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Morocco handed prison terms to more than a dozen people arrested during youth-led protests last year, after convicting them of obstructing traffic, their lawyers said on Friday. The Gen Z movement , which took the usually stable kingdom by...

MENA

By Larry C. JOHNSON Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su A truly bizarre series of events off the coast of Iran today that in my opinion were entirely provoked, if not staged, by...

Editor's Choice, aviation, Donald Trump

Arteris is one of the most impressive companies SemiWiki has worked with over the last fifteen years. We have collaborated on one hundred and seventy-three articles/podcasts that have garnered more than two million views/listens. The success of Arteris can be...

CEO Interviews, EDA, llmda.ai

Any agreement reached between Iran and the United States would have "direct repercussions" for Lebanon, regardless of whether the Lebanese government accepted it, Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah has said. His comments came amid reports that the US and Iran...

MENA

While billions watch the 2026 FIFA World Cup across the US, Canada, and Mexico, Palestinians in Gaza experience it differently. Most Gazans , instead of celebrations, seek basic needs like electricity and internet amid over two years...

MENA

The announcement by several municipal officials in Libya's central region, on Monday, 8 June, of the establishment of the "Central Region Province" received no official response and was met with opposition from several activists and civil society. The...

MENA

At the Fourth China-CELAC Forum Ministerial Meeting in May 2025, President Xi Jinping pledged 66 billion yuan in credit lines to Latin American and Caribbean countries, along with a fresh set of infrastructure investments. At previous CELAC summits,...

Labor, Trade, & Finance, China, currency

The first-ever international agreement on safeguarding digital platform workers in the gig economy was adopted on Friday at the UN's International Labour Organisation. The agreement aims to extend labour protections to hundreds of millions of people worldwide...

World

The Hong Kong government has granted 1,000 restaurants the city’s first permits to allow dogs into their premises starting on July 9. The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) said on Friday that it “conducted an open balloting today...

Animals, Business, Community & Education

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he had “cancelled the scheduled strikes and bombing against Iran ” after claiming that “discussions and final points have been, in both concept and great detail, approved by all parties...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) Two mass weddings held in Al-Mawasi, west of Khan Yunis, offered displaced Palestinians in Gaza rare moments of joy and resilience as families continue to endure war, destruction and harsh living conditions. On Thursday, Al-Mawasi hosted a mass wedding for...

News, Gaza Strip, Gazan resilience

A 63-year-old Ocean Park mechanical technician died after collapsing at work on Friday. Ocean Park. File photo: Tom Grundy/HKFP. Police told HKFP that they received a report at 9:08am after the man, surnamed Luk, was found unconscious outside a staff...

Community & Education, Hong Kong, Aberdeen

"This is the only thing I still have left from Gaza. Everything else can be taken from me, but my voice can't be taken away. Even if I'm gone, my voice will still speak," Gazan-born rapper Ahmed Shamaly — known...

Interviews

By Caitlin JOHNSTONE Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su They built this whole machine on our backs. All we need to do is stand up. The human species has essentially been transformed into...

Editor's Choice, Arts, Capitalism

An Iran-linked hacker group Handala claims to have breached FBI drones and has threatened to target the World Cup that kicked off this week, a monitoring group said Friday. The SITE Intelligence Group, an organisation which monitors non-state groups,...

World

Arrest of Min Zin, who writes about Myanmar and Chinese foreign policy, comes just month after Trump visit to Beijing China has arrested a US scholar who writes about Myanmar and Chinese foreign policy on suspicion of spying. Min Zin was suspected...

China, US news, Myanmar

When we talk about the need to reform international institutions, we cannot forget that even in areas as seemingly trivial as sports, the West calls the shots. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su...

Americas, Society, World

My friend Joseph Ana, who has died aged 73, spent the best part of two decades in the UK working for the NHS as a urologist and then as a GP. But his heart was always in his native Nigeria,...

Health, NHS, GPs

Independents have grown increasingly unhappy with President Donald Trump during his second term, a new AP-NORC polling analysis finds, particularly those without a college degree. The analysis from researchers at The Associated Press-NORC Centre for Public Affairs Research shows...

World

BANGKOK – India’s military is expanding across the Andaman Sea into Southeast Asia with the construction of a multi-billion-dollar air and sea base on remote Great Nicobar Island, New Delhi’s furthest reach toward the Strait of Malacca, where rival China...

South Asia, Block 2, China Energy Imports

China said Friday it was holding an American citizen accused of espionage, identifying the man as a political analyst at a policy think tank focusing on neighbouring Myanmar. Min Zin — a founder of the Institute for Strategy and Policy Myanmar...

China, Defence & Foreign Policy, Law & Crime

Authorities in Afghanistan's western city of Herat arrested at least 30 women, accusing them of violating dress rules imposed by the Taliban government, the UN agency for women's rights said, but added that some were later released. Thursday's statement...

