Shortly after reporting emerged Monday that Iran was suspending talks with the United States over Israel’s ramped up assault on Lebanon, President Donald Trump claimed that Israeli forces headed toward Beirut have “turned back” and that Hezbollah has agreed that “all shooting will stop” following separate phone calls with...
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As Europe’s population ages, the elderly are becoming an ever larger voting bloc, a growing “grey power” which is already reconfiguring political priorities. Ben Wray is a freelance journalist and researcher from Scotland, who lives in the Basque Country. Ben is...
The Paris Commune took place 155 years ago and only lasted 72 days but it still has valuable lessons to offer anyone thinking of making a revolution happen today. Kevin Guillas-Cavan is the France Research Fellow at the Institute for Economic...
The university system faces questions over its funding, value and purpose. Professor Dame Alison Wolf DBE, Baroness Wolf of Dulwich, is the Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management at King’s College London, and sits as a cross-bench peer...
Chilling Effects of Trump’s War on Free Speech Extend Far Beyond Campus Walls – And That’s the Point
Citizen Lab senior research fellow Jon Penney and co-author Bruce Schneier wrote an op-ed in The Conversation arguing that despite younger Americans’ overwhelmingly soured view of Donald Trump’s second presidency, they are not protesting for a...
The Pentagon's decision not to mention Taiwan at a major security forum has sparked discussion about shifting US priorities, military-industrial challenges, and the future balance of power in the Asia-Pacific region. Pentagon Forgets About Taiwan Behind Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's diplomatic...
The United States has designated two of Brazil's largest criminal organizations as foreign terrorist groups, a move that could reshape migration policy, security cooperation, and the country's political landscape ahead of presidential elections. Trump Administration Draws Brazil Into a New Political...
France has banned the display of Israeli offensive weapons at the 2026 edition of the Eurosatory international defence and security exhibition, the organisers told AFP on Monday. "Only Israeli exhibitors presenting anti-ballistic and anti-air defence systems...
Ultra-orthodox draft protests cripple central Israel
Full ArticleTens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox demonstrated across Israel on Monday, blocking roads and trains and setting cars on fire to protest mandatory enlistment in Israel’s military. Israel’s police said demonstrators blocked major intersections and attacked a soldier...
Is Syria finally having its accountability moment? In this episode of The Brief In , we examine Syria’s fragile and deeply contested transitional justice process after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. The episode examines Syria’s transitional justice process, the Atef...
As the White House proceeds full speed ahead on battleships that will bear President Donald Trump’s name, lawmakers want to know it won’t be a flop first. The House draft of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for FY 2027,...
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have hailed the 2026 Hajj as a public health success after the annual pilgrimage concluded without any confirmed or suspected cases of epidemic disease...
Egyptian up-and-coming talent Hamza Abdelkarim has signed an exclusive deal with sports manufacturer Nike , thrusting him into the limelight as he prepares to head to the World Cup with the Pharaohs for the upcoming FIFA...
Many of us think of DAC as an important trade show for the Semiconductors and EDA industries. That is certainly part of the history of DAC, but the event is also a highly prestigious technical conference dating back to 1964....
Palestinian Christian activists and church leaders have raised alarm over growing pressure on Christian communities in the occupied West Bank after Israeli soldiers attempted to halt preparations for a Marian festival in the village of Taybeh...
At a time when the American public is expressing unprecedented levels of distrust in the Israeli government, Congress just proposed tying the US to the Israeli military more than ever before. Buried in the House's version...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Extremist Jewish settlers carried out attacks on Palestinian citizens’ swaths of agricultural land and crops in Nablus and Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Monday. According to local sources, settlers set fire to olive trees in groves in...
Iranian military and political officials issued a series of warnings to Israel and the United States on Monday, threatening to open "new fronts" and hinting at possible military action if Israel continues expanding its devastating attacks in Lebanon . Iran's...
Israeli forces raised their flag over the historic Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon on Sunday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to portray the occupation of the hilltop site as a major victory, but continued Hezbollah...
A proposal reportedly under consideration in Brussels could significantly alter Central Asia's international profile and trigger domestic political debate across the region. According to Politico, the European Union is examining the possibility of establishing migrant holding centers in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has welcomed the UN decision to place Israel on its blacklist of countries involved in sexual violence against civilians in conflict zones. In a statement released on Monday, Hamas noted that the decision relies on documented evidence...
The USDA Canceled $300 Million in Farm Grants, Citing Fraud. Did It Make Up the Evidence?
Full ArticleThis story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . Leah Atwood was rattled. It was the tail end of March, and for days she and her colleagues at Agroecology Commons had been...
Iran's military has been shattered. The Strait of Hormuz remains contested. Three months in, Bill Roggio and FDD's Jon Schanzer examine why quick victories are rare, patience is scarce, and this war is entering its most consequential phase yet. The post...
Freedom and responsibility
Full Article- - - - Photo by Tara-mae Miller on Unsplash As a gun rights guy, I have a lot of discussions with people about gun control, and I’m often told that gun rights should come with some...
