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Ziyad Motala, Professor of Law, Howard Law School A Troubling Spectacle A troubling spectacle continues during the nightly prayers of Ramadhan. In Islam’s holiest mosques, supplications lavish praise upon the Saudi ruler, Mohammed bin Salman, and seek divine favour for the...

#Current Affairs, featured, Featured Current Affairs

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi sailed smoothly past a potential clash with Donald Trump over Iran on Thursday, though the US president whipped up a bit of a storm about Pearl Harbor. Days after lashing out at US allies...

World

With incompatible war aims, no definition of victory, and a battlefield that keeps expanding, the US-Israel onslaught is doomed – and Iran only needs to survive to prevail Sami Al-Arian is the Director of the Center for Islam and Global Affairs...

Geopolitics, Article, Sami Al-Arian

OpenClaw, an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) agent formerly known as Moltbot and Clawdbot, has gone viral in China in recent weeks, partly boosted by promotional campaigns from Tencent and Alibaba. More than a chatbot, it can handle emails, schedules and...

China, agentic AI, Alibaba

On 18 February this year, management at the Kayelekera uranium mine in northern Malawi circulated a notice to employees and contractors assuring them that the site’s water supply was safe. “Please be advised that the latest water quality test...

Africa, Corporate Governance, critical minerals

The president of Iran's football federation said his country would "boycott the United States, but not the World Cup" as it attempts to move its group stage matches south of the border to Mexico. Mehdi Taj drew the distinction...

Sports

FIFA fined the Israeli Football Association (IFA) 150,000 Swiss francs ($190,700) on Thursday for "multiple breaches" of its anti-discrimination obligations. A report by the disciplinary committee of world football's governing body found the IFA "failed to take meaningful action against...

World

India condemned strikes on energy facilities in the Gulf as "unacceptable" on Thursday, warning they risk worsening global energy flows. Iran hit the world's largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Qatar on Thursday in retaliation for...

MENA

The developments of the past 24 hours may prove a turning point in this war: Israel and America’s escalation by striking oil facilities at the Qatari-Iranian Pars field, and in Asaluyeh , Iran's massive retaliation against oil and gas...

Iran, Israel, Donald-trump

Genocidal Nazi Germans are shitting their pants. Yesterday they announced that they will no longer support the Zionists Nazis at the International Court of Justice. Annalena “Butcher” Baerbock, Robert Habeck, and Olaf Scholz should still be charged at the International...

EU politics, Geopolitics, National Politics

The economic and financial consequences of the Epstein Class’s war of aggression against Iran. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Photo: Screen Grab – Dubai The...

Economics, Finance, Financial Institutions

In over two weeks of war, unmanned weapons systems have become the backbone of Iran’s strategy , targeting military bases, energy facilities, ports, and shipping lanes - and, crucially, the sense of security on which the Gulf states’...

Analysis

This report is co-published by DeSmog and ExxonKnews . ExxonKnews is a project of the Center for Climate Integrity . Scott Eustis is doing what he can to keep Louisiana afloat. As a veteran wetlands and fisheries researcher and lifelong resident,...

Courts & Law, Environment, News

UK’s bilateral aid to African countries, which funds areas such as schools and clinics, to be cut by almost £900m by 2028-29 Some of the world’s poorest countries will lose out on UK aid that funds programmes such as schools and...

Global development, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Yvette Cooper

The Islamic Movement within Israel’s 1948 borders has called on Palestinians to gather in large numbers around Jerusalem Al-Aqsa Mosque in the run-up to Eid al-Fitr, as Israel continues to close Islam’s third most holy site during the final...

MENA

Iranian attacks have knocked out 17 percent of Qatar's liquefied natural gas (LNG) export capacity, causing an estimated $20 billion in lost annual revenue and threatening supplies to Europe and Asia, QatarEnergy's CEO told Reuters...

Energy

Joe Kent , Trump's former counterterror chief who resigned this week in protest at the Iran war , has accused White House advisors and pro-Israel lobbyists of manipulating the US president into launching the war. In an interview with US...

