courtyard of Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip was filled with a mixture of tears, laughter, and long-held anticipation. Eight Palestinian families had come together for a moment they...
BEIRUT, (PIC) The National Commission for Palestinian Popular Action condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the Israeli occupation authorities’ enactment of the so-called Prisoner Execution Law. This legislation represents a perilous and unprecedented escalation in the policies of repression and collective punishment...
NAZARETH, (PIC) The Israeli Knesset has given final approval to a law permitting the execution of Palestinian prisoners, passing it in its second and third readings on Monday evening. The legislation was approved by 62 members, with 48 voting against and one...
A carefully staged photograph circulated widely in early 2026: a young Baloch couple in combat fatigues, rifles slung across their shoulders, smiling at the camera before what the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) described as their joint suicide mission. Released by...
L’aggressione israelo-statunitense alla Repubblica Islamica dell’Iran sta creando enormi problemi ai diversi attori internazionali, anche se con diverse sfumature. Segue nostro Telegram . Naturalmente, tutto dipenderà dalla durata e dagli esiti di un conflitto che vede Teheran rispondere colpo su...
NABLUS, (PIC) What happened to Palestinian child Mohammed Saif Wasif Hanani, 12 years old, is not an isolated incident. It belongs to a growing pattern of violence against Palestinian children, one that stretches across geography, from Gaza to the occupied West...
In the theater of West Asian geopolitics, the line between a “stabilizing force” and a “silent spectator” is often drawn by the agility of a state’s diplomacy. As the US-Iran war enters its second month, an alarming linguistic shift emerged...
UMM AL-FAHM, (PIC) Dozens of residents of Umm al-Fahm, within the Green Line, took part on Monday in marking the 50th anniversary of Land Day, observed annually on March 30. Participants held a gathering at the city’s main roundabout, organized by the...
A tribunal verdict on the term is revealing about the complexities of having multiple cultural identities – and western attitudes to ageing It should be uncontroversial to state that what we want to be called – or do not want to...
Israel's parliament passed a sweeping death penalty law targeting Palestinians on Monday, triggering widespread international condemnation - as lawmakers celebrated with champagne inside the Knesset . The bill, approved by 62 of the Knesset's 120 members with...
Three United Nations peacekeepers from Indonesia were killed in two separate incidents in southern Lebanon after a bloody weekend in which Lebanese journalists and medics were killed in Israeli strikes. Two peacekeepers were killed on Monday after an explosion...
Beijing expressed “gratitude” on Tuesday as it said three Chinese ships had transited the crucial Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has all but closed during the war in the Middle East. Cosco container vessel. File photo: Belt and Road Portal....
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out widespread raids across the West Bank early Tuesday morning, storming dozens of homes and arresting a large number of Palestinians, including former prisoners. The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society reported that IOF troops searched...
A suspected US strike hit the central Iranian city of Isfahan early on Tuesday, sending a massive fireball into the sky, as Tehran struck a fully loaded Kuwaiti oil tanker in the Gulf. US President Donald Trump, who has...
“Nablus is at the centre of a huge prison, surrounded by fourteen Israeli settlements and many checkpoints which are closed by the army most of the time. How much longer do we have to suffer? They’ve destroyed Gaza...
The Slavneft-YANOS oil refinery in Russia’s Yaroslavl Region, one of the country’s five largest and capable of refining 15 million tons of oil per year, was reportedly hit by Ukrainian drones early on March 28. This follows last week’s bombing of the Ust-Luga...
For the past few weeks, residents living in and around Dal Lake in Indian Kashmir have witnessed “a different phenomenon” as a green sludge has accumulated on the once pristine water. Photos circulating widely on social media triggered a public...
Egypt plans to import around a million barrels of oil from neighbouring Libya to make up for the loss of crude imports mainly from Kuwait because of Iran's restrictions of the Strait of Hormuz. Egyptian authorities are expected...
GAZA, (PIC) Six Palestinians, including an elderly woman, were killed and others injured over the past 24 hours after Israeli warplanes targeted a group of civilians near Al-Shafi’i Mosque in the Zeitoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City, alongside sporadic gunfire across...
A rights group called for the immediate release of jailed Chinese artist Gao Zhen, whose works criticised former leader Mao Zedong, as his trial began on Monday. Chinese artist Gao Zhen at the performance of the Gao Brothers’ “Utopia of...
The independent committee investigating the fatal Tai Po fire has invited the public to submit information on suspected corruption in Hong Kong‘s large-scale building maintenance projects. Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po, pictured on November 28, 2025, in...
Islam Times - Even the slightest action toward what Trump has called the seizure of Kharg Island or any other part of Iran would immediately alter Iran’s military calculations for retaliation and reveal new and unimaginable dimensions of a regional...
