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Criminally, the NATO aggressors are creating a boiling frog situation for Russia. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The European Union announced its 20th round of economic sanctions against Russia this week. The...

Business, Editorial, Europe

Washington has vowed to curb what it sees as the unauthorized extraction of intellectual property from United States-developed artificial intelligence models, sharpening its stance just as China’s DeepSeek unveiled its latest system. The White House Office of Science and Technology...

US-China, Anthropic, Artificial Intelligence

An Iranian delegation arrived in Pakistan on Friday for talks to revive ceasefire negotiations, two Pakistani government sources told Reuters . The delegation includes Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. Araghchi "will hold meetings with Pakistan's senior leadership to...

World

The Trump administration is placing economic sanctions on a major China-based oil refinery and roughly 40 shipping companies and tankers involved in transporting Iranian oil. The move, announced Friday and first reported by The Associated Press , makes...

World

Pravda.Ru editor-in-chief Inna Novikova conducted an interview with Professor, Doctor of Biological Sciences Galina Nechitailo to talk about risks of genetically modified products. From nutrition on Earth to the survival of our planet — a conversation about health, science, and...

Science

Extreme weather has swept across large parts of the United States this month, bringing dozens of tornadoes, flooding, softball-sized hail, and winds near 200 miles per hour. Although much of it hit Texas, the Midwest, and Vermont, the extreme weather...

Environment, climate change, Mariana Islands

Ernie Dosio, a 75-year-old vineyard owner, was hunting an antelope species in Africa when the incident occured - Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox - An American millionaire big-game hunter has died...

California, Hunting, Gabon

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday once again suggested the international community should show gratitude for President Donald Trump’s illegal war with Iran, which has led to a global oil supply shock and created the potential for food shortages in the...

Middle East, Block 3, Common Dreams

The Trump era outpaces expectations. It routinely shows us that we can be abandoned by more institutions, and become much more fascist, much faster than we thought. The worst things happening for the worst reasons can feel hacky...

Column, Courts & Law, Opinion

Gaza’s healthcare system, devastated by over two years of Israeli war, now requires $10 billion in investments over a period of five years, the World Health Organization said on Friday. Reinhilde Van de Weerdt, WHO Representative for the...

MENA

US software giant Palantir Technologies is expanding its work with several UK public bodies despite growing controversy over its political relationships, military contracts and the potential impact of its technology on privacy and civil liberties. Founded in 2003, Palantir builds...

MENA

The US is considering lifting sanctions on the repressive East African state of Eritrea as it looks to deepen its influence along the Red Sea coast, according to The Wall Street Journal . Trump's Africa envoy...

MENA

The closure of a UK Foreign Office unit tasked with documenting, recording, and verifying incidents and attacks where Israel has potentially breached international law has closed, citing funding cuts. The unit focused on Israeli activities in Gaza and, more...

MENA

BEIRUT, (PIC) The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has revealed documented testimonies indicating a pattern of Israeli forces looting civilian property in southern Lebanon, including breaking into homes and stealing money and personal belongings, in a serious violation of international humanitarian law...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli aggression

Iran's new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei was seriously wounded in the US-Israeli airstrike that killed his father and predecessor Ali Khamenei but is mentally sharp, the New York Times reported on Thursday. Citing several Iranian...

MENA

WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice dropped its investigation Friday of the Federal Reserve and Chair Jerome Powell over building renovation costs, a move that could open the door for new Fed leadership next month — and signaled a victory...

Finance, Block 3, Donald Trump

When plans were announced for an open-pit copper mine in the cloud forests of Ecuador in 2004, they were vigorously opposed by residents. The project risked damaging forests, water sources and the area’s rich biodiversity, they said. In a rare victory...

Business, Conservation, Mining

The manifesto published by Palantir Technologies last week is neither a technical document nor an economic vision. It is an explicit political document announcing a new phase in the trajectory of digital capitalism, a phase in which it has...

Activism, Business & Economy, Column

The Metropolitan Opera said Thursday that a major partnership with Saudi Arabia had fallen through, removing a key potential source of funds as it faces tough fiscal challenges. In September, the 143-year-old New York opera...

