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Israeli forces have advanced to positions north of Lebanon's Litani River, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday, as Israel escalates attacks against what it claims to be Hezbollah assets after warning thousands more Lebanese to flee...

MENA

By James Alix Michel VICTORIA, Seychelles, May 29 2026 (IPS) ‘As record heat sweeps the world, the climate crisis is no longer a warning for the future, but a reality of the present.’ James Alix Michel Last week, Western Europe found...

Climate Action, Climate Change, Combating Desertification and Drought

As Israel intensifies its airstrikes on Lebanon despite an April ceasefire, one attack close to Lebanon’s largest dam and hydroelectric plant has triggered concerns that Tel Aviv could begin targeting the country’s key infrastructure. An airstrike on 26 May...

MENA

India and Pakistan are no strangers to heat. This time of year is the worst, as heat peaks before the monsoon brings cooler conditions from June. But this year’s heat is something else. Intense, sustained heat began in mid-April. Daily...

South Asia, heatstroke, high pressure systems

Israel announced it would be severing ties with the United Nations' Secretary-General's Office following the UN's decision to blacklist the state over using sexual violence in the war against Palestinians. Following the announcement, in a lengthy tweet, Israel condemned...

World

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus calls for ceasefire among armed groups to help avoid deaths from preventable disease The death rate of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is between 30% and 50%, the World Health Organization has said,...

Ebola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, World Health Organization

As a deal between the US and Iran appears close, questions have emerged about how the terms of US President Donald Trump's agreement with Iran compare with the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the "Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action" (JCPOA),...

MENA

BEIRUT, (PIC) 11 children have been killed or injured on average every 24 hours in Lebanon over the last week, the UN’s children’s agency (UNICEF ) said on Friday, as Israel has expanded strikes across the country despite a ceasefire. A total...

News, Israeli aggression, Lebanon

Every year, in a gleaming hotel ballroom in Singapore, the Indo-Pacific strategic order gets set for a public display. This happens not through signing of communiqués or conventions but through who shows up, at what level, and what they dare...

Opinion, China, India

Israeli authorities imposed sweeping restrictions on the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, in the southern West Bank, during Eid al-Adha , in what Palestinian officials describe as a new violation of the longstanding status quo of the religious...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) During the Eid al‑Adha holiday, cemeteries in the Gaza Strip are no longer merely places of burial; they have become a central destination for thousands of families who have lost loved ones in the ongoing Israeli war since October...

News, Eid al-Adha, Gaza martyrs

- - - - Photo by Chelsea on Unsplash If I were to live my dream, I’d be on a patch of land that at least felt like the middle of nowhere. I’d have my home, my...

Despite social media giant TikTok’s ambitious campaigns to combat climate denial, go carbon neutral and support sustainable advertising on its wildly popular video platform, the company sponsored a Canadian right-wing conference featuring a retinue of long-established climate deniers...

Activism, Business & Economy, Environment

Citizen Lab doctoral fellow Swantje Lange spoke with the Hasso Plattner Institut (HPI) about sophisticated surveillance campaigns being used to exploit mobile networks, sharing that “the mobile network is highly opaque and extremely complex.” Lange also discussed a...

JD Vance ’s first claim to national attention was when he admitted to making up lies about pet-eating Haitian migrants. Vance justified the lie by saying that he was prepared to lie if that was needed to...

Activism, Column, Courts & Law

One of the great injustices of our current tax system is that working people often end up subsidizing the luxury consumption of the billionaire class. One example of this phenomena can be found in the world of private jets,...

Business & Economy, Column, Courts & Law

Engineering documentation has always been difficult to produce, maintain, and scale. But with the rise of generative AI, many organizations are asking a reasonable question: can a general-purpose large language model (LLM) like Claude automate the work? At first glance,...

AI, EDA, llmda.ai

Il prossimo summit della SCO è molto più di una riunione diplomatica di routine: è un momento-specchio in cui si riflettono le ambizioni, le contraddizioni e le possibilità di un ordine internazionale in costruzione Segue nostro Telegram . L’architettura della...

Italiano, Central Asia, China

Analysts have tried to make sense of US President Donald Trump’s second term with countless, sometimes contradictory, labels. He’s isolationist and transactional. He’s a populist. Or, more recently, a neoconservative. One way to make sense of both him and the...

World, Australia, Block 2

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has condemned the closure of the Ibrahimi Mosque in al-Khalil by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Friday and until further notice, describing it as “a new crime” and a “blatant assault on one of...

News, Hamas Movement, Ibrahimi Mosque

GAZA, (PIC) The effects of the Israeli war on the Strip were not limited only to shelling, widespread destruction, and human losses, but extended into the depths of economic and living conditions, to affect the sources of livelihood of the population,...

Reports, Gaza economy, Israeli genocide

More than 260 British artists are calling on five leading UK theatres to end partnerships with Bloomberg Philanthropies over its links with Israel, as Tel Aviv continues to wage wars in the Gaza Strip , Lebanon, and the...

World

These days, most of Havana’s streets are fairly empty of cars, but full of people walking or riding bicycles, electric bikes, electric “tricycles,” or scooters. Trash has piled up on most corners where regular pick-up has become impossible given that...

