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Israel pounded Lebanon with more than 120 air strikes on Tuesday in one of the heaviest days of bombing in weeks, Lebanese security sources said, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his military was deepening its...

MENA

On April 10, 2026, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung sparked controversy by sharing a social media video that compared wartime killings to the Holocaust and alleged that Israeli forces had tortured, and thrown from a rooftop, a Palestinian. Because the...

Opinion, China human rights, North Korea human rights

When then President Ronald Reagan was staffing up the Pentagon for his first term, an obvious choice was the director of defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. That was Lawrence Korb, former naval flight officer and professor of...

Democracy & Governance, Labor, Trade, & Finance, War & Peace

Iranian authorities partially restored internet connectivity Tuesday after an almost three-month shutdown imposed against the backdrop of the war with Israel and the US , said a monitor, a senior official and sources inside the country. The shutdown...

MENA

The idea of Trump and Netanyahu was to destroy Iran as a force within the region, thereby forcing all countries in the Middle East to submit to their colonial plans. That clearly hasn’t happened. David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of...

Geopolitics, Article, David Hearst

Tit-for-tat strikes between Iran and the US don’t seem to have scuppered a possible deal yet, but long term the threat Israel poses to Lebanon may make any lasting peace impossible. Trita Parsi is the co-founder and Executive Vice president of...

Geopolitics, Article, Iran

A profile of the late Edmund Phelps, a neoliberal economist until the end. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Picture by Cp2960 American Edmund Phelps recently...

Economics, Article, Economists

Syria's transitional leadership has located remnants of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's clandestine chemical weapons program, including raw materials and munitions similar to those used to carry out deadly gas attacks during the country's long-running civil war,...

MENA

The warning from Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to the U.S. and European governments to evacuate their diplomats and citizens from Kyiv before Russia launches “systematic strikes” marks a drastic escalation in the Ukraine conflict — with a serious risk...

Ukraine, Russia, Donald-trump

No force has reshaped American politics over the last decade more conspicuously or detrimentally than the expanding influence of the billionaire class. Since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling in 2010 opened the floodgates for unlimited political spending by billionaires...

Activism, Column, Economic Justice

A far‑right presidential frontrunner in Colombia is running on a promise to restore ties with Israel and bury the current government’s pro‑Palestine stance, a shift that could test the limits of Latin America’s solidarity with Gaza . Abelardo...

World

Egypt is expanding its exploration of lithium and other critical minerals in an effort to attract investment in an industry largely untouched in the country. On Sunday, Cairo announced it had signed a deal with Spanish company X-Calibur to carry...

Economy

A military delegation from Lebanon is heading to Washington on Tuesday for a security meeting with Israeli officials at the Pentagon scheduled for Friday, as intensified Israeli strikes on the country continue to kill dozens of people. President...

MENA

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- - - - Photo by Stephen Talas on Unsplash I’ve written three or four different posts for today. I’ve scrapped them all. Why? Because I’m dealing with a herniated disc in my lower back and have...

On 20 May, Bolivia's president Rodrigo Paz Pereira, who was elected in November 2025, announced a ministerial reshuffle in response to pressure from protesters calling on him to resign. For weeks, demonstrations against price hikes and fuel shortages have brought...

The son of British right-wing politician Rupert Lowe has reportedly married a Muslim woman of Libyan descent, raising eyebrows given the Restore Britain founder’s frequent anti-Muslim and anti-immigration pronouncements. Reports in legacy and social media have suggested that the...

World

At 11 am in the port of Kraten, on the north-eastern edge of the Kerkennah archipelago in south-eastern Tunisia, fishermen are untangling heaps of fishing nets piled along the waterfront as they prepare for the next trip out to sea. Head...

Environment and Climate

The following story is co-published with Nolan Higdon’s Substack . When a speaker at the University of Central Florida’s May 8, 2026, commencement ceremony declared, “The rise of artificial intelligence is the next Industrial Revolution,” it triggered...

Activism, Business & Economy, Column

Il futuro non aspetta. E mentre i diplomatici occidentali discutono di procedure e principi, qualcuno – molto più a est – sta già gettando le basi per l’ordine di domani. Segue nostro Telegram . L’Ordine Mondiale in frantumi Sta accadendo...

