Monika Stankiewicz, Executive Secretary of the Minamata Convention on Mercury, at the 71st GEF Council Meeting. Credit: Stella Paul/IPS By Stella Paul SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan, Jun 2 2026 (IPS) On day 2 of the Global Environment Facility’s 71st Council Meeting, which focused...
For those just joining us, here are the latest updates: - United States President Donald Trump reportedly got into a heated call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, forcing the latter to pull back plans to bomb the Lebanese capital,...
In a region crucial to global trade, ideological rivals may now be working together. United Nations and American intelligence reports suggest that Yemen’s Houthi insurgents and the Somali group Al-Shabaab — considered Al-Qaeda’s strongest affiliate — are exchanging logistical and...
China’s buildup at its remote Hami nuclear silo field reflects a broader effort to transform a historically vulnerable nuclear force into a resilient deterrent capable of surviving attack, constraining US intervention and reinforcing its position in a Taiwan contingency. Last...
An environmental NGO has urged the Hong Kong government to prioritise the climate crisis and strengthen its climate adaptation policies, as the city is expected to endure an extremely hot summer this year. A heatwave in Hong Kong in late...
Since April 2023, Sudan’s women and girls have been subjected to systematic rape and sexual torture. Specialised support and justice for them is key to the country’s recovery and future In a village in South Darfur, I met a young girl...
Pepe Escobar and I received the following intelligence report last Thursday, which was produced by a knowledgeable source with access. I am not reproducing the entire report, but want to highlight the issue of whether or not Iran now has,...
Chinese companies in 15 key industrial sectors received vastly more state support than their international competitors between 2005 and 2024, according to an OECD report released on Monday. The conference centre at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)...
The idea of replicating Bali’s success across the Indonesian archipelago through the “10 New Balis” initiative was one of the country’s most ambitious economic development visions when it was first launched a decade ago. The objective was compelling: diversify tourist...
When Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, he claimed one of his goals was the country’s “denazification.” The Kremlin still uses this narrative as a cornerstone of its war propaganda. Both Ukraine and the West reacted by...
On October 13 of last year, shortly after signing a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, President Donald Trump addressed a room of world leaders congregated in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. “At long last we have peace in the Middle East,” Trump...
Son and stepson of Cameroon’s Paul Biya are seen as main contenders to be vice-president Since taking power in Cameroon 44 years ago, Paul Biya has done without a vice-president. In 1972, a decade before he first won the presidency, the...
- - - - Prior to a May 1 takeoff for a midnight flight out of San Francisco’s International Airport, by actual count, 61 wheelchair passengers or the people who were pushing them were congregated in a roped-off area waiting...
The Persian Gulf is a shallow body of water, averaging about 164 feet deep. Its water is very salty because only a small amount of fresh water enters the Gulf, and the average temperature is 30 °C (86°F). These warm...
Mehring Verlag, the publishing house of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party) in Germany, will soon release a new German-language edition of Leon Trotsky’s My Life
Reprinted from The Realist Review. Over the course of his three presidential campaigns (2016, 2020, 2024), President Donald J. Trump promised an America First foreign policy – one that would see America pull back from postwar European security commitments, end...
Lebanon said Monday Hezbollah had accepted a US proposal to stop attacking Israel in exchange for Israel halting attacks on south Beirut , after President Donald Trump reported having a "very good call" with the Iran-backed...
The Hong Kong government has proposed allocating up to 180 “reserve units” of transitional housing to tenants evicted due to the “shoebox” flat reform. United Court, a transitional housing project at Tung Tau, Yuen Long. File photo: GovHK. Victor Tai,...
Oil prices jumped and equities were mixed Monday as Middle East peace talks stumbled , while Lebanese authorities said Hezbollah had accepted a US proposal for a "mutual cessation of attacks." Crude futures shot around seven percent higher...
UN chief Antonio Guterres said Monday that it will be necessary to maintain peacekeepers in Lebanon after the mandate of the current mission expires at year-end. In a report to the Security Council seen by AFP...
Shortly after reporting emerged Monday that Iran was suspending talks with the United States over Israel’s ramped up assault on Lebanon, President Donald Trump claimed that Israeli forces headed toward Beirut have “turned back” and that Hezbollah has agreed that “all shooting will stop” following separate phone calls with...
As Europe’s population ages, the elderly are becoming an ever larger voting bloc, a growing “grey power” which is already reconfiguring political priorities. Ben Wray is a freelance journalist and researcher from Scotland, who lives in the Basque Country. Ben is...
The Paris Commune took place 155 years ago and only lasted 72 days but it still has valuable lessons to offer anyone thinking of making a revolution happen today. Kevin Guillas-Cavan is the France Research Fellow at the Institute for Economic...
