Claims that police can stop people on the street and demand their phone passwords are “false and misleading,” security chief Chris Tang has said after the government introduced a series of new national security rules . A smartphone. Photo:...
Gold has long enjoyed a reputation as a financial “safe haven” during stormy times. But over the past few months of geopolitical chaos and market panic, the precious metal has moved more like a roller coaster than a steady ship...
HK Electric is to dismantle the city’s only commercial-scale wind turbine on Lamma Island, claiming its mission is complete and that spare parts, or a suitable replacement, cannot be sourced. The HK Electric Lamma Winds turbine on Lamma Island. File...
While South Korea is preoccupied with the safety of its citizens, the impact of the conflict on fuel supplies, and changes in the Seoul-Washington alliance, North Korea has expressed uncompromising political and diplomatic support for Tehran. The DPRK’s Stance: “A...
With the end of the post-World War II global order, every great power is now effectively a rogue state. Russia is trying (and failing) to reestablish its old empire. China is menacing its neighbors and funding aggressive proxies around the globe....
A March 12 fire that injured 200 sailors is just the latest embarrassing incident in the history of the USS Gerald R. Ford. The vaunted aircraft carrier has become a case study demonstrating how such a program will fail when...
The Strait of Hormuz crisis has sparked a new round of debates on the implications for China of the U.S.-Israel war against Iran. Citing China’s reliance on imports of oil and liquified natural gas (LNG) that pass through the largely...
Turkey has been pushing hard for an end to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran since the campaign began late last month. In the weeks leading up to February 28, Turkey joined Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states in lobbying the Trump...
Ukrainian president says peace deal proposed by US included ceding land to Russia. What we know on day 1,492 The US is making its offer of security guarantees for a peace deal in Ukraine conditional on Kyiv ceding all of...
China is rapidly expanding its deep-sea research and mapping efforts across key global waters, raising concerns that these activities may support future undersea conflict. This month, Reuters and CNN reported that China is expanding a vast deep-sea research and mapping...
Cartoon by Eric Izabelle I think the picture sums it up… Iran is not going to negotiate with the Trump administration on Trump’s terms. Iran has set its terms and will not deviate from those. Here is a synthesis of...
By: Salman Rafi Sheikh - - - - In Xanadu did Kubla Khan… Photo from Times of Israel The Arab Gulf’s glittering skylines were built on a simple promise: stability in exchange for prosperity. That bargain is now under strain....
Islam Times - On Monday, the US President Donald Trump in a post on his social media site said that he suspended a 48-hour ultimatum for bombing Iranian energy facilities and power plants for 5 days after alleged talks with...
Let’s begin by recalling why the US Navy shot-down an Iranian airliner in July 1988 and brought 241 innocent men, women and children to their doom. The answer, of course, is that the Navy was conducting patrol operations in the...
In the wake of Washington’s January 3 military attack and then problematic détente with Caracas, corporate media suggest a meaningful shift in Venezuela policy, implying relief for a country long subjected to economic coercion. However, far from dismantling the sanctions...
Is Israel’s trajectory toward isolation and collapse self-inflicted, and has Zionism reached the point of no return? Every war led by Benjamin Netanyahu is framed not as policy, but as fate. “There are moments in which a nation faces two...
For decades, the United States moved from covert assassination plots to openly embracing assassination or “targeted killing” as policy. Now, in its war with Iran, that evolution is reaching its most dangerous phase. On March 17th and 18th, the United...
After protests across Iran turned deadly in January, President Donald Trump promised Iranians that “help is on the way.” On February 28th, the U.S. and Israel launched what immediately became a devastating war on Iran. American and Israeli warplanes began...
Hong Kong’s anti-trust watchdog has launched proceedings against a “building maintenance cartel” that had allegedly secured contracts at multiple housing estates worth nearly HK$700 million through bid-rigging and other illicit practices. A building covered with scaffold nets in Kennedy Town...
RAMALLAH/PNN/ Palestinian prisoners’ rights organizations issued an urgent appeal on Tuesday calling for international intervention to halt an Israeli draft law that would allow the death penalty for Palestinian detainees. The groups said a Knesset committee approved the proposed “execution of...
Brussels/PNN/ In a joint statement, missions representing countries including Belgium, Canada, Denmark, the European Union, Ireland, Finland, France, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Switzerland denounced Israel's “settler terrorism” and expressed shock over recent killings...
The US Justice Department last October announced the largest asset seizure in American history: a cache of bitcoin then valued at $15 billion tied to the Cambodia-based Prince Group that prosecutors alleged oversaw an empire of human trafficking and industrial-scale...
C lick here to read the article on Asia Times. The Cayman Islands sits at the heart of a network of British financial jurisdictions. Together, they manage trillions in assets, influencing global capital flows and investment networks. China, which was...
A bombshell confession letter obtained by The Grayzone reveals Israeli intelligence recruited an asset in the Palestinian Red Crescent, who admitted using drugs and sexual blackmail to create a “network of informants” which could infiltrate and destroy resistance groups. A...
