The decades-old Camp David peace treaty between Egypt and Israel is facing renewed scrutiny after reports of Israeli military fortifications near the Egyptian border prompted Egyptian officials and analysts to question whether Israel is...
A few months after Hamas' October 7 attack , filmmaker Gillian Mosely was talking to a friend in Lebanon about the devastation unfolding in Gaza as Israel's genocidal campaign intensified. Like millions around the world, they were watching...
United States military officials said Iran launched seven ballistic missiles toward neighboring Gulf nations of Kuwait and Bahrain on Friday, hours after reporting four Iranian "one-way attack" drones were thwarted. In a statement posted to X, US Central Command...
WEST BANK, (PIC) A horde of extremist Jewish settlers attacked several Palestinian farmers in the village of Atuf, southeast of Tubas in the occupied West Bank, and detained seven of them on Friday evening. Local official Moataz Bisharat explained that settlers wearing...
In the social media era, gastronomy has become one of tourism’s most powerful drivers. As a result, the competitive battleground for hotels has shifted beyond rooms and suites to the restaurants and dining concepts they host. It is no surprise...
GAZA, (PIC) A Palestinian citizen was martyred and others were injured at dawn Saturday in an Israeli airstrike in Khan Yunis City, in the southern Gaza Strip, amid ongoing ceasefire violations in different areas. The airstrike targeted the Farwana family home on...
One of four female Palestinian students detained by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank is suffering from health complications but remains behind bars, her family and a prisoners' organisation have said. Sama Safi was one of four...
GAZA, (PIC) With a white beard and hair overcome by grayness, the elderly Palestinian Ahmed Khamis Abu Yunis appeared in a video clip documenting his training in al-Qassam Brigades, which published the clip as part of its documentation of Al-Aqsa Flood. The...
Attributed to the president of Namibia, the speech is still being shared as citizens across Africa and the Caribbean cry out for moral leaders willing to speak uncomfortable truths For a moment, the speech attributed to Namibia’s president travelled across the...
India is expanding ties with Greece, Cyprus, Armenia, and Israel to counter Turkey’s growing regional influence and its partnership with Pakistan. By strengthening defense cooperation and strategic partnerships, New Delhi is increasing its footprint in the Middle East and Eastern...
Modelling from US CDC shows Ebola spread could be on ‘dangerous trajectory’, but experts warn outbreaks can be very hard to predict Central Africa’s Ebola outbreak could spread to be similar in scale to the worst outbreak in history,...
Vladimir Putin used a phrase during the closing session of the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) that I think most non-Russians missed or ignored. He said, “Work, Brothers.” First, let me explain the context for Putin saying...
Australian lawyer Samuel Monkivitch has received a fine and suspended 18-month jail term after pleading guilty to charges relating to a dine-and-dash spree across the territory. Monkivitch appeared on Friday at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts after dining at five-star hotels...
In January 2026, the Chinese studio Jade Flame released a first-person interactive game on Steam called “Blood Money: Lethal Eden.” For US$8.99, you get to walk through the story of a trafficking victim trapped inside a scam compound in Southeast Asia....
Though Hong Kong has overtaken Switzerland as the number one in cross-border wealth management, rather than enter panic mode, Swiss banks seem unruffled — feeling it bolsters the case against looming tighter banking regulations. Financial Secretary Paul Chan holding a...
By: Manuel L. Quezon III - - - - The Philippine Senate Blue Ribbon Committee, the upper house’s primary investigative arm for handling allegations of corruption and abuse of power, has operated since its founding in 1950 on the kind...
Hongkongers sweated through the hottest day of the year on Friday, with the Observatory (HKO) recording a maximum temperature of 34.6 degrees Celsius at its headquarters. Yung Shue Wan, Lamma Island on Friday, June 5, 2026. Photo: HKFP. The mercury...
While Washington’s war with Iran drags on, month after month, without any end in sight, the world is witnessing the very real limits of US global power. As President Donald Trump lurches repeatedly from threats of devastation to promises of peace, it’s...
With the US increasingly distracted by the Iran war and China becoming more assertive, Taiwan is reshaping its defenses for a more uncertain era. This month, Reuters reported that Taiwan is executing a major strategic defense shift by dramatically expanding...
Islam Times - At the present critical juncture, the Middle East appears to stand on the threshold of a profound redesign of the region’s power equations. Current developments are no longer assessed within the framework of scattered military confrontations or...
South Korea: Kakao platform workers to strike over wages and bonuses; India: Maharashtra women workers rally in Mumbai to demand government status; Punjab state-operated service centre employees still on strike; Australia: 400 INPEX LNG production workers walk out in NT...
The United States military said it attacked radar sites on Iran's southern coast on Friday in the latest flare-up to threaten the ceasefire in the Mideast war. US Central Command said in a statement that its forces shot down...
Italy appealed on Friday for the release of two Italian pro-Palestinian campaigners detained in eastern Libya who, along with eight other activists, had been refusing food and water for four days. Israeli forces arrested 430 people on board 50...
