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Rescue teams in Gaza have started the second phase of an operation to recover dead bodies from under the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israel during the war on the enclave, amid widespread challenges. The second phase started on...

MENA

Israeli settlers have been forcibly seizing and encroaching on Palestinian land, turning some of it into touristic sites for profit, while facing no accountability, as residents are displaced from their homes. Earlier this month, Israeli settlers seized a...

MENA

An Israeli drone strike on Saturday killed two Palestinian siblings, including a 15-year-old girl, in southern Gaza and wounded at least seven others, according to Nasser hospital, where the casualties were taken. The strike targeted tents sheltering displaced Palestinians...

MENA

A new opinion poll has suggested that Palestinian parties could hold the balance of power in Israel's next election , with neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition nor Israel's main opposition parties projected to secure...

MENA

A maritime body overseen by the U.S. Navy said Saturday that a route through the Strait of Hormuz near Oman ’s shores is expanding to allow for both inbound and outbound traffic. The announcement by the Joint Maritime Information Center...

Environment

The trial of Syria’s former Grand Mufti, Ahmed Bareddin Hassoun , began at the Palace of Justice in Damascus on Thursday. Hassoun led Syria’s official religious establishment under the Assad regime and became one of its most prominent and notorious...

MENA

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Senior Hamas official Haroun Nasiruddin has warned of intensive Israeli bulldozing activity in the town of Mukhmas, north of Occupied Jerusalem, as a prelude to establishing a new Jewish settler outpost, amid ongoing demolitions and land annexations in...

News, Hamas Movement, Judaization

A strong earthquake struck Afghanistan's Hindu Kush region on Saturday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre said, sending out tremors that could be felt from the capital Kabul across the border into neighbouring Pakistan. People ran out of their doors...

Environment

New photos of American actress Anne Hathaway wearing a full-body wetsuit in the coastal town of Saint-Tropez on the French Riviera have sparked comment and debate over the double standards which Muslim women have to endure when they wear similar...

World

Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem condemned the US-Israel-Lebanon framework agreement on Saturday, saying it is a major mistake by the government and that his group deems it null and void. The agreement -- which includes a pilot effort in which Lebanese...

MENA

Britain 's government said it will open safe, legal routes for eligible refugees, while also changing human rights laws to make it easier to deport people who are in the country illegally. The new routes will allow community groups, universities and...

World

By Rachel Frazin Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Critics are outraged that the Trump administration is moving to roll back chemical safety rules even as the U.S. faces deadly industrial chemical incidents. Last...

Editor's Choice, Capitalism, Crisis

His administration wants a more clear advantage than the current USMCA offers so he’s decided not to renew sparking an uncertain future By Karthik Sankaran Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su It is...

Editor's Choice, Canada, Latin America

GAZA, (PIC) The danger threatening kidney failure patients in the Gaza Strip is no longer caused by bombing or the collapse of hospitals alone, but has also become linked to the shortage of a medical substance whose price does not exceed...

Reports, Dialysis patients, Gaza Strip

From Rome to Washington, history is but the graveyard of empires condemned by their own excess; today, the Pax Americana falters under the lucid gaze of a global South ready to rewrite the terms of a new world. Indeed, from...

Politics, USA, Global Confrontation

US President Donald Trump resumed bombing Iran on Friday, a day after an Iranian attack on a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz, elevating concerns about the future of a ceasefire agreement just as Israel and Lebanon signed a related deal. The Trump...

Middle East, Block 4, Iran war 2026

As Astana builds AI infrastructure and eyes 1GW capacity, the real story is distancing from Russia, not pan-Turkic dreams. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su According to Turkist/Turanist ideology, Kazakhstan is considered one...

Business, Middle East, Russia & CIS

Lincoln’s “government of the people” was real – once. In early America, weak state power, direct elections, and citizen militias made democracy tangible. But capitalism’s rise and elite consolidation would soon erase that world. Join us on Telegram , Twitter...

Americas, World, Democracy

Earlier this year, Prime Minister Mark Carney became the first sitting Canadian Prime Minister to visit Qatar. Alongside agreements on trade, investment, artificial intelligence, defence, and aerospace, with a Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement expected this summer,...

Perspectives

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed different areas of the West Bank last night and on Saturday morning, raiding homes and kidnaping two Palestinian citizens. In al-Khalil, Israeli forces kidnaped a shepherd from the al-Dirat area, east of the...

News, Arrests, IOF raids

Weeks of US-mediated talks between Lebanon and Israel culminated on Friday with a framework agreement aimed at ending the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel . The agreement would see Israel gradually ending its occupation of the south in...

MENA

The proposed reopening of René Mouawad Airport in Qlayaat, Akkar, northern Lebanon, has often been framed as a technical or developmental question. Yet its history shows something more: it is a layered infrastructure shaped by regional oil ambitions and...