Italiano, China, Diplomacy

This story was originally published by THE CITY. Sign up to get the latest New York City news delivered to you each morning. Dozens of protesters blocked entrances to Delaney Hall , a massive Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention...

Activism, Courts & Law, Immigration

Mogadishu, Somalia - When Israel announced last December that it would recognise Somaliland , speculation was rife over which countries might follow. Several names circulated in Somali political circles, particularly states with close ties to the breakaway republic. Ethiopia...

Analysis

This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . When it comes to California’s climate future , the most important figure in the state’s chaotic governor’s race may not be any...

Activism, Business & Economy, Courts & Law

Armenia has officially announced the export of weapons for the first time in its history, though the headline-grabbing declaration leaves behind a number of unanswered questions: what exactly was sold, who purchased it, and why many believe the deal likely...

World

As semiconductor systems evolve toward heterogeneous integration, chiplets, 2.5D and 3D packaging, distributed observability, runtime adaptation, Fleet Learning, and lifecycle convergence governance, the industry is entering a fundamentally new operational reality. Convergence decisions are no longer driven only… com/3dic/369582-trusted-convergence-governance-preserving-admissibility-integrity-across-heterogeneous-semiconductor-systems/">Trusted Convergence Governance:...

3D IC, Chiplet, 3d packaging

COPENHAGEN, (PIC) Amnesty International, ActionAid International, and the Puls48 platform organized the “Run for Palestine” marathon, marking the 78th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe). The pro-Palestine marathon took place in seven Danish cities and concluded in Copenhagen last Sunday, drawing thousands...

News, Denmark, Nakba anniversary

WEST BANK, (PIC) Extremist Jewish settler groups launched renewed attacks across various areas of the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem over the past 24 hours, under the protection of Israeli forces, according to Palestinian media reports on Tuesday morning. Several towns and...

News, Jewish terrorism, Settler crimes

Iran on Tuesday denounced US strikes a day earlier as a sign of "bad faith and unreliability" as negotiations continue toward a possible deal to end the US-Israeli war . The US military has characterised Monday's...

MENA

As India and Pakistan deepen their roles in the Gulf’s evolving security order, their decades-old rivalry is spilling into what may prove to be its most consequential external theatre yet. But while New Delhi has always had a more...

Analysis

Earlier this year, Declassified revealed that over 2,000 Britons served for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) since October 2023. This information would never have come to light using sources in Britain. The UK government does not collect data on...

Archive, Middle East, Military

Fears have arisen that Turkey will slide further into authoritarianism after a court in Ankara ousted CHP (People's Republican Party) leader Ozgur Ozel from leadership last week, and replaced him with Kemal Kilicdaroglu as interim leader. This was...

MENA

On April 12, Viktor Orbán conceded defeat in Hungary’s parliamentary election after 16 years in power. Three million voters handed a two-thirds supermajority to Péter Magyar, a 45-year-old lawyer who, until two years ago, was a Fidesz party...

Democracy & Governance, Hungary, Viktor Orban

GAZA, (PIC) From ruin to resilience From the heart of the devastation left by Israeli genocide on Gaza, two Palestinian sisters have carved out a story of resilience. They have transformed loss into innovation and earned global recognition in the process. Tala and...

Reports, Gaza Strip, Gazan resilience

GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 72,803 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Tuesday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...

News, death toll, Gaza Strip

Every morning, Abdullah watches children leave his neighbourhood carrying their school bags, while he stays behind near his home, kicking a small football with younger children until his sisters return from school hours later. Inside the family’s modest home in Mosul,...

Society

Saudi authorities are deploying aerial drones and artificial intelligence-powered analysis systems during Hajj this year to improve worshippers' experience, as hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from all around the world arrive in the Gulf country to perform the...

MENA

By Joost BOSMAN Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Andri Yermak, the former right-hand man and friend of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, has been arrested in Kyiv and placed in pre-trial detention for...

Editor's Choice, Corruption, European Union
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