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Members of La France Insoumise (France Unbowed Party) and dozens of their supporters, who gathered outside the National Assembly building last month, celebrated the removal of the Yadan bill from the parliamentary agenda. The proposal was introduced by...

Perspectives

Israel's parliament is expected to vote on Wednesday on a bill to dissolve itself, potentially bringing the next national election forward by a few weeks, which surveys predict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will lose. When is the ballot? An...

MENA

Credit: Bibbi Abruzzini/Forus - Rabat, Morocco By Silla Ristimäki, Miguel Santibañez, Emeline Siale Ilolahia and Aoi Horiuchi HELSINKI, Finland / SANTIAGO, Chile / SUVA, Fiji / TOKYO, Japan, May 20 2026 (IPS) Just four years of the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable...

Active Citizens, Armed Conflicts, Civil Society

The Sharjah Ports, Customs and Free Zones Authority announced on Sunday the launch of an integrated logistics corridor linking ports in Sharjah with Omani ports , most notably Sohar Port, via the emirate’s land crossings. The move has...

MENA

Credit: Amnesty International Vanuatu has spearheaded a UN General Assembly resolution, expected to be tabled on May 20, 2026, to endorse and operationalize the 2025 International Court of Justice (ICJ) Advisory Opinion, which confirmed that nations have binding legal duties...

Asia-Pacific, Climate Change, Climate Change Justice

India has withdrawn its bid to host the 2028 United Nations climate summit, a move that indicates a recalibration of its global climate engagement even as it projects itself as a leader in renewable energy and climate action. India’s environment...

Asia-Pacific, Climate Action, Climate Change

Taiwanese author Yang Shuang-zi and translator Lin King won the International Booker Prize on Tuesday for “Taiwan Travelogue”, a playful postcolonial novel with a culinary bent. Taiwanese writer Yang Shuang-zi (right), who authored “Taiwan Travelogue,” poses with her translator Lin...

Arts, Lifestyle & Events, Taiwan, AFP

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) shot and injured a Palestinian young man, bulldozed swaths of agricultural land and seized a building in the West Bank on Tuesday evening. According to local sources, the IOF opened fire at Kamal Abu...

News, Israeli violations, Settler crimes

Tokyo has asked Beijing to ensure its citizens’ safety after a stabbing in a Shanghai restaurant in which two Japanese were injured, Japan’s consulate in Shanghai told AFP Wednesday. Shanghai skyline. Photo: Pexels. It is the latest diplomatic point of...

China, Defence & Foreign Policy, Politics & Protest

Whether it’s questioning top officials, gathering breaking news from court, or live-streaming from the ground, HKFP’s tight-knit team is on the frontlines of Hong Kong’s political twists and turns every day. At the city’s only independent English-language outlet, our...

HKFP Announcements, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP)

When the Iran war began, the Trump administration told the American people that if the U.S. did not attack and assassinate Iran's leadership, the Islamic Republic could soon be launching missiles at U.S. cities . Now, as Americans absorb skyrocketing...

Iran, Enewsletter, Strait-of-hormuz

During a panel appearance at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum last month, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack managed to anger observers in both Turkey and Israel. Israelis took umbrage at his comments that both Israel and Hezbollah are “equally untrustworthy,”...

Syria, Thomas-barrack, Israel

As President Donald Trump considers the path forward in Iran, Americans’ economic troubles are apparently not a concern. “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation,” Trump said in response to a reporter’s question last week about efforts to end the...

Military-spending, Defense-budget, Ndaa

The US Senate advanced a war-powers resolution on Tuesday that would end US military force against Iran unless President Donald Trump obtains Congress' authorisation, a rare rebuke of the Republican leader 80 days after US and...

World

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) lost his bid for re-election to primary opponent Ed Gallrein 54% to 45% with nearly all votes counted on Tuesday night. Massie’s defeat will no doubt be seen as a triumph of both the continued durability of...

Thomas-massie, Donald-trump, Aipac

By: Ainur Rohmah - - - - Indonesia spent the last decade selling itself as Southeast Asia’s most promising industrial frontier — a democracy rich in minerals, open to foreign investment and determined to climb the global manufacturing ladder. Today,...

The Legislative Council (LegCo) has confirmed that the Designated Demonstration Area at the complex, along with the surrounding LegCo Square, is being used as a car park. LegCo Square and the Designated Demonstration Area at the front of the Legislative...

