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Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama prayed as the leader of the elected goverment of Tibetans in exile was sworn in for a second term on Wednesday. The Tibetan government’s “sikyong,” or leader, Penpa Tsering (right) gives a speech during...

Vast amounts of valuable materials buried inside old batteries, electronic waste, and end-of-life vehicles should be collected for critical materials. Credit: FutuRaM By Umar Manzoor Shah SRINAGAR, India, May 27 2026 (IPS) Europe’s growing mountain of waste could become one of...

An analysis of the current state of negotiations between Iran and the United States Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and former planner and advisor at the US State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. As an...

A former senior police inspector has been jailed for 30 months over misconduct in public office and accepting HK$1.4 million in bribes in exchange for leaking case details and dropping an investigation into a suspect. Ho Siu-tung speaks...

Major French luxury department store Galeries Lafayette closed its first China flagship branch on Wednesday, over a decade after opening, pointing to sluggish domestic consumption and shifting spending habits. A sign is seen on the Galeries Lafayette department store in...

Beginning last week, waves of protesters taking part in nation-wide strikes gathered on the streets of Nairobi to demand the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum reduce its state-controlled fuel price. What initially began as a labor initiative soon grew into violent...

On May 22, the first train of Bogota’s new metro system made its initial trial run on the 15-mile elevated viaduct for Line 1. The line runs all the way from the southwestern part of the Colombian capital to Avenida...

Notwithstanding the Al Jazeera report, there are still significant areas of disagreement that make a deal between Iran and the US unlikely. The Pakistan-Qatar mediation channel toward a possible memorandum of understanding remains active. But “active” does not...

Keith Macgregor’s newly published volume on Hong Kong’s neon-drenched streets captures the city ablaze with colour and reflection. Trams in Johnston Road, Hong Kong 2000. Photo: Keith Macgregor, courtesy of Blue Lotus Gallery. City of Lights , published...

Eswatini is a country standing at a crossroads — and increasingly, at the edge of a cliff. The latest World Bank data paints a stark picture: one in three citizens is unemployed and nearly half the population lives in...

Israel pounded Lebanon with more than 120 air strikes on Tuesday in one of the heaviest days of bombing in weeks, Lebanese security sources said, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his military was deepening its...

When then President Ronald Reagan was staffing up the Pentagon for his first term, an obvious choice was the director of defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. That was Lawrence Korb, former naval flight officer and professor of...

Iranian authorities partially restored internet connectivity Tuesday after an almost three-month shutdown imposed against the backdrop of the war with Israel and the US , said a monitor, a senior official and sources inside the country. The shutdown...

The idea of Trump and Netanyahu was to destroy Iran as a force within the region, thereby forcing all countries in the Middle East to submit to their colonial plans. That clearly hasn’t happened. David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of...

Tit-for-tat strikes between Iran and the US don’t seem to have scuppered a possible deal yet, but long term the threat Israel poses to Lebanon may make any lasting peace impossible. Trita Parsi is the co-founder and Executive Vice president of...

A profile of the late Edmund Phelps, a neoliberal economist until the end. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Picture by Cp2960 American Edmund Phelps recently...

Syria's transitional leadership has located remnants of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's clandestine chemical weapons program, including raw materials and munitions similar to those used to carry out deadly gas attacks during the country's long-running civil war,...

The warning from Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to the U.S. and European governments to evacuate their diplomats and citizens from Kyiv before Russia launches “systematic strikes” marks a drastic escalation in the Ukraine conflict — with a serious risk...

No force has reshaped American politics over the last decade more conspicuously or detrimentally than the expanding influence of the billionaire class. Since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling in 2010 opened the floodgates for unlimited political spending by billionaires...

A far‑right presidential frontrunner in Colombia is running on a promise to restore ties with Israel and bury the current government’s pro‑Palestine stance, a shift that could test the limits of Latin America’s solidarity with Gaza . Abelardo...

Egypt is expanding its exploration of lithium and other critical minerals in an effort to attract investment in an industry largely untouched in the country. On Sunday, Cairo announced it had signed a deal with Spanish company X-Calibur to carry...

A military delegation from Lebanon is heading to Washington on Tuesday for a security meeting with Israeli officials at the Pentagon scheduled for Friday, as intensified Israeli strikes on the country continue to kill dozens of people. President...

- - - - Photo by Stephen Talas on Unsplash I’ve written three or four different posts for today. I’ve scrapped them all. Why? Because I’m dealing with a herniated disc in my lower back and have...

The son of British right-wing politician Rupert Lowe has reportedly married a Muslim woman of Libyan descent, raising eyebrows given the Restore Britain founder’s frequent anti-Muslim and anti-immigration pronouncements. Reports in legacy and social media have suggested that the...

At 11 am in the port of Kraten, on the north-eastern edge of the Kerkennah archipelago in south-eastern Tunisia, fishermen are untangling heaps of fishing nets piled along the waterfront as they prepare for the next trip out to sea. Head...

The following story is co-published with Nolan Higdon’s Substack . When a speaker at the University of Central Florida’s May 8, 2026, commencement ceremony declared, “The rise of artificial intelligence is the next Industrial Revolution,” it triggered...

Il futuro non aspetta. E mentre i diplomatici occidentali discutono di procedure e principi, qualcuno – molto più a est – sta già gettando le basi per l’ordine di domani. Segue nostro Telegram . L’Ordine Mondiale in frantumi Sta accadendo...