A senior Iraqi security official told AFP news agency that a drone crashed near a group of US diplomats inside the grounds of Baghdad's airport earlier this week as they were escorting American journalist Shelly Kittleson freed...
A Chinese delegation is due to arrive in Islamabad on Saturday to assist Pakistani mediation in negotiations between the US and Iran , with Beijing potentially offering guarantees if the two sides reach...
NGO People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has staged a protest outside Hong Kong Technology Venture Company (HKTV) headquarters to condemn the “technology group’s years of horrific experiments in which dozens of animals have been decapitated, dismembered, and...
GAZA, (PIC) Thousands of families in the Gaza Strip are living in harsh humanitarian conditions, deprived of the simplest requirements for a dignified life, foremost of which is the availability of safe health facilities, as a result of the continuation of...
Senior US and Iranian leaders were in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Saturday for negotiations to end the six-week-old war , although Iran said talks could not begin without commitments on Lebanon and sanctions, casting doubt on the process. The...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Extremist Jewish settlers set fire to a Palestinian home, while the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out raids on several houses and kidnaped eight citizens in the West Bank at dawn Saturday. In Nablus, settlers set fire to a...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) A Palestinian young man sustained injuries on Friday evening after the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed the town of Birzeit in northern Ramallah. Local sources reported that Israeli forces fired rubber bullets at young men during a raid in the...
China has staked roughly US$145 billion in investments and construction contracts across the Middle East, while Iranian oil alone accounts for 13–14% of its imports. Yet Beijing maintains no permanent military presence in the volatile region, with its only overseas...
Hong Kong saw a “sharp rise” in illegal fuel trading last month, officials told AFP on Friday, as surging global oil prices put pressure on the import-dependent financial hub. A petrol station on March 13, 2026. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. The...
GAZA, (PIC) Six citizens were martyred at dawn on Saturday following an Israeli attack on al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. Local sources said that Israeli aircraft targeted a security checkpoint near Taiba Pharmacy in Block 9 of al-Bureij camp,...
Washington’s policy of unrelenting pressure on the Nigerian government, which began last October, has gained further momentum in the recommendations developed by members of the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee. In a report published...
US President Donald Trump’s rapid and dramatic turn from threatening to kill “an entire civilization” in Iran on the morning of April 7, 2026, to announcing a two-week ceasefire later that day left many observers with a sense of whiplash....
The photograph above tells even the casual observer that Iran is entering the next round of negotiations with the United States with its eyes wide open while holding the ultimate trump card… The Strait of Hormuz. The Iranians are shrewd...
Japan’s pacifist constitution is often cited as a constraint on what the nation of 123 million and the world’s fourth-largest economy can and cannot do militarily. The latest crisis in the Middle East has made that harder to ignore. As...
By Katie Forster, with Luna Lin in Beijing For weeks now, the global tech industry has been waiting for a major artificial intelligence launch from DeepSeek, seen as a benchmark for China’s progress in the fast-moving field. Chinese startup DeepSeek’s...
Israel said Friday it will not discuss a ceasefire with Hezbollah when it holds talks with Lebanon's government next week in Washington. The Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors spoke to set up the talks that will open Tuesday at the State Department. Israel...
US$68,844 (HK$539,26 has been bet on prediction market platform Polymarket as to whether jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai will be released by July. The wager is among several other predictions relating to Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, though...
By John Nguyet Erni Two US jury verdicts against Meta and YouTube last month crystallise, but do not resolve, the promises and contradictions of our legal commitments to both freedom of expression and the protection of children online. A smartphone...
Donald Trump's Board of Peace has received only a tiny fraction of the $17 billion pledged for Gaza, preventing the U.S. president from pushing ahead with his plan for the shattered Palestinian enclave's future, sources told Reuters . Ten days...
The U.S. Department of Energy said on Friday it had loaned 8.48 million barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to four oil companies, the second allotment under the Trump administration's effort to curb fuel prices that have...
A group of bipartisan lawmakers in the United States has introduced legislation to tighten restrictions on advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment, seeking to block Chinese chipmakers from accessing deep-ultraviolet (DUV) immersion lithography systems, as well as related parts and maintenance services....
Pope Leo XIV amplified his condemnation of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran on Friday, saying that “God does not bless any conflict” and certainly doesn’t side with those who drop bombs. Leo spoke during a gathering of top bishops of the...
Iran has managed to contain the aggressor with formidable courage and power. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su If diplomacy is to succeed, whether in ending the conflict in Ukraine or in the...
Subscribe to our Lens on Sudan newsletter here . A series of announcements this week has fleshed out the April 2 decision by Transitional Sovereignty Council Chair and military Commander-in-Chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan to reshuffle the Sudanese military’s high command....