Hong Kong, Politics & Protest, 2019 Protests

Somewhere in the foothills of Nepal, old men still gather around a wooden board carved into a five-by-five grid, moving carved tigers and goats across its intersections with quiet concentration. The game is called Bagh-chal — literally, ‘Tiger Move’ —...

Opinion, Bagh-chal, Gulf Cooperation Council

Zane Goebel, The University of Queensland; Sonia Roitman, The University of Queensland, and Udiana Dewi, University of Sydney Indonesia plans to build a “giant sea wall”, more than 500 kilometers long, to defend Java’s north coast from rising sea levels....

Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Indonesian corruption

A US military investigation into a strike at a girls' school in Iran has been described as "complex" by a US military commander on Tuesday, saying that it was located on an active Iranian cruise missile...

MENA

The reported deployment of Pakistani troops, fighter aircraft and air defencs systems to Saudi Arabia under a confidential mutual defense agreement may prove to be one of the most significant yet understated developments in Middle Eastern security politics in recent...

Middle East, Block 1, China-Middle East

A wide-ranging interview exploring US imperialism and the emerging multipolar world. Michael Hudson’s Killing the Host , The Collapse of Antiquity and The Destiny of Civilization are published by CounterPunch Books. Ali Alizadeh is an Iranian-British YouTuber and political commentator....

Finance, Geopolitics, Globalisation

The following letter, signed “A. Lincoln” but without a return address or subject line, appeared in my email this morning. No sooner had I made a copy of the letter than it disappeared from my inbox. Despite its strange and...

Islam Times - The meaning behind the appointment of Ghalibaf as Iran’s special representative for China affairs is clear: the future world will be less West-centered and more Asia-centered. Economic growth, technology, energy, trade corridors, and even part of the...

China

GAZA, (PIC) The Government Media Office in Gaza warned Tuesday of a “sharp and dangerous” decline in the number of humanitarian aid trucks allowed into the Gaza Strip due to restrictive measures imposed by the Israeli occupation. Ismail al-Thawabta, director of the...

News

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (PIC) Palestinian officials and groups have warned of the consequences of a new Israeli move aimed at evacuating the Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar east of Occupied Jerusalem, after Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich signed orders related to the...

News, Israeli violations, Occupied Jerusalem

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, head of the Higher Islamic Council and preacher of Aqsa Mosque, said his legal team presented a “logical defense” during the latest court session reviewing the indictment against him, stressing that the speech cited in...

News, Aqsa Mosque, Occupied Jerusalem

With his approval ratings hitting a second-term low in recent polling, President Donald Trump decided on Tuesday to show off the progress being made on the luxury ballroom he’s building at the White House. While speaking with reporters outside the White House, Trump...

United States, Block 2, Common Dreams

Credit: Osugi / shutterstock.com By Jordan Ryan May 19 2026 (IPS) Where does real power reside in the UN development system? A new policy brief from Cepei, a Colombian development policy institute, and the German Institute of Development and...

Aid, Development & Aid, Global

On May 8, the U.S. military struck another small speedboat in the eastern Pacific that it alleged was smuggling drugs. The strike killed two people, once again violating international law, and brought the total death toll from such attacks to...

Americas, Business & Economy, Column

Sustainable beekeeping is increasingly recognized as a key asset for not only farming communities but for sustainable agrifood systems, the environment and the global community as a whole. Credit: Farai Shawn Matiashe/IPS By Thanawat Tiensin ROME, May 19 2026 (IPS) For...

Environment, Food and Agriculture, Global

A report aired by Israel's right-wing Channel 14 , widely seen as closely aligned with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, has sparked outrage after appearing to reveal details of a possible Israeli-American plan to seize enriched uranium from...

MENA

Elon Musk announced plans to roll out Tesla’s autonomous driving technology in Israel "soon", despite mounting boycott calls from Palestinian rights advocates targeting companies accused of supporting Israel during its ongoing war on Gaza. The tech billionaire addressed...

MENA

This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 11 May 2026. Just one week after World Press Freedom Day 2026, Niger’s authorities have intensified restrictions on the media landscape with the suspension of nine French international media outlets across...

A year after their brief war in 2025, both India and Pakistan are revving up their war frenzy. The drums of victory are being beaten with nationalistic zeal on both sides. The two nations teem with jingoism, a sense of...

War & Peace, India, Kashmir

Hamas has rejected a report by Trump’s Board of Peace to the UN Security Council regarding delays in implementing the Gaza Strip roadmap and saying that its failure to disarm was the "principal obstacle" to full implementation of...

MENA
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