The BBC World Service started to look dull, out of touch, and not especially relevant. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su A massive layoff of hundreds of Washington Post journalists made headlines in recent days,...
Few outsiders, if any, have ventured more widely into the centre of Sudan’s brutal civil war than Jérôme Tubiana. The French humanitarian has been granted unprecedented access to travel throughout the western region of Darfur to document the heart of...
Beijing’s scrapping of tariffs for all but one African country will start May 1, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Saturday, according to state media. A container ship is guided into the port in Qingdao, in Chinas eastern Shandong province on...
China’s top diplomat Wang Yi told German Chancellor Friedrich Merz that Beijing hoped to bring bilateral ties to a “new level”, as they met on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Saturday. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (R) and...
[ NOTE TO READERS: The following is a chapter from a book I’m writing about Russiagate. I am publishing the chapter here in order to get your reaction. I look forward to your comments. ] On July 10, 2016, Seth Rich,...
In winning the 13th national parliamentary election, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) capitalized on a rare convergence of public exhaustion and strategic patience. Its 212-seat landslide was harvested through moments it had spent nearly two decades preparing for. At the...
WEST BANK, (PIC) A Palestinian young man sustained a bullet injury near the separation wall in northern Tulkarem, while other citizens were either detained or assaulted by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in different West Bank areas on Saturday evening. The Red...
Islam Times - Munich Security Conference is being held in a climate totally different from past years. For decades, especially after end of the WWIIand and the Cold War, this event marked the strategic cohesion of the West and was...
A Palestinian NGO has denounced what it called an Israeli act of revenge after a video showed far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir overseeing the abuse of detainees in a military prison. Just days before the...
Residents who escaped violence tell of bandits riding in on motorbikes and shooting indiscriminately Armed assailants on motorbikes killed at least 32 people and burned houses and shops during raids on three villages in north-west Nigeria’s Niger state early on Saturday,...
Islam Times - More than 100 prominent figures from the worlds of entertainment and culture have signed an open letter supporting Francesca Albanese, the United Nations expert on Palestinian rights, who is facing a smear campaign and calls for her...
By: Majid Maqbool - - - - British-Indian novelist and essayist Rana Dasgupta studied philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford, and earned a PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before turning to writing. His debut collection, Tokyo Cancelled —a set...
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Saturday she believed US President Donald Trump still desires to own Greenland despite dialling back his recent threats to seize it by force. Asked at a security conference in Munich...
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani said on Saturday that negotiations on a security deal with Israel were focused on areas Israel has recently occupied and excluded the broader issue of the occupied Golan Heights. Since the 8...
Five European allies on Saturday blamed Russia for killing late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny using toxin from poison dart frogs while he was held in an Arctic penal colony two years ago, a claim Moscow rejected...
The sentencing hearing for Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai on Monday lasted less than 10 minutes. Journalists and police officers outside the West Kowloon Law Courts Building on February 9, 2026, ahead of the sentencing of...
The United Nations is "fully committed" to piling on pressure for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan , which has been devastated by nearly three years of civil war, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Saturday. Since April 2023, the...
Lawyers group accuses Jean-Noel Barrot of spreading false information and exposing UN expert to risk of attacks after citing comments she did not make Read Article HERE Photo: Wikipedia The post Sondos Asem: French foreign minister faces criminal complaint...
In her short term as prime minister, Sanae Takaichi has shown that she has the same kind of reality distortion field that other singular political talents have. Her status as Japan’s first female prime minister, her middle-class (read: non-hereditary) background...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio sought to reassure a nervous Europe on Saturday, saying Washington wanted to recharge the transatlantic alliance so a strong Europe could help the United States on its mission of global...
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar will attend US President Donald Trump's first formal Board of Peace meeting on 19 February, two Israeli officials said on Saturday. US officials told Reuters this week that Trump will announce...
Switzerland said Saturday that Oman would host talks between the United States and Iran in Geneva next week, with Washington pushing Tehran to make a deal to limit its nuclear programme. "Switzerland stands ready at all times...
Palestinian Finance Minister Estephan Salameh warned on Saturday that 2026 will be the most financially difficult year in more than three decades, accusing Israel of seeking to “destroy” the Palestinian Authority (PA) by imposing a "financial siege". Speaking to the official...
Two residents of Jerusalem have been forced to demolish their own homes following Israeli orders, amid continuing raids and settler attacks in the occupied West Bank . Rami al-Bakri, a resident of Beit Hanina north of occupied Jerusalem,...