MENA

Despite years of effort by the Air Force to get rid of the A-10 fleet, the A-10 is playing a major role in the Iran war. Unlike its predecessors used in the Iraq wars, the A-10 has been reborn with...

Asia Times, Middle East, A-10 fighter jet

Iran executed three men on Thursday who were accused of killing police officers during protests in January, with activists warning of the risk of a new surge in hangings as war rages with Israel and the United States...

MENA

Russia continues to analyze the possible consequences of an early termination of energy supplies to Europe, said Dmitry Peskov, spokesperson for the President of the Russian Federation. Kremlin Studies Early Withdrawal from European Gas Market According to him, the issue is...

World

The rapid proliferation of LLMs and other AI applications, and of high-end GPU platforms that run them, is putting intense pressure on the performance requirements for memory technologies. Designers need to be keenly aware of how to make the most...

AI, IP, Rambus

Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli airstrikes killed four people on Thursday, in the latest violence to hit the war-shattered Palestinian territory despite the ceasefire. It came as Gaza's Rafah border crossing with Egypt reopened for...

MENA

A number of countries in the region have officially demanded that Tehran change its course, threatening a forceful response. However, pro-American leaders have failed to take into account that Iran has virtually nothing to lose. Iran's Neighbors Deliver an Ultimatum Saudi...

World

Iran’s former First Vice President, Mohammed Mokhber , said on Thursday that a new framework for managing the Strait of Hormuz needed to be established when the current war in the region concludes, which he said represents...

MENA
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Artificial Intelligence once felt like humanity’s most benign creation—writing poetry, painting pictures, making films, composing music, helping scientists collaborate across labs. Then it crept into corporate boardrooms, assisting executives with organizational restructuring and employee layoffs. Panic set in. Would machines...

War & Peace, artificial intelligence, iran war

Oman's Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi , who played a major role in efforts to avert the conflict , has slammed the US-Israeli "unlawful war" on Iran in a new article. Albusaidi penned an article for The Economist...

MENA

Earlier last week, Iran’s sports minister, Ahmad Donyamali, said on state television that the country could not take part in a World Cup co-hosted by the United States, following the killing of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei...

Society

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified on Thursday that Israeli and U.S. goals in the war in Iran were not identical. Speaking about the intelligence community’s yearly Threats Assessment before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and responding...

Iran, Tulsi-gabbard, Donald-trump

A política reacionária do “cancelamento” é a mais pura coerção, proteção e fortalecimento do Estado contra o povo – tudo isso sob uma roupagem progressista. Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su O...

Português, Censorship, Democratic Party

The European Central Bank warned Thursday that the energy shock unleashed by the US-Israeli war on Iran would sharply push up inflation and hit the eurozone's growth this year. The eurozone's interest-rate setters joined other major...

Economy

Iranian-backed militias have continued conducting attacks across Iraq, recently targeting US and foreign diplomatic sites in Baghdad and Erbil. Hundreds of strikes have hit the Kurdistan Region since late February, wounding Peshmerga forces and damaging key locations. While Kataib Hezbollah...

Long War Journal, News, Iran

- - - - Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash When I first heard about the Deep State, I thought it sounded like a conspiracy theory. I guess my eternal optimism muddied my thinking, likely because I...

La gente, stanca di anni di sanzioni, dovrebbe ora stare lì ad ascoltare le ridicole giustificazioni della classe dirigente europea? Segue nostro Telegram . I rapporti energetici tra Russia ed Europa prima delle sanzioni Negli ultimi anni la crisi energetica...

Italiano, Economy, Energy

A growing number of US lawmakers are demanding answers on the bombing of an Iranian girls' school by the American military that killed nearly 200 on the first day of the US-Israeli war on Iran . On Wednesday, a group...

World

Nearly eight months after the " Suweida events " in Syria in July 2025, a special investigative committee released its report on the incidents and the parties involved in violations and extrajudicial killings. The committee submitted the report to Syrian Justice...

MENA

On Wednesday, to circumvent the challenges arising from the US-Israel war on Iran, Iraq began sending oil from the Kirkuk fields to Turkey's Ceyhan port via the Kurdistan Region pipeline, following an agreement between Baghdad and...

Economy
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