On June 4, Pakistan said what most analysts had been thinking for over a year: India is weaponizing water. The trigger was a pair of infrastructure projects on the Chenab River — a ₹2,352 crore (US$246 million) tunnel to divert...
GAZA, (PIC) An 18-year-old Palestinian girl was killed and 16 civilians were injured early Friday in a series of new Israeli violations of the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip. A medical source at Nasser Medical Complex reported that the casualties arrived...
Hong Kong police took away seven people in Causeway Bay, where past public commemorations for China’s 1989 Tiananmen crackdown were once held, on Thursday, the 37th anniversary of the event. A young man in a black T-shirt is intercepted by...
There has been a dramatic and noticeable shift in Donald Trump’s rhetoric and social media posts regarding Iran since Pepe and I received the report of Iran’s threat to do a demonstration detonation of a nuclear warhead if the US...
Credit: UN News By Andrew Firmin LONDON, Jun 5 2026 (IPS) Ahead of World Environment Day, the UN General Assembly made a vital commitment to protect people from climate impacts, adopting a resolution on the climate change obligations of...
Families have been left in despair after 39 pupils and seven teachers were kidnapped from classrooms in Oyo state, a part of the country previously considered relatively peaceful Sitting on a wooden bench under the tree near her home, Aduke Balogun’s...
By Neven Mimica ZAGREB, Croatia, Jun 5 2026 (IPS) In the hard-to-reach rural community of West Pokot, Kenya, 156 young women crossed a threshold that once seemed out of reach. Their graduation from HER Lab, a workforce skills programme...
In the opulent conference halls of Samarkand, far from the drought-hit fields of East Africa, Tanzanian delegates have warned that unless global climate finance is directed to rural communities, environmental destruction will only accelerate, deepening the vulnerability of those least...
New US tariffs and tougher EU regulations heighten pressure on China, raising the risk of retaliation and broader global trade conflagration. Mounting trade tensions involving China have become a significant source of concern for the global economy, reflecting a broader...
Senegal is navigating a major political crisis following President Bassirou Diomaye Faye’s dismissal May 22 of his longtime ally and prime minister, Ousmane Sonko. The power struggle between the former allies raises significantly the risk of the West African state...
For many years, I was a big proponent of the idea that increased market power was harming the US economy in various ways. In the 2010s, in the economics world, circumstantial evidence began to pile up, implicating increased industrial concentration...
The UN nuclear watchdog sent a report to member states on Thursday with no major changes to its assessment of Iran's nuclear programme , despite three months of US-Israeli war with the stated aim of preventing Iran from...
By: Shim Jae Hoon - - - - Under the cover of the smashing victory of South Korean President Lee Jae Myung’s ruling Democratic Party in this week’s local government elections lurks the shadow of political unrest, with the opposition...
The Swiss subsidiary of British bank HSBC has been charged in France as part of an embezzlement probe into former Lebanese central bank chief Riad Salameh , the financial crimes prosecutor's office said on Thursday. The bank was charged...
Israel's Supreme Court has said Israel must allow visits to Palestinian prisoners by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) , ruling in favour of a petition against a ban that was brought in at the start of...
The United States is not approaching collapse because it lacks power. It is approaching collapse because it has too often mistaken power for wisdom. Its armed forces remain unmatched in reach, its financial system remains central to global commerce, and...
On May 31, Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam gave a televised address in which he condemned Israel’s invasion and intensified attacks on southern Lebanon as a dangerous escalation, warning that a “scorched-earth policy” will never bring security to Tel Aviv:...
The landmark trial of Tiananmen vigil activists neared its conclusion in May, with both defendants and prosecutors delivering their closing submissions. Tiananmen crackdown vigil on June 4, 2019. Photo: Todd R. Darling/HKFP. The government allocated more money to...
Maureen Tkacik uncovers Epstein’s role in the billionaire cabal’s global financial network by exploring where the hidden assets of the NY Daily News ended up after Robert Maxwell’s mysterious death. The release of the Epstein Files has shocked the public...
South Korea’s Starbucks marketing controversy is no longer only about a badly judged campaign. It has become a test of whether democratic memory will restrain arbitrary power or reproduce it. Police are now investigating Shinsegae Group chairman Chung Yong-jin and...
Why the resistance won’t end, and why there won’t be a deal. Matthew Hoh is the Associate Director of the Eisenhower Media Network. A former Marine and State Department official who resigned in protest over the wars in Iraq...
Over the past month, there has been a notable increase in the intensity of the air war in Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. Strikes in mid- and late-May and early June have been characterised by significantly larger numbers of drones and...
Ghanaian President John Mahama’s high-profile visit to London this week, designed to showcase Ghana as a premier destination for foreign investment, was overshadowed by controversy around the country’s mining sector, including bitter disputes with South African powerhouse, Gold Fields. The Ghanaian...
