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The most consequential Indo-Pacific development last week may not have been the speeches delivered at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. More significant were the decisions announced days earlier at the Quad foreign ministers’ meeting in New Delhi, where India, Japan,...

New York’s Tiananmen crackdown museum was broken into and vandalised over the weekend, according to its co-founder Wang Dan. The June Fourth Memorial Museum in New York was vandalised, its co-founder Wang Dan says on May 31, 2026. Photo: Wang...

For those just joining us, here are the key updates - The US and Iran conducted tit-for-tat strikes over the weekend into Monday. The US military says it attacked Iranian military sites in Goruk and Qeshm island. Meanwhile, Kuwait reports...

‘Megafires’ in California, Canada, South Korea and Europe in 2025, but changes to farming slowed spread in parts of Africa “Devastating” wildfires ripped across the wealthier parts of the world in 2025, a study has found, even as globally, the area...

The US continues to try to provoke Iran into breaking the ceasefire. On Sunday, the US Central Command said its forces shot down Iranian drones around the Strait of Hormuz and struck an area along Iran’s coast overnight....

In diplomatic practice, there is an unwritten but strict rule: the weaker a state is economically and politically, the more delicate the tone of any external player must be if they genuinely want reforms—not chaos. Lebanon today is a classic...

President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to end the war with Iran has taken an unexpected turn. Instead of focusing only on a ceasefire, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and Iran’s nuclear program, Trump now appears to be linking...

By: Khanh Vu Duc - - - - VNA/VNS Photo Thirteen years ago, Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng walked onto the Shangri-La Dialogue stage and delivered one of the most consequential foreign-policy speeches by a Vietnamese leader in the post-Cold...

Islam Times - From a political standpoint, the statements made by Libya’s Grand Mufti carry several strategic messages. First, Al-Gharyani places responsibility for the current insecurity on the UAE itself, not on Iran. Second, he seeks to draw Arab public...

Could it be that Israel’s 30-year narrative about Iran – one that persuaded US President Donald Trump to wage a criminal and disastrous war of aggression – was always a fiction, an invention cooked up in Tel Aviv? Far from...

The central government has greenlighted yachts from Hong Kong and Macau to enter nine mainland Chinese cities in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) without customs guarantees and with temporary ship registrations. A yacht in Hong Kong. Photo: Shreyaan Vashishtha/Pexels. The...

John Barr, Portfolio Manager of the top-ranked Needham Aggressive Growth Fund, has built a career with skills honed not just on Wall Street, but in the trenches of the early EDA industry. Before becoming a respected sell-side analyst and later a...

Vivek Vishwakarma is an entrepreneur, investor, and technologist leading ThirdAI Automation, an industrial AI company that accelerates troubleshooting and reporting through automated root-cause analysis. A former technologist at Intel with 10+ patents and 300+ research citations, he speaks on the intersection of...

Islam Times - The US Congress is advancing a plan to integrate American and Israeli military capabilities under the framework of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, a move that, backed by what it describes as a historic $200 billion...

Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that the United States is producing more oil than Russia and Saudi Arabia combined. He has made this statement multiple times in 2026, often emphasizing it as a result of his “Drill, Baby, Drill” policies....

Israeli citizens wonder why the state won’t return October 7 footage it confiscated from them. The mother of an Israeli victim says authorities deleted video of her son’s death. Others complain “someone is hiding” the videos. The Israeli government is...

GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has accused Nikolay Mladenov, executive director of the Peace Council, of contributing to the escalating crisis in the Gaza Strip, calling on him to stop incitement against Gaza and the Movement and to adhere to the...

BETHLEHEM, (PIC) A Palestinian was killed after he allegedly carried out a vehicle-ramming attack on Sunday evening at the Gush Etzion junction south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. Four Jewish settlers were wounded in the alleged attack. Israeli media reported...

GAZA, (PIC) Israeli forces continued violating the Gaza ceasefire agreement for the 234th consecutive day through artillery shelling, gunfire, and demolition operations across eastern Gaza. A Palestinian was killed and several others injured on Sunday evening after an Israeli Apache helicopter targeted...

Several Palestinians were injured on Sunday evening when an Israeli drone struck a house in the Al-Bureij Palestinian refugee camp in central Gaza. Field and medical sources told The New Arab that the strike targeted the home...

Jordan said on Sunday it will allow a late start to work for public sector employees on World Cup matchdays to let fans enjoy the national team's debut appearance at the tournament. A decree from Prime Minister Jafar Hassan said official...

GAZA, (PIC) Shuhada Al-Aqsa Hospital, the sole government facility serving central Gaza, has warned that its healthcare system is nearing collapse after the failure of a fourth electricity generator, placing hundreds of patients and wounded people at grave risk. In an urgent...

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus makes appeal after protests against protocols for handling victims’ bodies in Ituri province Containing the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo requires community cooperation and is “everybody’s business”, the World Health Organization...

WEST BANK, (PIC) A Palestinian young man was shot dead on Sunday when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened fire at him near the separation wall in al-Ram town, north of Jerusalem. Medical sources reported that 26‑year‑old Imad Shtayyeh, from the town...

GAZA, (PIC) A Palestinian citizen succumbed to wounds sustained in an Israeli airstrike, while several others were injured in a drone attack in the Gaza Strip on Sunday. According to media sources, a citizen identified as Saeed Shammali was martyred after succumbing...

WEST BANK, (PIC) Palestinian citizens sustained injuries following a series of settler attacks across the occupied West Bank yesterday and on Sunday morning, which included vehicle-ramming and stabbing incidents. According to media sources, a female student from the village of Ammuriya near...

A boat is about to hit the bridge. That is where Zhang Zeduan’s Along the River During the Qingming Festival begins to reveal its secret. Beneath the great arched bridge, boatmen shout, ropes tighten, a mast is being lowered, and...

Yves Sakila died after being restrained by security guards ‘in broad daylight’ Irish authorities have agreed to a second postmortem on the body of a Congolese man who died after being restrained by shop security guards on a Dublin street, prompting...

GAZA, (PIC) Palestinian resistance factions have accused Israeli occupation regime of subverting the ceasefire agreement and understandings over the Gaza Strip by persisting in its fascism, crimes, and bloodthirsty brutality. In a statement on Sunday, the factions stressed the need for all...

European policy in the South Caucasus is increasingly caught between proclaimed values and pragmatic interests. While headlines often portray Azerbaijan’s suspension of parliamentary cooperation with the European Parliament as a routine diplomatic spat between Brussels and Baku, the move reveals...

GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 72,939 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Sunday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...