The family of former Zambian president Edgar Chagwu Lungu has launched an urgent court bid in Pretoria after his body was taken from a mortuary without their permission by the South African Police Service (SAPS) and Zambian authorities. Esther Lungu...
Trump sounds crazy, but he is not. He is, however, the product of an American empire that had gone completely mad. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Trump’s “crazy antics” on Truth Social,...
Fertilizer input stress is beginning to rebuild upstream as shipping disruptions continue to constrain flows through critical energy and chemical corridors. Recent developments across Middle Eastern routes, namely the blockades at the Strait of Hormuz, combined with tightening export conditions...
The acting head of Malawi’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) allegedly used confidential corruption case files involving senior opposition politicians as leverage to pressurise the parliamentary committee examining his conduct. The allegation is contained in a formal, seven-page complaint filed on 22 April...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) Arab Prisoners’ Day, observed annually on April 22, comes amid a marked rise in the number of Arab detainees in Israeli prisons. This follows Palestinian Prisoners’ Day on April 17, during what is described as one of the harshest...
Dozens of Israeli settlers belonging to the "Pioneers of Bashan" movement on Wednesday stormed the border between the Syrian village of Majdal Shams and Mount al-Sarakhat, and raised an Israeli flag over one of the village homes. Majdal Shams...
Iran and the US are continuing to dig in their heels in the ongoing standoff over the Strait of Hormuz , an issue which threatens to torpedo Pakistan's efforts to broker a long-term peace between the...
Iran and the US are continuing to dig in their heels in the ongoing standoff over the Strait of Hormuz , an issue which threatens to torpedo Pakistan's efforts to broker a long-term peace between the...
GAZA, (PIC) Israeli violations in Gaza do not begin at the moment of bombardment, nor do they end with the announcement of a ceasefire on paper. What unfolds on the ground tells an entirely different story: repeated gunfire, targeting of areas...
RAMALLAH / PNN/ A 29-year-old Palestinian man died on Wednesday evening after being shot during an attack by Israeli settlers on the town of Deir Dibwan, east of Ramallah, according to medical and local sources. The victim, identified as Ouda Atef Ouda...
Imagine a poker game in which one player has spent decades mastering every bluff, every tell, every hidden card. Their opponent, playing for the first time, relies on instinct, bravado and the vague hope that sheer force of will can...
Bethlehem / PNN/ More than 1,000 artists and production companies worldwide have called for a boycott of the Eurovision Song Contest, scheduled for May in Vienna, in protest against Israel’s participation. The statement, published on the website of the “No Music for...
BEIRUT / PNN / The Lebanese Red Cross announced on Wednesday evening the killing of journalist Amal Khalil in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon while she was carrying out her journalistic work. The Lebanese Ministry of Health said in an earlier...
GAZA, (PIC) At least five Palestinian civilians were martyred and several others were injured, including a woman and a girl, on Wednesday evening, in Israeli attacks in separate areas of the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Information Center (PIC) reporter said that five...
The bear has been provoked and has warned, repeatedly and explicitly, what it will do if the provocations continue. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The warning The Russian Defence Ministry’s publication of...
The Palestine movement in the United Kingdom has begun preparations for a Nakba Day march despite British police not yet approving the planned route. The Palestine Solidarity Campaign , one of the movement’s largest organisations, announced that this...
By Sania Farooqui BENGALURU, India, Apr 23 2026 (IPS) The period after Armenia’s 2018 “ Velvet Revolution ” maintains a fragile status which presents both substantial democratic and feminist achievements and rising internal and external international pressures. Gulnara Shahinian, Founder &...
Most of the US military bases and facilities in the Persian Gulf (listed below) have been hit by Iran during the first five weeks of the war. And many of these are no longer operating or have been effectively destroyed....
China’s top diplomat Wang Yi called for the complete eradication of scam centres in Cambodia during a meeting with Prime Minister Hun Manet in Phnom Penh, according to Beijing’s foreign ministry. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet (right) greets Chinese Foreign...
The BBC , Guardian and Sky News have repeatedly used language, tone and framing that dehumanises Palestinian casualties, a UK media monitor has said. By analysing 11,295 excerpts from 686 articles covering the same events across...
Donald Trump’s deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face a renewal of American bombardment was due to expire this week, but was extended at the last moment, this time with no defined time limit. But the...
Credit: UNFPA Lebanon By UN Population Fund CAIRO, Egypt, Apr 23 2026 (IPS) Six weeks into the 2026 Middle East military escalation, UNFPA Arab States Regional Office warns that its impact on 161 million women and girls living in conflict-affected areas...
It may sound hard to believe, but the almost trillion-dollar US military is struggling to fight cheap drones in its war with Iran. Iran has built a simple drone, the Shahed, with a motorcycle-type engine, loaded it with explosives and...
