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Hong Kong police have raided two independent bookstores and arrested five people suspected of committing a sedition offence, local media has reported. A woman is taken away from indie bookstore Have a Nice Stay, escorted by police, on July 15, 2026....

Uprooted slum-dwellers turn evangelical, not because of theology, but because the Church couldn’t keep up with chaotic urbanization. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su This World Cup was the first to feature automatic translation on Twitter,...

The UK government has declined to say whether it will increase funding to protect Muslim communities despite a series of anti-Muslim attacks and a record £250 million security package announced for Britain's Jewish community, telling The New Arab it is...

Lionel Messi's Argentina clash with England in a marquee World Cup semi-final on Wednesday, with Spain lying in wait after shattering French hopes of a third triumph. The fixture between two of the big beasts of global football is mouthwatering enough,...

Those who argue that NATO is heading toward a gradual dissolution can point to concrete evidence, not mere impressions. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Toward Ankara 2026 On July 7 and 8, in Ankara, the heads...

A spokesperson for the US Department of State told The New Arab that the United States has proposed a five-point plan to end the war in Sudan . The plan includes securing a humanitarian truce and ensuring the uninterrupted delivery of...

When Israel occupied southern Lebanon between 1982 and 2000, maintaining control meant thousands of soldiers stationed inside the territory, with reinforced military outposts and daily clashes with fighters from a newly founded Hezbollah waging a guerrilla insurgency. Nearly three decades later,...

Four announcements were made on Monday, 13 July. Read together, they are the European Union's Palestine policy, complete. In Brussels, the Foreign Affairs Council — the first under Ireland's new presidency of the Council — spent its Middle East session on...

Mahmoud Khalil and his legal team have announced a lawsuit against US President Donald Trump and private organisations alleging a conspiracy to suppress pro-Palestinian speech, a move that could be an important case at a time of severe government crackdowns...

China’s economy grew at its weakest pace in more than three years during the second quarter, data showed Wednesday, missing expectations even as strong exports driven by the global AI boom helped offset trade disruptions caused by the Middle East...

Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip have intensified in recent days, with homes, displacement camps , markets and public roads coming under near-daily attack, as residents and political analysts warn that the expanding military campaign is steadily shrinking the...

Bethlehem /PNN/ A new public opinion poll has found that the Palestinian clearance revenue crisis has expanded beyond public finances to become a widespread cost-of-living emergency, affecting household incomes, purchasing power and debt levels, while raising concerns over deeper economic fallout...

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has threatened to close "all other export corridors that benefit the US and its allies", Iranian media reported, after Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz and the US reimposed a naval blockade of Iranian ports. "Regional...

In the landscape of modern Arabic letters, few genres are as politically vital as Prison Literature, known in Arabic as adab al-sujūn. From the mid-twentieth century onwards, as totalitarian regimes, military dictatorships, and colonial occupations tightened their grip across the Arab...

On 26 June 2026, Ibrahim Traoré , hailed as Africa's anti-imperialist hero, issued France an ultimatum to close its embassy in Ouagadougou, accusing Paris of "blatant neocolonial ambitions." Concurrently, he received the credentials of Israel's ambassador pledging to deepen bilateral cooperation...

Hong Kong’s national security laws must be constantly improved to close loopholes, a former top Beijing official on the city’s affairs has said. China and Hong Kong flags fill the streets in Hong Kong ahead of July 1, 2025, the 28th...

The WHO-led Women’s Integrated Cancer Services Program; the pilot programs were first implemented in Kenya in the Bungoma and Nyandarua counties. Credit: WHO/Yasin Abdullahi By Shuli Wong UNITED NATIONS, Jul 15 2026 (IPS) One in five people will be diagnosed with cancer in...

Pride Parade participants march on the Elisabeth bridge in Budapest, Hungary on 27 June 2026. Credit: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP By Inés M. Pousadela MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Jul 15 2026 (IPS) On the morning of 28 June, riot police sealed off Taksim Square with iron barriers...

The Abraham Accords sought to succeed where decades of negotiations had failed. By separating Arab normalization with Israel from the Palestinian issue, the effort bypassed the core concept of the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, which explicitly tied the normalization to...

There is a growing disconnect between how American voters think about safety and how Washington spends money in the name of national security. In a recent poll conducted by ReThink Media and the Costs of War Project at Brown University, when...

A national security police officer has been sentenced to 20 months and four weeks behind bars for taking upskirt photos and attempting to grab another officer’s gun when he was taken to the police station over the incident. West Kowloon Magistrates’...

Spain ended France's dream of a third World Cup triumph on Tuesday, taming their star-studded attack in a 2-0 victory to reach the final against England or Argentina. Didier Deschamps' men were hot favourites to lift the trophy after a string...

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday abruptly scrapped a planned 20 percent levy on ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz amid clashes with Iran, saying he would instead seek compensation from Gulf allies via trade deals. Trump said Middle Eastern leaders...

US forces carried out strikes against Iran for a fourth day in a row on Tuesday and reimposed a naval blockade to prevent ships from sailing to or from the country's ports. While US President Donald Trum backtracked on his threat...

Lebanon and Israel concluded the first day of Washington-mediated talks in Rome on Tuesday, a US official said, as Israel said it was ready to move forward with plans to withdraw from two parts of southern Lebanon . The US-brokered negotiations...

British prime minister-in-waiting Andy Burnham backed Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's controversial immigration crackdown in a parliamentary vote on Monday night. The wide-ranging bill would make it easier for authorities to deport asylum seekers and impose a "refugee tax" in return for...

PEN America has insisted it continues to defend Palestinian writers and regards Israel's actions in Gaza as "a genocide", after its outgoing president accused the organisation of sidelining Palestinians and resigned in protest, the organisation told The New Arab on...

The only “unity” on display in Paris was the closing of ranks by despicable elites who are tempting fate with war or revolution. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The ironic symbolism of this year’s Bastille...

The author of ‘Empire of AI’, a book about OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, discusses technology, power and sovereignty. Alessio Giussani is the editor-in-chief of the Green European Journal . He was formerly contributing editor of Eurozine (Vienna) and a...

NATO 3.0, where European countries do the heavy-lifting of arms spending to keep the US happy, is under construction. Dr. Joseph Gerson is the president of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament, and Common Security; co-president of the International Peace Bureau; and...

Restoring some semblance of a moral core to the Labour Party won’t be easy, but is politically necessary for Andy Burnham. David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. He is a commentator and speaker on the region and...