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Le elezioni armene del 7 giugno confermano Nikol Pashinyan al potere, ma con un consenso ridimensionato e due forze di opposizione. Il voto apre una fase complessa, segnata da pressioni occidentali, contestazioni interne e incertezza strategica. Segue nostro Telegram ....

Italiano, Armenia, Azerbaijan

Washington has a habit of dressing up its foreign policy in the language of moral purpose. Presidents invoke democracy, human rights, and the rules-based international order as if they were divine mandates rather than rhetorical conveniences. So there is something...

Opinion, Donald Trump, Iran peace agreement 2026

Corporate lobby spending in Brussels has risen by 50% since 2020, and the number of registered lobbyists has grown by 30%. Cross-posted from Corporat e Europe Observatory Corporate spending on lobbying the EU keeps on rising – and the lobbyists...

Corruption, EU politics, EU-Institutions

Trade union strength has weakened in the baby boomer era partly because the supply workers have been abundant – a tighter labour market in the context of population decline could act as a boon to worker organising. Jeremiah Nollenberger is a researcher...

EU politics, Finance, Globalisation

When Kamel Hawwash retired from academia last year, he imagined a quieter life. Instead, he entered May's local elections in Birmingham and made history. By winning a seat in Stirchley, Hawwash became the UK's first councillor of Palestinian...

Interviews

FIFA is reportedly considering staging a football match between the Palestinian and Israeli U-15 national teams ahead of a global youth football festival in the United States in September, a proposal likely to spark outrage among Palestinian football...

Sports

President Donald Trump is facing a choice between ending the war with Iran, which is tanking his popularity and the economy, and continuing his deference to Israel. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi made it clear on Tuesday that Trump cannot have both....

Middle East, Block 3, Hezbollah

WEST BANK, (PIC) A group of 42 members of the US Congress has called on the State Department to disclose how much money the Israeli government spends on building and expanding settlements in the occupied West Bank, reflecting growing demands within...

News, Israeli violations, Settlement annexation

The revealing moment in Donald Trump’s latest Iran messaging was not the boast. It was the hesitation. Asked about sending U.S. special operations forces into Iran to extract the country’s enriched uranium, Trump said that his team had...

War & Peace, Iran, Jimmy Carter

This Qurayshi woman remains anonymous, but her story features most prominently in the Qur’anic exegetical literature in connection with the well-known 20th ayah from Surah An-Nisa 1 . Her claim to fame was an incident in which she confronted ʿUmar...

#Islam, #Society, Aqeedah and Fiqh

Anas Mohammed recounts his own experience and details of what he said took place during his time in Israeli custody after his boat in the Global Sumud Flotilla was intercepted by Israeli forces on international waters. Some readers may find...

Perspectives

The revocation of Kuwaiti citizenship from two of the Gulf's most influential musicians has sent shockwaves through Kuwait's cultural community , making singer Abdulmohsen Al Muhanna and composer Yousef Al Muhanna the latest high-profile figures to be stripped...

MENA

I was just guessing at numbers and figures Pulling the puzzles apart Questions of science, science and progress Do not speak as loud as my heart – Coldplay Nine of the world’s current top,-ten-ranked research universities are in China, according...

US-China, Block 1, Classmate Geng

The son of imprisoned Gaza doctor Hussam Abu Safiya has described his devastation after Israel's Supreme Court rejected his father's appeal against detention on Tuesday, leaving the prominent physician jailed without charge despite mounting concerns over his health. In...

MENA

The Palestinian presidency has warned that a decision announced by the far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to revoke parts of the Hebron agreements represents a dangerous escalation that threatens the political and legal status...

MENA

US President Donald Trump maintained on Tuesday that an interim accord with Iran makes clear that Tehran would never be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon, and he also suggested Syria could be better positioned to disarm...

MENA

International shipping companies welcomed the agreement between the US and Iran to end their war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz , but cautioned on Tuesday that it remains too early to resume normal operations through the...

Economy

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Donald Trump ’s popularity with evangelicals has always been confounding. He doesn’t respect them or their belief system, or embody any recognizable Christian values. Nor does he seem to have a favorite evangelist, the way George W. Bush was associated...

Activism, Column, Courts & Law

Iran's World Cup opener against New Zealand in Los Angeles on Monday became a showcase of competing visions of Iranian identity, with most supporters rallying behind Team Melli while pro-monarchy activists used the occasion to display...

Sports

Donald Trump is already telling us he’s going to try to steal the 2026 election, and the fact that he’s saying it now, months in advance, is the whole tell. Back in February he stood up and declared that...

