Tensions have again escalated in the Middle East, with the United States and Iran trading strikes around the Strait of Hormuz. It follows reports of an Iranian drone attack on a cargo ship trying to transit through the strait. Both...
With elections likely to be held in August, the young people in Haiti are moving ahead, creating opportunities in music and digitalization and agricultural cooperatives, which are reinventing food self-sufficiency. Credit: Shutterstock By Xavier Michon PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Jun 29 2026 (IPS)...
The two-day working visit of Turkey’s Foreign Minister to Russia, which has now concluded, proved noteworthy both for the number of meetings held and for the nature of the discussions. What, in the end, did Hakan Fidan bring that was...
A student magazine at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has announced its shutdown after failing to recruit enough members for its editorial board, bringing an end to its 74-year run. A magazine published by Undergrad in November 2020 titled...
- - - - Photo from CPJ / AP / Chan Long Hei The arrest last week of journalist and bookseller Leticia Wong Man-huen on sedition charges brings to at least 29 journalists who have been arrested in Hong Kong...
The United States is right to worry about losing ground to China in clinical research. But if Washington frames trial reform mainly as a race, it risks missing the larger prize: a faster, safer and more trusted model for developing...
This is the first in a RS series of articles reflecting on the 250th anniversary of American Independence and its impact and meaning for modern U.S. foreign policy, war, and peace. On the 250th anniversary of the founding of the...
Washington's Iran hawks — including some Democrats and former Biden administration officials — are denouncing the Trump administration for agreeing to upfront sanctions relief and other confidence-building measures in its preliminary deal, or memorandum of understanding (MoU), with Tehran. But their...
Polish President Karol Nawrocki made headlines recently for stripping his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky of Poland’s highest honor over Kyiv’s decision to name a military unit after the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), a partisan formation responsible for massacres during World...
Disclaimer This article is not intended to be a detailed examination of the complex Islamic rules of inheritance – such a task is beyond the scope of any one article. The components of inheritance in Islam, its conditions, its causes,...
After an exchange of missiles and drones on Saturday, the US backed down and declined to continue striking Iran. Qatar reportedly intervened to broker a new ceasefire. The US and Iran, in response to Qatar’s intervention, agreed to halt attacks...
Andy Burnham, the Labour lawmaker expected to replace Keir Starmer as British prime minister , will outline his vision for Britain on Monday, his office said, promising to change how the nation is governed with power moving from London...
When I was working on The Fall of Israel (2024) and particularly The Obliteration Doctrine (2025), what I found most repulsive was the targeting of children in the Gaza Strip. By late 2024, the testimonies of health professionals on location...
Reprinted with permission from The Kucinich Report. This article is Part 2 in a three part series on the proposed merger of U.S and Israeli intelligence, military and biotechnology. Read Part 1 here. Prior to the American Revolution being fought on...
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te (William Lai) appears to be missing signs from multiple sources that he lacks both international and domestic support for pursuing a more assertive policy regarding the island’s de facto independence. Taipei heavily depends on two protectors,...
The Israeli army destroyed an extensive tunnel in southern Lebanon on Sunday, with Lebanese state media reporting strikes in the area and Iran-backed Hezbollah saying it reserves the right to respond to these attacks. The incidents came despite...
The Correctional Services Department (CSD) has hastily withdrawn an anti-drugs ad which featured dancing AI-generated pop stars named after cannabis, ice, cocaine, as well as etomidate, known colloquially as “ space oil .” Netizens complained that the video,...
Iran will fly home on Monday following their agonising elimination from the World Cup at the end of the group stage, team officials said. The Iranian squad will take off from the Mexican city of Tijuana -- where...
L’andamento dei negoziati in corso in Svizzera tra emissari di Washington e Teheran sta mettendo in tensione le relazioni israelo-statunitensi. Segue nostro Telegram . Al punto, sostiene il ministro israeliano della Cultura e dello Sport Miki Zohar, da...
Pakistani security forces Sunday carried out an “intelligence-based” ground operation along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border , followed by “calibrated strikes” against militant hideouts and safe havens, killing 29 fighters, officials said. In a post on X, Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said...
NEW YORK, (PIC) The Hind Rajab Foundation has submitted a formal request to the US Department of Justice calling for an urgent criminal investigation into Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and urging US authorities to arrest him upon his expected...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli municipality in Occupied Jerusalem has issued a demolition order for the home of Maher Sarhan, the son of slain Jerusalemite resident Samer Sarhan, in the Al-Bustan neighborhood of Silwan, south of Aqsa Mosque. According to the Jerusalem...
Iran's top diplomat warned Sunday that any attempt by shipping to bypass its preferred route through the Strait of Hormuz would "increase tensions" in the Middle East, as US and Iranian forces again traded attacks. The exchanges underscored the...
