Emirati towns and cities experienced a nother night of heavy rain on Thursday evening, just as authorities were preparing to clean up flooded streets following another deluge earlier this week. Storms hit the UAE on Thursday night, causing flash...
More than 1,700 people were killed, nearly 200,000 displaced and multiple actors including Syrian government forces, tribal fighters and Druze armed groups committed acts that may amount to war crimes during a week of violence in southern...
Chief Research Fellow at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies, Vladimir Vasiliev, explains why the United States delayed a strike on Iran and whether negotiations remain possible. The expert analyzes escalation risks, the scenario of a ground operation, and...
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has made an unexpected move-one whose consequences may be felt across the region. The focus is on negotiations between the United States and Belarus, partial sanctions relief, the motives behind it, and the hidden interests shaping...
People across the US and around the world are getting ready for mass pro-democracy and anti-Trump demonstrations in thousands of towns and cities. The third "No Kings" demonstration is expected to be among the largest to date since US...
On February 28 , videos emerged online showing the aftermath of the war’s opening strikes on the Supreme Leader’s compound in Tehran. In one video taken on Pastor Street, a few alleys away from the compound, a column of smoke...
On 16 March, Pakistan was suspected of carrying out a deadly airstrike on a drug treatment hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. Over 400 people are estimated to have been killed. Pakistani officials insist the strike did not target civilians,...
- - - - Photo by krzhck on Unsplash I honestly don’t believe I have to do this, but it seems that we’re at the point where Peter Jackson’s masterpiece The Lord of the Rings trilogy is...
Iran has threatened to target the presidential palace in the Syrian capital Damascus , as well as two luxury hotels, as part of what it calls its campaign against US interests in the region. The semi-official Iranian Fars News...
NewsGuard , a company that rates news outlets’ accuracy using what it calls “apolitical journalistic criteria…to identify reliable sources of information,” has filed a lawsuit to block the Federal Trade Commission’s demand for a list of all its customers. The...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation police prevented Palestinian citizens from performing Friday prayers today on Salahuddin Street in east Jerusalem as the closure of the Aqsa Mosque entered day 28. Local sources reported today that police forces stormed Salahuddin Street, giving...
PARIS — At the head of the March 8 International Women’s Day march in Paris this year, Gisèle Pelicot walked slowly through the crowd, flanked by her daughter, Caroline Darian. Around them, thousands of demonstrators filled the streets, their placards...
What’s in effect now is the rewriting of the global operating system. And the new OS runs on petroyuan. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The infernal escalation machine is reaching...
Ukrainian politician Oleksiy Goncharenko* unexpectedly delivered an extremely harsh critique of the state's current course, triggering a wave of emotional reactions among his regular followers. There is such a deputy in the Verkhovna Rada – Oleksiy Goncharenko*. His name remains inseparably...
Ukraine is close to clinching several security agreements - including with the UAE and Qatar - to counter Iranian attacks , its foreign minister said on Friday, adding that he saw scope to draw China into peace efforts...
Two key contracts for the construction of Saudi Arabia's Trojena ski resort in the troubled new city of NEOM were abruptly cancelled this week, raising questions about the future of the ambitious project amid new dynamics in...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has strongly denounced the Israeli decision to extend the closure of the Aqsa Mosque until mid‑April. In a statement on Friday, Hamas accused the Israeli occupation of exploiting the current circumstances in the region to impose full...
Iran is currently earning around $139 million per day from sales of its Iran Light crude, according to Bloomberg, citing export monitoring data from TankerTrackers. com and global energy price benchmarks. This marks a significant increase compared to February, when average...
For decades, American dominance rested on a simple reality: when Washington moved, others followed. That era is ending. The unfolding confrontation with Iran has exposed something far more consequential than a regional crisis; it has revealed the hard limits of...
Pravda.Ru special correspondent Daria Aslamova conducted an interview with President of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Murad Sadygzade, who explains why Netanyahu's plan to split Iran failed, what the Arab monarchies really want, and when the Middle East may...
With scientists warning that humanity is closer than ever to catastrophe, Prime Minister Carney is choosing to align Canada with Donald Trump’s military ambitions — heightening nuclear dangers instead of standing up oppose them By Tamara LARINCZ Join us on...
At the TERAFAB launch event in Austin on March 21, Elon Musk made a prediction that would have sounded like science fiction a decade ago—and may still: roughly 80 percent of AI compute will eventually move off-planet. The argument is straightforward...
Gideon Levy believes Israel’s rampant militarism has infected the minds of its entire population. Without an impossible reversal, the Jewish state’s destructive warpath will rage on. As the war between the United States, Israel, and Iran intensifies, the justifications for...
A Palestinian man was shot dead and at least 14 others wounded in a wave of settler attacks across the occupied West Bank on Thursday night, amid a sharp uptick in settler activity. At least five new...
