Japan’s Machida Zelvia advanced to the final of the Asian Champions League Elite by beating Shabab Al-Ahli of the United Arab Emirates 1-0 on Tuesday. Yuki Soma's first-half goal secured a meeting with defending champion Al-Ahli of Saudi...
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Yes, it is that time of year again, the 2026 TSMC Technology Symposium kick-off event in Silicon Valley. TSMC has never been in a better position to forecast the future of semiconductor technology and the industry itself. TSMC closely collaborates...
The Israeli Knesset voted 62 to 48 to approve a law that makes the death penalty the default punishment for Palestinians convicted in military courts of killing Israelis. The result is a system of capital punishment...
An Algerian bookshop that was raided and temporarily shut by police over a signing by the sociologist Fatma Oussedik has reopened ahead of schedule, the book's publisher said in a statement on Tuesday. The publisher, Koukou Editions, had said over the...
Armed men burst into the apartment where student Mohamad lived with his Alawite family in the Syrian city of Jableh on March 7 last year and forced the 20-year-old and his father to lie face down as they...
The dollar edged up against the euro on Wednesday on lingering concerns about the ongoing US-Israeli war with Iran , even after President Donald Trump extended the ceasefire to give Tehran more time to present a unified proposal for...
Israeli attacks on Lebanon during its latest war have damaged or destroyed more than 50,000 housing units in the country , a government estimate found on Wednesday. "Within about 45 days (of the war), we had 17,756 destroyed housing...
There are no children in the Afghan border village of Barikot, where the school has been smashed by shells and the playground sits deserted after weeks of war with Pakistan. Almost all of the 8,000 residents fled after the conflict erupted...
A new report finds the U.S. has fired at least 45% of its critical Patriot missile interceptors, and over 53% of its THAAD interceptors during its war on Iran. The report, released by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)...
Iran's judiciary denied on Tuesday that eight women arrested over protests that shook the Islamic republic this year were at risk of execution, after US President Donald Trump urged Tehran to release them to help negotiations. Rights groups have...
Sitting along the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Philippines’ volcanic geology features porous rocks that allow water to move easily underground and flow into its ocean. These hidden flows – called submarine groundwater discharge – are known to maintain balance in...
Tehran has refused to take an official position after US President Donald Trump’s announcement of an extension of the US ceasefire with Iran, while conditioning further negotiations on the lifting of the US naval blockade. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...
Alastair Crooke – Markets prematurely may celebrate, but the next phase likely will be more, bigger war
Full ArticleTrump’s tariff war will be seen in retrospect to be peanuts to the threatened strike on China’s supply lines. Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Strategic Culture online journal...
The “Total Shutdown Tuesday” protests opposed a sharp fuel price hike, raising petrol prices by over 16 percent and diesel by more than 24 percent. The hike, driven by disruptions to global oil supplies by the US-Israeli war against Iran,...
WEST BANK, (PIC) A Palestinian young man was martyred on Wednesday evening, succumbing to serious injuries from live bullets fired by armed Jewish settlers during their terrorist attack on the town of Deir Dibwan, east of Ramallah in the occupied West...
Signatories of the open letter supporting the boycott from No Music For Genocide include Brian Eno, Massive Attack, Paloma Faith, Paul Weller, Kneecap, Hot Chip, Of Monsters and Men, IDLES, Primal Scream, Sigur Rós, Young Fathers, Mogwai, Black Country New...
Top British universities been revealed to have paid a private firm to "spy" on pro-Palestine protesters and academics, drawing backlash from activists. Twelve institutions, including the University of Oxford, King's College London (KCL), University College London, the London School...
Israeli involvement in the delivery of humanitarian aid to a besieged south Lebanon border village has raised questions over the relationship between Israel and the organisation behind the shipment, following an investigation by The New Arab. The...
There will not be a negotiated settlement to the Iran war. It will have to be fought out to a conclusion, whatever that might be. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: Screen Grab I’ve written on...
As of my recent posts on quantum computing (QC), superconducting QC is the leading technology contender, exemplified in systems from IBM, Google, and Fujitsu. Other technologies such as ion trap, neutral atom, photonic and quantum dot have generally been viewed...
Safe cities cannot be built on a foundation of exclusion. They are built on trust, dignity, and the right to exist without fear. Credit: Shutterstock By ElsaMarie D’Silva and Harish Iyer MUMBAI, India, Apr 22 2026 (IPS) On 30 March,...
Without understanding the astonishing network of power exercised by the United Arab Emirates you would have no idea why the UAE was hit particularly hard by Iran in recent weeks. Nor would you know what fuels chaos from Libya to...
The United States blocked a plane carrying nearly $500 million in banknotes from delivering the cash to Iraq, US media reported on Tuesday, piling pressure on Baghdad to fight Iran-backed groups. The Wall Street Journal reported that...
Colombian mercenaries backed by the United Arab Emirates assisted Sudan’s RSF paramilitary group in seizing El Fasher in 2025, contributing to war crimes committed during the 18-month takeover, a new report has found. An investigation...
US efforts to install a post-Hamas administration in Gaza are in danger of unravelling as obstruction by Israel threatens to collapse the nascent Palestinian committee before it even enters the devastated territory. At least four of the...
