One of the things Hong Kong superstar Tony Leung Chiu-wai likes about acting is the novelty — “you will never repeat the same role”. Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai speaks during an interview with AFP at the 28th Shanghai...
My old friend and new collaborator, Pepe Escobar, along with Mr. Z, broke news Friday afternoon regarding relations between the US and Iran (I’ve posted the video below). Despite the MoU stipulation that: by signing this memorandum of understanding, declare an...
Energy security is a top priority globally, as governments grapple with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, an accelerating clean energy transition and surging power demand from AI data centers. The problem is especially acute for Asia and the...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing perhaps the most precarious moment of his political career. He knows it. His allies know it. And his rivals — both within his coalition and across Israel’s political spectrum — are preparing to capitalize on...
When Ashik Chowdhury, the executive chairman of the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority, was recently asked about Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s upcoming trip to China, his response caught the room off guard. “Many issues will come up,” Chowdhury remarked, “starting with...
The investors who excitedly bought into the SpaceX IPO, making Elon Musk a trillionaire, have implicitly made a prediction on the future. The company’s US$1.8 trillion valuation is based on the expectation that its AI business will have...
President Donald Trump on Friday got a look at his upgraded Boeing 747, a plane gifted by Qatar , at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland as the aircraft neared delivery to join the Air Force One fleet. "This is considered...
Algeria have lodged a complaint about alleged poor refereeing during their 3-0 World Cup defeat by Argentina this week, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Friday. Algeria sent a letter to FIFA's refereeing...
Lebanese state media reported an Israeli airstrike on the country's south on Friday, soon after a US official said Israel and Hezbollah had agreed on a ceasefire on Friday. The official National News Agency ( NNA )...
In a significant development for the future of its military presence in Syria , Russia resupplied its bases in May for the first time since its client, former President Bashar Al-Assad, was deposed. Furthermore, Moscow revealed in June that it...
Days after Tehran and Washington reached a memorandum of understanding over ending the recent conflict, Iran's new supreme leader is distancing himself from the agreement as hardliners clash over its implications. Meanwhile, reports that Iran is preparing to increase support...
Efforts to advance the US-backed peace plan for Gaza have continued amid difficult negotiations over Hamas’s disarmament and the future security structure of the enclave. Talks in Cairo involving Hamas, Egyptian officials, and representatives of the Board of Peace have...
The Western cover-up of the biolabs in Ukraine is part of the wider cover-up of the entire U.S. and NATO-led war in Ukraine. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The highest American intelligence...
BETHLEHEM, West Bank / PNN / Monjed Jadou Israeli settlers carried out a series of attacks across the occupied West Bank early Friday, targeting Palestinian homes, vehicles and infrastructure, in incidents local officials say are part of a pattern of...
GAZA, (PIC) Tom Fletcher, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, has warned that humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip continue to deteriorate, urging the international community to increase financial support and press for the entry of greater quantities of humanitarian aid. Fletcher...
GAZA, (PIC) Israeli forces carried out nine new violations of the Gaza ceasefire agreement overnight and into Friday morning, leaving two Palestinians killed and several others injured, while targeting multiple areas across the Strip. Local sources reported that Abdullah Yassin was killed...
BEIRUT, (PIC) A wave of intensive Israeli airstrikes targeting multiple towns across southern Lebanon from midnight through Friday afternoon has killed 47 people and wounded 97 others, according to Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health, marking a significant escalation despite the existing...
GAZA CITY /PNN/ ~Nesma N Harazeen In a territory battered by nearly two years of war and mass displacement since October 7, 2023, stories emerging from Gaza often resemble scenes from a horror film — except they are real,...
Islam Times - US President Donald Trump joked during a Medal of Honor ceremony at the White House that he once considered awarding himself the nation’s highest military decoration, but said he was told he was not allowed to do...
Lebanese environmental activist Mona Khali l, whose decades-long efforts to protect endangered sea turtles transformed a stretch of south Lebanon's coastline into one of the eastern Mediterranean's most important conservation sites, has died from wounds sustained in an...
The accepted wisdom in GenAI model making is that the door has closed. To build at the frontier, as per perceptions, is only for those who began years ago, with a real lab, a research culture compounded over time and...
German journalist Eva Maria Michelmann , who went missing in Syria in January and was later confirmed to be detained there, returned to Germany on Friday, her lawyer told AFP . "It can be confirmed that Eva M. Michelmann...
Ensuring fair compensation for those affected by legacies of enslavement and measures to address debt burdens, part of 18-point strategic roadmap More than money: the logic of slavery reparations A global framework for reparatory justice has been adopted at a...
Protocol dictates that foreign leaders travel to Beijing to meet Xi Jinping. When the Chinese leader decides to travel abroad to Pyongyang, the world takes notice. This visit on June 8 and 9 was the first trip by Xi to...