Several Palestinian factions are set to discuss Gaza's future at a meeting in Egypt on Saturday, where the possibility of a role for Mohammed Dahlan, a rival of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, is likely to come up, sources...
There is a version of the West Bank that exists in official statements and diplomatic briefings — one of “security operations,” “clashes,” and a conflict contained by law, however imperfectly applied. And then there is the version described...
A seven-month-old Palestinian baby was killed, and his parents were wounded by Israeli gunfire in the Tel Rumeida area south of the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday evening, the Palestinian health ministry said. The ministry identified the...
France has opened an investigation into an alleged "war crime" and "torture" over Israel's treatment of French activists who took part in a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, a prosecutor's office said Friday. The probe was opened at the government's request,...
In the first quarter of 2026, seasonally adjusted GDP decreased by 0.2% in the euro area and by 0.1% in the EU , compared with the previous quarter, according to an estimate published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the...
GAZA, (PIC) Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said on Friday that Israel continues to carry out deadly attacks against civilians in the Gaza Strip, while mediators, guarantor states, and the “Peace Council” have failed to stop the bloodshed or even condemn it. In...
CAIRO, (PIC) A Hamas leadership delegation headed by Khalil Al-Hayya, the Movement’s leader in Gaza, arrived in Cairo on Friday evening for a new round of negotiations scheduled to begin on Saturday and continue for several days. In a statement, Hamas said...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Three members of the same Palestinian family were injured, including a seven-month-old infant in critical condition, after Israeli forces opened fire on their vehicle in the Tel Rumeida area south of al-Khalil on Friday. Palestine’s Health Ministry said medical...
Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone expose how the Soros-run Open Society Foundations plotted to “prevent the continuation” of Indonesia’s elected government by bankrolling opposition media, youth activists groups and lawfare operations to remove President Prabowo Subianto. Ever since the...
The massacre at Starobelsk three weeks ago was yet another example of the BBC and Western media serving as blatant propaganda outlets to distort and prolong the conflict. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us:...
There are titles one should never write. “The End of History” is one. “Permanent Plateau” is another. As such, anything with the word “permanently” in it may belong on the same list, because the arrow of time tends to find...
Islam Times - The Deputy Minister for Legal and International Affairs at the Foreign Ministry stated that, in negotiations over a draft understanding between Iran and the US, Tehran is insisting on the immediate release of at least 50% of...
The Houthis in Yemen reiterated support for their partners in the Iran-led Axis of Resistance, singling out Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza. While leaving the door open to further involvement in the ongoing regional conflict, the group stopped...
Ireland announced on Friday that it has banned Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich from entering the country, slamming their behaviour towards pro-Palestinian activists. Justice Minister Jim O'Callaghan "has instructed immigration...
Subscribe to our Lens on Sudan newsletter here . Armed with the heavy weaponry that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) continues to distribute among its allies across Darfur, the Salamat and Beni Halba tribes have been locked in days of...
Iran's World Cup football players have been granted visas to enter the United States, a White House official told Reuters on Friday, just 10 days before their first match in Los Angeles amid a conflict between...
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun accused Iran of using Lebanon as a bargaining chip in its negotiations with the United States on Friday, in some of his toughest criticism yet of Tehran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah. In a...
The US House of Representatives adopted an amendment on Thursday to increase funding for an agricultural research project with Israel, a decision that underlines how Washington’s scientific cooperation is increasingly entangled with Israeli institutions embedded in the illegal...
The US-Israel war on Iran not only severely impacted regional insecurity, geopolitics, diplomacy, energy and trade, but it also signified a breakdown of the traditional international relations (IR) vocabulary used to interpret it. Words like war, deterrence, self-help, national security, and...
Is the Western economy on the brink of a worrying collapse? There are different views on this, but there is enough real world evidence to suggest our failure to prepare could be something we seriously regret. Robin McAlpine is Head of...
Ahead of their sentencing, four Palestine Action activists are applying to remove the judge in their case over his alleged bias, after news broke in May that he intends to sentence them as terrorists. Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona...
The British government has awarded US spy tech firm Palantir a multi-million-pound contract to manage a national police database despite growing public concern about the secretive company's influence over UK public services. The £9 million contract will see the...
Santa Claus and satire, postmen and prisoners – these are tiles in the rich mosaic of stories produced by Palestinian playwrights, given the prompt to write on whatever they want. These stories form part of Tomorrow Will Be A Palestinian...
An Israeli lawmaker who chairs the Knesset Education Committee was filmed attempting to cut through the fence of an Arab school during class hours on Thursday, prompting condemnation from Palestinian political leaders and local officials. Tzvi Succot,...
Claude Gascon, interim CEO of the GEF and Aziz Abduhakimov, Minister of Environment of the Republic of Uzbekistan, at the closing ceremony of the Eighth GEF Assembly in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Gascon was presented with a traditional Uzbek outfit. Credit: Stella...
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