The United Arab Emirates says it has dismantled an Iran-linked “terrorist organisation” targeting the Muslim Shia community of the UAE. But the evidence made public so far tells a different story — one that raises serious questions about whether these...
Syrian and Palestinian rights monitors have denied reports of a fresh wave of arrests targeting Palestinian refugees in Damascus, clarifying that the detentions being discussed took place about a week ago and that no new campaigns have...
Janet Fordham died in crash after travelling to see man who claimed he would help to recover money from earlier scams A British woman who was scammed out of up to £1m in a string of so-called romance frauds died in...
As towns and villages across Vietnam lined their streets with Lunar New Year decorations, including spring flowers and red-lettered banners, in Vinh Tuong, celebrations were sparse. No new furniture was bought; no house renovation or repainting was allowed. With most men...
The Rise of a European Restrainer
Full ArticleRestrainers in the West have found themselves homeless. President Donald Trump ’s catastrophic decision to launch a war against Iran has displaced the non-interventionist voices on the American right . In Europe, meanwhile, the bland Atlanticist centrism and,...
No peace in sight: When will Sudan's war end?
Full ArticleWhen Sudan's war broke out on 15 April 2023, few imagined it would still be burning three years later . Fewer still imagined the scale of what it would become: one of the worst humanitarian crises on the...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The number of Palestinian women in Israeli jails has surged to 90 prisoners as of April 2026, according to the Palestine Information Center (Mo’ta). In a statement released on Wednesday, Mo’ta explained that most Palestinian female prisoners are held...
The UAE's ambassador to the US has mounted a defence of the country's economy after US President Donald Trump appeared to confirm reports that the Gulf state was exploring emergency liquidity options to deal with the fallout of...
Blockading the Strait of Hormuz
Full ArticleAt its narrowest point, the Strait of Hormuz is barely 33 kilometers. Because of its location in the middle of the oil-rich Middle East, the strait can disrupt global energy flow and halt economies. After the United States and Israel launched...
Reality is what the left wants to believe it is
Full Article- - - - Photo by Amanna Avena on Unsplash A couple of weeks ago, Savanah Hernandez, a Turning Point USA reporter, was assaulted by three members of the same family, plus one’s boyfriend, at an anti-ICE...
A Palestinian Authority team tasked with looking into the fate of more than 11,000 Palestinians missing and forcibly disappeared from Gaza commenced its work on Tuesday. The first meeting was chaired by Justice Minister Sharhabil al-Zaeem , in...
A Bill That Would Make Joseph McCarthy Blush
Full ArticleRepublicans are at it again , and it’s hard to overstate how chilling this is and what it tells you about the direction people in this party want to take America. Texas Rep. Chip Roy is preparing to introduce legislation he’s...
UK politicians call for sanctions on Israeli charity
Full ArticleMPs have called for sanctions against an Israeli charity, after it was caught on camera by Declassified offering to help UK citizens move to an illegal settlement in the West Bank. Last week, our undercover investigation revealed...
An interesting article by Nazzareno Rossetti, published in How2Power Today , explores the transition from designing traditional unidirectional voltage regulators to bidirectional converters essential for modern energy management systems (EMSs). These systems optimize energy flow and storage...
President Donald Trump extended a two-week ceasefire for his and Israel’s war on Iran, but the US leader also said that a naval blockade of the Mideast nation will continue, and fears of fresh attacks remain high. Two weeks after threatening to take out the...
GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 72,562 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Wednesday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...
Clean drinking water runs from a tap in Senegal. Credit: UN Photo/Evan Schneider The African Union has pronounced their theme for 2026 to be: ‘Assuring Sustainable Water Availability and Safe Sanitation Systems to Achieve the Goals of Agenda 2063’. In...
The international legal team representing detained US-Kuwaiti journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin has issued an urgent appeal over his safety, saying he has now been held in Kuwait for 51 days amid mounting concern over prison conditions and...
Nancy O’Brien Simpson Friends, be real. What would you say if Russia dropped a nuclear bomb on Kyiv and called it “peace”? Boom! Russia dropped the big one. Every child, every grandmother, every ordinary life gone. Would you think that was...
Mexico is co-hosting the 2026 World Cup even as the country has been shaken by a wave of cartel violence and revelations of mass graves. Credit: Shutterstock By Juanita Goebertus and Delphine Starr BOGOTÄ, Apr 22 2026 (IPS) This week...
Israeli forces, settlers storm W. Bank areas, amid restrictions on Palestinian movement
Full ArticleWEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) and extremist settler groups intensified their raids and violations in different areas of the West Bank on Wednesday, amid arrests in some areas. In Bethlehem Governorate, settlers, under the protection of Israeli forces, stormed...
Every year on April 22, the world celebrates International Mother Earth Day — a truly global event dedicated to our shared home and the urgent need to protect it. The Origins and Global Significance of Earth Day The United Nations officially...
The Trump administration is in talks with the Democratic Republic of Congo to resettle 1,100 Afghans who have been stranded in Qatar awaiting US visas, according to an advocacy organisation that works on their behalf. The discussions underscore the...
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