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The Palestinian Authority's survival now depends on emergency financial support from Arab states as Israel continues withholding vital tax revenues, an expert has told The New Arab , after President Mahmoud Abbas requested the Arab League activate a regional financial...

Israel’s decision to provide more than $1.3 million in funding to a settler organisation sanctioned by the UK will embolden attacks on Palestinians and accelerate the annexation of the occupied West Bank , a leading Israeli human rights organisation has...

The Iran war is starting up again because the United States wants control over the Strait of Hormuz, but the same challenges in achieving that before the ceasefire still exist today. Trita Parsi is the co-founder and Executive Vice president of...

The US Treasury Secretary has outlined his vision for the United States in the world, where economic coercion is to be castigated unless the US itself is the one doing the coercing. Marco Carnelos is a former Italian diplomat. He has...

It doesn’t seem to matter who is the UK Prime Minister, ‘more money for arms’ is the rallying cry of the British establishment and all must obey. Tom Blackburn is a writer from Manchester. A founding co-editor of New Socialist, he...

A conceptual illustration of the Global Nobel Laureates Assembly at Castel Gandolfo, where Nobel laureates, AI experts, religious leaders and civil society representatives will confront the intertwined risks of artificial intelligence, nuclear weapons and war while seeking a new architecture...

On 24 June, in Sudan, women and children displaced by the fighting in Al Obeid seek refuge in Tagat, gathering shelter for the internally displaced. Credit: UNICEF/PFP Geneva By Oritro Karim UNITED NATIONS, Jul 13 2026 (IPS) Throughout 2026, the humanitarian crisis in...

Speaking in May at a conference in Washington, DC, Gregg Roman, executive director of the American right-wing Middle East Forum (MEF), took stock of the work his organisation has been doing over the past year in support of efforts aimed...

The European Union is failing to uphold international law after foreign ministers met in Brussels to discuss possible action against trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, Amnesty International has warned on Monday. The meeting came amid growing pressure...

GAZA, (PIC) Losses of the agricultural sector in the Gaza Strip reached about 3.49 billion dollars, as a result of the widespread destruction left by the Israeli war of genocide, which led to a near-total collapse in the agricultural productive infrastructure...

In late 2024, a lightning offensive led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the Islamist faction that broke from al-Qaeda, drove Bashar al-Assad from power in 11 days. Assad fled to Moscow , where he remains today. Syria is now governed by...

"I can't die now. I still need to [...] get Iran sorted out and do Israeli-Saudi normalisation." Those were among the final words of hawkish US Senator Lindsey Graham before he died on Saturday, according to Axios , highlighting his determination...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: An establishment Democrat warns primary voters that the progressive in the race is the GOP ’s dream candidate, and must be defeated at all costs if the party is to have any...

Yemen's internationally-recognised government said it struck Houthi-controlled Sanaa airport on Monday, its biggest flare-up in years with the rebels, who blamed the authorities' Saudi backers for the attack and threatened retaliation. The government said it had wanted to prevent an Iranian...

This story was originally published by Sentient . Three of the nation’s largest egg producers will pay $3.3 million to settle price-fixing allegations following a federal investigation. The anti-trust case alleges that the companies coordinated to artificially inflate the price of eggs...

- - - - Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash By now, you’ve heard of a concept called “luxury beliefs.” It’s a recurring thing these days, unfortunately, and it’s not difficult to identify. Luxury beliefs are, in essence, beliefs that are used to accumulate status...

Thunderous applause echoed through the San Francisco Opera House on June 26, 1945 as diplomats signed the United Nations Charter. It was hailed as a victory over war itself. Eighty-one years later, the UN has many accomplishments to celebrate. But...

On Wednesday , Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche heads to the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing to become attorney general. If the rule of law means anything, the Judiciary Committee should not send Blanche’s name to the Senate for confirmation. And...

Israel is in talks with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) over new restrictions on prison visits to Palestinian detainees , the organisation has told The New Arab, after Israeli authorities introduced sweeping new rules that rights groups...

Bilal Abdul Kareem has spent over a decade reporting in Syria. That Syria would be shed of fifty years of grasping control by a dictator’s family was unthinkable ten years ago, when the war that would eventually see the ouster of...

The Church of England has taken a "historic" step towards stronger solidarity with Palestinians after its governing body voted to hear the voices of Palestinian Christians and engage with a series of Kairos Palestine declarations, including a 2025 document that...

GAZA, (PIC) The citizen Suad Fares Al-Sayyed sits inside her displacement tent west of Gaza City, watching her children take turns with a gallon of water that is barely enough for one day, after a long journey of waiting among hundreds...

The Palestinian national soccer team isn’t playing in this year’s World Cup. But despite a national and global crackdown on pro-Palestinian protest and speech, the games have witnessed an outpouring of support for Palestinians. Fans, players, and coaches from the...

Tony Blair’s treasury secretary Alistair Darling told the prime minister that buying aircraft carriers was a “political” rather than a military choice and would mean less funding for social services. Declassified files from 1998, Blair’s first full year in government, contain...

By Sania Farooqui BENGALURU, India, Jul 13 2026 (IPS) For most individuals, the process of peace starts with the signing of a ceasefire or an agreement among politicians. However, those who live in regions experiencing violence understand that peace is made long...

With the much-anticipated release of the TV series Bait, our screens have not been shy of Riz Ahmed recently. His media team pulled out all the bells and whistles to ensure he was featured everywhere young audiences consume their information....

GAZA, (PIC) The Gaza Center for Human Rights has condemned Israel’s continued expansion of the “Yellow Line” in eastern Gaza, saying the move reflects a systematic policy to impose new facts on the ground by force, evade ongoing understandings and consolidate...

Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Al-Zaidi left Baghdad early on Monday, 13 July, for Washington on his first official visit since taking office less than two months ago, in a move widely viewed as one of the most significant political milestones...

Less than a month after signing a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) , the US and Iran have resumed military escalation, exchanged accusations of violations, and clashed over shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. However, despite declaring the MoU ‘over’, neither...

The United States should pursue a pullback no matter how much Europe spends on defense. By Luke NICASTRO Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that a plan by Secretary of...

LONDON, (PIC) British universities, which transformed during the war of genocide on the Gaza Strip into wide arenas for solidarity with the Palestinians, are no longer isolated from the ongoing political confrontation surrounding the Palestinian cause. After months of student sit-ins and...