Global Voices

A US television journalist apologised on Sunday after she appeared to speak disrespectfully about the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina during a World Cup report. ABC7 Los Angeles reporter Abigail Velez was covering the US national team's...

Star-laden Morocco and the Netherlands have the potential to produce a riveting Round of 32 tie at the World Cup, underpinned by a societal subtext that adds a healthy spice to the game in Monterrey on Monday. There is a...

Syria has deployed its first international search-and-rescue team to earthquake-hit Venezuela , where over 1,400 people have been killed as rescuers scramble to pull out survivors from the rubble. The official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) announced...

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) A specialized body warned of the continuous escalation implemented by the Israeli occupation authorities in al-Bustan neighborhood in Silwan town in occupied Jerusalem, within the framework of policies aimed at displacing the Palestinian residents and imposing new realities...

GAZA, (PIC) Summer in the Gaza Strip no longer resembles what it was in previous years, as there are no trips, no parks, and no schools to welcome children after a long academic year. Between the sounds of bombardment and the effects...

By Natasha TUSIKOV and Blayne HAGGART Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The rush to embrace flawed tech could bring disaster. The Mark Carney government has made “ deploying AI at scale ” a...

By Sven R. LARSON Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Everyday life has become a pressure cooker. The question is when that pressure cooker is going to blow up, and what...

Internationally known Palestinian singer Saint Levant was captured wearing a pendant featuring the outline of the map of historic Palestine in a video for luxury fashion house Prada — a move that has drawn the anger of...

Tens of thousands of people in Gaza have suffered significant hearing damage due to Israeli bombing since October 2023, the UN said Saturday. It also said that many people with disabilities have lost their assistive devices such...

The Vatican’s AI encyclical targets is a voice against totalitarianism disguised as progress б writes Bruna Frascolla. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su In our time, woke ideology and social Darwinist ideology face...

The Iran war, the Strait of Hormuz, de-dollarisation, oil prices, debt moratoriums and the deepening global economic crisis. Hudson argues that Iran won the immediate military battle, while the wider conflict is a world war over US control of oil,...

For Karim Ramadan, watching from a buzzing Cairo cafe before sunrise, the moment felt almost unreal as Egypt progressed from the group stage of a World Cup for the first time in their history on Saturday. "It...

Iraqi security forces launched raids in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone early Sunday to arrest officials including MPs suspected of corruption, amid heavy deployment in the area. The Green Zone houses the US embassy and other diplomatic missions, as...

Iraqi security forces launched raids in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone early Sunday, arresting 47 officials, including MPs and oil officials on corruption charges, amid heavy deployment in the area. Forty-seven members of parliament and officials from the oil...

For all the scrutiny surrounding the World Cup's expanded 48-team format, with the advantage its uneven scheduling may give sides playing later in the final round, Austria and Algeria offered a reminder of the sport's unpredictability...

The U.S.-Iran memorandum reopens Hormuz, unlocks Iran’s economy, and pivots America toward China. But Israel’s defiance and Lebanon’s powder keg threaten to derail it all. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Change underway...

Thanks to Zelensky’s bizarre bellicosity, Russia has everything ethically it needs to proceed. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Many questions arise with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov having...

The soccer supremo has been criticised for interfering in the award of tournaments to Morocco and Saudi Arabia, as well as not banning Israel from international competition Daniel Tester is a news journalist focussed on the Middle East North Africa region Cross-posted...

Analysts say that Friday's agreement aimed at ending the Lebanon war is heavily weighted in Israel's favour and warn that it could push the country towards civil war. The 14-point framework signed in Washington was the product of weeks...

By: John Elliott - - - - Indian-born, British sculptor Anish Kapoor has hit the headlines with a dramatic exhibition at London’s Hayward Gallery that includes three massive red sculptures and over 80 other works, many creating the enigma and...

In a half-covered amphitheatre in eastern China, 20-year-old Wang Shuangshuang locked his shoulder against the neck of a bull, grappling with its horns to force it to its knees. This photo taken on June 17, 2026 shows a bull wrestler...

In Part 2 of the Ethiopian Airlines story ( read part one here ), Bright Simons analyses the strategic decisions and managements skills that went into building on the airlines modest success and turning it into Africa’s largest airline and...

Smoke rises after Iran carried out a missile strike on the main headquarters of the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet in Manama Last I heard the US and Iran are supposed to meet in Switzerland starting Sunday, 28 June, to continue...

[Table] As Hong Kong’s economic boom faded and manufacturing moved to China, some long-established, family-run companies preserved their traditions as others innovated to survive. In our new series, HKFP documents the craftsmanship and spirit behind the goods that are...

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) When the Israeli occupation forces storm al-Aqsa Mosque, close its gates, or prevent its staff from performing their work, the same question is repeated: how are the affairs of al-Aqsa Mosque managed? This question is not purely administrative,...

Subscribe to our Lens on Sudan newsletter here . As fears grow that a battle with catastrophic consequences could soon break out in Obeid, regional and international efforts to prevent another major escalation have accelerated. On June 20, Cairo convened...

Rescue teams in Gaza have started the second phase of an operation to recover dead bodies from under the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israel during the war on the enclave, amid widespread challenges. The second phase started on...

Israeli settlers have been forcibly seizing and encroaching on Palestinian land, turning some of it into touristic sites for profit, while facing no accountability, as residents are displaced from their homes. Earlier this month, Israeli settlers seized a...

A new opinion poll has suggested that Palestinian parties could hold the balance of power in Israel's next election , with neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition nor Israel's main opposition parties projected to secure...