Ongoing popular protests in several areas of southern rural Hasakah , in northeastern Syria, have prompted authorities to announce urgent measures to address several service and living conditions issues, foremost among them the fuel crisis . Ahmed Al-Hilali, deputy...
When India placed the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) in abeyance last year, attention naturally focused on the diplomatic and legal consequences of the decision. Yet the more consequential question may lie elsewhere: what happens when transparency begins to disappear from...
Hello! Welcome to our live coverage. Here are the key updates: - The United States military's Central Command (CENTCOM) launched attacks overnight "against multiple targets in Iran", saying the strikes were in "self-defence". These strikes came after US President Donald Trump...
Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority has suspended a trainee doctor and a resident physician after their alleged professional misconduct went viral on social media. Caritas Medical Centre. File photo: GovHK. In a statement issued on Wednesday evening, the HA...
AI and cloud services do not run in the air. They need land, power, water, cooling, fiber, permits, and a lot of physical infrastructure. Thailand is now seeing more of that demand land inside its industrial estate ecosystem. Thailand is...
On June 7, parliamentary elections were held in Armenia, as a result of which the ruling party can form a new government. What distinguished the 2026 elections, and is a parliamentary crisis looming? Crisis and frustration after military defeats After...
Global trade has once again been shaken by a dramatic shift in US protectionist policy, and Indonesia is once again in the crosshairs. The change has been driven by a series of targeted investigations conducted under Section 301 of the...
Oil Tanker Trump has reignited the war with Iran and it is going to be ugly. BORZZIKMAN reports that Iranian and Russian sources say that Iran destroyed 12 F-35 combat aircraft last night that were sheltered at a Jordanian airbase....
The military junta has detained thousands of political prisoners since the 2021 coup, and a pattern of gender-based abuses is becoming clear In August 2021, news spread across a Myanmar protesters’ network that Thazin*, an activist and former university student, had...
Cuba has been under a US trade embargo since the Eisenhower administration, although it was President John F. Kennedy who implemented a comprehensive embargo on all trade with Cuba. And while every subsequent administration has tried since to cause pain and suffering to...
US authorities on Wednesday seized 13 internet domains they suspect were used by Chinese agents to obtain classified information from Americans with security clearances. The US Department of Justice headquarters building in Washington, DC. Photo: US Department of Justice. Last...
Buried deep inside a 192-page intelligence authorization bill is Section 622, titled “United States-Israel Intelligence Sharing Enhancement.” It would require the president, acting through the director of national intelligence and as necessary the secretary of defense, to “expand and enhance intelligence sharing...
By: Toh Han Shih - - - - CMIOs Singaporean authorities are alleging foreign interference in the country’s domestic affairs, stoking racial divisions with South Asians as targets via a China-based platform allegedly sowing racial discord with online subject matter....
The Trump administration’s targeting of the Detroit metro area, the historic heart of the American auto industry and home to nearly a quarter million manufacturing workers, makes it clear that ICE is not engaging in narrow immigration enforcement but a...
A deadly blaze engulfed seven residential towers at Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po on November 26, 2025, killing 168 people. The names of the victims were released on June 10, 2026 by the judiciary, and are listed...
The United States began a fresh round of strikes against multiple targets overnight in Iran, the US military said on Wednesday, hours after President Donald Trump vowed new attacks if no peace deal is secured. "The strikes...
When the US-Iran conflict escalated earlier this year, the immediate concern centered on oil prices and the Strait of Hormuz. But the real danger was never confined to crude oil. The crisis has evolved into a broader energy, logistics, fertilizer,...
It all started with a call to my family in a displacement camp in northern Gaza. Since internet lines rarely stay connected, I managed to send a message to the widow of my cousin – who was killed along with...
French President Emmanuel Macron Wednesday said his Ukrainian counterpart would attend the G7 summit next week in France to "rebuild consensus" on support for Ukraine, while leaders of four Arab states would be invited for talks on the...
Two friends who restore classic buses in Hong Kong are being forced to abandon their HK$1 million plans to resurrect a vintage double-decker. A 1963-64 China Motor Bus double-decker is destined for recycling, its owners say. Photo: The Icon of...
Paper authors Hassan Ugail, Jan Ritch-Frel, Irina Matuzava, and David G. Stork have published their work in PLOS One Journal . You can read their article, “Verification of historical sketches via one-class learning on compact feature representations,” on the PLOS website . The...
Following the high-profile eliminations of two Hamas military wing leaders, the Israeli military turned to targeting lower-level officials in the group who are leading its rearmament push, as well as members of other Gaza terrorist organizations. The post IDF targets...
