Scored on a scale where higher numbers mean deeper crisis, these 20 nations rank as the most vulnerable on Earth according to the Fragile States Index. Leading the list is Somalia, followed by Sudan) and Syria. All 20 suffer from...
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed to fight on, describing his government as a "10-year project" despite mounting calls for him to quit after his party’s drubbing in local elections earlier this week. Starmer's Labour Party suffered the worst local...
Violent Israeli settlers launched at least 20 attacks on Palestinians in various areas across the West Bank in two days, with reports detailing civilians being severely wounded and homes being set ablaze. The string of attacks, which...
Iran responded to Washington's latest peace proposal on Sunday, after drones threatened several Gulf region targets and Tehran warned it would not hold back from retaliating against any new US strikes. According to state broadcaster IRIB , Tehran's response, passed...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed different areas of the West Bank on Sunday morning and earlier at dawn, raiding homes and kidnaping a number of Palestinian citizens. According to local sources, the IOF kidnaped a father and his...
An Israeli ministerial committee is set to review a far-right-sponsored bill aimed at repealing the 1993 Oslo Accords on Sunday. The bill, submitted by the Knesset Deputy Speaker Limor Son Har-Melech , would revoke the historic...
The Sudanese army said Saturday it had recaptured an area close to the Ethiopian border following clashes with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its allies. Troops moved in to the Al Kayli area near the...
Maybe the biggest threat to the beleaguered country comes from inside. By Ted SNIDER Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su A world of trouble is dawning for Ukraine and its president, Volodymyr Zelensky....
The president of the Iranian Football Federation said late Saturday that if Iran dropped out of the World Cup, it would deprive the country of a "major diplomatic asset". Mehdi Taj was speaking after the federation (FFIRI) said on Saturday that...
Former Knesset speaker Avraham Burg has said Israel failed to achieve its objectives in its war on Gaza , Lebanon and Iran , warning the country was sinking deeper into military and...
Unidentified aircraft have struck a South Korean cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz this week, the foreign ministry said Sunday, days after the fire-damaged HMM Namu arrived at port in Dubai . Following the attack, US President...
Ramallah / PNN / Palestinian-American businessman Bashar Masri has asked a U.S. federal judge in Miami, Florida, to dismiss a lawsuit filed against him and several affiliated Palestinian companies by 323 American plaintiffs representing 80 families of victims and survivors of...
Em 1665, um profeta declara Sabbatai Zevi o Messias. Nasce o sabbatianismo: movimento sem instituição, baseado em rumores, que abala o mundo judaico. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su [We are looking at...
Hebron / PNN / As one of many Palestinian human rights defenders who have faced repeated violations by the Israeli military and settlers, human rights activist Nasr Nawajaa says activists in فلسطين are continuously targeted because of their role in documenting...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Extremist Jewish settler groups demolished dozens of Palestinian agricultural structures, stole sheep, and damaged crops in different areas of the West Bank on Sunday. According to local sources, settlers with a bulldozer stormed the Arab al-Khouli community east of...
Israeli strikes killed at least three Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday, including two members of the police force, health officials said, in violence that underscored the fragility of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire. Medics said an airstrike killed one person in the Maghazi...
Once again, Europeans are moving toward their own self-destruction Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The current debate over the construction of a pan-European nuclear deterrence system reveals yet another phase in the...
Lebanese intelligence has arrested an Iraqi citizen accused of impersonating a high-level security official at the Iraqi embassy in Beirut, according to Al Arabiya Al Hadath . The man, who has been named as Tarek al-Husseini, had worn fake...
JENIN, (PIC) The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has condemned the crime of exhuming a Palestinian grave in the village of al-Asasa, south of Jenin, after settlers, supported by the Israeli occupation army, forced a Palestinian family to extract the body of...
GAZA, (PIC) Inside medical departments exhausted by the siege and war in the hospitals of the Gaza Strip, dozens of thalassemia patients sit with pale faces and bodies worn out by disease, malnutrition, and delayed treatment, waiting for blood units that...
Israeli strikes on Lebanon killed 36 people and wounded 74 others in the last day, the country's health ministry reported, as the military continues to issue new displacement orders in the south amid continued fighting with Hezbollah . Israeli...
Saudi oil giant Aramco said Sunday its net profit rose by 25.5 percent in the first quarter compared to the same period last year, after the Middle East war sent oil and gas prices soaring. The result comes as...
Iraq's parliament will summon senior security officials to investigate claims that Israel operated a secret military base in the country during the recent war on Iran , according to an Iraqi official who spoke to...
Congress workers celebrate with a langar following the party’s victory in Kerala, New Delhi, May 4, 2026 There is an inimitable French expression — ‘ennui’. I first came across it while reading Jean-Paul Sartre as a university student in Thiruvananthapuram...
GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 72,737 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Sunday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...
Militants detonated a car bomb at a checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan and opened fire on police, killing at least 15 and wounding three, officials said on Sunday. "Last night in the Fateh Khel area of Bannu, a suicide bomber...
US President Donald Trump is due to visit China on May 14-15 , where he is expected to meet leader Xi Jinping, after delaying an earlier summit because of the Iran war. US President Donald Trump (left) greets Chinese...
Ukrainian officials reported on Sunday Russian drone strikes and nearly 150 battlefield clashes over the past 24 hours despite a U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Kyiv and Moscow. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that Russia and Ukraine had agreed...
At least three people were killed in Russian strikes and nearly 150 battlefield clashes took place over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian officials reported on Sunday, despite a U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Kyiv and Moscow . U.S. President Donald Trump said...
Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani held talks with top US officials in Florida on Saturday as part of efforts to permanently end the war with Iran , according to Axios . Secretary of State Marco...
The Iran war exposes deep political divisions within US leadership, highlighting internal instability rather than global strength. Key officials pursue conflicting strategies driven by personal power ambitions instead of coherent national interests. This growing internal rivalry is weakening America’s global...
Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich ordered for 3,000 trees planted by Palestinians in the northern occupied West Bank be uprooted, to clear the way for a new Israeli settlement. Smotrich, who also holds a ministerial role within...
Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich ordered for 3,000 trees planted by Palestinians in the northern occupied West Bank be uprooted, to clear the way for a new Israeli settlement. Smotrich, who also holds a ministerial role within...
Iran's adversaries will be "surprised" by new weapons, new methods of warfare, and new arenas of conflict if Iran is attacked again, Iranian army spokesperson Mohammad Akrami Nia has warned, according to the Tasnim news agency. He...
Iran has sent its response to a U.S. proposal aimed at ending the more than two-month war to mediator, Pakistan, Iran's IRNA news agency said on Sunday. According to Iran's proposal, the current phase of negotiations will focus exclusively...
GAZA, (PIC) In the heavy hours of the night, residents of al-Shati camp west of Gaza City woke up to Israeli warnings to evacuate a house inside the overcrowded camp, before violent explosions shook the area minutes later, following the targeting...
A good read with much detailed analysis The system cannot produce stable growth under these circumstances. And the long-term prospects are unsound. Read Article HERE A view in Monaco with yachts moored at Port Hercules during the 22th edition of the International...
Islam Times - Nearly 61 percent of respondents in a recent Ipsos poll consider a military strike against Iran a mistake, while only 36 percent support it. This gap reflects a kind of “civilizational fatigue with war.” Long wars in...
The elimination of 32% of global oil production (the Persian Gulf’s approximate pre-crisis share of ~32–33 million barrels per day out of ~100–106 mbpd worldwide) since February 28, 2026, has triggered the largest supply shock in the history of the...
African archipelago hopes startups, digital infrastructure and diaspora investment can transform its economy For much of its history since its discovery by the Portuguese in the mid-15th century, the Cape Verde archipelago off the coast of west Africa served as a...
GAZA, (PIC) Three Palestinian civilians were martyred and others were injured in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, amid ceasefire violations persisting for the 213th consecutive day. According to media sources, two police officers were killed and others were wounded...
Remember the term: “Security architecture.” Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and former planner and advisor at the US State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. As an independent contractor, he has provided training for the US...
WEST BANK, (PIC) A horde of extremist Jewish settlers established a new outpost on swaths of Palestinian-owned land in the town of Deir Istiya, northwest of Salfit in the occupied West Bank. Local sources reported that settlers placed two mobile homes on...
Iran's soccer federation said on Saturday that the country "definitely" will participate in the 2026 FIFA World Cup and insisted that the tournament hosts, the United States, Canada, and Mexico, consider Tehran's concerns about the team's travel and...
By Mary Yang with Tommy Wang in Hong Kong Vacuum cleaners and vapes could get more expensive if the Iran war drags on for much longer, Chinese factory owners and traders warn, as the world’s manufacturing hub reels from “crazy”...
Islam Times - At this sensitive regional juncture, where military and political developments are unfolding at an unprecedented pace, the Middle East can no longer be viewed as merely an arena for scattered conflicts or temporary confrontations. Rather, the region...
France and Algeria set aside a two-year diplomatic falling-out to agree on intensified cooperation on domestic security and defence at a meeting on Saturday between Algerian President Abdelmajid Tebboune and French Armed Forces Minister Alice Rufo. As part of...
By Tim Pit Hok-yau Last month, the Office of the Ombudsman released its long-awaited investigation into the Hong Kong government’s work in combating animal cruelty. Jack Chan, the Ombudsman, announces the report investigating the Hong Kong government’s work in combating...
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