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Writing more than 2,000 years ago, the Greek historian Plutarch gave us an eloquent description of what modern historians now call “micro-militarism.” When an imperial power like Athens then, or America now, is in decline, its leaders often react emotionally by mounting...

Opinion, Block 1, Common Dreams

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...

MENA

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...

World

La 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...

Italiano, China, European Union

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...

Northeast Asia, Block 3, Iran war 2026

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...

CEO Interviews, Lumai, Xianxin Guo

US President Donald Trump on Saturday abruptly canceled a planned visit by two of his administration’s negotiators to the Pakistani capital for diplomatic talks to end his war on Iran, complaining that the trip would be “too much work.” The president announced his decision...

Middle East, Block 2, Donald Trump

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...

Mali, Africa, Al-Qaida

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...

MENA

Drought 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...

MENA

Trials 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...

MENA

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...

MENA

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...

MENA

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...

Zionist Terrorism, Displacement, Gaza women

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...

News, Gaza siege, Israeli ceasefire violations

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...

MENA

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...

MENA

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...

Infographic, Detained children, Israeli jails

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...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) In the far north of the Gaza Strip, where fear meets the frontlines, hundreds of displaced Palestinians in Halawa camp endure a daily reality that stretches beyond the limits of human endurance. Here, life is no longer measured by days...

Reports, Displacement camps, Gaza Strip

Several figures from the former Assad regime are set to go on trial in Damascus in the coming days, as Syria prepares to launch its first public prosecutions under a transitional justice process. Many Syrians...

MENA

Iranian hajj pilgrims have arrived in Saudi Arabia, Riyadh-based broadcaster Al Arabiya reported Saturday, despite a deterioration in ties between the Gulf kingdom and the Islamic republic during the Middle East war. Saudi Arabia's hajj ministry informed...

MENA

BEIRUT, (PIC) Israeli attacks have killed at least four people in southern Lebanon’s Nabatieh district, according to the state news agency, as Israel continues its strikes despite a three‑week extension of the ceasefire with Hezbollah. Two Israeli strikes, one targeting a truck...

News, Israeli aggression, Israeli ceasefire violations

Syria’s interior ministry on Saturday revealed details around the security operation that resulted in the capture and arrest of Amjad Youssef, one of the key suspects behind the notorious Tadamon massacre of 2013. Authorities announced that he was...

MENA

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dismissed Turkey's deputy education minister after two school shootings that left nine people dead , according to the official gazette published late Friday. Eight students aged 10 and 11 and a teacher were killed this...

MENA

WEST BANK, (PIC) Jewish settler groups carried out widespread attacks in the occupied West Bank, which included forced displacement, the burning of property, and armed assaults, following a week of violence that has so far resulted in the martyrdom of six...

News, Jewish terrorism, Settler crimes

French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated on Saturday that he was focused on efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz , a day after the head of TotalEnergies warned of global energy shortages if the Iran war continues for months. Macron,...

Energy

Se os populistas não superarem o seu amadorismo e corrigirem as falhas estruturais, seguirá sendo um movimento de protesto em vez de uma solução política definitiva. Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su...

Português, European Union, Hungary

The Tunisian League for Human Rights (LTDH) , the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize winner along with three other groups, has had its operations suspended for a month, its president said Saturday. The LTDH said in a statement overnight it had been...

MENA

By Clifford A.KIRACOFE Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The United States must drop its cynical power politics, militarism, and imperialism. President Donald Trump, in his first and second administrations, broke with American tradition...

Editor's Choice, Donald Trump, Imperialism

GAZA, (PIC) A Palestinian civilian was martyred by Israeli gunfire, while two others succumbed to injuries sustained in previous attacks in the Gaza Strip on Saturday. According to Palestinian media sources, a young man identified as Bahjat Abul-Eish was killed after being...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli ceasefire violations

By Ken KLIPPENSTEIN Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Trump’s war on Pope Leo includes cloak and dagger When Trump declared Pope Leo “terrible for foreign policy,” the U.S. intelligence community took the...

Editor's Choice, CIA, Intelligence service

The communicative dimension has become an integral part of conflict, no less significant than military operations or economic dynamics. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Context In the contemporary landscape of international relations,...

Americas, Middle East, World

SICILY, (PIC) Ships from the “Global (Resilience) Flotilla 2” have docked at the port of Syracuse on the Italian island of Sicily, as part of the “Spring 2026 mission” aimed at breaking the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip and delivering...

News, Gaza Strip, Global Sumud Flotilla

Israeli strikes killed at least 10 people across southern Lebanon since the ceasefire was extended on Friday, according to Lebanese health ministry figures, as displaced civilians began a cautious return to devastated areas. Six people were killed on...

MENA

U.S.-Kuwaiti journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin , who was detained in Kuwait over online posts related to the Iran war, has been released and departed the Gulf nation. A U.S. State Department official said on Friday that Shihab-Eldin, 41, had left Kuwait. Last...

World

Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and parts of the Gaza Strip voted in municipal elections on Saturday. The elections are taking place under conditions of war, political division, and widespread public disillusionment. Polling stations opened at...

MENA

KUALA LUMPUR, (PIC) A top delegation from the Hamas Movement has concluded an official visit to Malaysia, where it held meetings with government officials and national figures. According to a statement released by Hamas on Saturday, the delegation included members of its...

News, Hamas delegation, Malaysia

LONDON, (PIC) Leading international academics, clinicians, and policy experts convened in London for the two-day conference “Advancing Health Care Education and Delivery in Palestine”, to address the escalating challenges facing healthcare education and medical practice in Gaza, and to call for...

News, Gaza Strip, Health sector
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