For the fourth year in a row, Hong Kong’s Victoria Park – historically the site of annual candlelight vigils to remember the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown – will host a patriotic food carnival on June 4....
Allah will look at His creation and boast of them to the angels. He will ask: What do these servants of mine want? And then, before they finish asking, He will answer their dua. This happens on the...
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Nurina Malek KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, May 26 2026 (IPS) The Federal Reserve Bank’s turn to ‘reserve management’ exposes the limited policy options still available as the US seeks to protect itself against international stagflation stemming...
More than 40,000 New York City subway and bus workers have now entered their second week without a contract after it expired on May 16. Workers are fighting to keep pace with the cost of living and to resist sweeping...
On May 19, a press release from the Nigerian military proclaimed that, in a joint operation with the United States, it dealt a “devastating blow” to ISIS and “eliminated” a senior leader and more than 170 fighters. The press release...
“ Birds in Ukraine are building nests from drone cable .” The headline itself tells a story, but the subsequent article in The Sunday Times missed the true magnitude of what the story represents. Almost from the beginning of...
For all the uncertainty about what will happen next on the military and diplomatic front in the Iran war, there is certainty about what has already happened on the economic front. And it is not good. The world has seen a...
By: Daniel Mitchum - - - - Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi met South Korean President Lee Jae-Myung in Andong. Photo from the Office of Japan’s Prime Minister Japan and South Korea have agreed to set aside their frequent diplomatic...
Today’s Lavrov-Rubio call was a highly significant and alarming diplomatic communication, covering three major topics. The call took place at Lavrov’s request, with Rubio currently on a four-day trip to India attending the QUAD meeting in New Delhi. State Department...
As China rapidly builds its largest and potentially first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the Type 004 may mark a decisive shift from regional sea denial toward sustained blue-water power projection across the Indo-Pacific. This month, the Center for Strategic and International...
The driver of a Kowloon Motor Bus (KMB) double-decker has been arrested after the bus collided with a maintenance vehicle on Tsing Kwai Highway on Monday, injuring 22 people. The driver was among the injured. A KMB bus...
GAZA, (PIC) Two Palestinian civilians were killed in an Israeli attack and two others succumbed to injuries sustained in recent days in the Gaza Strip on Monday. According to Palestinian media, an Israeli strike on a tent in the al-Mawasi area of...
For the better part of three years, the global conversation about artificial intelligence has been framed as a horse race, with the projected winners having the biggest models, largest data centers and fastest chips. By those measures, the United States...
Human Rights Watch is calling on the United Kingdom and other Western governments to hold the United Arab Emirates accountable over its alleged military support for Sudan's notorious Rapid Support Forces, as a new report further exposes Abu...
The pattern of media reports – based on White House leaks – that an agreement with Iran is almost completed has become predictable. Where once the markets fluctuated wildly (and some insiders made huge profits with the information), each time...
US President Donald Trum’’s state visit to China will go down in history as the day the United States finally acknowledged Beijing’s ascendancy as a global superpower. That acknowledgment does not need to be articulated in a formal statement; it...
Hong Kong authorities have slammed viral claims by an overseas activist, saying her allegations that a top government prosecutor used public funds to pursue a romance with a colleague amounted to “malicious smearing.” The Department of Justice (DoJ) said they have...
The Cheung Chau Bun Scrambling Competition attracted around 1,650 spectators on Sunday, as 12 finalists fought to gather as many buns as possible from a 14-metre tower within a three-minute time limit. Cheung Chau’s annual bun festival took place on...
Islam Times - At a moment when clear signs of progress toward an understanding are emerging and the regional atmosphere appears to be moving toward a relative reduction in tensions, Trump suddenly speaks in a tweet about incorporating the countries...
Tunisian lawyer and media commentator Sonia Dahmani, who was released from detention last year, was sentenced on Monday to two years in prison over comments she made about the country's jails, her lawyer said. A Tunis court issued the verdict...
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 21 May 2026. The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) condemns the increasing spate of what appears to be the weaponisation of Section 76 of the Electronic Communications Act, 2008 (Act...
If this deal gets over the line, it will be dressed up as ‘everyone is a winner’, but the reality is that the US will have lost badly, and the Zionists know it. Trita Parsi is the co-founder and Executive Vice...
Good to see young people in Germany resisting attempts to conscript them into Germany’s militarist machine. Interview by Michael Lavalette, member of the Stop the War Coalition in the UK. Cross-posted from Counterfire Could you start by telling us a...
Regularisation campaigns create more equal and just societies and have benefits for everyone, but the public doesn’t often hear that message. Jean-Michel Lafleur is the Director of the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM) of the University of Liège (ULiège)...
Iran's top negotiator and its foreign minister were in Doha for talks with Qatar's prime minister on a potential deal with the U.S. to end the three-month-old war, an official briefed on the visit said on Monday. This...
