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A drone strike hit a market in central Sudan on Saturday, killing 11 civilians and wounding dozens more, a rights group said, as escalating aerial attacks deepen the toll of one of the world's worst humanitarian crises . The attack...

MENA

Iran's former prime minister Mir Hossein Mousavi , who was the focus of a 2009 mass protest movement and has spent the last 15 years under house arrest, has been hospitalised after his health deteriorated, an advisor said on...

MENA

Prosecutors on Saturday opened a probe into a 95-year-old billionaire and honorary head of Koc Holdings, Turkey 's biggest conglomerate, over a joke about a Kurdish woman widely denounced as sexist and racist. The blunder was made by Rahmi Koc...

MENA

Free and fair elections are the foundation of liberal democracy, and South Korea has long been regarded as one of Asia’s democratic success stories. Power changes hands peacefully between conservative and progressive governments, civic engagement remains robust, and even presidents...

Opinion, South Korean Democracy, South Korean local elections

Lebanese army chief Rodolphe Haykal left Lebanon for Pakistan on Saturday where he will meet his counterpart Asim Munir, the Lebanese military said, with a source telling AFP the visit is linked to broader Iran-US talks. In a statement,...

MENA

The father of seven-month-old Palestinian infant Sam Fahd Abu Hekel, who was killed by Israeli gunfire in Hebron on Friday, has rejected the Israeli military's account of the shooting, saying he stopped his vehicle...

MENA

An Israeli strike killed at least seven Palestinians including two women in Gaza on Saturday, health officials said, as mediators restarted talks in Cairo with Hamas and other factions over safeguarding a strained ceasefire agreement. Medics said seven people...

MENA

For the first time, a Lebanese television channel hosted an Israeli journalist on air, in a move that has sparked debate in Lebanon as Israeli attacks on the country continue. Barak Ravid, a correspondent for Israel's Channel 12...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) Thousands of patients in the Gaza Strip are facing life-threatening danger due to the ongoing Israeli blockade that denies them medical travel to seek life-saving treatment outside the enclave. The Israeli war and blockade have already led to the near‑total...

News, Gaza siege, Israeli genocide

Pakistan's Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi arrived in Tehran on Saturday for talks with Iranian officials, as questions mount over whether Islamabad is seeking to revive stalled negotiations between Iran and the US . Iran's Students News...

MENA

Iran launched fresh aerial attacks on Bahrain and Kuwait early Saturday, after the United States said it had struck the Islamic Republic. The small island kingdom of Bahrain, home to the headquarters of the US Fifth Fleet, denounced...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) At least six Palestinians were killed and others wounded on Saturday evening in an Israeli airstrike on the al‑Rimal neighborhood in central Gaza City. According to media sources, six Palestinians were killed and more than 15 were injured when an...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli ceasefire violations

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) forced a Jerusalemite citizen to demolish his own home in Silwan district, south of the Aqsa Mosque, on Saturday. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center reported that Ashraf Burqan started demolishing his house, located in...

News, Demolition policy, Occupied Jerusalem

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) has launched a campaign urging British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood to stop a property exhibition event due to take place in London later this month, arguing that it facilitates the sale of homes...

World

Lebanon launched the rehabilitation of its second airport on Saturday, in preparation for an opening within months, at a time when the country faces constant fighting between Hezbollah and Israel . Lebanon currently has one international airport , located...

MENA

US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner travelled to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee on Thursday for consultations with technical experts who could play a role in nuclear negotiations with Iran ,...

World

NABLUS, (PIC) A horde of extremist Jewish settlers went on the rampage through the town of Huwara south of Nablus, attacking the municipality building, Palestinian citizens, and homes, while others vandalized swaths of agricultural lands in the al‑Massoudiya area northwest of...

News, Jewish terrorism, Settler crimes

Thousands of Albanians protested Thursday evening in Tirana for a fourth consecutive day against a coastal tourism complex allegedly linked to US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner . Some held banners reading "Edi Rama resign", while others featured a...

World

The release of frozen Iranian funds has become a key issue in negotiations between Tehran and Washington aimed at ending their war , a senior Iranian official said. Iran has been subject to asset freezes and sweeping sanctions by the...

MENA

RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Asra Media Office (AMO) warned on Saturday of worsening health conditions among Palestinian detainees at Israel’s Ganot prison, citing continued medical neglect and delays in providing necessary treatment. In a statement, the AMO said several prisoners are suffering from...

News, Ganot prison, Medical neglect

Brasil sempre precisou de humilhação externa para agir: acabou com tráfico de escravos após pressão inglesa; hoje, Trump expõe PCC e CV como terroristas. Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su Em...

Português, Brazil, Criminal

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission revealed the registration of 1,659 attacks carried out by the Israeli occupation forces and settlers against Palestinians, their lands, and their properties during the past month of May. The head of the Commission,...

News, IOF attacks, settler attacks

GAZA, (PIC) Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem criticized the Palestinian Authority on Saturday over its lack of official action in response to Israel’s escalating war and ongoing massacres against civilians in Gaza. Qassem said the PA’s official silence over the Israeli violations in...

News, Gaza Strip, Hamas Movement

Two Lebanese officers and one soldier were killed on Saturday in an Israeli strike on a military vehicle on the Khardali-Nabatiyeh road in south Lebanon , the Lebanese army said. Later, the Israeli military said it targeted the vehicle after...

MENA

Bethlehem / PNN/ Eighty-five members of the US House of Representatives have called on the Trump administration to use all available diplomatic tools to halt the Israeli settlement project known as E-1 in occupied East Jerusalem. They warned that implementing the...

50,1

The Gulf countries of Bahrain and Kuwait were targeted in renewed aerial attacks by Iran early Saturday after the United States said it had struck the Islamic republic. The tiny island kingdom of Bahrain, home to the headquarters of...

MENA

The Kiev regime enters a new phase of desperation and terror. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su In recent months, subtle signs of a shift in the conduct of the conflict in Ukraine...

Russia & CIS, World, Terrorism

The Caspian no longer represents a secondary route: it is becoming one of the silent pillars of the Eurasian response to U.S. hegemony. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Strategic re-orientation For years,...

Middle East, Russia & CIS, World

Are we now about to enter a new phase? Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su How will the Trump years in office play out in the history books? Recently, a number of unthinkable...

Americas, Middle East, World

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out raids in the West Bank and Jerusalem on Saturday, amid clashes in some areas. In Ramallah and al‑Bireh Governorate, Israeli forces fired tear gas during a raid in the village of Ras...

News, Clashes, IOF raids

Germany’s humiliating defeat in the race for a UN Security Council seat reveals the price of a foreign policy increasingly seen as hypocritical abroad. Marcus Schneider eads the FES regional project for peace and security in the Middle East, based in...

EU politics, Geopolitics, National Politics

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem (ARIJ) said Israeli authorities have issued a new set of military orders paving the way for the seizure of 20,000 dunums of Palestinian land across 15 sites in the occupied West Bank. In a report...

News, Israeli violations, Land grab

GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 72,961 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Saturday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...

News, death toll, Gaza Strip

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...

MENA

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...

Culture

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...

MENA

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...

MENA

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...

News, Jewish terrorism, Settler crimes
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