Elly Van Reusel remembers scratching a list of medical supplies into the metal wall as she tried to keep note of everything her comrades needed. The containers aboard the Israeli military ship were hot during the day, and no one...
The death toll from a giant explosion at a fireworks factory in central China rose to 26, with 61 more injured, officials said Tuesday. Screenshot of social media footage showing continuous explosions accompanied by a vast cloud of smoke rising...
The US-Iran war is exposing a hard truth: Asia is a tiered system of energy access, where wealth determines resilience. Investors have for years treated Asia as a single growth engine. Capital flowed into the region on the assumption that,...
A brief and poorly explained landing of a U.S. military transport aircraft in Tbilisi at the end of March 2026 has become a subject of discussion and speculation about its real significance, fueling suspicions that more complex geopolitical signals may...
Hadi Ali Chatha (left) and Imaan Hazir Mazari (right) in the front seat, taking Asad Toor (at the back on the left) home after his release from Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail, on March 17, 2024. Credit: Asad Toor By Zofeen Ebrahim KARACHI,...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) carried out demolitions and displaced families in Jerusalem today, Monday, and in recent days under the pretext of unlicensed construction. According to media sources, the Israeli municipality forced Mohamed Abu Tair last Sunday to...
A racism scandal has erupted in Norway after a political adviser linked to the country’s right-wing Progress Party (FRP) said people of Pakistani background "should preferably not" have more children, triggering widespread backlash and putting party leader Sylvi...
The ceasefire between Iran and the US is under threat, after a spate of attacks in the region and escalating tensions in the Strait of Hormuz have left the truce crumbling. Late on Monday, the UAE accused Iran of launching...
By Joy Chiang Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te said Tuesday the democratic island has the “right to engage with the world”, after he returned from a trip to Africa that Taipei has accused Beijing of trying to derail. Taiwan President Lai...
4 May 2026 How the US and Europe ended up in so much trouble today. I emphasized that I believe the two main factors are: 1) the fundamental structural changes that have taken place in the international system since 2017 —...
NABLUS, (PIC) In Palestine, stories do not need exaggeration to be painful. It is enough for a life to start in the same moment that death takes another, for a story unlike any other to be written. Yaman came into the world...
Hong Kong authorities have proposed tightening the regulation of claw machine shops by implementing a licensing regime to curb addiction risks. A claw machine in Hong Kong. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. The Home and Youth Affairs Bureau’s proposal, included in a...
On the sidelines of the UN Youth Forum, four climate leaders from across the continent and diaspora unite to call for stronger protection of Africa’s environment and vital resources. Sibusiso Mazomba (far left), member of the UN Secretary-General’s Youth Advisory...
The Inland Revenue Department (IRD) has announced that tax revenue jumped by 22 per cent in the 2025-26 fiscal year, hitting a record high of HK$458.3 billion. Commissioner of Inland Revenue Benjamin Chan (centre), Deputy Commissioners Leung Kin-wa (left) and...
The US Army’s fast-tracked anti-ship missile could fill a key Pacific gap, but its deterrent value will hinge on production capacity, launcher survivability and China’s continued preference for coercion over invasion in Taiwan. Naval News reports the US Army is...
Late Monday afternoon in Florida, I learned that there was a large movement of KC-135s over the Arabian Peninsula. This movement was consistent with air-refueling operations for US combat aircraft. I also learned that the US was “spinning up,” which...
The level of competence of current Western European leaders leaves much to be desired. Their political course does not correspond to today’s reality and is therefore coming in for increasing criticism. It is telling that retired European statesmen are increasingly...
I have had the rare privilege of conducting on-the-ground equity research in both Korea and Taiwan at different stages of my career. They are often spoken in the same breath, partly because of their regional proximity and parallel growth trajectories,...
China’s Wu Yize won the World Snooker Championship for the first time with a dramatic 18-17 victory over Shaun Murphy in the final on Monday. China’s Wu Yize poses with the championship trophy after his victory over England’s Shaun Murphy...
Two months after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on February 28, a tense standoff prevails. There is no active warfare, but no signs of a diplomatic breakthrough either. The war is a culmination of a 47-year trajectory which set...
Recent reports revealed that the Trump administration has been quietly pursuing normalization of ties with Eritrea, a small nation in the Horn of Africa with a 700-mile coastline on the Red Sea, sitting directly opposite Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen at...
In December 1982, South African Rodney Wilkinson walked four bombs into Koeberg power station – the crown jewel of the apartheid state – pulled the pins and then left on his bicycle. How did he do it? At 21, Rodney Wilkinson...
WHO says seven confirmed or suspected cases of hantavirus on MV Hondius, including three passengers who died - What is hantavirus, the infection thought to have killed three on cruise ship? - A British crew member was in need of urgent...
