On 8 December 2024, after more than five decades in power, the Assad regime in Syria was overthrown. Syrians, at home and abroad, erupted into celebrations and were joined by people across the region, including many Palestinians. Despite cultivating a pro-Palestinian...
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The fragmentation of Romania’s coalition signals a broader loss of legitimacy in the European-centered political order. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Romania has been thrust back into a period of political uncertainty...
GAZA, (PIC) The Global Sumud Flotilla has completed its preparations in Italy to set sail on Sunday, aiming to break the Israeli blockade imposed on the war-ravaged Gaza Strip and deliver humanitarian aid. The flotilla, a civilian initiative launched in 2025 with...
The controversial negotiations between Lebanon and Israel that took place on 14 and 23 April expose the contradictions sustaining conflicts in Lebanon and across the region. Direct talks were requested before the current war by Lebanon as part...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The reopening of the Sanur settlement is not merely about a handful of buildings perched on a hill in the northern West Bank, it carries a clear political message: what was once dismantled under past pressures can now...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Hordes of extremist Jewish settlers escorted by police officers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards on Sunday morning, amid tight restrictions on the entry of Muslim worshipers to the holy site. According to local sources, at least 77 settlers entered...
The first public trial in Syria of officials linked to the rule of former President Bashar Assad opened in Damascus on Sunday. Atef Najib, a former Syrian army brigadier general who was head of the Political Security...
The Global Sumoud Fleet has completed preparations in Italy to set sail on Sunday in an attempt to break the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip and deliver humanitarian aid, organisers said. The civilian initiative,...
GAZA, (PIC) The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported more than 17,000 cases of infection among displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip linked to rodents and external parasites since the beginning of the year, as health and humanitarian conditions continue to...
New fighting in Mali's Kidal between army and rebels
Full ArticleFresh fighting erupted Sunday in the key Malian town of Kidal between Tuareg rebels backed by Islamist militants and government forces supported by Russian mercenaries, a day after insurgents launched coordinated strikes across the restive Sahel...
Israeli military attacks killed at least four Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Sunday in several locations across the enclave, in their latest violation of the October 2025 ceasefire . Israeli tank shelling targeted a group of displaced...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) A horde of extremist Jewish settlers cut down hundreds of olive trees in the town of Turmus Ayya, northeast of Ramallah, in a new attack targeting Palestinian agricultural property in the occupied West Bank. Local sources reported that settlers from...
Israeli forces stormed a polling station during Palestinian local elections in the occupied West Bank on Saturday evening, injuring six people, as wider raids and settler attacks were reported across the territory. The vote formed part...
Bethlehem / PNN/ President Mahmoud Abbas sent a message to US President Donald Trump congratulating him on his safety following an assassination attempt that also targeted his wife and Vice President JD Vance. In the message, President Abbas expressed his condemnation and...
Islam Times - The forty-day resistance of the Islamic Republic of Iran against the aggressive coalition of the United States and the Zionist regime can be considered a turning point in redefining the balance of power in West Asia and...
RAMALLAH / PNN / The Central Elections Commission announced on Sunday the final results of the local elections held in 183 local councils in the West Bank, in addition to the city of Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip, including...
The Taliban government said on Saturday that Afghans who fled to Qatar , fearing reprisals over their collaboration with US forces, may return home "with full confidence". The administration of US President Donald Trump , which has...
Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah will miss the rest of the season after suffering a hamstring injury in a 3-1 Premier League win over Crystal Palace, Egypt national team director Ibrahim Hassan said on Saturday. The 33-year-old Egyptian...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) and extremist Jewish groups assaulted Palestinian citizens in different areas of the West Bank and Jerusalem on Saturday evening, injuring a number of them. In southern al-Khalil, six citizens were injured on Saturday evening...
The ongoing conflict in Gaza is reshaping the moral and geopolitical landscape of the Middle East. Israel’s rhetoric toward Türkiye now signals more than a diplomatic rupture; it reveals a pattern of strategic antagonism in which war has become the...
Dean Baker – We Don’t Need Billionaires, and We Can Structure the Market So We Don’t Have Them
Full ArticleThe rise of the Epstein Class is the result of neo-liberalism, which is destroying the world politically, economically, and the climate. Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Cross-posted from the Counterpunch By...
Iran said it is refusing to enter "imposed negotiations" as the prospect of a second round of direct talks between the US and Iran in Pakistan fades. Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian told Pakistan's Prime Minister...
GAZA, (PIC) Six Palestinian civilians were martyred last night and on Sunday following Israeli attacks, while another one died from wounds sustained in a previous strike in the Gaza Strip, amid ceasefire violations persisting for the 199th consecutive day. According to local...
By Tenzin Woeden Tibetans outside Chinese control vote on Sunday for a government-in-exile, an election of heightened significance as they brace for an inevitable, eventual, future without their revered spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. Tibetans cast their votes during the...
On April 1, the National Bureau of Statistics of China released the latest GDP rankings for the country’s various provinces and municipalities. The data showed consistent growth across major metropolises, but also revealed a significant geographic shift in the Chinese...