MENA

At the recent British Academy Film Awards ceremony in London, the BBC failed to edit out of the TV broadcast a guest hurling a racial slur at members of the cast of “ Sinners .” What seemed a...

Arts & Culture, Film, Opinion

A saint, a prophet, a dragon-slayer. Saint George has made his mark on religion, folklore, and as a national symbol. He is the patron saint of dozens of countries and cities, including England, Ethiopia, and Stockholm but Saint George probably never...

Offbeat

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is looking to eliminate funding in fiscal 2027 for the agency that serves as the primary federal funding source for libraries and museums nationwide. But congressional appropriators — who rebuffed similar efforts to...

Activism, Courts & Law, Education

Sign at No Kings demonstration. Credit: Peter Costantini By Peter Costantini SEATTLE. USA, Apr 24 2026 (IPS) This is the second part of a three-part commentary. Read Part 1: No Kings? Meet King Don and King John – Part 1...

Democracy, Headlines, Human Rights

After more than 15 years of collaboration with Dr. Eric Esteve and IPnest, SemiWiki has acquired the famed IP reports with Eric Esteve staying on through 2026 to ease the transition. Not only will SemiWiki provide the industry standard Interface...

IPnest, Semiconductor Services, alphawave

The " Boycott of Israel " law in Lebanon has moved to the centre of political debate amid the launch of Lebanese-Israeli negotiations at the US State Department in Washington on 14 April and their continuation on Thursday, 23 April,...

MENA

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has said his attendance at a sports event in Damascus which drew backlash over "suggestive" dance routines was unplanned, and that he had not been aware of the programme beforehand. His remarks came after...

Offbeat

Israeli soldiers have been accused of widespread looting of civilian property in southern Lebanon , with commanders failing to intervene, according to soldiers and officers. Troops taking part in the invasion of Lebanon have stolen significant amounts of property...

MENA

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that he had received successful treatment for early-stage prostate cancer, without specifying when the treatment took place. In a statement on social media, as his annual medical report was released, Netanyahu,...

MENA

Iran says it’s not in a rush to negotiate, but reality signals something else. Bill Roggio is joined by FDD Senior Fellow Miad Maleki — a former US Treasury sanctions architect — to break down why Tehran walked away from...

Generation Jihad, Long War Journal, Iran

The US Justice Department announced that an American special forces soldier has been arrested and charged for pocketing over $400,000 by betting, on the basis of classified information, on the timing of the Trump administration’s abduction of Nicolás Maduro earlier...

United States, Common Dreams, Finance

Syria says it disrupted a Hezbollah-linked plot and uncovered rockets near the Quneitra area of the Golan Heights. Officials also reported arrests tied to another terrorist cell, plus the seizure of 500,000 Captagon pills in a joint anti-smuggling operation with...

Long War Journal, News, Ahmad al Sharaa

ISTANBUL, (PIC) More than 500 civil society organizations in Türkiye have pledged support for a new international maritime initiative aimed at breaking the Israeli blockade on Gaza, according to organizers of the effort. Fatih Varol, a board member of the “Global Sumud...

News, Anti-siege journey, Gaza Strip

The European Union could agree to impose sanctions on Israelis involved in settler terrorism in the occupied West Bank "in the coming days", France's top diplomat said on Thursday. Israel has relied on the support of Hungary to block settler-related...

MENA

Or How Defeat in the Iran War Will Accelerate American Global Decline By Alfred McCOY Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Writing more than 2,000 years ago, the Greek historian Plutarch gave us...

Editor's Choice, Colonialism, Donald Trump

To me this is going to be one of the bigger Chicken Little moments in the history of semiconductors. Mostly because we are now a click driven society and the media is plagued by so called influencers that live and...

Foundries, Intel Foundry, elon musk

Israel is planning a large-scale assault on Gaza despite ceasefires in place, according to remarks from officials and recent reports. Despite the October 2025 ceasefire deal brokered by US President Donald Trump, Israel has continued to launch deadly...

MENA
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