A mastermind of Trump’s hardline Latin American policies, Mauricio Claver-Carone no longer serves in the administration. But according to well-placed sources, he’s “picking who can operate” in Venezuela, controlling access to the government, and creating conflicts of interest. Speaking with...
Astana’s futuristic skyline and Japan’s urban landscape converge with symbols of clean energy, connectivity and peace, reflecting a partnership shaped by smart-city cooperation, energy security, and shared memories of nuclear suffering. Credit: INPS Japan By Katsuhiro Asagiri TOKYO, Japan, May 25 2026...
A high-level Iranian delegation, including Tehran's top negotiator and central bank chief, was in Doha Monday to discuss an agreement with the US and the release of frozen funds. This marked the first senior Iranian visit to the region...
Iran's sports minister said FIFA has promised the country's men's football team will receive visas to play in the United States at the World Cup this summer despite the ongoing Middle East war, local media...
As semiconductor manufacturing becomes increasingly dependent on uninterrupted power and energy efficiency, battery reliability has emerged as a critical operational issue for advanced fabs. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, better known as TSMC, is addressing this challenge through an ambitious global...
Director general of World Health Organization urges neighbouring countries to take immediate action The World Health Organization has warned that the Ebola outbreak is outpacing response efforts and countries neighbouring the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are at high risk from...
The semiconductor industry creates increasingly complex SoC and chiplets using lots of IP and all of that IP needs to be characterized at the cell level. As we design with 3nm and 2nm nodes, the sheer volume of data required...
The Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights (IOHR) warned there was a "dangerous escalation" in human rights violations in the country and that there was a dramatic increase in deaths of prisoners. The observatory noted there were at least 400...
The recent massive overnight attack on Ukraine's defense industry facilities has triggered heated debate over the targets that were struck, whether the attacks were sufficient, and the possibility of a nuclear escalation. Strike on Kyiv as Retaliation for the Death of...
Lawyers Wafaa al-Masry and Mohamed Aboul Diyar and pharmacist Hanan Tantawy are being investigated by the Supreme State Security Prosecution on charges of “publishing false news,” defense lawyer Nabih al-Genady told Mada Masr on Monday. The prosecution ordered Aboul Diyar...
Farmers across Sudan say the hike in global fuel and fertiliser costs resulting from the Iran conflict will force them to cut back on planting this summer, restricting food production in a country where war has...
As negotiations between Washington and Tehran intensify around a possible framework agreement to end the current US-Israeli war on Iran , Lebanon has emerged as one of the key sticking points. Iranian and Pakistani sources told The...
The novel “Ultra Heavy: Edge of Empire” challenges the current woke trends that are bringing down literature. This is a hard hitting high-energy book about an interplanetary Russia in the year 3900 AD that mixes elements of sci-fi, big ideas,...
Syria is seeking international grants worth up to $200 million to rehabilitate its war-damaged railway network and reposition itself as a regional transport corridor linking Asia, the Gulf and Europe, according to Transport Minister Yarub Badr. Damascus is...
We are used to thinking that history is written by men in crowns. But in reality, the fate of empires is often decided by a chill running through the bones. Between the 14th and 19th centuries, the planet entered what...
US President Donald Trump said Monday that any agreement with Iran should include a requirement for several additional countries, including Saudi Arabia and Turkey, to join the Abraham Accords, the U.S.-brokered agreements aimed at normalising relations...
Senior research associate Kate Robertson writes for The Walrus about the potential implications of Canada’s proposed Bill C-22 for future data-sharing agreements with foreign law enforcement agencies. While the legislation would give Ottawa broad new powers...
The Iranian government on Monday approved a decision to restore internet access in the country, after it was cut off by the Supreme National Security Council three months ago following the joint US-Israel attacks. Despite a deal between the...
Syria completed the electoral process for its upcoming parliament on Sunday after voting concluded in the northeastern constituencies of Hasakah , Qamishli and Ain al-Arab (Kobane) , with authorities saying the country’s first legislative session...
Remembering a Muslim American soldier who fought Nazi Germany in World War II and never came home. An “M” for Muslim At most army induction stations during World War II, soldiers could choose one of three religious identifications for their dog...
Israel's two far-right ministers on Monday called for an escalation of military operations in Lebanon , with one advocating strikes on Beirut. "It is time for the prime minister to take a firm stand with Donald Trump and tell...
Mohamed Salah bid an emotional farewell to Liverpool F.C. on Sunday, ending a historic era at Anfield as one of the club's greatest ever players and one of the most influential Arab and Muslim athletes in modern sport. The Egyptian...
Iran’s drones may have survived not because US and Israeli strikes failed, but because Iran built a war machine designed from the start to keep fighting after the bombs fell. According to recently disclosed US intelligence assessments, Iran is rapidly...
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