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GAZA, (PIC) The Gaza Center for Human Rights condemned Israel’s decision to close Gaza’s crossings, including Kerem Shalom and Rafah, amid the military escalation between Israel and Iran, calling it another act of collective punishment against more than two million Palestinians. In...

Marine biologist Issah Seidu has found a way for Ghana’s fishing communities to earn a living – and help protect the ancient and critically endangered fish species Guitarfish are an odd-looking and ancient species, with the tail of a shark and...

GAZA / PNN/ Four Palestinians, including a woman, were killed and several others wounded, some critically, in an Israeli drone strike northwest of Gaza City on Sunday evening. Medical sources at Al-Shifa Hospital reported that an Israeli drone fired a missile at...

Taiwan said Monday that China’s maritime operation in waters to the east of the island democracy was “provocative” and “expansionism in disguise”. Photo: Taiwan Presidential Office, via Flickr. Chinese ships are conducting a “law enforcement operation” in response to talks...

On 18–19 May 2026, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid the first official visit to Norway by an Indian prime minister in 43 years — one of the most substantive stops of his broader May 2026 European tour. The trip...

Bethlehem / PNN / Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday that Israeli forces are approaching control of approximately 70% of the Gaza Strip, as military operations continue and areas occupied by the Israeli army inside the enclave expand. Speaking at...

Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodriguez will meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday after arriving in Istanbul on a surprise visit, officials said. Rodriguez, who has led Venezuela since US forces captured former socialist president...

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF launched a wide campaign of raids and arrests across the West Bank last night and at dawn Monday. In Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, Israeli forces stormed the village of Beitin and kidnaped a young...

As regular readers of this blog know, I’m pretty ambivalent about trade barriers as an economic policy. On one hand, I think targeted tariffs and other trade barriers can be used to protect strategic industries from surges in underpriced import competition, especially by geopolitical...

Hello, For those just joining us, here are the key updates: - A new round of violence erupted after Israel launched attacks on the southern suburbs of Beirut on Sunday, killing at least two people and wounding 20 others - -...

Coup maker Senior General Min Aung Hlaing’s allies want the world to believe that Myanmar’s military is “on the upswing” and “mounting a comeback” in a war that foreign media increasingly describe as “forgotten.” Recent US media coverage leans into...

Israeli military aircraft launched an aggression on western and central Iran early Monday, with explosions reported in Tehran, Tabriz, Isfahan, and Karaj. The IRGC subsequently responded with strikes on Israeli military bases. Read Article HERE The post Al Mayadeen:...

As social attitudes shift and concern for animal rights grows, the dog meat tradition in many parts of Nigeria is increasingly being questioned Every weekend in Lagos, 36-year-old Izien Aigbodion walks down his street with his three dogs – a poodle...

Amid global turmoil, Türkiye remains resilient. No economy is isolated from the effects of today’s geopolitical landscape, with rising energy prices and supply chain disruptions being felt worldwide. Yet the broader picture in Türkiye is one of continued momentum, with...

Indonesia’s financial markets were jolted Monday (June as the rupiah hit a new record low of over 18,155 to the US dollar and the main stock index fell 4%. Investors are rapidly dumping their rupiah-denominated assets, with foreigners...

Norway captain Martin Odegaard equalised 15 minutes from time to force a 1-1 draw with Morocco in their World Cup warm-up international on Sunday. Morocco had been ahead from the seventh minute when Brahim Diaz thundered home a shot...

Amid the turmoil of war in their homeland , Iran arrived in North America on Sunday in advance of the World Cup which starts this week in Mexico, Canada and the United States. After the tournament favorites and the trio...

Hong Kong police have detained a man on suspicion of indecently assaulting a teenage girl on a double-decker bus, after the incident was caught on camera and went viral online. A man is filmed reaching his hand toward...

In his highly-regarded podcast, Judging Freedom, on June 1, Judge Napolitano asked British diplomat Alastair Crooke if the Israelis really cared if the Strait of Hormuz remained closed and the U.S. economy, and by extension the world economy, suffered. Crooke...

The images that have emerged from Gaza reveal the anatomy of a desolate landscape that defies human comprehension. Nothing can prepare the conscience for the sheer suffocating scale of a seemingly endless treeless terrain overwhelmed with millions of tons of...

Chuck Gershman is the CEO and co-founder of Owl Autonomous Imaging. He has spent more than 30 years in semiconductors, AI imaging, computer vision, and autonomous sensing technologies across executive management, engineering, marketing, business development, and operations. Chuck is a Drexel...

The magnitude of what just happened may take some time to sink in. This is the first time Iran has struck Israel after Israel struck another country’s territory (that is, not Iran). This means that the battle lines have been moved. Iran’s deterrence...

TUBAS, (PIC) Israeli authorities on Sunday issued a military order confiscating 1,292 dunums of Palestinian-owned land in Tubas Governorate in the northern occupied West Bank, claiming the land is needed for “military purposes.” Mutaz Bisharat, the official responsible for monitoring settlement activity...

NAZARETH, (PIC) The legal rights organization, Adalah, has called on Israeli authorities to launch an immediate criminal investigation into testimony from a German journalist who was subjected to sexual abuse, physical violence, and degrading treatment while detained in Israel’s Givon Prison...

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Israeli authorities on Sunday forced two Palestinian brothers, Nabil Abu Juma and Sami Abu Juma, to self-demolish a residential building containing two apartments in the town of Al-Tur, east of Occupied Jerusalem. The building had stood since 2000. Over...

Mike Horton is a co-founder of HYFIX Spatial Intelligence , which builds GNSS hardware for decentralized positioning and timing networks, and GEODNET , the world’s largest decentralized GNSS reference network, and HYFIX Spatial Intelligence , which builds GNSS hardware for...

UN investigators have verified multiple rapes of Palestinian detainees by Israeli forces, but have still not verified a single claim of sexual violence against Israelis on or after 7 October 2023. In his latest annual report to the Security...