Islam Times - Donald Trump’s recent and unequivocal remarks that he would like to take direct control of Iran’s oil constitute the clearest evidence yet that the driving force behind his war-making decisions is nothing other than domination over the...
Islam Times - The Islamabad quadrilateral meeting was convened under the claim of mediation, even as the continuation of the U.S.–Zionist war against Iran has reshaped regional dynamics. By focusing on Iran’s conditions, the requirements of confidence-building, and the ineffectiveness...
Feminists and rights defenders say online threats have rapidly escalated, forcing some to leave the country for their safety Yordanos Bezabih, an Ethiopian women’s rights activist, had faced online threats for years: of acid attacks, gang-rape and death. She tried her...
THAAD Missile Battery Looks like Pete Hegseth tried to make a financial killing off of the war of aggression the US launched against Iran on 28 February 2026. According to the Financial Times : Pete Hegseth’s broker at Morgan Stanley...
Missile inventories have become a focal point in the ongoing US-Israel military confrontation with Iran. The Alma Research and Education Center estimates Iran’s ballistic missile count has fallen from 2,500 at the beginning of the conflict to around 1,000, and...
The Strait of Hormuz is one of the world’s most critical maritime chokepoints, carrying around a quarter of global seaborne oil trade and significant volumes of liquefied natural gas and fertilizers. By Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK, Mar 31 2026 (IPS) Trump’s...
Hong Kong’s anti-graft watchdog and police have arrested 42 people in a joint operation to crack down on triad infiltration of building maintenance projects. A building covered with scaffold nets in Kennedy Town on December 8, 2025. File photo: Kelly...
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Kuhaneetha Bai Kalaicelvan KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Mar 31 2026 (IPS) While media coverage of Iran’s restrictions on passage through the Hormuz Straits focuses on fuel prices, partial closure is also disrupting crucial fertiliser...
Just when the U.S. military could use reliable machinery for its hot war on Iran, defense contractors plan to send it radarless F-35s that are unfit for combat. Breaking Defense reported late last week that the military will start accepting F-35s...
American taxpayers could be forgiven if recent events have left them wondering why the largest and most expensive Navy in the world is sitting well outside the Strait of Hormuz, watching powerlessly as the Iranians decide which ships they will...
The global energy crunch caused by the American-Israeli war on Iran is severely impacting Africa’s ability to access affordable fuel, leading governments to scramble for new sources of energy. Years of underinvestment by African governments in refining equipment and other...
Russia has begun a spring offensive in Ukraine, launching a major assault on the “fortress belt” of heavily defended cities in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. At the same time, a wave of nearly 1,000 drones and missiles targeted civilian, energy,...
By: Tim Daiss - - - - Wikimedia Commons Countries across Asia are scrambling as prices skyrocket at the pump due to the sustained disruption in energy supplies from the Persian Gulf, with energy security increasingly defined not by crude...
President Trump and his minions assured America that he was a man of peace who would abandon the “failed policy of regime change”. Yet, since taking office in 2025, he has bombed seven countries and threatened several more. As a...
The war on Iran was neither inevitable nor necessary. As recently as March 3, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi said the IAEA “has found no evidence that Iran is building a nuclear bomb.” On...
A fire safety contractor for the Tai Po housing estate ravaged by a massive blaze was aware that the alarm system had been disabled days before the tragedy unfolded, a public inquiry has heard. Wong Kin-wa, a senior electrical worker...
The United States Department of Justice’s recent moves to prosecute executives of a server supplier and individual agents and to accuse them of smuggling Nvidia’s high-end chips to China via Thailand may signal a trend toward tighter export control enforcement, according...
NAZARETH, (PIC) On the fiftieth anniversary of Land Day, Palestinians find themselves in what is described as one of the bloodiest and most complex phases in the history of their cause, with the ongoing assault and blockade on Gaza and the...
GAZA, (PIC) The Gaza Strip has recently been experiencing a worsening crisis in the availability of vegetables and fruits, accompanied by a sharp increase in their prices, further increasing the suffering of residents already living under difficult economic and humanitarian conditions. Specialists...
The attempt to revitalise the smear tactics which successfully brought down Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party won’t work this time. Caitlin Johnstone is a reader-supported independent journalist from Melbourne, Australia. Her political writings can be found on Medium...
Even some mainstream economists are coming to accept that the neoclassical tradition is fundamentally broken. Walden Bello , a columnist for Foreign Policy in Focus , is the author or co-author of 26 books, the latest of which are...
Keir Starmer is determined to turn a blind eye to Trump’s demands to join the war. Ian Proud was a member of His Britannic Majesty’s Diplomatic Service from 1999 to 2023. He served as the Economic Counsellor at the British Embassy...
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