Unfiltered

JERICHO, (PIC) More than 34,000 Palestinians and visitors traveled through the Al-Karamah land crossing in the eastern West Bank over the past week, Palestinian police said on Saturday. In a statement, police said 16,299 travelers departed through the crossing, while 18,466 entered,...

News, Jordan, Karama crossing

GAZA, (PIC) The Handala II vessel is continuing its journey through Scandinavian ports as part of a European solidarity initiative seeking to reach the besieged Gaza Strip and deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinians. The ship departed Malmö in southern Sweden on May...

News, Gaza Strip, Global Sumud Flotilla

GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 73,051 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Saturday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...

News, death toll, Gaza Strip

Iran said it struck targets linked to US forces on Saturday in response to US airstrikes on its southern coast , as each side continued to accuse the other of violating last week's agreement meant to end the four-month-old...

MENA

As Algeria prepares to hold parliamentary elections on July 2, there is virtually no chance that these elections will bring a positive political shift. Indeed, they occur as the regime has solidified its authoritarian grip, enacting laws that...

Perspectives

WEST BANK, (PIC) Israeli settlers escalated attacks on Palestinians and their property across the West Bank on Saturday morning, targeting a home east of al-Khalil and farmland in Al-Mughayyir village, east of Ramallah. In Wadi Sa’ir, east of al-Khalil, a group of...

News, settler attacks, Settler crimes

ALBAWABA - Hopes raised by the latest understanding between the U.S. and Iran seem to have dissipated as the two warring nations conduct strikers on each other again - just a week after signing the Memorandum of ‘Understanding’The attacks started...

NEWS, MENA Featured, The Muslim World, The Iranian File, Main Headlines

Iran said it struck targets linked to US forces in response to US airstrikes on its southern coast , without identifying the targets or saying where they were located. The Iranian foreign ministry said the US attacks violated the memorandum...

MENA

Iran said it struck targets linked to US forces in response to US airstrikes on its southern coast , while Bahrain condemns an Iranian drone attack on its territory. The Iranian foreign ministry said the US attacks violated the memorandum...

MENA

Ethiopian Airlines is today one of the most successful airlines in the world, but when it was first conceived, 80 years ago, Ethiopia did not even have a runway. The story of how it rose from such a barren background...

Current Affairs

Cattle Empire LLC, Satanta, Kansas, USA. Credit: Guilhem Alandry / HealthforAnimals By Armin Wiesler BRUSSELS, Belgium, Jun 27 2026 (IPS) Animal disease is no longer a distant concern for farmers and veterinarians alone. It is increasingly visible in household budgets: global...

Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Food and Agriculture

As luxury yachts crowd the Aegean coast, Türkiye’s most talked-about food destination isn’t where you’d expect. How did Urla — once just a quiet, overlooked stopover on the road to Çeşme — secretly transform into a playground of vineyards and...

Arts & Life

Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s first four-day official visit to China yielded a predictable flurry of agreements spanning trade and green technology. But its true significance lies in the elevation of a single, long-stalled infrastructure initiative: the Teesta River Comprehensive...

South Asia, Belt and Road Initiative, Block 2

TEHRAN, (PIC) The US army said its forces carried out strikes last night on Iran, claiming they were in response to an Iranian drone attack on a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz. In a statement, the US central command...

News, Iran, US aggression

GAZA, (PIC) Three Palestinian citizens, including a child, were martyred on Saturday in the Gaza Strip, amid ceasefire violations persisting for the 261st consecutive day. According to media sources, two citizens were killed and seven others were injured in an Israeli drone...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli ceasefire violations

This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 15 June 2026. Two Malian journalists, Chahana Takiou, Editor-in-Chief of the bi-weekly newspaper 22 September , and Abdramane Keïta, Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper Le Témoin , have been remanded in custody...

A little over a week since the US and Iran signed the MoU, some ships that had been trapped in the Persian rushed to travel through the corridor, with many trying to use an alternative route on the southern...

Larry C. Johnson

ISTANBUL, (PIC) Member of Hamas’s political bureau Basem Naim has said that the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have demonstrated today that their national allegiance and political awareness are too profound to be manipulated by unruly elements serving suspicious agendas. “All respect...

News, Gaza Strip, Hamas Movement

Japan advised more than a million people to leave their homes as two tropical storms swept towards the archipelago on Friday, with torrential rains also pounding Taiwan where at least two people have been killed. A tow lorry driver retrieves...

Community & Education, Taiwan, AFP

In a laboratory in Broomfield, Colorado, 98 atoms are suspended in mid-air, held in place by electric fields and cooled to temperatures close to absolute zero. Each atom is far smaller than anything the naked eye could ever see, yet...

Technology, Block 2, Helios Quantum Computer
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