World

Exports (calendar and seasonally adjusted exports of goods), April 2026 136.6 billion euros +0.9% on the previous month +3.6% on the same month a year earlier Imports (calendar and seasonally adjusted imports of goods), April 2026 122.1 billion euros +1.2% on the previous...

Economics, DeStatis, Link

TOKYO – China’s “deflation-is-over” narrative is getting louder, but the foundations are still shaky. Consumer prices rose 1.2% year-on-year in May, while producer prices jumped 3.9%, lifted by higher costs for energy, semiconductors and metals. To many economists, this is...

China, Bank of Japan, Block 1

Participants at a Climate and Health Capacity Building Workshop. Credit: Friday Phiri By Friday Phiri BONN, Jun 12 2026 (IPS) Africa contributes the least to global greenhouse gas emissions, yet it faces some of the world’s most severe climate-related health impacts....

Africa, Climate Change, Development & Aid

The pro-Israel lobby is benefiting from a European Union fund set up to advance the cause of equality. A declaration made by the World Jewish Congress (WJC) shows that it received EU grants worth more than $650,000 in 2025...

EU-Institutions, Geopolitics, Racism

WEST BANK, (PIC) Israeli settlers carried out a series of attacks across the occupied West Bank over the past 24 hours, targeting Palestinians, their property, agricultural lands, and continuing incursions into the Aqsa Mosque compound. In the Ramallah area, settlers entered an...

News, Settlement activity, settler violence

Myanmar’s traditional New Year, Thingyan, is a time of renewal and public celebration. This year, it brought the release of some 4,300 prisoners in a mass amnesty ordered by the military. The release of President Win Myint, a close ally...

Opinion, Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar

GAZA, (PIC) The General Conference of Local Staff Unions at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has rejected the dismissal of 70 employees in Gaza, describing the decision as arbitrary and taken without a fair investigation...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli aggression

WEST BANK, (PIC) Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out a series of raids and military incursions across the West Bank and Jerusalem overnight and into Friday morning, resulting in arrests and heightened tensions in several areas. In the Jenin area, IOF troops...

News, Israeli violations, Occupied Jerusalem

An aerial view of a beach with a ferris wheel, Ain Dubai, Bluewaters, Dubai, UAE. Credit: Unsplash/ Nelemson Guevarra By Maximilian Malawista UNITED NATIONS, Jun 12 2026 (IPS) The global ocean economy continues its expansion, with ocean-related trade reaching...

Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Food Security and Nutrition

GAZA, (PIC) Israeli forces continued violating the Gaza ceasefire on Friday for the 246th consecutive day, carrying out airstrikes, heavy gunfire, and large-scale demolition operations amid a worsening humanitarian crisis caused by the ongoing blockade and restrictions. Local sources reported that Israeli...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli aggression

A huge change is coming to the world’s booming artificial intelligence (AI) sector. Starting with Elon Musk’s SpaceX, with OpenAI and Anthropic preparing to follow, all three private companies are set to sell shares of their stock to the general...

Technology, AI Accountability, AI Guardrails

Foreign spies are fitting turtles and fish with sensors to create underwater maps of China’s coastline, Beijing warned Friday in apparent reference to its Western competitors. A sea turtle swimming underwater. File photo: OhCan, via Pexels. In a social media...

Animals, China, Defence & Foreign Policy

China has been on the verge of collapse for more than 20 years. In 2001, lawyer and commentator Gordon Chang published “The Coming Collapse of China.” The book famously predicted that China’s economic model would fail within a decade. The decade...

China, Block 2, China Collapse

Data cables connected on network switches in a computer server room. Scott Rodgerson on Unsplash Credit: Africa Renewal By United Nations Economic Commission for Africa UNITED NATIONS, Jun 12 2026 (IPS) African leaders are sharpening their focus on digital sovereignty, warning...

Africa, Artificial Intelligence, Development & Aid

Hong Kong police have arrested 16 people for allegedly using bogus medical certificates to fraudulently withdraw over HK$4.3 million from their retirement savings funds . The Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority. Photo: Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority, via Facebook....

Hong Kong, Law & Crime, Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF)

I need a personal injury attorney. I’m going to sue Donald Trump for whiplash. At 9 am in the morning, Donald Trump doubled-down on his threat the previous night to, “Bomb the shit out of Iran,” by vowing to launch...

Larry C. Johnson

Observers could easily dismiss Pope Leo XIV’s “Magnifica Humanitas” as just another document on artificial intelligence. But under the surface lies a deeper question: whether modern political elites still have both the ability and the moral clarity to place restraints...

Artificial-intelligence, Pope-leo, Human-rights
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