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Iraqi militia group Kataeb Hezbollah have reportedly aired a video of hostage Shelly Kittleson hours after she was reportedly freed from captivity. In the video, Kittleson, clearly under duress, speaks to the camera in an apparent 'confession...

World

On Algeria's sparkling Mediterranean coast, the city of Annaba is teeming with excitement as the one-time home of Saint Augustine readies for the country's first visit by a Catholic pontiff. For the city's small Christian community, Pope Leo XIV's visit is...

MENA

Man born in El Salvador has been fighting removal to series of ‘third’ countries after mistaken deportation last year US government attorneys on Tuesday told a federal judge the Department of Homeland Security still intends to deport Kilmar Ábrego García to...

US immigration, ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement), US news

Originally published by Pacific Forum, this article is republished with permission. Ramifications of the US/Israeli military campaign against Iran reverberate around the world, including in Asia. The indirect effects of this conflict are particularly relevant for the defense of Taiwan...

US-China, Block 1, Chinese-made armaments

(PIC) The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate announced on Tuesday that it documented 53 violations committed by Israeli forces against journalists during March, describing it as part of a systematic escalation targeting press freedom. According to the syndicate’s Freedom Committee monthly report, the violations...

News, Israeli violations, Press freedom

Pope Leo XIV said on Tuesday threats to civilian targets in Iran were "unacceptable", speaking after US President Donald Trump said a "whole civilization will die" if Tehran defies his latest ultimatum. "Today... there was this threat against...

MENA

An email from a friend of Norman Finkelstein living apparently in Tehran that Finkelstein has shared Norman Finkelstein is is an American political scientist and activist. His primary fields of research are the politics of the Holocaust and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict....

Geopolitics, Article, Norman Finkelstein

Iranians formed human chains to protect power plants on Tuesday after President Donald Trump's threats to strike energy infrastructure , according to images published by state media, as top officials said they were also prepared to "sacrifice their lives". After...

MENA

Persian civilisation is a cornerstone of human civilisation: what Trump wants to destroy is humanity itself. Soumaya Ghannoushi is a British Tunisian writer and expert in Middle East politics. Her journalistic work has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, Corriere della...

Geopolitics, Article, Culture

Two French nationals were headed home from war-stricken Iran on Tuesday after spending more than three years in an Iranian prison on espionage charges, French President Emmanuel Macron said. Cecile Kohler, 41, and Jacques Paris, 72, had been under...

MENA

Russia and China vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on Tuesday on reopening the Strait of Hormuz , a text already diluted from the green light Gulf states had sought to use force to protect the key shipping lane. The...

MENA

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) forced two Jerusalemite brothers to demolish their own homes in Silwan district, south of the Aqsa Mosque, on Tuesday under the pretext of unlicensed construction. According to the Jerusalem Governorate, Nader and Hatem Baydoun...

News, Demolition policy, Occupied Jerusalem

The United States is implementing such extreme policies in Syria that it is destroying what little hope remains for a better future for the country. President Donald Trump is leading the charge, despite his false claims about distancing the United States...

War & Peace, Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria

US President Donald Trump has threatened that "a whole civilisation will die tonight, never to be brought back again" if Iran does not comply with his demands, marking his most extreme warning yet in the rapidly escalating conflict. The...

World

A group of far-right extremist Jewish settlers has published a document detailing attacks carried out against Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, local media reported. The document, which provides details on assaults on Palestinian villages throughout February and March...

MENA

US President Donald Trump on Monday threatened an unspecified media outlet with prosecution if it does not reveal the person who leaked information about a US military pilot who was missing in Iran. The leak pertained to the second...

World

The cheap celebrations added to the cruelty of the declaration. Champagne corks popped amid loud cheers and tears of joy as Israel’s Knesset passed a death penalty law that applies exclusively to Palestinian detainees and not Jewish Israelis. It...

Analysis

Kumara Wakjira has been protecting Ethiopia’s wildlife for over 30 years. The director general of Ethiopia’s wildlife authority has slashed bycatch of Nile crocodiles and overseen the establishment of national parks to protect elephants and monkeys. Last year, in recognition of these...

Nature, Biodiversity, Conservation

Iraqi militia group Kataib Hezbollah said on Tuesday that it would release abducted American journalist Shelly Kittleson , following efforts by Iraqi and US authorities to search for the freelancer after she was kidnapped in Baghdad on 31...

MENA

It’s now been more than a month since Iran effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial strategic waterway through which 20% of the world’s oil trade usually passes. Despite President Donald Trump’s claims of having obliterated the Iranian military,...

Oil, Oil-markets, Trump

Iran continues to maintain its blockade on the Strait of Hormuz , however, Tehran is selectively choosing which vessels it is allowing to pass through the waterway. Since the start of the war on 28 February, dozens of naval ships...

MENA

The Israeli military has refrained from striking a key border crossing between Syria and Lebanon after both pressed the U.S. on the need to keep it open, a Lebanese source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. The Israeli military on...

MENA

Iran's hardline judiciary chief on Tuesday urged courts to speed up verdicts linked to the US-Israeli war , including capital punishment, as activists sounded the alarm about surging hangings of convicts seen as political prisoners . Since the war...

MENA

This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . About a decade ago , India’s government began subsidizing the purchase of liquid petroleum gas, or LPG, to promote greater adoption among its lower-income...

Africa, Asia Pacific, Business & Economy

- - - - The headlines fill our social media feeds day in, day out. They’re terrible stories about some kind, considerate immigrant who was ripped from their life and deported for no reason. It reads like the person was...

No one ever accused the Democrats of being competent at politics, but with President Donald Trump leading the opposition, it shouldn’t take much competence to win. Ordinarily, politicians look to twist their opponents’ words to put them...

Activism, Column, Courts & Law

US-Israeli strikes have hit the key Iranian oil export terminal of Kharg island , media reported Tuesday. "The American-Zionist enemy has carried out several attacks on Kharg island, and several explosions have been heard there," Iran's Mehr news...

MENA

By Jeffrey D.SACHS Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The current threat of an attack by the US did not begin with any failure by Iran to negotiate. On the contrary, it began...

Editor's Choice, Iran, Middle East

DES FREEDMAN Unlike Russia’s war on Ukraine, British journalists rarely highlight the illegality of the US-Israeli attack on Iran Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The UK media’s take on the use of...

Editor's Choice, Iran, Israel

GAZA, (PIC) The Israeli occupation army continued its ceasefire violations in Gaza Strip for the 178th consecutive day on Tuesday, carrying out artillery shelling and shooting attacks in different areas of the war-ravaged coastal enclave. According to Palestinian media sources, Israeli tanks...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli ceasefire violations

President Donald Trump’s threat against Iran marks a grave political and moral decline. Speaking about a possible expansion of the bombing campaign, he said that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” That sentence does...

Iran-war, Iran, Genocide

Israel has widened its military operations in Lebanon, forcing more than a million people from their homes. The strikes have increasingly targeted residential buildings in Beirut and the surrounding areas, and have expanded to key bridges in southern Lebanon...

MENA
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