President Donald Trump struck a philosophical tone Saturday after a shooter rushed a media gala in Washington, the latest in a series of incidents to target the Republican leader. "I ask respectfully, why do you think this keeps happening...
The oxygen was sucked out of the discussion about the possible renewal of attacks on Iran by a lone gunman — reportedly a 31 year old teacher from California — who ran through the corridors of the Washington Hilton Hotel,...
After surviving genocide, French authorities take Gazan children away from their parents
Full ArticleGAZA, (PIC) In the Gaza Strip, Raghda ash‑Sheikh, a mother of three, is living through a compounded tragedy that started when the Israeli genocidal war broke out on October 7, 2023, but continues to unfold today as her family remains divided...
In the desert expanse of Turkmenistan, Chinese engineers are hard at work at the vast Galkynysh gas field — a mega project that is deepening the closed Central Asian state’s already extensive ties with Beijing. Workers at the Galkynysh gas...
Ippei-an Ramen & Bar, a Japanese restaurant that has been in operation for 42 years, is located in what people may say is one of Hong Kong’s worst locations. Energy Plaza, a commercial building in Tsim Sha Tsui East, is no...
US President Donald Trump abruptly cancelled his envoys' trip to Pakistan for peace talks with Iran on Saturday, saying there was no point "sitting around talking about nothing" but adding the war would not immediately resume. Trump...
Six people are due to appear in a UK court Monday to face burglary and criminal damage charges after a van allegedly drove into a military drone maker's entrance gate, police said Saturday. The investigation into the incident in...
Serbia, Ungheria e Macedonia del Nord firmano un protocollo d’intesa per la ferrovia Budapest-Belgrado
Full ArticleLa linea Budapest-Belgrado è la prima sezione della prevista ferrovia Budapest-Belgrado-Skopje-Atene, un progetto simbolo della cooperazione Cina-Europa centro-orientale che collegherà Ungheria, Serbia, Macedonia del Nord e il porto del Pireo, gestito dalla Cina Segue nostro Telegram . L’operatore ferroviario serbo...
Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) policy chief Takayuki Kobayashi met with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Friday, April 24, and delivered a series of proposals for the government’s response to the Hormuz crisis, including a call to consider dispatching minesweepers once the...
Xianxin is the CEO and Co-Founder of Lumai, an Oxford University spin-out pioneering disruptive optical computing technologies for Al and data center acceleration. He brings over 15 years of experience in physics and engineering, and was previously an RCE 1851...
Al-Qaida-linked group JNIM claims responsibility for strikes on airport in capital, Bamako and four other cities Islamic militants and separatists attacked several locations in Mali’s capital and other cities on Saturday in one of the largest coordinated attacks in the country...
An oil tanker has been hijacked off the coast of Somalia and taken into its territorial waters, the British maritime security agency UKMTO said on Saturday. The development added to risks for navigating in the Red Sea, which has...
Drought displaces tens of thousands in Somalia: UN
Full ArticleDrought displaced nearly 62,000 people in just five Somali districts since the start of the year, the UN said Friday, estimating that the countrywide number could be in the hundreds of thousands. The United Nations' migration agency said...
Syria to begin trying Assad-era figures on Sunday
Full ArticleTrials of prominent figures from the rule of ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad are set to begin this weekend, a justice ministry official told AFP on Saturday, starting with a former security official. "The first trial sessions for...
Australia refused to help repatriate citizens related to suspected Islamic State jihadists on Saturday, following a report that some Australian families are trying to return home from a camp in Syria. National broadcaster ABC said four Australian...
Lebanon's health ministry said Israeli strikes on Saturday in the country's south killed six people, violating a ceasefire that was extended this week in the war between Israel and Hezbollah . "Two Israeli enemy strikes, on...
GAZA, (PIC) A woman giving birth by the light of a mobile phone. A mother searching desperately for clean water for her child. A family rationing the last handfuls of flour to survive barren days ahead. This is only a fragment of...
LONDON, (PIC) The British newspaper Financial Times reported, citing officials and international organizations, that food and commercial supplies to the Gaza Strip have sharply declined after Israel and the US launched their war on Iran. The Financial Times quoted UN data as...
Mike Johnson's Crusade to Renew Warrantless NSA Spying on Americans Culminates This Week
Full Article- - - - Speaker Johnson greets President Trump in the East Room of the White House on February 5, 2025. Joshua Sukoff / Shutterstock House Speaker Mike Johnson is on a crusade. He is determined to pass a...
132 academics, writers and other public figures have signed a letter to the UK Court of Appeal in protest at the ban on Palestine Action , risking arrest in the UK in the process. The letter, dated 24th April, reads...
Pro-Palestine protesters in the UK city of Leicester broke through the roof and abseiled down into a factory owned by Israeli defence firm Elbit Systems on Friday. The activists, who are part of a group called "People...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) Israel is the only state to automatically and systematically prosecute children in military courts that lack basic standards of due process. Around 500 – 700 Palestinian children, some as young as 12, are arrested, detained and prosecuted in the...
Israeli forces have detained 11 Palestinians, including women, after dozens returned to Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Saturday to check on their homes and retrieve belongings. The detentions came as around 30...
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