Free speech is sacrosanct in the European Union – just not sacrosanct enough to protect Palestinians and their supporters. Read Article HERE Rima Hassan, a lawmaker under attack from the Israel lobby. (The Left in the European Parliament / Flickr)...
In an exclusive interview from prison, Sadia Moalim Ali, a 27-year-old rickshaw driver, tells of her treatment after being arrested for demonstrating against the government A woman being held in prison in Somalia for taking part in peaceful protests has described...
An Israeli soldier has been pictured desecrating a statue of the Virgin Mary in southern Lebanon in the latest attack on Christian religious symbols. The photo shows an Israeli soldier, with a cigarette in his own mouth,...
US President Donald Trump has predicted a swift end to Iran conflict as Tehran weighs US peace proposal amid deadly Israeli strikes on Lebanon. "They want to make a deal. We've had very good talks over the last 24 hours,...
A maintenance project at the fire-hit Wang Fuk Court should have been classified as high risk, but was instead categorised as minor works requiring no regular inspections, a government surveyor has told a public inquiry. A man walks past Wang...
BEIRUT, (PIC) At least three citizens were martyred on Thursday in Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon, amid ongoing ceasefire violations. The National News Agency reported that an Israeli drone targeted a car-carrier truck near the Safa gas station on the Mayfadoun road...
Hong Kong Free Press journalism has been nominated for three prestigious Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Awards – a new record for the newspaper. HKFP photojournalist Kyle Lam’s five shots of the Tai Po fire tragedy were...
The Strait of Hormuz crisis will be remembered for many things, but its most consequential legacy may be one that has barely entered the public debate. It has accelerated Asia’s geographic pivot away from the Middle East and toward a...
Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani has pointed to a strong possibility that the United States and Iran could reach a diplomatic solution , despite the publicly declared differences between them. In...
In Guinea-Bissau, malaria continues to place a heavy burden on families and health systems, underscoring the need for prevention, early treatment and stronger development-led responses. Credit: UNDP Guinea-Bissau By Michael Adekunle Charles and Aissata De NEW YORK, May 7 2026...
Students at GH Rusheshe School in Kucikiro District, Rwanda, identified through the monitoring system through the ZERO Out of School initiative. By Noor Muhammad Ansari DOHA, Qatar, May 7 2026 (IPS) In 2024, 273 million children, adolescents, and youth were...
An oil tanker from the Sakhalin-2 oil and gas extraction project arrived at Taiyo Oil’s refinery at Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, on May 5, signaling that Japan’s efforts to diversify away from the Persian Gulf have gone as far as to...
Jenin / PNN/ The Palestinian Ministry of Finance and Planning (MoFP), together with the Palestinian Water Authority (PWA), the European Union (EU), the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the German Development Bank (KfW), and the Jenin West Water Utility (JWWU), signed...
President Donald Trump abruptly paused “Project Freedom” — a US military operation to escort ships through the Iranian-blockaded Strait of Hormuz — roughly 36 hours after it began. According to NBC News , the reversal came after significant backlash...
Japan fired surface-to-ship missiles and sank an old warship in waters between the Philippines and Taiwan as part of major military exercises that include US forces, angering China. A Japan’s Type 88 surface-to-ship missile system is launched during the maritime...
When the missiles began arcing across the Persian Gulf in late February, falling on Riyadh’s Eastern Province as well as on American bases in Bahrain, Qatar, and the UAE, the editorial pages in Washington reached for a familiar refrain: now,...
On May 5, the rupiah closed at 17,445 per dollar — its weakest level on record — and by evening Bank Indonesia had tightened foreign-exchange rules for the third time in two months. Cash dollar purchases without underlying documentation are...
GAZA, (PIC) Five Palestinian civilians were martyred and others were injured, including the son of a top Hamas leader, in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday evening. According to media sources, an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City’s al-Daraj neighborhood claimed...
President Donald Trump abruptly paused “Project Freedom” — a US military operation to escort ships through the Iranian-blockaded Strait of Hormuz — roughly 36 hours after it began. According to NBC News , the reversal came after significant backlash...
Under conditions of the ongoing war on Iran that is disrupting the world economy and the Canada-US trade war that has hit our facility here in Hamilton, Ontario, for over a year now, Management aims to offload the crisis onto...
By: B A Hamzah - - - - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations next week will hold its 48th Summit at Cebu, the Philippines, amid geopolitical turmoil arising from the torture and killing of international law in Iran. ASEAN’s...
Israeli military aggression has “reshaped both the physical and ecological landscape” of southern Lebanon, according to the Lebanese report (which does not consider the impacts of Israel’s latest barrage of attacks this spring). In her foreword, Lebanon’s minister for the...
A senior surveyor at a government inspection unit has admitted alerting the renovation consultant ahead of site checks at Wang Fuk Court before the estate went up in flames, a public inquiry has heard. Andy Ku (centre), a senior maintenance...