The university system faces questions over its funding, value and purpose. Professor Dame Alison Wolf DBE, Baroness Wolf of Dulwich, is the Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management at King’s College London, and sits as a cross-bench peer...
Citizen Lab senior research fellow Jon Penney and co-author Bruce Schneier wrote an op-ed in The Conversation arguing that despite younger Americans’ overwhelmingly soured view of Donald Trump’s second presidency, they are not protesting for a...
The Pentagon's decision not to mention Taiwan at a major security forum has sparked discussion about shifting US priorities, military-industrial challenges, and the future balance of power in the Asia-Pacific region. Pentagon Forgets About Taiwan Behind Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's diplomatic...
The United States has designated two of Brazil's largest criminal organizations as foreign terrorist groups, a move that could reshape migration policy, security cooperation, and the country's political landscape ahead of presidential elections. Trump Administration Draws Brazil Into a New Political...
France has banned the display of Israeli offensive weapons at the 2026 edition of the Eurosatory international defence and security exhibition, the organisers told AFP on Monday. "Only Israeli exhibitors presenting anti-ballistic and anti-air defence systems...
Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox demonstrated across Israel on Monday, blocking roads and trains and setting cars on fire to protest mandatory enlistment in Israel’s military. Israel’s police said demonstrators blocked major intersections and attacked a soldier...
Is Syria finally having its accountability moment? In this episode of The Brief In , we examine Syria’s fragile and deeply contested transitional justice process after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. The episode examines Syria’s transitional justice process, the Atef...
As the White House proceeds full speed ahead on battleships that will bear President Donald Trump’s name, lawmakers want to know it won’t be a flop first. The House draft of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for FY 2027,...
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have hailed the 2026 Hajj as a public health success after the annual pilgrimage concluded without any confirmed or suspected cases of epidemic disease...
Egyptian up-and-coming talent Hamza Abdelkarim has signed an exclusive deal with sports manufacturer Nike , thrusting him into the limelight as he prepares to head to the World Cup with the Pharaohs for the upcoming FIFA...
Many of us think of DAC as an important trade show for the Semiconductors and EDA industries. That is certainly part of the history of DAC, but the event is also a highly prestigious technical conference dating back to 1964....
Palestinian Christian activists and church leaders have raised alarm over growing pressure on Christian communities in the occupied West Bank after Israeli soldiers attempted to halt preparations for a Marian festival in the village of Taybeh...
At a time when the American public is expressing unprecedented levels of distrust in the Israeli government, Congress just proposed tying the US to the Israeli military more than ever before. Buried in the House's version...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Extremist Jewish settlers carried out attacks on Palestinian citizens’ swaths of agricultural land and crops in Nablus and Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Monday. According to local sources, settlers set fire to olive trees in groves in...
Iranian military and political officials issued a series of warnings to Israel and the United States on Monday, threatening to open "new fronts" and hinting at possible military action if Israel continues expanding its devastating attacks in Lebanon . Iran's...
Israeli forces raised their flag over the historic Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon on Sunday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to portray the occupation of the hilltop site as a major victory, but continued Hezbollah...
A proposal reportedly under consideration in Brussels could significantly alter Central Asia's international profile and trigger domestic political debate across the region. According to Politico, the European Union is examining the possibility of establishing migrant holding centers in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has welcomed the UN decision to place Israel on its blacklist of countries involved in sexual violence against civilians in conflict zones. In a statement released on Monday, Hamas noted that the decision relies on documented evidence...
This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . Leah Atwood was rattled. It was the tail end of March, and for days she and her colleagues at Agroecology Commons had been...
Iran's military has been shattered. The Strait of Hormuz remains contested. Three months in, Bill Roggio and FDD's Jon Schanzer examine why quick victories are rare, patience is scarce, and this war is entering its most consequential phase yet. The post...
- - - - Photo by Tara-mae Miller on Unsplash As a gun rights guy, I have a lot of discussions with people about gun control, and I’m often told that gun rights should come with some...
Something strange happened at this year’s Cannes Film Festival: A number of French films were greeted with loud boos and cries of “Fascist!” The audiences were not booing the films themselves, or castigating the films’ directors. Rather, they were responding...
The racism of Mark Fuhrman , the Los Angeles police detective whose involvement in the O.J. Simpson murder investigation helped sink the prosecution’s case, was so well-known that comedian Dana Carvey once mocked him with a Nazi salute,...
Prominent Turkish-American political commentators Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker say they have been barred from entering the UK over their criticism of Israel, in a move that has sparked accusations that Britain is suppressing pro-Palestinian voices...
GAZA, (PIC) A Palestinian was killed and another one was wounded on Monday following an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza, amid ongoing ceasefire violations in different areas of the coastal enclave. According to media sources, a young man identified as Yousef Ramadan...
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