A labour NGO has urged the Hong Kong government to thoroughly investigate the death of a 59-year-old worker, who was killed by a heavy industrial component at the Kai Tak Hospital construction site. The construction site at Kai...
There is a certain grim symmetry to watching Washington, in the spring of 2026, once again flailing about in the Persian Gulf — blockading Iranian ports, rattling sabers over a strait it cannot fully control and dispatching delegations to Islamabad...
Even as U.S. President Donald Trump vows to usher in a “new dawn” for Cuba, possibly through military force, his administration is pursuing high-level diplomatic talks that seem to be producing some concrete results. Over the weekend, the New York Times...
In a sign of mounting pressure on European leaders over Israel’s violence in occupied Palestinian territories and beyond, more than a million EU citizens have called for suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement via a European Citizens' Initiative — a...
A two-year-old speech by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in which he suggested that Turkey should take a more assertive posture toward Israel, recently recirculated online as if it were a fresh threat of military attack against Israel. Pro-Israel X...
Chile is seeking to rescue the critical minerals from its mountains of mining waste, amid concerns this re-exploitation could damage communities and environments. Tailings are the mixtures of ground rock and water left behind after extraction at a mine, their deposits...
By: Tim Daiss - - - - Japan’s recent offer of US$10 billion in loans to Southeast Asian countries to secure oil supplies comes at a moment of heightened market anxiety. Oil prices have spiked to multi-year highs amid Middle...
Iran’s military might was never going to be a match for the US and Israel. So instead it turned to the highly effective weapon it has at its disposal – geography. Blocking off the Strait of Hormuz has shaken the...
A top envoy to US President Donald Trump has asked FIFA to replace Iran with Italy in the upcoming World Cup, The Financial Times reported on Wednesday. The plan is an effort to repair ties between Trump...
Britain and France have agreed a new three-year deal to stop undocumented migrants making the risky journey across the English Channel, according to a French interior ministry roadmap seen by AFP on Wednesday. Under the deal, France pledged...
Iran vowed on Wednesday not to reopen the Strait of Hormuz so long as a US naval blockade remained in place despite a ceasefire extension, as it announced the seizure of two ships trying to cross...
Gaza's civil defence agency said an Israeli airstrike targeted a group of civilians in a northern part of the Palestinian territory late on Wednesday, killing five people including three children. Gaza remains gripped by daily violence despite a 10...
As a candidate for president, Donald Trump infamously promised to end endless wars and be the president of peace. In office, President Trump has launched illegal regime change wars in Iran and Venezuela; bombed at least five other countries; threatened...
If the objective of the U.S. war upon Iran is to ensure that that country does not develop nuclear weapons, that goal was attained more than a decade ago through a far different approach than the one now being followed...
Fire hazards like substandard scaffold netting, flammable foam boards and workers smoking on site fell outside the purview of the Fire Services Department (FSD), a senior official has told a public inquiry into the deadly Tai Po blaze ....
The Israeli military said it apprehended and returned dozens of Israelis who had briefly crossed into Syria on Wednesday, with Israeli media reporting that the group were activists from a settler organisation. The military said around 40 people gathered...
An Israeli airstrike killed a Lebanese journalist and wounded another on Wednesday while they were working near the border with Israel, according to their employer and rescuers. The civil defence agency's press office said rescuers were "able to recover...
Turkey is making efforts to revive negotiations between Russia and Ukraine and bring together the leaders of the warring sides, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in a meeting in Ankara,...
A second French soldier died on Wednesday from wounds suffered in a weekend ambush against UN peacekeepers in Lebanon blamed on Hezbollah , President Emmanuel Macron said. A first soldier, staff sergeant Florian Montorio, was shot dead in the Saturday...
President Donald Trump has claimed victory in the war in Iran even before the conflict is over. But despite the killing of the country’s leader and seriously degration of its military, there is an argument being made that the Islamic...
GAZA, (PIC) Several civilians were injured on Wednesday after Israeli forces opened fire east of the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. Al-Awda Medical Complex in Nuseirat reported receiving three injured individuals following an attack by Israeli quadcopter drones targeting...
NEW YORK, (PIC) The Executive Board of UNESCO, at its 224th session, unanimously adopted a resolution concerning the follow-up on the implementation of the organization’s decisions regarding the situation in the Gaza Strip. The resolution highlighted the damage inflicted on hundreds of...
BEIRUT, (PIC) Lebanon’s National Council for Scientific Research has recorded damage to and destruction of more than 62,000 housing units as a result of Israeli operations during six weeks of war with Hezbollah, a Lebanese official said on Wednesday. During a press...
To figure out the future trajectory of Europe, Bulgaria is as good a place as any to start. On the edge of the European Union bordering Turkey and the Black Sea, the Balkan nation is, as of 2014, one of the...
The Palestinian health ministry said Israeli settlers shot dead Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, the third victim of deadly gunfire in two days. The ministry said 25-year-old Awda Atef Awawdeh was killed by settler gunfire...
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