A critique of how tech culture and venture capital are reshaping Muslim priorities, urging a return to spiritually grounded progress. “You will tread the same path as was trodden by those before you inch by inch and step by step...
Islam Times - More than 70 Democrats in Congress called for US President Donald Trump’s removal over his blistering threats against Iran and handling of the military operation in Iran, a dynamic that is forecasting the aggressive posture many in...
What began as isolated reports quickly turned into a mass mortality crisis that has reignited the debate on sustainable agriculture. In late 2025, beekeepers in Uruguay began reporting that their bees were dying. Some 15,000 hives and more than...
South Korea’s decades of sacrifice are colliding with a more transactional United States – and that collision is raising hard questions about reciprocity, reliability and strategic autonomy. In 2013, South Korean President Park Geun-hye stood before a joint session of...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Quds Foundation has called on the Arab and Islamic world, both at the official and popular levels, to take urgent action to confront the escalating threat of the Judaization of Aqsa Mosque. It emphasized the need for...
US and Israeli forces conducted an impressive campaign that significantly degraded Iran’s primary elements of military power. The operation did not, however, destroy these capabilities outright or eliminate Iran’s ability to project meaningful power outside of its borders. The post...
GAZA, (PIC) Doctors Without Borders has warned that the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip has not ended the worsening humanitarian crisis, stressing that residents continue to face harsh living conditions and severe shortages of basic necessities months after the truce began. In...
Legal action follows war of words with Sentebale chair after Duke of Sussex’s resignation as patron The Duke of Sussex is being sued by Sentebale in the latest twist in the bitter fallout over the African charity he co-founded. The charity has...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) A Palestinian resident of Occupied Jerusalem was forced on Friday to begin emptying his home near the Aqsa Mosque in preparation for demolishing it himself under an order issued by Israeli occupation authorities to avoid the high costs...
Failure, for Netanyahu, is never an endpoint. It is a trigger. With no victory to claim and no strategic gains to present, he turned—once again—to Lebanon. Dr. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist, author and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle....
Amir Saeid Iravani, Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations, addresses the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East. Credit: UN Photo/Manuel Elías By Oritro Karim NEW YORK, Apr 10 2026 (IPS) The...
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer insisted on Friday that NATO was "in America's interests" as he ended a three-day visit to the Gulf to discuss bolstering the "fragile" Middle East truce. Starmer's comments followed US President Donald Trump's...
Are we facing a global religious war? Or is this an opportunity to reestablish the relationship between revolutionary politics and religion? Paweł Mościcki is a professor at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the author...
Is the Chinese economic exceptionalism over? And if yes, will it simply join the average? Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His new book, The Visions of inequality , was published October 10, 2023. Cross-posed...
Israel’s Shin Bet chief David Zini has been accused of minimising settler violence against Palestinians, with ex-military and intelligence officials sounding the alarm over growing extremism. A report published by Haaretz on Thursday said staff within...
The winter of 2025 was a particularly cold one for some households in rural Hebei. With government subsidies coming down and heating costs going up, people had to think carefully about when to put the heating on and how high...
Syria’s foreign minister has voiced support for the disarmament of Hezbollah while condemning Israel’s ongoing strikes on Lebanon and sharply criticising Iran’s role in Syria, in remarks that highlight shifting regional dynamics amid a fragile ceasefire...
Israeli settlers have increasingly tried to smuggle animals to sacrifice at the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in recent days, around the Jewish holiday of Passover, triggering widespread fears of an attempt to take over one of the holiest sites in...
The men, sent to the southern African country in July, have been denied in-person counsel for nine months Four men deported by the US to Eswatini and denied in-person legal counsel for nine months while detained in a maximum security...
Many in the Middle East and the world want to believe that we are on the brink of peace, but it is worth reminding ourselves why we find ourselves here in the first place. In simple terms, we are here because...
His name is “Fossi.” He’s depicted as a swirl of gray smoke. And he’s liable to lose his temper whenever his classmates blame him for the climate crisis. Fossi is the protagonist of “Our Hidden Powers: The Big Switch,” a children’s...
The UAE has stepped in to provide financial support to Bahrain as blowback from the war in the Middle East raises pressure on the island nation's economy. The two countries on Wednesday signed a currency swap agreement...
French energy giant TotalEnergies said Friday that it had shut down a major refinery on the eastern Gulf coast of Saudi Arabia after it was damaged during the US-Israeli war on Iran . The Saudi energy ministry had...
Last June , at a conference and retreat center not far from downtown Berkeley, California, around 100 people gathered to mull a new, techno-centric future of human reproduction. There was the physics professor moonlighting as a biotech company executive. There...
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