Column, Courts & Law, Opinion

Abdul Hamid Abdul Muti thought the meal he had prepared for his family would offer a brief moment of normality amid life in a displacement camp. Instead, within hours, the 44-year-old was doubled over with stomach cramps, vomiting repeatedly and suffering...

MENA

This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . The oceanic phenomenon known as El Niño , which increases temperatures worldwide, has officially begun, according to U.S. weather forecasters...

Americas, Environment, Health & Wellness

Former high-ranking Biden administration officials should arguably be facing charges at the International Criminal Court for complicity in the Gaza genocide. Instead, they’re embraced by polite society and enjoy influential posts in corporate media...

Activism, Column, Media

The United States military has overseen scores of secretive ship-to-ship oil transfers to keep Gulf energy exports flowing, using aerial and water drones as well as helicopters in an operation to guide convoys to awaiting tankers. The operation on...

Energy

By launching a railway corridor stretching from Mecca to Istanbul via Amman and Damascus, with potential extensions to Oman and Lebanon , Saudi Arabia and Turkey could diversify their economies and expand their geopolitical influence....

In-depth

Over 60 MPs and Lords have demanded answers over illegal shipments of weaponry from Britain to Israel via Belgium. MPs who have signed the letter include Diane Abbott, Richard Burgon, John McDonnell, and Hannah Spencer, while the Lords include Baroness Sayeeda...

Archive, Arms Trade, Middle East

- - - - Photo by Priscilla Du Preez  on Unsplash Intellectually, I believe that anything we do should be something we do with as much excellence as we can manage, and if it’s not to...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has amended the law governing elections to the Palestinian National Council , a move analysts say could reshape Palestinian political representation as the leadership prepares for long-delayed elections amid internal divisions and mounting...

MENA

RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Palestine Center for Prisoners Studies said Israel’s policy of administrative detention is systematically designed to disrupt the normal course of Palestinian prisoners’ lives and deprive them of social, professional and educational stability. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the...

News, Administrative detention, Israeli violations

An Iranian national football team player's United States visa has expired, state media reported Tuesday, leaving his future at the World Cup shrouded in doubt with Tehran engulfed in a bitter diplomatic row with Washington. Winger Mehdi...

Sports

By Philip GIRALDI Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Netanyahu always says “What you own belongs to me” In addition to the regular lethal American and Israeli attacks on Iran, last week...

Editor's Choice, Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump

Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has insisted that Israel must fully withdraw from occupied Lebanese territory under the terms of the US-Iran memorandum of understanding, rejecting a proposed "pilot zone" arrangement and warning that any prolonged...

MENA

Britain’s recent local elections revealed more than a routine midterm backlash. Labour’s heavy losses, the continuing erosion of Conservative support, and the rise of the far-right Reform UK point towards a deeper crisis unfolding within one of the West’s traditional...

Immigration, Kier Starmer, populism

For years, advanced packaging has been described mostly in planar terms: chiplets placed side by side, connected through interposers, bridges, redistribution layers, substrates, and short-reach electrical links. This view remains important. It supports today’s GPU, HBM, chiplet, and 2.5D integration...

3D IC, AI, 2.5D integration

By Tamas ORBAN Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su A quick explainer on the EU’s landmark migration management legislation and why the European Right is not happy about it. After nearly eleven years in...

Editor's Choice, European Commission, European Union

A group of children sit near a garden in Tamasgo Primary, in Burkina Faso, which is one of the most climate-vulnerable countries in the world. Credit: UNICEF Office in Burkina Faso By Oritro Karim UNITED NATIONS, Jun 16 2026 (IPS) A...

Africa, Asia-Pacific, Climate Action

Inside a narrow room in a Beirut displacement shelter, Fatima Bittar keeps the door slightly ajar. Not for air, but because she cannot afford to be alone if something goes wrong. The 54-year-old widow was displaced from Bourj el-Shemali...

Society

While Pakistan has been publicly credited with mediating the framework agreement between the United States and Iran, officials and diplomats say Qatar played a crucial behind-the-scenes role in helping bridge differences between Washington and Tehran, hosting...

MENA

A dozen Israeli company stands were shut down on Monday at a major international defence and security exhibition outside Paris, after French authorities enforced restrictions on the display of Israeli military equipment amid growing scrutiny of Israel...

World

The photo above is not from China; it’s from Japan. In the 1970s, Daiei was Japan’s top retailer. But after Japan’s asset bubble burst around 1990, it became Japan’s most famous “zombie” company — staggering along unprofitably, kept afloat by a constant...

China, Block 3, China Economy

Leaders from Southeast Asia gather in Kazan this month for the Russia-ASEAN summit, and one of the most closely watched developments may not be found on the official agenda. Instead, it lies in a diplomatic request from Manila: a proposed...

Politics, Russia, Southeast Asia
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