A differenza di Bahrein ed Emirati Arabi Uniti, che hanno avuto un ruolo centrale anche nella fase aggressiva della recente recrudescenza del conflitto israelo-statunitense contro l’Iran, il Kuwait si è trovato schiacciato in una morsa. All’alleanza strategica con Washington (che...
In a remote mining town at the center of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola outbreak, grief and mistrust are complicating efforts to stop the virus. Health workers are trying to treat the ill and bury the dead, but some...
Iranian retaliatory strikes on three US bases in the Persian Gulf, in response to continued aggression against southern Iran, inflicts American losses and throws the future of an already shaky ceasefire into doubt. Stifling the Trump administration’s attempts to achieve...
Islam Times - In the Dahiyeh incident, Trump neither acted as a peacemaker nor as a neutral mediator. In reality, he was defending a broader project—one based on preserving the current fragile balance. From Washington’s perspective, in today’s Middle East,...
A House committee summarily struck down an amendment to strip a measure from the massive annual defense policy bill that would provide Israel “a higher level of military-industrial integration" with the U.S. than Washington has "with any other country...
Newly released data, published by the International Defense Cooperation (SIBAT) of Tel Aviv’s Ministry of Defense, revealed that arms exports for the year 2025 amounted to $ 19.2 Billion – an all-time record. This means Israel rakes in record...
DOHA, (PIC) Khalil Al-Hayya, Hamas’s leader in Gaza, held a phone call on Thursday with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to discuss the latest developments in Palestine and the wider region, according to Hamas. During the call, Araghchi renewed his condolences over...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued raids and military incursions across several areas of the West Bank on Thursday evening, while Israeli settlers carried out a series of attacks in the Bethlehem area, including an incursion into the...
By CIVICUS Jun 4 2026 (IPS) CIVICUS discusses the outlook ahead of Peru’s runoff presidential election with David Hidalgo, journalist and executive director of OjoPúblico, a Peruvian digital investigative journalism outlet. David Hidalgo In the first round of voting on 12 April,...
GAZA, (PIC) In a Strip exhausted by the war of extermination and drained by repeated waves of displacement, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza continue their lives inside temporary tents, amidst humanitarian conditions that deteriorate day after day, and growing...
- - - - Photo by The Climate Reality Project on Unsplash Scott Pelley is the latest person bounced from 60 Minutes. He’s probably not going to be the last, either. Bari Weiss, as head of CBS...
The 2026 FIFA World Cup is just a week away. But for a young football team in one of Rio de Janeiro’s poorest favelas, their moment on the international stage has already happened. Last month, they represented Brazil in the...
A large majority of Labour Party members support a full arms embargo on Israel and a ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements, according to new polling that highlights growing pressure on Prime Minister Keir Starmer...
Iran's supreme leader said on Thursday that the United States and Israel had been dealt a "decisive blow" in the Middle East war, after the government reported "no tangible progress" in negotiations on ending the conflict. Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei's message,...
Iran's World Cup squad is set to arrive in Mexico on Sunday, with players and staff still awaiting US visas just one week before the tournament gets underway. The players, who have been attending a training camp in...
Labour is presiding over a social catastrophe, including the deepest levels of poverty in 30 years, and trailing the far-right Reform, the Conservatives and the Greens in general election polls. If he successfully becomes an MP, Burnham is expected to...
Four Iranian-flagged oil tankers passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, a first since 15 April and the US blockade of Iranian ports, according to maritime tracking firm Kpler. In data published on Thursday, the firm detected the...
Embedded systems programs rarely fail because of a lack of execution capability. They fail because critical engineering documentation drifts out of alignment over time and distance. Simply put, the team is correctly following the wrong instructions. This includes requirements, architecture,...
On football’s extreme commercialization Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His new book, The Visions of inequality , was published October 10, 2023. Cross-posed from Branko Milanović’s blog Global Inequality and More 3.0...
GAZA, (PIC) The Palestinian Center for Human Rights said on Thursday it had documented a sharp rise in Israeli mass killings and assassinations targeting Palestinian civilians in Gaza, warning that the pattern reflects Israel’s systematic continuation of genocide and efforts to...
Lebanon's "founding father" is being honoured at a moment when the country needs his message more than ever, according to a priest involved in the campaign that led to his beatification by the Catholic Church. Speaking to The New Arab...
Syria’s participation by President Ahmed Al-Sharaa in the European summit recently held in Cyprus marked an important milestone on the path toward building a new partnership with the European Union and Mediterranean Middle Eastern states. From the...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Hordes of extremist Jewish settlers escorted by police officers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards on Thursday morning, amid tight restrictions on the entry of Muslim worshipers to the holy site. According to local sources, at least 181 settlers entered...
MPs could vote to ban soldiers in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) from entering the UK, Declassified can reveal. Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has tabled an amendment to the Armed Forces Bill to ban the entry of foreign...
GAZA, (PIC) One civilian was martyred and others were injured on Thursday evening in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City. Local sources said that at least one citizen was killed and others were injured as a result of a strike from an...
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