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At SAFE Forum 2026 , Synopsys announced significant advancements in its collaboration with Samsung Foundry, expanding AI-powered design, verification, test, and IP solutions for Samsung’s most advanced process technologies. The announcement underscores the growing importance of electronic design automation...

JENIN, West Bank / PNN/ Israeli occupation forces began large-scale demolition operations on Monday in the village of Barta’a, southwest of Jenin, targeting 15 Palestinian homes on the grounds that they were built without permits, in one of the largest...

The International Energy Agency has made its May report free to download, and the news is not good for the second and third quarters of this year, i.e. April-September. The IEA hopes things will look up in the fourth quarter, but premises...

The ex-wife of a nephew of Dubai's ruler has been released on bail, the emirate's public prosecution said, after she was held during a custody battle. Zeynab Javadli was detained after her former husband, Sheikh Saeed bin Maktoum bin...

Iraqi officials are working to identify the victims of a bus crash that killed 21 people over the weekend, a provincial official said Monday. A passenger bus crashed and burst into flames Sunday in southern Iraq, in the latest deadly...

GAZA, (PIC) At least six Palestinian civilians were martyred and several others were injured in Israeli attacks in different areas of the Gaza Strip on Monday. According to media sources, a number of civilians were injured when Israeli warplanes targeted an apartment...

Brussels has authorized EU member states to inspect tankers carrying Russian oil subject to sanctions in the Mediterranean Sea, a step that, according to critics, could increase the risk of a direct military confrontation in international waters. EU Expands IRINI Mission...

Egisto Ott is no James Bond. But the stories the 63-year-old Austrian told a Viennese jury recently would make good plotlines. Ott worked as an intelligence officer in Austria’s now-defunct Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism....

GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 72,980 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Monday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...

Hock Tan and his CFO Kirsten Spears logged into the June 3 earnings call with numbers that should have satisfied anyone. AI semiconductor revenue hit $10.8 billion in Q2, up 143% year over year, above Broadcom’s own forecast. Full-year AI...

Nikol Pashinyan's party failed to secure an absolute majority in the parliamentary elections, leaving the Armenian prime minister without the ability to freely pursue his most ambitious reform agenda. Opposition in Armenia Refuses to Recognize Election Results Voter turnout in Armenia's...

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Scores of extremist Jewish settlers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem on Monday morning and later in the afternoon, amid restrictions on the entry of Muslim worshipers to the holy site. According to local sources, 71 Jewish settlers...

GAZA, (PIC) The Asra Media Office (AMO) issued on Monday an updated fact sheet entitled “Conditions of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons”, in which it reviewed the conditions of Palestinian and Arab prisoners and detainees in light of the escalating...

Iran said on Monday afternoon it will end the latest round of strikes against Israel following the first exchanges of fire since the April ceasefire. Israel responded to last night's missile attacks with heavy attacks on Iranian industrial sites in the...

The US support and Israel’s military and strategic capabilities, coupled with occupational aspirations, made the country a threat to the region. The country’s hostilities and strategic reorientation suggest that it now seeks to confront Turkey. Israel’s escalating aggression with Turkey...

Chinese President Xi Jinping will make a rare visit to North Korea on June 8 – his first international trip this year – weeks after hosting US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing. The sequencing has...

GAZA, (PIC) Gaza’s Civil Status Directorate said 1,701 newborns and 159 deaths were registered across the Gaza Strip in May, according to figures released by the Interior Ministry on Monday. The data showed that 919 of the newborns were boys, making up...

WEST BANK, (PIC) Hamas warned on Monday of escalating Israeli settlement policies in the West Bank after new military orders and notices were issued to seize large areas of Palestinian land in Tubas and Jenin. In a statement, the Movement said the...

Israeli authorities have released a player on the Palestinian national women's football team following six days in detention after she was summoned by Israel's Jerusalem police, her mother told the press on Monday. Wissam Halawani said Israeli police released...

China’s deployment of the HQ-16F missile opposite Taiwan reflects Beijing’s growing concern that future wars may be fought not just across the Strait, but deep inside the mainland itself. This month, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that China...

Weebit Nano has achieved a critical milestone in the commercialization of Resistive Random Access Memory (ReRAM) technology with the successful tape-out of two customer products integrating its embedded non-volatile memory IP. One of the products has already returned first silicon...

SANA’A, (PIC) Yemen’s Ansarullah group has announced a complete ban on Israeli maritime navigation in the Red Sea, declaring that Israel-linked vessels are considered legitimate military targets effective immediately. Ansarullah also said on Monday that it had launched a barrage of missiles...

The Israeli military bombed Iran on Monday shortly after US President Donald Trump urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to respond to an Iranian missile barrage, which came in retaliation for Israel’s earlier bombing of Beirut. “I am going to call Bibi right now...

The deputy head of the Macau Public Security Police (PSP) is among 26 people arrested after the city’s Judiciary Police (PJ) smashed three prostitution rings last week, according to local media. Apart from PSP Deputy Commissioner Leong Heng Hong, 60, the...