By: Salman Rafi Sheikh - - - - Photo by Anthony Kwan via AP Images At a moment when Washington is urging Beijing to step up as a global crisis manager, China is doing something far more unsettling: nothing....
For decades, two irreconcilable narratives about Israel and its motivations have existed in parallel. On the one side, an official western narrative portrays a plucky, besieged “Jewish” state of Israel, desperate to make peace with its hostile Arab neighbors. Even...
Mass deception is a cornerstone of the state’s ability to maintain total control. One of the main methods used by government to convince the population of their legitimacy is the tool of propaganda. This is nothing new, and states throughout...
Islam Times - The adoption of an asymmetric naval warfare strategy in the conflict between Iran and the United States must be understood as a “rational strategic choice under unequal conditions.” Rather than striving to match the superior power, this...
A former police officer who led daily press briefings during the 2019 protests and unrest has been appointed to a top post leading the Hong Kong government’s media relations department. John Tse. Photo: RTHK Screenshot. Authorities announced on...
ATHENS, (PIC) UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, warned that Israel is exploiting Greece’s fears and sense of insecurity to advance its own interests. Speaking Sunday evening at an event in Athens promoting her book...
GAZA, (PIC) The Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research revealed Monday that the war on the Gaza Strip has led to an unprecedented rise in the number of women serving as sole providers for their families, with the number of...
GAZA, (PIC) Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said that threats circulated in Israeli media about resuming the war on the Gaza Strip constitute a violation of the ceasefire agreement and directly contradict US President Donald Trump’s proposed peace plan. In press statements, Qassem...
China has invoked a five-year-old legal instrument for the first time to block the enforcement of United States sanctions on five mainland “teapot” oil refiners, including the newly sanctioned Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refinery, which was accused of buying Iranian crude...
The European public and governments are massively out-of-sync over the question of the continent’s relationship with Israel, a chasm that can’t be sustained forever. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of the Palestine Chronicle. Cross-posted from Other News...
Quality of housing is closely linked to health outcomes, and for Britons who rent in the private sector, the quality of housing is shoddy. Emma Baker is Professor of Housing Research at the Australian Centre for Housing Research, University of Adelaide,...
It’s not always about the youth. Older activists are sometimes the most daring and care-free. Simon Feisthauer Fournet is a freelance journalist based in France. A graduate of Columbia Journalism School, he has reported for the past three years across the...
While the US military has had many achievements in the Iran conflict, it’s been far from cost free. Iran conducted extensive retaliatory strikes targeting high-value US bases. According to international reports and satellite data, the damage to aircraft, radar, and...
From sun-drenched deserts to equatorial highlands, a growing number of countries now generate over 10%—and in some cases nearly 30%—of their electricity from solar power. The unlikely leader is Lebanon—a nation in the throes of state collapse. With its national...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) On a hill overlooking the plains of Turmus Ayya town, northeast of Ramallah, Palestinian Nidal Walid Rabee stands, staring at his land that he is no longer able to reach, after it was besieged by settlement and occupation restrictions,...
Credit: UN Photo/Manuel Elías By Samuel King BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 4 2026 (IPS) In January, the government of Algeria succeeded in locking two civil society groups out of access to the United Nations (UN). It raised questions at the UN...
By Patrick LAWRENCE Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The U.S. president has lost the war he started with Iran — or at the very least he has no chance of winning it...
By Stephanie SY Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su At a moment when there’s a lot of political attention around questions of affordability, rising health care costs are a growing concern for many...
GAZA, (PIC) Member of Hamas’s political bureau Abdul-Jabbar Sa’eid has affirmed that the Israeli threats to resume the war while negotiating the second phase of the ceasefire agreement are “meaningless” and will not force the Movement to make concessions. In recent remarks...
Across much of the democratic world, voters have turned on governing parties with unusual force. In the United Kingdom, the Conservatives collapsed after years in power. In Argentina, voters elevated Javier Milei, a candidate who ran...
Israeli forces are still continuing with incursions into Syrian territory , amid an escalation in Israeli violations and raids in the southern part of the country. On Monday, three Israeli military vehicles entered the Wadi al-Raqad area in western Daraa...
At the recent RISC-V Now event hosted by Andes, the discussion underscored the fact that RISC-V is no longer just about instruction set architecture advantages or customizable cores. The real focus has moved up the stack to system-level design. This...
An Iranian drone caused damage to an oil complex in the United Arab Emirates on Monday in what was the first strike since the ceasefire came into effect almost a month ago. Fujairah's media office said a "large fire...
Late last month, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) made headlines by announcing its decision to leave the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and OPEC+. On 1 May, the UAE officially left both, marking a significant shake-up for the...
A nationwide shutdown by traders in Malawi has exposed a dispute that goes far beyond a new tax technology. What appears on the surface to be resistance to a digital invoicing system is, in reality, a deeper breakdown in...
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