Iran revealed on Monday that its ongoing talks with the United States were currently focused on ending the war rather than negotiating the details of Tehran's nuclear programme, while dismissing claims that a deal between the two sides...
Pakistan-brokered negotiations between the US and Iran took a significant step forward on Saturday, with President Donald Trump announcing that a deal to end the war - including reopening the Strait of Hormuz - had been "largely negotiated"...
America is arguably failing to comply with its own Taiwan Relations Act (TRA), enacted by Congress in 1979. Many know that the TRA established a framework for unofficial US relations with Taiwan after the US ended its defense treaty with the Republic...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Caught between demolition and forced closure, the Burqan family in the Bir Ayoub neighborhood of Silwan in Occupied Jerusalem is awaiting the fate of its multi-story residential building, which houses 15 family members, including women and children. Under threats...
Over 1.5 million Muslims began filling a vast tent city in the holy city of Mecca on Monday for an annual hajj pilgrimage carried out against the backdrop of hopes for an end to the US-Israeli war...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) launched widespread overnight and early Monday raids across several cities and towns in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, carrying out home invasions, field interrogations, arrests, and attacks amid escalating military operations and...
A significant event in the formation of both Japan’s postwar foreign policy and the situation in the critically important Southeast Asian subregion was Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi’s tour to Indonesia and the Philippines in early May. Japan is once again...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) In the context of the continuous Israeli escalation in occupied Jerusalem, which includes intensifying incursions into al-Aqsa Mosque and expanding settlement control inside the Old City, the occupation government reopened expropriation order files dating back decades in the...
Aboard the RFA Lyme Bay docked off the coast of Gibraltar, hundreds of British sailors are waiting to be deployed for a mine-clearing mission to the Strait of Hormuz that is still in doubt. US President Donald Trump has lashed out...
The headquarters of the United Nations with Trump World Tower looming in the foreground, in Manhattan, NY, on April 28, 2026. (SEBASTIAN CHRISTOPH GOLLNOW/PICTURE ALLIANCE VIA GETTY IMAGES) Source: Wahington Reports By Ian Williams NEW YORK, May 25 2026 (IPS) AS...
The United States will either have a good agreement with Iran or deal with the country "another way," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday, as Washington played down hopes for an imminent breakthrough in the three-month-old...
Budget shortfalls could force the organization to move closer to the communities that it's meant to serve. By JB Bae FORT COLLINS, Colorado USA, May 25 2026 (IPS) The $1.2 billion renovation of the Palais des Nations was intended...
The men carried metal detectors as they scanned a mountainous area in northern Sudan in search of gold. One man knelt to examine the ground with a digging tool for precious metal in an environment lacking even the...
When India’s Chief Justice Surya Kant compared unemployed young people to cockroaches last week, he probably expected outrage, maybe an apology cycle, and then silence. What he got instead was 15 million Instagram followers in five days, a cockroach logo...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Credit: UN Photo/Sourav Sarker By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, May 25 2026 (IPS) The United Nations has had a longstanding tradition, described by some as a “privilege”, where most senior staffers are entitled to highly-expensive First Class...
Between May 14 and 20, Russia repositioned five of six recently launched Cosmos military satellites from an orbital inclination of 97 degrees to 97.8 degrees, putting the Cosmos satellites on the same orbital plane as a satellite known as ICEYE-X36. ICEYE is a...
Hello! For those joining us, here are the latest updates: - White House officials have been cautiously signalling that a deal is getting closer. For his part, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says a "pretty solid" proposal, while insisting that...
Islam Times - A senior advisor to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Mohsen Rezaei confirmed that Iran will break a naval blockade imposed by the United States on its vessels and ports and more importantly withdraw from the Non-Proliferation...
New pan-African campaign urges Africans to spotlight the continent’s progress, innovation and ambition. Opportunity Africa today launched #NotWaiting on Africa Day, a pan-African campaign calling on Africans across the continent and the diaspora to spotlight the people, ideas,...
Future generations will ask, What did you do when the choice became clear between war and development? Did you defend the old order that was failing, or did you join the movement for a new world? As Europe lay in...
If you had any doubts about the power of the Zionist influence over Donald Trump, the events of the last 36-hours should erase them. On May 23, Trump posted on Truth Social: “ An Agreement has been largely negotiated, subject to...
When it comes to propaganda, no weapon is left on the table. Film, radio, the internet, and print have all been enlisted to promote this or that party line. Comic books are no exception to this rule, and the military,...
Bonolo Selelo and Tsholofelo Kumile are going to court for right to wed but face fierce opposition from church groups Bonolo Selelo was at Botswana’s national museum for a Gaborone Pride event when she spotted Tsholofelo Kumile and was struck by...
Iran’s drones may have survived not because US and Israeli strikes failed, but because Iran built a war machine designed from the start to keep fighting after the bombs fell. According to recently disclosed US intelligence assessments, Iran is rapidly...
Israeli strikes pounded south and east Lebanon Sunday despite a ceasefire as Hezbollah's chief expressed hope for an agreement between Iran and the United States to end the Middle East war that includes Lebanon . Lebanon's health ministry raised the...