Yossi Meyouhas is the CEO of Xsight Labs. Yossi joined Xsight Labs in May 2021 as Chief Operating Officer. Prior to Xsight Labs, Yossi was SVP R&D in Valens Semiconductors (2017-2021), and before that served in multiple senior positions in...
GAZA, (PIC) The child Muhammad Riyadh Ghaboun, twelve years old, is not waiting for a new house on top of the rubble of his family home in al-Sabra neighborhood in Gaza City, but rather is waiting for the remains of members...
Several thousand people rallied Sunday in the Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakir in southeast Turkey calling for the release of jailed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan , an AFP journalist reported. Protesters gathered in a central square in Diyarbakir,...
Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip on Sunday killed at least four Palestinians, including a 13-year-old girl, local health officials said. The first strike targeted a group of people in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya, killing two and wounding another,...
For decades, India was synonymous with population explosion. But between 2001 and 2021, something quietly transformed the world’s most populous nation. Fertility rates fell by nearly half – dropping below replacement level in much of the country. This infographic tracks...
Iran came into the World Cup knowing that the odds of them getting out of the group stage for the first time were stacked against them. It wasn't for a lack of talent. In the end, their fate...
Israel’s government on Sunday approved a proposal in the Knesset to recognise the Armenian genocide, in an apparent rebuke to Turkey amid deteriorating relations. Commentators have blasted the move as ironic, given that UN experts and...
A US television journalist apologised on Sunday after she appeared to speak disrespectfully about the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina during a World Cup report. ABC7 Los Angeles reporter Abigail Velez was covering the US national team's...
Star-laden Morocco and the Netherlands have the potential to produce a riveting Round of 32 tie at the World Cup, underpinned by a societal subtext that adds a healthy spice to the game in Monterrey on Monday. There is a...
Syria has deployed its first international search-and-rescue team to earthquake-hit Venezuela , where over 1,400 people have been killed as rescuers scramble to pull out survivors from the rubble. The official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) announced...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) A specialized body warned of the continuous escalation implemented by the Israeli occupation authorities in al-Bustan neighborhood in Silwan town in occupied Jerusalem, within the framework of policies aimed at displacing the Palestinian residents and imposing new realities...
GAZA, (PIC) Summer in the Gaza Strip no longer resembles what it was in previous years, as there are no trips, no parks, and no schools to welcome children after a long academic year. Between the sounds of bombardment and the effects...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Palestinian Center for Political Studies issued a new research paper titled: “The war on the Palestinian body: Sexual violence between strategies of subjugation and the system of impunity.” The paper reveals a dangerous shift in the use of sexual...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation army started on Sunday to build a settler road on swaths of Palestinian-owned land in the village of Battir, west of Bethlehem in the West Bank. According to local sources, Israeli bulldozers began leveling swaths of...
By Natasha TUSIKOV and Blayne HAGGART Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The rush to embrace flawed tech could bring disaster. The Mark Carney government has made “ deploying AI at scale ”...
GAZA, (PIC) Four Palestinian civilians were martyred on Sunday, including one who succumbed to injuries sustained in a previous Israeli airstrike. According to media sources, two Palestinians were killed and another one was wounded in an Israeli drone strike on the as‑Salatin...
By Sven R. LARSON Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Everyday life has become a pressure cooker. The question is when that pressure cooker is going to blow up, and what...
Internationally known Palestinian singer Saint Levant was captured wearing a pendant featuring the outline of the map of historic Palestine in a video for luxury fashion house Prada — a move that has drawn the anger of...
Tens of thousands of people in Gaza have suffered significant hearing damage due to Israeli bombing since October 2023, the UN said Saturday. It also said that many people with disabilities have lost their assistive devices such...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has called on the international community and the UN to fulfill their legal and moral responsibilities by taking concrete steps to end the Israeli genocidal war and lift the blockade on the Gaza Strip. In a statement...
The Vatican’s AI encyclical targets is a voice against totalitarianism disguised as progress б writes Bruna Frascolla. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su In our time, woke ideology and social Darwinist ideology...
Iran's top diplomat warned Sunday that any attempt to bypass the Strait of Hormuz routes agreed with the United States would "increase tensions" in the Middle East, as the countries traded attacks and accusations of violating a...
The Iran war, the Strait of Hormuz, de-dollarisation, oil prices, debt moratoriums and the deepening global economic crisis. Hudson argues that Iran won the immediate military battle, while the wider conflict is a world war over US control of oil,...
For Karim Ramadan, watching from a buzzing Cairo cafe before sunrise, the moment felt almost unreal as Egypt progressed from the group stage of a World Cup for the first time in their history on Saturday. "It...
Iraqi security forces launched raids in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone early Sunday to arrest officials including MPs suspected of corruption, amid heavy deployment in the area. The Green Zone houses the US embassy and other diplomatic missions, as...
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