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TOKYO – India and Indonesia aren’t often at the center of the global financial zeitgeist. But as the rupee and rupiah lead Asian currencies down and down, events in Mumbai and Jakarta speak to the ways the Iran war is...

Finance, 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, Bank Indonesia

When independent Moroccan-Italian singer-songwriter Abderrahman, known as NABD , looks back on his musical journey, he traces it first to what he heard at home. "I was raised hearing my mom singing all over the house," he tells The...

Interviews

Scores of activists from a Gaza-bound aid flotilla intercepted by Israeli forces in international waters off Crete disembarked on a Greek island on Friday, as international condemnation intensified over what was described as an act of...

MENA

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz as well as tensions in the Red Sea are reshaping trade routes, with Africa becoming a hub of global container ship traffic, according to logistics and maritime sources. Over the past two...

Economy

“The Technological Republic” è un libro scritto da Alexander Karp e da Nichiolas W. Zamiska. In esso, il CEO di Palantir ed il suo consigliere legale delineano quelle che, a loro modo di vedere, dovrebbero essere le implicazioni della tecnologia...

Italiano, Artificial Intelligence, Big Tech

Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. Japan grapples with Iran war, cyber risk and tightening financial conditionsScott Foster reports that Japan faces a convergence of shocks...

Global Risk-Reward Monitor

Russia has emerged as the main supplier of oil to Syria, Reuters reporting shows, despite the new government's alignment with the West and widespread distrust of Moscow over its military support for fallen leader Bashar al-Assad. Oil shipments from...

MENA

On 11 April, the United States brokered a unified spending framework for Libya, endorsed by both eastern and western factions—a sign of the attention that Washington has been devoting to the North African nation lately. The US-Israeli war...

Perspectives

Two months into the Iran war and the Strait of Hormuz is still mostly shut. Vessel traffic is running at a fraction of pre-war levels, with the patchwork of ceasefires, blockades and re-closures since February 28 not restoring confidence on...

Middle East, Block 3, Guld States

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) A video circulating online has documented a violent assault by a settler on a Christian nun in occupied Jerusalem, triggering widespread anger and condemnation. The nun was injured in the attack, sustaining facial wounds after being assaulted by an...

News, Christian community, Occupied Jerusalem

GAZA, (PIC) In a scene that summarizes the depth of the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, the danger is no longer limited to the Israeli bombing or the shortage of medicines, but has extended to threaten the rescue artery itself. Ambulances...

Reports, Fuel supplies, Gaza Strip

MADRID, (PIC) Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Thursday called on the European Union to immediately suspend its partnership agreement with Israel following the attack on the “Global Sumud Flotilla.” In a post on X, Sánchez said Israel had “once again violated...

News, Gaza Strip, Global Sumud Flotilla

After OPEC and OPEC+, the UAE may leave the Arab League and even the GCC. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su So MbZ – the sole owner of the UAE – decided to...

Business, Middle East, World

GAZA, (PIC) Israeli violations of the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip have continued for the 204th consecutive day on Friday, amid ongoing artillery shelling and gunfire targeting various areas across the territory. Artillery strikes repeatedly targeted areas northwest of Rafah since...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli aggression

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli forces intensified their presence in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem on Thursday evening and overnight into Friday, deploying both foot and vehicle patrols throughout the city’s eastern and southern neighborhoods. The operations included the...

News, Israeli violations, Occupied Jerusalem

Britain’s Tobacco and Vapes Bill, passed by Parliament in April and awaiting Royal Assent, would permanently bar the sale of tobacco to anyone born on or after January 1, 2009. The measure is designed to create what British officials call...

Opinion, Big Tobacco, Britain Tobacco and Vapes Bill

On May 1, 2026, the United Arab Emirates formally departed from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), ending nearly six decades of membership. Most analysis has fixated on what this means for crude prices, supply discipline and Saudi...

Finance, ASEAN, Bank for International Settlements

Little understood and still poorly documented in Africa, incidents of violence and harassment in the workplace are scourges that undermine both human development and labour productivity. Violence and harassment in the world of work constitute a universal phenomenon that remains...

Current Affairs

EnComm Aviation says the firm’s action has cut off vital support for crisis-hit countries including South Sudan and the DRC Britain’s biggest weapons manufacturer, BAE Systems, is facing a £120m lawsuit after scrapping support for aircraft used to deliver aid...

Global development, BAE Systems, Aid

Two months after the United States, along with Israel, launched a war against Iran, that conflict appears far from a lasting resolution. Much commentary on the protracted nature of the conflict has centered on the limits of both the military...