An Iranian ballistic missile exploded in Lebanese airspace shortly after Lebanese Foreign Minister Youssef Raggi declared Tehran’s ambassador-designate in the country “persona non grata.” Official silence, coupled with Lebanese reporting that the missile was targeting an American asset in Lebanon,...
What was once covert, controversial, and constrained is now overt, normalised, and defended. Medea Benjamin is co-founder of Global Exchange and CODEPINK: Women for Peace. Nicolas J. S. Davies is an independent journalist and a researcher with CODEPINK. They are co-authors...
‘Economist Ann Pettifor explains how America’s industrial decline has its roots in the dismantling of the international monetary system established at Bretton Woods and in the rise of a global financial system that prioritizes capital mobility over production.’ In...
The former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency finds parallels in the lies over Iraq about nuclear weapons and the lies over Iran today. Interview by David Hearst, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. Cross-posted from Middle East...
The far-right had a successful local election, as did France Insoumise, but neither have shown that they can win the presidential election in 2027. Frédéric Sawicki is professor of political science at Paris 1 University of Panthéon-Sorbonne. Cross-posted from The...
Maybe you’re reading this article while listening to a podcast. Or you’re participating in a dull Zoom meeting. Or you’re talking on the phone with a relative. Maybe you’ve just read the first three lines of this article three times without...
Credit: Sanjit Pariyar/NurPhoto via AFP By Andrew Firmin LONDON, Mar 25 2026 (IPS) Less than six months after Nepal’s Generation Z rose up in protest , the country has a new prime minister. A 35-year-old former rapper who soundtracked the...
- State department to expand program on 2 April - - Algeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Tunisia, Cape Verde affected - - No apparent exceptions for athletes or officials - A newly expanded policy from the Trump administration could require travelers from five World...
While a significant amount of attention has been placed upon the Iranian island of Kharg, as a likely target for a US ground invasion, there are three other islands that may be in Washington’s scope. Although this has flown under...
The world risks slipping into a global recession if oil prices surge due to the war in Iran, the CEO of investment firm BlackRock has warned. Larry Fink said oil prices could climb as high as $150...
Around 230 students and teachers in Iran have been killed since US-Israeli attacks began, with over 600 schools and cultural sites damaged, according to the country’s Education Ministry on Tuesday. Iran’s Education Minister, Ali Reza Kazemi, said that...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday named veteran UN diplomat Jean Arnault as his personal envoy to support efforts to end the Middle East conflict, saying the "world is staring down the barrel of a wider war." Guterres told...
The home of Palme d’Or-winning Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami was damaged in overnight air strikes in Tehran , according to a statement from his son. Ahmad Kiarostami said in an Instagram post that the property was hit during...
Israeli authorities evicted 11 Palestinian families from their homes in east Jerusalem on Wednesday, an AFP journalist reported, a move that settlers have increasingly used to occupy the vacated properties. An AFP correspondent on the...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) Palestinian prisoner institutions directed an urgent appeal to the “free people of the world” to take immediate action to stop the draft law of executing Palestinian prisoners, warning of its imminent approval in the Israeli Knesset. The institutions said, in...
In the pursuit of advanced extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography for high-NA patterning, metal oxide resists (MORs) offer significant promise but face challenges like critical dimension (CD) variation due to atmospheric interactions. Presented at SPIE Advanced Lithography + Patterning 2025 by...
The US-Israel war on Iran has opened Pandora’s box, and its impacts are likely to be felt for a long time. As the conflict unfolds, however, there is a growing divergence between US and Israeli aims regarding what they define...
An army-aligned Sudanese governor accused Ethiopia on Wednesday of having backed an offensive on the south, a day after Sudan's paramilitary forces said they had seized control of the border town of Kurmuk. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces...
An international deal to protect and sustainably use the ocean was hailed as “a triumph for multilateralism” and “a win for humanity” when it came into force on 17 January. But the very rules-based international order on...
The Moqattam Misdemeanor Court acquitted a defendant on charges of sexual harassment on Tuesday, shutting the door on the legal track pursued by Mariam Shawky after she published footage of the incident to document the harassment, prompting a viral response...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) displaced Palestinian families from 11 homes in the east Jerusalem district of Silwan, south of the Aqsa Mosque, on Wednesday. According to local sources, Israeli police forces and settlers wearing orange jackets stormed the...
AL-KHALIL, (PIC) Settler attacks are escalating in Wad al-Watawat in the town of Surif, north of al-Khalil, where residents face a recurring pattern of arson and nightly intimidation, within a broader context of field attacks documented by human rights reports as...
GAZA, (PIC) Nikolay Mladenov, the High Representative for Gaza at the Peace Council, described conditions in the Gaza Strip as “extremely dire,” revealing that a comprehensive framework for disarmament and the reintegration of armed groups is currently under discussion with relevant...
Iran has rejected the Donald Trump administration's 15-point plan aimed at pausing the war in the country , which has spread across the Middle East, calling it "unreasonable" and maintaining that it would end the war on...
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