Nearly 150,000 Afghans have returned from Pakistan and Iran this year, with the speed and size of the migration pushing Afghanistan deeper into crisis, the UN refugee agency said Friday. After decades hosting Afghans fleeing crises at...
GAZA, (PIC) The electricity crisis in the Gaza Strip is no longer a temporary service failure, it has become one of the clearest manifestations of economic collapse, following the complete power outage since October 2023 and the destruction of most of...
Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar has moved to reorganise his military deployment in southern Libya following an armed challenge by tribes at a key border crossing and a helicopter crash. Last week, Haftar issued a decision forming...
The United States Central Command said it has completed the transfer of more than 5,700 detained Islamic State group suspects from Syria to Iraq . The detainees from some 60 countries had for years been held in Syrian prisons run...
Iranian authorities have, without prior warning, transferred Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi to a prison in the north of the country as concern grows over her health, her husband said on Saturday. Mohammadi, who won the peace...
A judge declared a mistrial on Friday in a case of five current and former Stanford University students related to the 2024 pro-Palestinian protests when demonstrators barricaded themselves inside the school president's office. Twelve protesters were initially charged last...
Bahrain and Egypt are attempting to mend ties between the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia , two sources told AFP news agency, weeks into a diplomatic rift between the Arab world's most powerful countries. Saudi Arabia and...
A young Egyptian woman is facing death threats after posting a video showing the face of a man she says repeatedly harassed her, reviving debate over how victims are treated in the country. Mariam Shawky, an actress in her twenties, filmed...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with his Syrian counterpart Asaad al-Shaibani on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Friday and they discussed Damascus's recent agreement with the Kurds. A post by the Syrian foreign ministry...
The US military said Saturday that its forces had struck more than 30 Islamic State group targets in Syria this month, maintaining pressure on the jihadists after a deadly attack on US troops last year. The strikes also came...
Over a hundred top figures from the world of entertainment signed an open letter Saturday in support of UN Palestinian human rights expert Francesca Albanese who faces calls from Israel's allies to resign over comments about the war...
The Al-Aqsa hospital in central Gaza risks shutting down due to the breakdown of generators amid a continued Israeli siege on the territory . The government hospital had previously been operating on two main generators that have since...
The "extermination" of the Palestinian people must end, the chairman of the African Union Commission Mahmoud Ali Youssouf said on Saturday as he launched the organisation's 39th summit. "In the Middle East, Palestine and the suffering of its people...
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in the Munich Security Conference this weekend to sooth transatlantic anxieties. After Vice President J.D. Vance's criticisms of the old continent in 2025, the European dignitaries were looking for a more conventional American...
The National Committee for the Administration of Gaza on Saturday called for full administrative, civil and policing powers to enable it to carry out its duties in the besieged enclave "efficiently and independently", as it seeks to assume...
The Gaddafi name shot to international attention again this month with the assassination at his home of Saif al-Islam Qaddafi, once the most internationally well-known son and presumed heir of longtime dictator Muammar Qaddafi. Born during his father’s dictatorship, Saif...
Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri , one of the country's best-known politicians, indicated on Saturday that his party would contest upcoming elections, four years after he stepped back from public office. In a speech marking the 21st anniversary...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, preacher of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, has called on Arab and Muslim nations and their leaders to support Jerusalem and assume responsibility for protecting Al-Aqsa, warning that the Israeli government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
More than 50,000 foreign nationals have served in the Israeli army as of March 2025, including at least 2,069 British nationals. A report by investigative outlet Declassified UK has found that 50,632 soldiers serving in the...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Palestinian ministry of agriculture has reported that 777 trees were uprooted and destroyed by Israeli forces and settlers across the occupied West Bank in a single week, estimating the resulting losses at over $761,000. In a report released Saturday,...
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas called on Saturday for the removal of "all obstacles" he said Israel has imposed on implementing phase two of the Gaza ceasefire. "We emphasise the need to lift all obstacles imposed by the Israeli occupation...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out a large-scale overnight raid campaign across multiple areas of the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, early Saturday, detaining numerous Palestinians and clashing with residents. In Bethlehem, the IOF stormed al-Dheisheh refugee camp south...
GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 72,051 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Saturday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...
Earlier this week, the US Treasury Department sanctioned Jood SARL, a gold exchange recently established in Lebanon, declaring it a front for the US-sanctioned Hezbollah financial institution Al Qard al Hassan (AQAH). For years, AQAH has acted as Hezbollah’s shadow...
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