World, Block 2, Hormuz Blockades

After five years of conflict and a tightly controlled election, Myanmar’s junta leader, Min Aung Hlaing, shed his uniform, named himself president and spoke of peace and reconciliation. The release of elected President Win Myint, the reduction of Aung San...

Southeast Asia, Arakan Army, Block 2

By Farhana Haque Rahman TORONTO, Canada, May 1 2026 (IPS) Press freedom is on the retreat across much of the world. As documented by recent global surveys authored by the UN and media institutes, the erosion of an independent, fearless and...

Civil Society, Crime & Justice, Democracy

Credit: UN Photo/Loey Felipe By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, May 1 2026 (IPS) A longstanding rule bars international civil servants from publicly taking a political stand against member states (or even participating in political demonstrations outside the UN). And more importantly,...

Civil Society, Democracy, Featured

President Trump and members of his administration have repeatedly claimed that the United States’ prodigious oil production insulates the country from price shocks stemming from Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz. It’s not clear whether they’re acting as fools or...

Enewsletter, China, Russia

In recent remarks to Fox News, Secretary of State Marco Rubio outlined a plan to task the Lebanese army with disarming Hezbollah — an effort that could spark civil war in Lebanon. “That’s what we’re working towards establishing, is a system...

Israel, Lebanon, Iran-war

In the wake of the American-Israeli war on Iran, and Tehran’s retaliatory missile and drone attacks on Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members, Gulf Arab states are reassessing their long-held assumptions regarding the U.S. security umbrella. While it remains unlikely that...

Saudi-arabia, Iran-war, Israel

By: Khanh Vu Duc - - - - Fifty-one years after the April 30, 1975 fall of the Republic of Vietnam, the country is no longer defined primarily by war memory. It is defined by strategic positioning. In the Indo-Pacific...

Taiwan’s economy expanded at its fastest pace in nearly 39 years thanks to robust demand for artificial intelligence technology, data showed Thursday, despite concerns over the Middle East crisis. Taipei, Taiwan. File photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. The island is a global...

Business, Taiwan, AFP

A peace initiative to end a decades-long conflict with Kurdish militants has been effectively “frozen” by the Turkish government, a top militant commander said on Thursday. He and another officials with the group accused Ankara of failing to enact...

MENA

An Israeli rights organisation petitioned Israel's Supreme Court on Thursday to demand the immediate release of 14 Palestinian doctors from Gaza who have been held without charge for more than a year. Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) said...

MENA

The US embassy in Lebanon on Thursday urged a meeting between Lebanese and Israeli leaders as the health ministry said Israeli strikes on the country's south killed at least 17 people despite an ongoing ceasefire . Israeli and Lebanese representatives...

MENA

Italy condemns Israel's seizure of aid ships bound for Gaza and demands the immediate release of all Italians who have been "unlawfully detained," Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni 's office said on Thursday. Israel intercepted the vessels in international waters near...

World

Palestinian soccer federation President Jibril Rajoub refused to stand alongside Israel FA Vice-President Basim Sheikh Suliman in a heated moment at the FIFA Congress on Thursday. Both men were called to the stand by FIFA President Gianni Infantino...

Sports

The Fourth Amendment protects all persons from warrantless government searches and seizures of their persons, houses, papers and effects. It requires that warrants be supported by probable cause of crime and specifically describe the place to be searched and the...

Uncategorized

US President Donald Trump faces a deadline on Friday to end the Iran war or make the case to Congress for extending it, but the date is most likely to pass without altering the course of a conflict that...

MENA

US President Donald Trump’s war in Iran has passed the two-month mark with little to show for it besides thousands of dead civilians, gas prices exceeding $4 a gallon, and tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer funds spent. It’s just the latest in a decades-long series...

World, Afghanistan, Block 4

President Donald Trump on Thursday moved to capitalize on a US Supreme Court decision weakening the federal Voting Rights Act as he urged one governor to gerrymander his state and praised another for suspending an approaching primary. The court’s decision...

United States, Donald Trump, US 2026 midterm elections

GAZA, (PIC) The foreign ministers of Jordan, Spain, Pakistan, Brazil, Bangladesh, Türkiye, South Africa, Colombia, Libya, Maldives, and Malaysia have condemned Israel’s attack on the “Global Sumud Flotilla” for the Gaza Strip. In a joint statement, the ministers said that targeting the...

News, Bangladesh, Global Sumud Flotilla
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