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More than a quarter of homeowners at the fire-hit Wang Fuk Court have signed contracts to sell their flats to the government, with funds already disbursed to homeowners of two units. Wang Fuk Court seen in the distance on April 20,...

Opening his new Presidential Center in Chicago, Barack Obama once again gave eloquent expression to his faith in the fundamental American values of democracy and community. Yet, a decade after his presidency, he has still not published his promised second volume...

As the establishments of both major parties remain firmly wedded to Washington’s foreign policy consensus, particularly on U.S.-Israel relations, hard ideological factions on the right and left now seem willing to work together to present new challenges to that unanimity. Exhibit...

Seventy-nine years ago this month, President Harry Truman signed the National Security Act , which quickly morphed into today’s metastasizing, often abusive, national security state. With the stroke of his pen, Truman blessed the creation of the National Security Council to...

By: Kalimullah Hassan - - - - As widely expected, Malaysia’s Barisan Nasional la st weekend swept to a resounding victory in elections in the populous southern state of Johor across the strait from Singapore, taking 48 of 56 seats and leaving its rival, Anwar...

The United States launched a fresh salvo of strikes against Iran early Tuesday, marking a new escalation in the resumption of hostilities, even as US President Donald Trump said a deal with Tehran was still possible. "We're going to hit them...

One Indian crew member was killed and eight others were wounded when two Emirati oil tankers were struck by Iranian cruise missiles in the Strait of Hormuz, the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Defence said on Tuesday , in the...

The Trump administration is launching an effort to dismantle what it calls the threat to U.S. sovereignty by the International Criminal Court, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday. President Donald Trump and others in Washington, such as former President...

The Palestinian Authority's survival now depends on emergency financial support from Arab states as Israel continues withholding vital tax revenues, an expert has told The New Arab , after President Mahmoud Abbas requested the Arab League activate a regional financial...

Israel’s decision to provide more than $1.3 million in funding to a settler organisation sanctioned by the UK will embolden attacks on Palestinians and accelerate the annexation of the occupied West Bank , a leading Israeli human rights organisation has...

The Iran war is starting up again because the United States wants control over the Strait of Hormuz, but the same challenges in achieving that before the ceasefire still exist today. Trita Parsi is the co-founder and Executive Vice president of...

The US Treasury Secretary has outlined his vision for the United States in the world, where economic coercion is to be castigated unless the US itself is the one doing the coercing. Marco Carnelos is a former Italian diplomat. He has...

It doesn’t seem to matter who is the UK Prime Minister, ‘more money for arms’ is the rallying cry of the British establishment and all must obey. Tom Blackburn is a writer from Manchester. A founding co-editor of New Socialist, he...

A conceptual illustration of the Global Nobel Laureates Assembly at Castel Gandolfo, where Nobel laureates, AI experts, religious leaders and civil society representatives will confront the intertwined risks of artificial intelligence, nuclear weapons and war while seeking a new architecture...

On 24 June, in Sudan, women and children displaced by the fighting in Al Obeid seek refuge in Tagat, gathering shelter for the internally displaced. Credit: UNICEF/PFP Geneva By Oritro Karim UNITED NATIONS, Jul 13 2026 (IPS) Throughout 2026, the humanitarian crisis in...

Speaking in May at a conference in Washington, DC, Gregg Roman, executive director of the American right-wing Middle East Forum (MEF), took stock of the work his organisation has been doing over the past year in support of efforts aimed...

The European Union is failing to uphold international law after foreign ministers met in Brussels to discuss possible action against trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, Amnesty International has warned on Monday. The meeting came amid growing pressure...

GAZA, (PIC) Losses of the agricultural sector in the Gaza Strip reached about 3.49 billion dollars, as a result of the widespread destruction left by the Israeli war of genocide, which led to a near-total collapse in the agricultural productive infrastructure...

In late 2024, a lightning offensive led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the Islamist faction that broke from al-Qaeda, drove Bashar al-Assad from power in 11 days. Assad fled to Moscow , where he remains today. Syria is now governed by...

"I can't die now. I still need to [...] get Iran sorted out and do Israeli-Saudi normalisation." Those were among the final words of hawkish US Senator Lindsey Graham before he died on Saturday, according to Axios , highlighting his determination...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: An establishment Democrat warns primary voters that the progressive in the race is the GOP ’s dream candidate, and must be defeated at all costs if the party is to have any...

Yemen's internationally-recognised government said it struck Houthi-controlled Sanaa airport on Monday, its biggest flare-up in years with the rebels, who blamed the authorities' Saudi backers for the attack and threatened retaliation. The government said it had wanted to prevent an Iranian...

Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis targeted Saudi Arabia on Monday, hours after the rebels accused the kingdom of attacking Sanaa airport - the biggest flare-up in years between the two sides that threatens to upend a frozen conflict. The Saudi-backed Yemeni government claimed...

This story was originally published by Sentient . Three of the nation’s largest egg producers will pay $3.3 million to settle price-fixing allegations following a federal investigation. The anti-trust case alleges that the companies coordinated to artificially inflate the price of eggs...

- - - - Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash By now, you’ve heard of a concept called “luxury beliefs.” It’s a recurring thing these days, unfortunately, and it’s not difficult to identify. Luxury beliefs are, in essence, beliefs that are used to accumulate status...

Thunderous applause echoed through the San Francisco Opera House on June 26, 1945 as diplomats signed the United Nations Charter. It was hailed as a victory over war itself. Eighty-one years later, the UN has many accomplishments to celebrate. But...