War & Peace, Cuba, Donald Trump

NEW YORK, (PIC) In a step carrying unprecedented legal and political dimensions, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has included the Israeli army and security services in the list of parties accused of committing patterns of sexual violence associated with armed conflicts,...

Zionist Terrorism, Israeli sexual abuses, Palestinian prisoners

Tens of thousands of Palestinians were able to perform the Friday prayer at the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem despite the Israeli security measures that restricted their access to the holy site. According to the Islamic Awqaf Administration, about 60,000 Muslim...

News, Aqsa Mosque, Entry restrictions

Doctors in Gaza have raised the alarm over a rise in cancer cases, in particular breast and uterine cancer, as Israel continues its genocidal war on the enclave, impacting treatment and diagnoses. Dr Samer Al-Dahdouh, an oncologist working in one...

MENA

Professional photo and video journalists working in Gaza are to receive an annual press freedom award on Monday for risking their lives to report on the war, an association of publishers has said. The 2026 Golden Pen of Freedom will be...

MENA

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan’s statement that “re-spins get you fired” reflects the enormous pressure facing semiconductor companies as chip complexity, manufacturing costs, and competitive demands continue to rise. In the semiconductor industry, a “re-spin” occurs when a chip design must...

Foundries, Intel Foundry, amd

AL-KHALIL, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) closed the Ibrahimi Mosque to Muslim worshipers on Friday until further notice. Acting director of the Ibrahimi Mosque Hammam Abu Markhiya said the IOF closed the Mosque in the morning, with guards, staff, and worshipers...

News, al-Khalil, Ibrahimi Mosque

By John & Nisha WHITEHEAD Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Who is actually running the government? That is no longer a rhetorical question. As America’s war with Iran lurches from escalation to ceasefire to...

Editor's Choice, Donald Trump, Iran

Subscribe to our Lens on Sudan newsletter here . Markets across North Darfur’s Zaghawa tribal lands were bustling with shoppers and livestock sellers ahead of Eid al-Adha when Rapid Support Forces drones struck the market centers of Tina and Karnoi...

2023 Sudan War

It is unsurprising that generative AI is being used to churn out atrocity propaganda to manufacture consent for imperial war projects, because these new technologies lend themselves perfectly to the task of creating realistic-looking video footage of events which never...

Editor's Choice, Artificial Intelligence, Iran

Every year, thousands of women travel from Morocco to Andalusia in southern Spain to work during the strawberry and red fruit harvest season . For many, the main motivation is financial. Women are often told they can earn thousands of...

Culture

The official state visit of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić to Beijing has predictably outraged the London-Berlin-Paris axis Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Those defiant Serbs are at it again. How dare...

Asia-Pacific, Europe, World

With the possibility that the Hamas negotiating delegation will return to the Egyptian capital, Cairo, after the Eid al-Adha holiday to continue ceasefire talks on Gaza, Israel has escalated its attacks on Khan Younis in the...

MENA

AI has already redrawn the map of global conflict. The real challenge is to build a governance architecture suited to the speed and complexity of this transformation. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su...

Security, War and Conflict, Artificial Intelligence

A visitor strolling through Islamabad could be forgiven for thinking that 1971 happened only yesterday. Accounts of the loss of East Pakistan (today’s Bangladesh) occupy prominent space in bookstores, while references to the war regularly pop up in political discourse,...

Unfiltered

Lebanese and Israeli military delegations will hold unprecedented, direct talks at the Pentagon on Friday as the US reportedly seeks to establish a new security framework between the two countries and eventually a lasting peace deal. Lebanese and US military delegations...

MENA

The more Trump threatens, the more it is clear he is weak and desperate, writes Martin Jay. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su There are lies, and then there are Trump lies. Trump...

Middle East, Security, War and Conflict

Irish football fans disrupted Ireland's friendly with World Cup participants Qatar in Dublin late Thursday by throwing tennis balls on the pitch in protest against upcoming games against Israel . An AFP journalist in the stadium...

World

At a time when the American public is expressing unprecedented levels of distrust in the Israeli government, Congress just proposed tying the U.S. to the Israeli military more than ever before. Buried in the House's version of the 2027 National...

Trump-administration, Donald-trump, Military-assistance

GAZA, (PIC) The markets of the Gaza Strip are witnessing an unprecedented state of stagnation and economic contraction, in light of the continuation of the repercussions of the Israeli war and strict closure policies and preventing the entry of goods and...

Reports, Gaza economy, Gaza markets

DOHA, (PIC) Member of Hamas’s political bureau Hussam Badran has affirmed that his Movement has participated in all rounds of negotiations on Gaza and has not boycotted any of them in recent months. Speaking to Al‑Araby al‑Jadeed news website on Thursday, Badran...

News, Board of Peace, Hamas Movement

Il BRICS ha assunto un ruolo centrale nella geopolitica e nell’economia. Il blocco supera già di gran lunga il ruolo internazionale del G7. Segue nostro Telegram . Il BRICS è ormai un tema ricorrente nelle relazioni internazionali, soprattutto quando si...

Italiano, BRICS, New World Order
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