The US blockade on Iranian shipping through the Strait of Hormuz entered its third day on Thursday, followed by what Washington described as a "fully implemented" blockade of Iranian ports, aimed at halting the country’s maritime trade. The...
The European Union's ability to provide large-scale support to citizens and businesses is limited, said European Commissioner for Climate Wopke Hoekstra, citing the ongoing energy crisis. Limited Budgets and Rising Energy Costs According to him, due to constrained budgetary resources, EU...
The Iran war put Israel’s air defences to the test. The multilayered billion-dollar system, among the most advanced worldwide, can combat a multitude of threats, from ballistic missiles in space flight to small rockets launched from nearby Gaza...
The United States Constitution provides two paths for removing a sitting president from office: impeachment and the procedures outlined in the 25 th Amendment. Both approaches are being raised again, and with increasing fervor , as ways to...
Thousands of teachers protested in Turkey on Thursday after two s chool shootings in two days left the country reeling, with the authorities cracking down on social media as crowds gathered for the funerals of nine victims of the...
On Sunday night , the streets of Budapest were filled. Tens of thousands of Hungarians poured into the streets along the Danube River, singing folk songs and waving flags celebrating the end of Viktor Orbán’s rule. A young...
This story was originally published by Sentient . If you want people to eat less pork , show them a picture of a pig. That’s what a new study conducted in the U.K. suggests. The odds of university students,...
- - - - Photo by Hartono Creative Studio on Unsplash For a while there, it seemed like the big topic on this Substack was so-called misinformation. I wrote a ton about it and, more accurately, the...
In the aftermath of last week’s big meeting of the Democratic National Committee in New Orleans, supporters of the U.S.-Israel alliance have been quite content. “We’re pleased that the DNC Resolutions Committee rejected a set of...
Israel's currency, the shekel (NIS), hit a 30-year high against the US dollar on Wednesday, approaching the symbolic barrier of three shekels to the dollar. According to Bank of Israel data, the shekel traded at 3.014 to the dollar...
Since the Taliban returned to power, women and girls have been progressively banned from education, public spaces, and most forms of employment. Credit: Learning Together. By External Source KABUL, Apr 16 2026 (IPS) Ever since childhood, Khatera’s (not her real...
GAZA, (PIC) Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said that Palestinian prisoners are going through “the most dangerous phase in the history of the Captive Movement,” amid physical and psychological torture, real starvation, and sexual assault. He also warned of the consequences of...
The United States will need years to replenish its missile defences following the war against Iran , a top US military official said on Wednesday. General Heath Collins, director of the Pentagon's Missile Defence Agency, told a congressional hearing that...
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has distanced himself from intervening in a dispute between pro-Palestine organisers and British police over plans for a Nakba Day march after police in London refused to accept a protest...
British police said on Thursday they had arrested three men in connection with an attempted arson attack on the offices of a Persian-language media organisation in northwest London. An ignited container was thrown towards the premises of the unnamed media...
A crew member with The Greater Cape Town Water Fund looks out over the landscape where the team is working to remove invasive alien plants for improved water security. Credit: Roshni Lodhia/ The Nature Conservancy By Louise Stafford CAPE TOWN, South...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) The anniversary of Palestinian Prisoner’s Day this year does not pass like other years, but arrives weighted with shocking facts and dangerous shifts that affect the core of the prisoners’ cause. At a time when violations are escalating inside prisons,...
Syria said on Thursday that it had taken control of a military base in Hasakeh province in the northeast after forces from the US-led international coalition against the Islamic State group withdrew. Syrian army forces "took over the Qasrak air...
LIV Golf CEO Scott O'Neil sought to quell speculation about the league's financial future Wednesday evening with a memo to his staff that said the 2026 season will continue as planned without interruption and "at full throttle". The memo, a...
Last September, trade minister Sir Chris Bryant sat alongside foreign minister Hamish Falconer at a parliamentary hearing about arms exports to Israel. By this time, the death toll in Gaza had surpassed 64,000, and the Labour government’s...
A post‑Orbán reset is coming, but Péter Magyar’s nationalism tempers his pro‑EU signals; expect cooperation on Ukraine and security, and resistance on cultural and sovereignty issues. The Hungarian vote mattered far beyond Budapest: it would reshape EU unity on sanctions,...
The classic 1988 anime Akira returns to UK, Irish, French and Spanish cinema screens on April 17, with Australia and New Zealand following in early May. Set in a dystopian neo-Tokyo, it is one of the few pieces of cyberpunk...
Iran halted all petrochemical exports to prioritise domestic supply and prevent shortages of raw materials, the economic newspaper Donya-e-Eqtesad reported on Thursday, due to disrupted production after Israel struck several petrochemical hubs. The instruction was issued on 13 April by...
Israel appointed its first ambassador to Somaliland on Wednesday, months after controversially recognising the breakaway region of Somalia as an independent state. Michael Lotem, Israel's former ambassador to Kenya, will take up the post as a non-resident envoy, Israel's...