People hold electronic candles during a vigil at Liberty Square in Taipei on the anniversary of China’s 1989 crackdown on democracy protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, 4 June 2026. Credit: Cheng-Chia Huang/AFP By Andrew Firmin LONDON, Jun 19 2026 (IPS) When...
I retain the strong view that almost everyone is still greatly underestimating the power and control the US oligarchs have over our lives. Win or lose, it looks like they will destroy our standard of living so we should opt...
Israel's military has deployed almost two-dozen military cranes in Gaza to launch attacks and conduct surveillance operations, according to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights. Researchers at the rights monitor said they had documented cases of the cranes being...
The retreat into satirical attacks on Trump and his supporters fuels the solidification of fascism. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the...
Saudi Arabia has suspended plans to introduce compulsory skills tests for Nepali workers after the proposal sparked protests in Kathmandu over concerns it would burden migrant labourers with additional costs and delays before they can travel to the...
It’s hard to believe the Iran war is already over, principally because it’s not. There’s a Memorandum of Understanding to agree upon a real peace in 60 days. It’s sort of like an armistice, one of which we’ve...
Syrian businessman Rami Makhlouf , a cousin of ousted president Bashar al-Assad on Thursday announced the formation of an armed group he said was necessary to defend the country's Alawite minority. In a video statement, he described what...
Iran plans to lodge a complaint with football's world governing body, FIFA , over travel restrictions its team is facing in the US at the World Cup. Due to uncertainty over visas and the conflict with the US, the...
US Vice President JD Vance has delivered some of the sharpest public criticism of Israeli policy by a senior American official in decades. The remarks came amid growing tensions between Washington and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government...
Children's educator Ms Rachel has called for the release of detained Gaza paediatrician Dr Hussam Abu Safiya , using a social media post to highlight the doctor's continued imprisonment by Israel more than 530 days after his arrest. In...
Delegates huddle during the informal consultations on cooperation with other international organisations. The climate talks in Bonn were long and tense. Credit: IISD/ENB/Kiara Worth By Umar Manzoor Shah BONN, Jun 19 2026 (IPS) The United Nations June Climate Meetings (SB64) ended in...
The City of Paris on Thursday granted honorary citizenship to Palestinian civilians and journalists , in a symbolic gesture of support for "the suffering the Palestinian people". "Honorary citizenship is not just a symbol, but a commitment to peace. We...
The New York State Assembly made history this month by passing what could become the country’s first statewide moratorium on large new data centers. To activists all over the U.S. who are fighting these facilities and their massive social...
- - - - Photo by Cecilie Bomstad on Unsplash When Colin Kaepernick decided to take a seat during the National Anthem, outraging millions, we were told that athletes have every right to express their political opinions....
Fifty summers ago, in 1976, journalist and author Alex Haley published his masterwork, “Roots: The Saga of an American Family.” The timing was exquisite. As the nation celebrated the bicentennial with fireworks and paeans to freedom, “Roots” countered it with a deeply personal,...
Israel and Hezbollah agreed a ceasefire on Friday, a US official said, amid deadly Israeli strikes on Lebanon which killed 47 people. The dead included at least seven women and two children, according to the Lebanese health ministrym and...
Meta’s WhatsApp said it will ask a US court to hold NSO Group in contempt, accusing the Israeli maker of Pegasus of once again using WhatsApp to try to lure targets into downloading the surveillance spyware. This violates a court...
In June 2023, more than a dozen young Montanans gathered inside a courthouse in the state capital of Helena for a historic climate change trial in a lawsuit they had brought against their state government. The Held v....
GAZA, (PIC) The spokesman for the armed wing of Hamas, Abu Obeida, hailed the mujahideen of Hezbollah in Lebanon, praising the heavy losses they inflicted on the Israeli occupation forces, and confirming their continuation in confronting the aggression on Lebanon, its...
Women farmers using a thresher; they are beneficiaries of a UNDP project to bring agritech to smallholder farmers. Credit: Ignatius Banda/IPS By Ignatius Banda BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe , Jun 19 2026 (IPS) Long burdened by the labour-intensive nature of agriculture, Zimbabwe’s female...
US and Iranian delegations delayed plans to travel to Switzerland on Friday for the opening round of talks to cement the details of a peace agreement as the Israeli military bombarded southern Lebanon, killing at least 18 people and threatening once again to...
What Trump presents as a diplomatic breakthrough is more like a calculated surrender disguised as de-escalation. Tehran hasn’t been pressured into giving anything up; instead, they’ve walked away with quick wins, postponed any tough promises, and pushed Washington to agree...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Israeli settlement expansion and military restrictions have displaced 50 Palestinian Bedouin and herding communities across the West Bank since late 2023, the Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights said on Friday. The finding was presented as part of a...
The British Bar Association temporarily suspended the embattled chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Friday, pending the outcome of disciplinary proceedings. British barrister Karim Khan was formally removed from his duties at the ICC last week after...
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