The UN nuclear watchdog's 35-nation Board of Governors passed a US-backed resolution on Wednesday telling Iran to declare its remaining enriched uranium stocks and let inspectors verify them, which could complicate Washington's talks with Tehran. The move came within...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Israeli police forces on Wednesday demolished a Palestinian home in the Beit Hanina al-Tahta neighborhood north of Occupied East Jerusalem, leaving an entire family homeless. Local sources said Israeli troops, accompanied by heavy machinery, raided the area and demolished...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement said that the Israeli Supreme Court’s decision to reject a petition against the so-called “International Organizations Registration Law” is further evidence of the Israeli judiciary’s complicity in restricting the work of humanitarian and international organizations. In a...
La terra sta riprendendo quello che il mare aveva preso. E lo Stretto di Hormuz — quella sottile linea d’acqua tra l’Oman e l’Iran — è il punto in cui la storia ha scelto di voltare pagina. Segue nostro Telegram...
Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert gave a keynote speech about the Greek spyware scandal at an event hosted by Eteron think tank in Athens in May. He described how the Citizen Lab helped bring to light the use...
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 25 May 2026. Mali’s media regulator has ordered the immediate suspension of the Saudi-owned television channel Al Arabiya , pulling it from all licensed broadcast packages in the country over...
June 10 marks a sweet celebration cherished by dessert lovers around the world — World Ice Cream Day. Among the many holidays dedicated to sweets and desserts, this one undoubtedly enjoys universal appeal. The occasion serves as a reminder of the...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, welcomed on Wednesday the report issued by Amnesty International, which documented the crime of ethnic cleansing targeting Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. The Movement said, in a press release, that the report confirms...
When Argentina lifted the World Cup in Qatar in 2022 , millions of supporters celebrated in the streets. Four years later, as the country heads into the 2026 tournament as defending champion — and possibly Lionel Messi's final World Cup...
Production in industry April 2026 (in real terms, provisional +0.4% on the previous month (seasonally and calendar adjusted) -0.5% on the same month a year earlier (calendar adjusted) March 2026 (in real terms, revised -0.1% on the previous month...
Key findings - Fifteen international doctors told de Volkskrant that during their work in hospitals in Gaza, they saw children aged 15 years and younger with gunshot wounds to the head or chest. According to the most conservative count,...
The Gulf has been a key target for Iranian missiles and drones. Iran has struck infrastructure, oil and gas installations, civilian areas, and US military bases. These attacks have struck at the heart of the Gulf's image as a safe and...
One of Gaza’s most renowned doctors, Hussam Aby Safiya, is set to appear in court on Wednesday, after being held by Israel for over 17 months without charge or trial, as his son warns he could...
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 31 May 2026. Burkinabè security forces arrested Imam Dr Mohamed Ishaq Kindo, one of the country’s most influential Sunni scholars and vice-president of the Sunni Movement of Burkina Faso, on May...
This phase of the Iranian conflict likely will only end when the West falls off the approaching economic cliff Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Stategic Culture...
War and profit are intimately tied together. The billionaires cannot secure their profits without war, or the threat of it – whether against workers at home or against other nations abroad Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on...
The street battles against the abuses by ICE are the front lines of our struggle to prevent the consolidation of the police state. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The...
The problem with any scheme of normative thinking is that it is essentially proof against the disruptive effects of all learning and all experience. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: The Chancellery of the Prime...
Rights groups argue that recent European sanctions on extremist Jewish Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank fall short of real accountability and fail to put an end to attacks on Palestinians. The foreign ministers of Britain,...
Peru’s two presidential contenders are offering starkly different visions of the country’s foreign policy on Palestine and Israel – and the result of their razor‑thin race could shift the regional balance in Latin America’s diplomacy over Gaza. Roberto Sánchez, a leftist...
The UK government is under mounting pressure to ban an event that has advertised the sale of illegally occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank. The private, invitation-only Great Israeli Real Estate Event is scheduled to be held in London on...
Years ago, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev described Baku’s relationship with Israel as an iceberg, with 90% hidden below the surface. Last week, CNN attempted to pull the hidden portion into full view. Notably, the report relied on...
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres warned Wednesday of the risk of return to "full war" in the Middle East after Iran and the United States traded strikes . His intervention came after Iran and the United States once...
Volodymyr Zelensky is withholding details of recent discussions with Washington regarding air defense supplies because of potential media fallout and possible political conditions attached to future assistance, according to Semyon Boykov, editor responsible for international and domestic politics at Izvestia. Speaking...
In her Sawiris award-winning novel, Mariam, It's Arwa , Areej Gamal explores the interweaving of past and present in the lives of two young Egyptian women. Mariam and Arwa are each burdened by grief and loneliness, yet a chance encounter...
- - - - Photo by William Gibson on Unsplash For the left, it’s important that you do more than view billionaires with skepticism. You have to actually hate them. You have to blame them for every...
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