Lebanon on Thursday buried paramedics killed in Israeli "triple-tap" strikes in the south, a tactic widely condemned as a war crime for deliberately targeting rescuers. The method, which involves striking the same location multiple times to maximise casualties...
By Jacob G. HORNBERGER Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su After threatening to annihilate Iran with bombs, President Trump and the U.S. national-security establishment have decided to do so with their tried and true...
A Palestinian asylum seeker has been released from US immigration detention after a federal court ordered his freedom, ending more than 20 months in custody despite prior legal protections against deportation. Mohammed Abushanab, 27, was released on...
For decades, Israel's strategic objective was clear: neutralise Iran and dismantle its network of proxies. After 7 October 2023, that ambition appeared, briefly, to be within reach . Hamas was devastated, Hezbollah’s leadership was decimated , Bashar...
By Harrison BERGER Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su State of the Union: The Italian prime minister had withdrawn Italy from a defense agreement with Israel U.S. President Donald Trump publicly rebuked Italian...
How Time-Based Scheduling Reclaims Silicon Wasted by Speculative Execution By: Dr. Thang Tran, Founder and CTO, Simplex Micro I have spent my career designing processor architectures, and I have reached an uncomfortable conclusion: a substantial fraction of the silicon area and...
Leader of leftwing Economic Freedom Fighters was convicted last year for firing rifle in the air at 2018 rally The South African leftwing politician Julius Malema has been sentenced to five years in prison for firing a rifle in...
The debate over reinstating compulsory military service in Iraq has resurfaced, reflecting efforts to restructure the armed forces and address structural imbalances that have lingered since 2003, amid political divisions over the law's prospects and implications. Speaker of Parliament...
If you look up IslamAlways.com , your computer (much like mine) will likely glitch, attempt to load the website for an eternity, and prompt a grey error screen before eventually redirecting to " searchforislam.com " instead. That...
The Palestinian Authority has handed over Palestinian activist Mahmoud al-Adra, known as "Hisham Harb", to French authorities , according to family sources who spoke to The New Arab . The handover took place on Thursday morning, with...
BEIRUT, (PIC) Military confrontations in southern Lebanon continue to escalate, with renewed clashes on Thursday in the city of Bint Jbeil between Hezbollah and Israeli occupation forces. Fighting took place at the city’s entrances and along the stadium and vocational school axes,...
Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian teenager near Jerusalem on Thursday morning, amid a surge in violence in the occupied West Bank , heightened by fragile Iran ceasefire tensions. According to the Jerusalem Governorate, 17-year-old Muhammad Murad Rayyan...
The European Union is drafting plans to tackle a looming jet fuel supply crunch and maximise refinery output, officials said. European airlines have warned of jet fuel shortages within weeks as a result of the war on Iran...
Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov commented on the appeal of blogger Victoria Bonya to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Peskov stated that the Kremlin had seen Bonya's video and emphasized that it had indeed attracted attention and become...
Iran’s reported use of a Chinese-built satellite, combined with alleged Russian intelligence support, signals a shift toward a new model of warfare in which commercially enabled space assets reshape how US forces are tracked and targeted. Reuters reported that Iran...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) Palestinian groups have called for widespread participation in Palestinian Prisoners’ Day events, urging mass mobilization in support of detainees held in Israeli prisons, amid warnings of escalating abuses and systematic killings. National and Islamic factions called on Palestinians and supporters...
BEIRUT, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have intensified airstrikes and artillery attacks across southern Lebanon, expanding operations beyond border areas in a widening military escalation, as concerns grow that Israel is replicating its Gaza genocide strategy in the Lebanese arena. Lebanese...
Trump’s war on Iran hasn’t just redrawn battle lines; it has fractured the very architecture of the post-Second World War global order: a transatlantic alliance pushed beyond limits and internally too fractured to be repaired, a rapidly remade Middle East,...
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani was headed to China on Thursday, seeking to boost economic ties while also calling on Beijing to support efforts towards peace in Iran and Ukraine. Tajani, a senior member of Italian Prime Minister...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) Human rights and media calls are escalating for the release of Palestinian journalists detained in Israeli occupation prisons, coinciding with the commemoration of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, in light of warnings of the expanding policy of targeting media professionals since...
The fifth edition of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum (ADF), which will gather scores of senior officials, including heads of states and governments as well as bureaucrats, think tankers, academics and journalists across the world, will be launched on April 17...
GFCN experts referred to a fabricated video that circulated on social media in which Tisza party leader Peter Magyar allegedly calls US President Donald Trump "a senile grandpa" and declares his intention to sever agreements on nuclear energy and defense...
President Trump exhibits what forensic mental health experts have identified as the “Dark Triad” of personality traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy. What this represents is a constitutional emergency. The following letter was sent to the bipartisan leadership of Congress on...
The United States announced Wednesday it is tightening sanctions against Iran's oil industry as Tehran keeps up its closure of the Strait of Hormuz as part of the Mideast war. The new punishment targets oil transport infrastructure by slapping...
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