By: Andy Wong Ming Jun - - - - Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam, Senior Counsel Sreenivasan Narayanan and Bloomberg reporter Low De Wei. Photos from Channel News Asia A Singapore High Court is due to rule shortly on a...
Several times a day, a drone carrying high-capacity cameras and flashing red-and-blue lights whirs and rises from the rooftops of police stations across Hong Kong. They emerge from a box-shaped docking system that slowly unfolds its doors to both sides....
President Donald Trump’s suggestion that US arms sales to Taiwan could be a bargaining chip with China has set off alarms across the world, but in Taipei, people told AFP the situation was beyond their control. A person walking by...
China launched its crewed Shenzhou-23 spacecraft and eased it into a successful docking with a space station early Monday as part of Beijing’s ambitions to send humans to the Moon by 2030, state media said. The Shenzhou-23 spacecraft launch on...
The other day, I was reading an old Atlantic Monthly and came across the following cartoon: That is one powerful image. I like the tiny heads on the pallbearers. They make me think of the posturing politicians who tell us...
US stock futures rose on Monday while the dollar and oil prices slipped as the prospect of a deal to end the Iran war buoyed risk appetite although a lack of clarity over when the Strait of Hormuz...
South Africa’s Mamelodi Sundowns drew 1-1 at Royal Armed Forces of Morocco on Sunday to claim the African Champions League title 2-1 on aggregate thanks to Teboho Mokoena's thunderous strike. The Moroccans took the lead after 40 minutes with...
Vivek Raghunathan has over 18 years of experience in silicon photonics. He was a Sr. Principal Engineer, Product Architect and Program Leader for Integrated Silicon Photonics at Broadcom driving key core technology development required to co-package optics with switches and...
US lawmakers appearing on Sunday morning talk shows split sharply over a potential deal to end the Iran war , with Republicans mostly backing the publicly reported contours of an agreement being negotiated by President Donald Trump and Democrats...
Islam Times - The US government has crossed a symbolic fiscal threshold, with federal debt held by the public now exceeding 100% of gross domestic product, yet lawmakers in Washington appear largely unfazed as they continue pushing for higher spending...
Vivek has over 18 years of experience in silicon photonics. He was a Sr. Principal Engineer, Product Architect and Program Leader for Integrated Silicon Photonics at Broadcom driving key core technology development required to co-package optics with switches and demonstrated...
GAZA, (PIC) The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society warned Sunday of a “dangerous and rapidly spreading” outbreak of scabies inside Israeli prisons, saying the disease has expanded across several major detention facilities while prisoners are being denied basic medical care. In a statement, the...
GAZA, (PIC) The documentary Gaza: Doctors Under Fire has returned to the spotlight after winning the 2026 BAFTA Television Award for Best Current Affairs Film, one of the most prestigious international television honors. Work on the film began in late...
WASHINGTON, (PIC) Haitham Arafat, an American of Palestinian origin who recently returned after being detained by Israeli occupation forces while participating in a humanitarian aid flotilla to Gaza, described the Israelis as “worse than the Nazis,” saying he was abducted from...
An emotional Mohamed Salah said "we put the club back where it belongs" after playing his final game for Liverpool on Sunday. A 1-1 draw at home to Brentford on the last day of the Premier League...
FIFA is egregiously corrupt, sycophantic, and dismissive of the Zionist genocide in Gaza Professor Jem Bendell PhD, is an independent researcher and coordinator of the Metacrisis Meetings Initiative . FIFA President Gianni Infantino presenting Donald Trump with the FIFA Peace...
At a brutal martial arts tournament, Darius struggles with the intoxicating glory and the dangerous darkness of violence. Read Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 |...
World Health Organization says outbreak poses ‘very high’ risk for Congo, but risk of disease spreading globally remains low Congolese authorities say that suspected Ebola cases have now passed 900 in the ongoing outbreak in the east of the country. The Congolese...
Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem expressed hope Sunday for an agreement between Iran and the United States and that Lebanon, where Israel and the Iran-backed group are at war, would be part of its terms. Hezbollah and Israel have clashed since...
BETHLEHEM / PNN/ Report By Monjed Jadou — The Nasrallah Al-Amouri family, originally displaced from the village of Dar al-Sheikh southwest of Jerusalem, is among many Palestinian families that have spent decades rebuilding their lives in Aida refugee camp...
President Donald Trump revealed over the weekend that he is mulling a deal that would end his war with Iran, and some hawks within the Republican Party are expressing alarm. According to a Sunday report in The New York Times, many details of the agreement to end...
Israel continued its strikes on southern Lebanon on Sunday, even as a ceasefire with Hezbollah is set to be part of any potential US-Iran deal. The deal, which was agreed in principle on Sunday, is reported to...
If anyone still needed proof that the United States is an unreliable military partner, Donald Trump’s dizzying changes of mind about American troop deployments to Europe have gold-plated the evidence. Within just one week, the United States first said it...
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