The Power and Impotence of Vincent Bolloré
Full ArticleSomething strange happened at this year’s Cannes Film Festival: A number of French films were greeted with loud boos and cries of “Fascist!” The audiences were not booing the films themselves, or castigating the films’ directors. Rather, they were responding...
Mark Fuhrman: The Derek Chauvin of the ’90s
Full ArticleThe racism of Mark Fuhrman , the Los Angeles police detective whose involvement in the O.J. Simpson murder investigation helped sink the prosecution’s case, was so well-known that comedian Dana Carvey once mocked him with a Nazi salute,...
Prominent Turkish-American political commentators Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker say they have been barred from entering the UK over their criticism of Israel, in a move that has sparked accusations that Britain is suppressing pro-Palestinian voices...
GAZA, (PIC) A Palestinian was killed and another one was wounded on Monday following an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza, amid ongoing ceasefire violations in different areas of the coastal enclave. According to media sources, a young man identified as Yousef Ramadan...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has condemned the establishment of a new settler outpost near the town of al-Auja, north of Jericho in the occupied West Bank. “The establishment of a new settler outpost near the town of al‑Auja, north of...
GAZA, (PIC) When the Palestinian scene is reduced to a round of aggression or breaking news, the most important element is lost: that the history of the Palestinian resistance is a long path shaped under British colonialism, deepened with the Nakba,...
A 70-year-old Lebanese man has remained trapped beneath the rubble of his home in southern Lebanon for days as rescue teams wait for clearance through the US-led ceasefire monitoring mechanism , in a case that has intensified...
Iran's Tasnim News Agency reported that the country's negotiating team has halted the exchange of messages with the US through mediators in response to attacks on Lebanon . According to Tasnim , no further talks will...
Safe space for children and women: A community initiative to heal the wounds of war and displacement
Full ArticleRAFAH, (PIC) In an area crowded with tens of thousands of displaced people in the south of the Gaza Strip, a safe space dedicated to psychosocial support for children and women was opened in Mawasi Rafah, in an attempt to alleviate...
In late May, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel controlled about 60 percent of Gaza's territory, and that he had instructed the Israeli military to expand that hold to 70 percent . His comments have reignited debate over...
A hospital in Kabul. Afghanistan faces an already dire shortage of female doctors as women medical graduates remain barred from taking the final exam required to practice medicine. Credti: Learning Together. By External Source KABUL, Jun 1 2026 (IPS) While Afghanistan...
Raging Against the Machine
Full ArticleDonald Trump’s America is a scary place in significant part thanks to an unholy alliance of MAGA devotees who don’t believe in science and see intellectuals as public enemy number one, and a gaggle of Silicon Valley militarists...
The transition to advanced process nodes is reshaping high-speed interface IP requirements for mobile, automotive, AR/VR, and AI edge devices. As SoC designers migrate to cutting-edge foundry technologies, the demand for highly optimized MIPI PHY solutions continues to grow. A...
The transition to advanced process nodes is reshaping high-speed interface IP requirements for mobile, automotive, AR/VR, and AI edge devices. As SoC designers migrate to cutting-edge foundry technologies, the demand for highly optimized MIPI PHY solutions continues to grow. A...
In the first step towards shifting aid further into the shadows, the House’s 2027 NDAA would all but fuse the two countries’ armed forces together. By Ben FREEMAN Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us:...
BEIRUT, (PIC) Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli war minister Israel Katz said on Monday they had ordered the army to strike targets in Beirut’s southern suburbs, hours after Israel announced that one soldier had been killed and others wounded...
BETHLEHEM / PNN/ Monjed Jadou - The executive and advisory councils in Bethlehem held an emergency meeting to discuss ways to confront Israeli plans targeting the appropriation of the Solomon’s Pools archaeological site, amid official warnings of escalating settlement activity...
Far-right Israeli ministers accused of inciting violence against Palestinians attended New York's annual Israel Day Parade on Sunday, while Zohran Mamdani became the first New York mayor in more than six decades to skip the event. The parade, held...
France said on Monday it had detained a Russia-linked oil tanker in the Atlantic, with the Kremlin comparing the latest seizure aimed at tackling Moscow's sanctions-busting shadow fleet to "international piracy". Since September, France has boarded three other ships believed...
A project to measure how reflective paint reduces indoor temperatures is delivering tangible benefits across Africa The brick house Sylvia shares in a Western Cape township on the outskirts of Cape Town with her three children gets unbearably hot every summer,...
‘Luring Russia into war’
Full ArticleNATO’s Ukraine proxy war seeks to weaken Russia and topple Putin. To launch an economic, information and ground war, NATO needed Russia to invade. Now it needs Russia to attack a NATO nation to justify direct war. Watch the replay....
Community groups say some fear they could lose homes, jobs and access to healthcare if the new law is ratified by President John Dramani Mahama Ghana’s LGBTQ community is living in fear after the country’s parliament approved a sweeping bill that...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission has revealed an Israeli plan to build 2,721 new housing units for Jewish settlers in several illegal settlements across the occupied West Bank. In a statement on Monday, the Commission said the higher...
Two former Syrian intelligence officers accused of overseeing torture and abuses against opponents of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Raqqa are due to stand trial in Austria on Monday, in one of Europe's most significant cases against...
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