Saudi Arabia and the UAE are both very much victims of the war, but each has an entirely different approach to finding a working solution – if the Trump-Iran deal holds. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK...
The war in Ukraine has entered a phase in which truces no longer resemble a bridge to peace, but rather a parallel battlefield. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su A Tactical Truce? The...
GAZA, (PIC) Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad described the course of negotiations over the Gaza Strip as long and complex, particularly given what he called dealing with a “criminal and fascist state committing genocide.” In statements to Al Jazeera Mubasher, Hamad said...
AL-KHALIL, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have leveled large areas of agricultural land east of al-Khalil and uprooted thousands of fruit-bearing trees during bulldozing ongoing for three days, under the pretext of expanding Route 60. The PIC correspondent reported that Israeli...
BEIRUT, (PIC) Several Lebanese civilians, including women and children, were killed and others wounded on Wednesday in Israeli airstrikes targeting towns in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley, amid continued ceasefire violations and escalating field confrontations. Hezbollah, in turn, announced a...
Donald Trump has paused “Project Freedom”, the US operation aimed at restoring commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. In a post on social media just days after the operation was first announced, Trump said he had made the decision...
When it comes to Ukraine’s largest corruption scandal, President Volodymyr Zelensky prefers to remain tight-lipped. Recent leaks, published by journalists and lawmakers over the past week, indicate that the largest corruption scandal affecting Zelensky ‘s inner circle has...
Despite clear calls for coordinated attacks, Meta did not act to safeguard these activist pages Originally published on Global Voices Advox Photo by Bastian Riccardi from Pexels. Used under a Pexels License . For the past...
When Stalin wanted to get rid of someone, he didn’t just have them executed with a shot to the back of the head. He attempted to remove the offending person from history as well by excising their name from encyclopedias...
GAZA, (PIC) The director of the Palestinian Center for Missing and Forcibly Disappeared Persons, Nada Nabil, said the center documented more than 500 cases of missing persons, while it received about 4,000 reports regarding missing persons in the Gaza Strip. Estimates...
Islam Times - Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations, responding to the proposed US draft resolution before the UN Security Council concerning the Strait of Hormuz, stated: "The only practical solution in the Strait of Hormuz is clear: a...
Healthy soils teeming microbes are the foundations of resilient, sustainable and global food production ecosystems. Credit: Fabiola Ortiz/IPS By Esther Ngumbi URBANA, Illinois, US, May 6 2026 (IPS) A newly published review in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment has...
Islam Times - The suspension of Donald Trump’s highly publicized “Project Freedom” just one day after its launch is not only a sign of Washington’s miscalculation regarding the feasibility and ease of implementing the plan; it also points to significant...
The entire world is laughing at the confusion in the White House, but the members of the Donald Trump administration remain unfazed – so deeply entrenched are they in a sense of exceptionalism that they can no longer substantiate. The Second...
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called today for the release of two Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) organizers who were kidnapped by Israeli forces last week and have been held in Israel since. Saif Abu Keshek...
Trump today seems torn between the prospect of ‘heavy’ military escalation and an extended Hormuz blockade Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Strategic Culture online journal Putting two sides...
Iran’s economy appears to be deteriorating sharply as the United States maintains its blockade of Iranian ports alongside a sweeping sanctions regime. The US Treasury has imposed a series of economic, trade, and military sanctions on...
President Donald Trump issued an ultimatum on Wednesday for Iran to accept a deal to end the war or face intense renewed US bombing, the latest in a series of abrupt policy shifts. "Assuming Iran agrees to give what has...
CAIRO, (PIC) Member of Hamas’s political bureau Mousa Abu Marzouk has accused the Israeli occupation regime and the US administration of failing to honor the signed agreements over the Gaza Strip, stressing that “this came as no surprise.” In recent press remarks...
Unfortunately, understanding how the world works now, making sensible suggestions and carrying them out require exactly those skills and competencies which western governments and western societies have sent the last generation or more carefully destroying. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack...
When Gustavo Petro said he would replace Colombia’s fossil fuel exports with avocados in 2018, his pledge was largely met with derision – and memes. Eight years on, Petro is president, and Colombia just hosted the inaugural international conference on...
As millions of Brits are set to choose their local councillor on Thursday, many factors, including the cost of living, the rise of the far right, and the Gaza war, are likely to influence voters' decisions. While the governing...
In an episode of the Rest is Politics podcast aired in February 2025, British academic and ex-politician Rory Stewart asked the then newly appointed President of Syria, Ahmad Al-Sharaa, to name a few countries he is taking inspiration from as...
Syria may be preparing to dissolve a controversial body set up to manage the assets and affiliate organisations of the former ruling Baath Party and oversee civil society groups and trade unions. A source in the Syrian Foreign Ministry...
Publishers Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette, Macmillan and McGraw Hill sued Meta Platforms in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, alleging that the tech giant misused their books and journal articles to train its artificial intelligence model Llama. The...
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