Oil prices rose Friday and stocks were mixed as initial optimism over Donald Trump's decision to again push back a deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz petered. The tepid response came as governments around...
Operation Epic Fury has destroyed Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, degraded its navy, killed its supreme leader, and cost the United States at least $900 million per day . These are tactically significant outcomes. However, they do not answer the central...
GAZA, (PIC) The Palestinian Red Crescent said it facilitated the medical evacuation of 47 Palestinians from Gaza through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, which is operating under strict Israeli restrictions. In a statement on Thursday, the organization said the evacuation included...
AL-KHALIL, (PIC) An 80 year old Palestinian woman and two of her sons suffered bruises on Friday after armed Jewish settlers attacked their home and assaulted them, before stealing 30 sheep east of al-Khalil. Farid Yarkan, head of the village council of...
GAZA, (PIC) Different Palestinian parties have voiced their rejection of former UN envoy Nicolay Mladenov’s multiphase plan to disarm the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip, calling it “biased in favor of the Israeli occupation.” Mladenov’s plan focuses on an eight-month disarmament...
NAZARETH, (PIC) The Israeli Knesset is pushing a draft law on the execution of Palestinian prisoners to the verge of final approval, after the National Security Committee approved its final version on March 24, 2026, in a step that reintroduces the...
The deadly bombing of an Iranian school spurred "visceral horror", the UN rights chief said Friday, urging Washington to conclude its probe and demanding justice "for the terrible harm done". Speaking at the start of an urgent...
Iraq which is heading towards a civil war that could wipe out U.S. oil investors there. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Trump’s war in Iran continues to cause havoc in the region...
When Russian banks were cut off from SWIFT in 2022, the goal was clear: deliver a fast financial shock. It didn’t quite work that way. Russia kept exporting, oil revenues surged and before long a different narrative began to take...
Israel and Iran have launched fresh waves of attacks as the war launched by the US and Israel nears its fifth week. Israel said on Friday it had conducted "wide-scale" airstrikes in Tehran, while Iran's Revolutionary Guards carried...
Chinese science and tech associations called on Friday for a boycott of a leading global artificial intelligence conference this year, after event organisers said they could not accept submissions from those on a US list of sanctioned entities. The NeurIPS...
Wang Fuk Court residents will be given three hours to collect belongings from their fire-hit homes from mid-April to early May, with a maximum of four people allowed per household. A kite near Wang Fuk Court on January 30, 2026....
By: Jens Kastner - - - - The assassination in Cambodia of Lin Bing-wen, a fugitive billionaire Taiwanese gambling tycoon, is raising speculation in Taipei that Lin was protected and then silenced by powerful political forces. He used social media...
By Tania GEORGIOPOULOU Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Amid Iran turmoil, fears grow over destabilization, radicalization, regional migration pressures Greece, like the rest of Europe, may face new refugee arrivals from Iran...
A Hong Kong NGO has urged domestic workers to seek help if they have unplanned pregnancies, after a 34-year-old woman was arrested over the death of a newborn boy found in a rubbish bin at a shopping mall...
A new wave of corruption in the Ukrainian military amid the suspension of overseas training. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Recently, the Kiev regime halted the regular deployment of troops for training...
TOKYO — News of currency troubles in Thailand has a way of raising blood pressure amongst even the most battle-tested Asian investors. The baht’s dubious honor of being Asia’s worst-performing currency amid surging oil prices is making headlines and triggering...
The United Arab Emirates has told the US and other Western allies it would participate in a multinational maritime taskforce to reopen the Strait of Hormuz , the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing people...
Should Iran be able to maintain its choke-hold on the Hormuz, the geo-politics of Asia would be recast in a new strategic reality. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su As we’re now in...
Conserving the watershed of the Tana and improving farming methods is securing water supplies and livelihoods alike in a changing climate When in 2017 David Nyoro became one of the first farmers to partner with Africa’s first water fund to conserve...
Israeli forces are attempting to push deeper into southern Lebanon , as Hezbollah intensifies attacks across multiple fronts, leaving the conflict in a grinding stalemate with no diplomatic resolution in sight. Fighting has centred on the southern...
Book Review by Branko Milanović Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian’s The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform is a book about how China transformed itself between the Great Leap Forward and the early reforms laying the basis for...
A woman and her five children have reportedly committed suicide in the northern coastal city of Alexandria, sending shockwaves across the nation and highlighting Egypt's intensifying economic crisis due to current events. The woman and the five children...
Nei giorni scorsi, il presidente Trump e il segretario alla Guerra Hegseth hanno rilasciato dichiarazioni perfettamente convergenti nel delineare un “ruolino di marcia” che secondo la loro ricostruzione stava portando gli Stati Uniti a realizzare costanti...
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