Iranian state television said on Wednesday a draft framework deal with the United States included a commitment to lift the naval blockade on Iran , restore traffic through the Strait of Hormuz and the US to withdraw its forces...
In the space of five days, Xi Jinping hosted both Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Beijing. Two summits, back to back, in the same capital, with the same host. The American president arrived with corporate executives and left with...
Picture three British Pakistani friends in their early twenties cruising down Manchester’s infamous Curry Mile — a.k.a. Wimmy Road, a.k.a. Wilmslow Road — about to embark on a lads’ night out in the North of England’s biggest halal...
Las Nuevas Rutas de la Seda/Iniciativa de la Franja y la Ruta (BRI) y sus ramificaciones, como la Ruta Marítima del Norte/Ruta de la Seda del Ártico, siguen más vivas que nunca. Únete a nosotros en Telegram , Twitter y...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has congratulated the Palestinian people and the Muslim Ummah on the occasion of Eid al-Adha, calling for the holiday to be a time to strengthen unity and solidarity, and to intensify all forms of support for...
360 Palestinian children and 84 women are spending the Eid al-Adha holiday in Israeli prisons, away from their families and suffering from deprivation, abuse and neglect. In total 9,400 Palestinians are in Israeli custody, amid reports of widespread...
What is hegemony? Is the United States losing it? By Michael BRENNER Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su HEGEMONY. “Hegemony, Hegemon everywhere — but not a ‘definition’ in sight.” Talk about American foreign policy is...
After years of pursuit, Israel killed the commander of Hamas’s armed wing, Izz al-Din al-Haddad , in Gaza last week. Describing him as a key architect of the 7 October 2023 attacks, Israel framed the "complex intelligence-driven strike" as a...
Elsa Persson Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su He has criticized Swedish minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin (M) and does not believe it can be called vandalism when paint is thrown at buildings in connection...
“It’s got no anything,” President Donald Trump said of Somalia in a recent xenophobic rant. “All they do is run around shooting each other.” As is true of so much with this administration, every accusation is also a confession. U.S....
US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace has "zero" cash in its official fund, despite member countries pledging billions of dollars, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. Trump first conceived of the board to rebuild Gaza, where...
After two decades, long-suffering Gunners fans from across the diaspora have been rewarded with a Premier League win. So why has this sometimes beleaguered team earned such adulation? - Don’t already get The Long Wave in your inbox? Sign up here...
Israel’s latest escalation in Lebanon suggests a deliberate strategy to separate its war on the country from wider regional diplomacy, raising questions about whether any forthcoming US-Iran deal can meaningfully put an end to Israel's attacks there. Israeli...
The I2U2 — that much-heralded “West Asian Quad” of India, Israel, the UAE, and the United States — is gathering dust. Launched with fanfare in July 2022 and billed as a transformative framework for regional integration, it has produced little...
Eid Mubarak and Hajj Mabroor to all our readers and your families, from the MuslimMatters team! May Allah accept our worship, our sacrifices, and increase us in remembrance of Him in these days. Related: The Best Actions for Eid al-Adh’ha [Imam...
The incapacity of a once great and vibrant civilisation to maintain an unequivocal commitment to the truth is a sad reflection of its current degraded condition. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su In...
GAZA, (PIC) After a bloody day in which 14 Palestinians were martyred in Israeli attacks, tens of thousands of Palestinians performed the Eid al-Adha prayer in makeshift prayer areas and streets near the rubble of bombed homes and mosques in the...
Over 100,000 worshippers performed Eid al-Adha prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem on Wednesday morning, amid a heavy deployment of Israeli occupation forces and arrests in the vicinity of the mosque. The Islamic Waqf...
The reported US-Israeli plan to install Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as an Iranian equivalent of Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez is shocking, but not because Ahmadinejad is unknown. He is one of the most recognisable figures in the Islamic Republic’s recent history. It is...
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that the future of the republic's membership in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) should be decided not by him personally, but by the people of Armenia. "I say that the Armenian people must have an...
Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Wednesday said a return to war with the United States was unlikely , while warning that the Islamic republic stood ready against any attack. The statement came a day after Iran accused the US of breaching...
Brazil’s government has quietly legalized abortion at any stage – no police report needed, no rapist punished. How a 2005 ordinance, revived under Lula, and a 2024 judicial maneuver bypassed Congress, the Constitution, and public opinion. Join us on Telegram...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed different areas of the West Bank last night and at dawn Wednesday, the first day of the Eid al-Adha holiday, raiding homes and kidnaping a number of Palestinian citizens. According to local sources,...
I get a lot of flak from progressives for being a “both sides” kind of commentator. I spend a fair amount of time criticizing leftist ideology and expounding on the very real failures of progressive governance, both of which have gotten much...
From Guantánamo to Palestine, Washington has a long, brutal history of silencing, blacklisting, and deporting rapporteurs who dared tell the truth. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su When the United States government decided...
Here are the latest updates from this morning: - Lebanon witnessed a bloody night on Tuesday as Israeli forces carried out massacres across the country's south and east, killing at least 31 people, including children, according to the Lebanese Health...
Muslim faithful took part in the climactic ritual of the annual Hajj pilgrimage on Wednesday, symbolically stoning the devil near Mecca. From dawn, crowds of pilgrims gathered in the valley of Mina, southeast of the holy city of...
BEIRUT, (PIC) Lebanon’s health ministry announced that 31 people were killed and 40 others were wounded on Tuesday in Israeli airstrikes targeting the country’s south, marking one of the deadliest days in recent weeks. Lebanese and international media reported that the strikes...
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. Tibetan Buddhist leader the Dalai Lama (centre) looks on as Penpa Tsering (right)...
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...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Tens of thousands of Muslim worshipers performed the Eid al-Adha prayer on Wednesday morning at the Aqsa Mosque despite Israeli police restrictions and assaults. The Islamic Awqaf Administration in Occupied Jerusalem said that 140,000 worshippers observed the Eid prayer...
Taiwan has just vaulted past India to become the world’s No. 5 stock market, powered by an AI boom that’s fused investor frenzy with the dominance of the planet’s most critical chipmaker. The catalyst is unmistakable: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., up...
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...
JENIN, (PIC) A Palestinian man was shot and killed by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Tuesday in Jenin refugee camp, north of the West Bank. The Red Crescent reported that its teams received a body from inside the camp and transferred...
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...
The Washington Consensus vs. African Lives: 50 Years of Robbery Under the Guise of Loans. “Forgiven” Debts vs. “Dead” Economies: The Anatomy of Western Deception For many decades, the West, led by the United States, has been putting on a...
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...
Earlier this month, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stood in front of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees to defend the Trump administration’s record-breaking US$1.5 trillion military budget proposal for FY2027. According to the White House, this 66% year-over-year increase...
Israeli forces struck Lebanon with more than 120 air raids on Tuesday, the sharpest single-day escalation since Israel resumed its bombing of the country in early March. The Lebanese health ministry said at least 31 people were killed and 40...
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...
While cybersecurity threats from large language models and amoral generative AI without guardrails make front-page headlines, Japanese engineering conglomerate Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) has established a physical AI development center in San Jose, California. The purpose of the facility is...
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...
Central music venue The Aftermath has appealed for support as it seeks to settle accumulated back rent as part of a newly negotiated lease agreement with its landlord. An event at The Aftermath in 2018. Photo: The Aftermath,...
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...
By: Khanh Vu Duc - - - - When General Secretary and State President Tô Lâm steps onto the stage at the 2026 Shangri-La Dialogue, Vietnam’s “bamboo diplomacy” will once again be presented as a model of strategic flexibility. Supporters...
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...
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is offering a HK$10,000 reward for information that may lead to the conviction of who may be responsible for the apparent mutilation and killing of a pet cat. The funeral parlour on...
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