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Global air travel remains severely disrupted, with many people still unable to fly as planned to destinations after the Iran war forced the closure of major Middle Eastern hubs , including Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi. Below is the latest...

World

Syria's army said on Monday that one of its bases in the northeast was targeted by a missile attack from neighbouring Iraq , while an Iraqi official said a local armed group was behind the attack. "One of our military...

MENA

Israel has been ramping up its targeting of Palestinians over the past week in Gaza, killing field commanders from Hamas’s and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s military wings, despite a months-long ceasefire in place. Yahya Fayez Abu Labda, the commander...

MENA

Just minutes before US President Donald Trump momentarily boosted the stock market – and sent oil prices tumbling – with his disputed Monday announcement of peace talks with Iran, unknown traders loaded up on positions that allowed them to profit from the resulting movement in equities...

Finance, Block 2, Insider trading

Israel’s Knesset National Security Committee will be holding a final vote on Tuesday to advance the controversial death penalty bill that enables executions of Palestinians convicted of alleged "terror" offences. The bill, pushed by far-right National Security Minister...

MENA

The Palestinian Football Association (PFA) on Tuesday called for the Israeli Football Association (IFA) to receive a ban after a FIFA report found "multiple breaches" of its anti-discrimination obligations. "We maintain our right and continue our efforts to ensure...

Sports

The Israeli army used a "double tap" strike when killing five-year-old Hind Rajab in 2024, analysis by a global campaign group found, as calls for accountability continue two years after the Palestinian's killing. The US-based Avaaz NGO revealed that...

World

A classic networking problem is securing connections with encrypted data, but implementing strong encryption algorithms at wire speeds can limit performance. However, introducing blazing-fast connectivity without an encryption strategy leaves systems vulnerable. The architects in the UALink Consortium, including …...

AI, IP, Synopsys

Mona Mangloña grew up on the southernmost of the Northern Mariana Islands. Rota is known for its unspoiled scenery and warm-hearted residents. She says living in this small but sacred Pacific island fosters a deep connection to the land, the...

Ocean, Deep-sea mining, Ecosystems

Filling gaps in neonatal care is a proven way of stopping preventable deaths, writes Dr Farhana Zareef Your coverage of Unicef’s child mortality report ( 18 March ) paints a stark picture. Progress is plateauing and most childhood deaths...

Infant and child mortality, Africa, Children's health

On March 19, 2026, a truly remarkable scene unfolded in the Oval Office. President Donald Trump , hosting Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi , decided to explain his decision to launch a massive bombing campaign against Iran without...

War & Peace, Donald Trump, Japan

Videos of young girls punching fiercely into a boxing bag, their bare feet kicking up sand between rows of refugee tents, go viral every time. But they capture more than just exercise in an unlikely setting. For the young girls...

Society

In his recent social media diatribes , President Donald Trump has complained that our allies are ungrateful for the war he has initiated against Iran. He is angered that they aren’t anxious to send in their military forces...

Asia Pacific, Business & Economy, Column

It’s tempting to see as a clear escalation ’s declaration on Sunday that all those holding US Treasury bonds are now legitimate targets of violent reprisals. Iran has – by attacking US bases in the region as far away as...

Opinion, Block 2, Finance

Pakistan could see itself playing a significant role on the international stage should Islamabad successfully mediate a truce between the US and Iran , as the war in the MENA region stretches into its fourth week. US President Donald...

World

Canadá tenta se preparar para uma invasão americana, enquanto permanece na OTAN. Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su A recente decisão do governo canadense de ampliar significativamente sua presença militar no Ártico...

Português, Canada, Conflict

Israel is preparing to escalate its war on Lebanon, with reports that the government is set to approve the mobilisation of up to 400,000 reserve soldiers to expand its ground offensive in the south . The planned mass...

MENA

Like many others , I’ve spent the last few days looking at the many iconic photos of Dolores Huerta , the renowned feminist, labor organizer and powerhouse co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union. In one of my favorites...

Activism, Column, Labor

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz since 2 March is sending shockwaves through Asia's energy systems, exposing the region’s heavy reliance on oil and gas from Arab Gulf states. The narrow Gulf waterway, through which roughly a third...

Energy

Lebanon is not just facing a direct military escalation. It is living through an Israeli-led digital war which is reshaping how people are communicating, what they are thinking and believing in, and how they make decisions during moments of crisis....

Perspectives

Afghanistan's Taliban government announced the release of a US national on Tuesday who had been detained for more than a year, after a letter from his family requesting his freedom. The foreign ministry said the family of linguist and researcher...

World

- - - - Photo by Nils Huenerfuerst on Unsplash One of my favorite memes is the “why friend (or fren) shaped?” regarding something that is terrifyingly dangerous, like a bison or a grizzly bear. Some of those...

When videos surfaced of Peru’s president arriving in a hooded top for late-night meetings with the businessman Yang Zhihua, it sparked the latest in a string of Peruvian political scandals. Dubbed Chifagate , after the Chinese-Latin American fusion restaurants where...

Business, Geopolitics, Overseas investment

Before dawn on Tuesday, six Iranian ballistic missiles struck a Peshmerga base in the Iraqi Kurdistan region, resulting in six fatalities and 30 injuries, according to the Kurdistan Region's Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs. This incident represents...

MENA

The death toll from a strike on a hospital in East Darfur has risen from 64 to 70, the WHO said Tuesday, calling the hit an attack on survival in Sudan's devastating war . The World Health Organization said the...

MENA

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NetApp, Semiconductor Services, agentic ai

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier spoke on Tuesday of a "deep rift" with traditional ally the United States and said the US-Israeli war on Iran was a "breach of international law". In unusually strong comments, the German head of state...

World

By Ron PAUL Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su “War is the health of the state.” That phrase, coined by Randolph Bourne, explains why opposition to war is a priority of many libertarians....

Editor's Choice, Civil War, Imperialism

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s March 18-21 visit to the United States unfolded amid a period of dramatic transformation, both at home and abroad. Takaichi’s visit to the US put an end to the latest stage of internal turmoil The...

Columns, Locations, Politics

The World Economic Forum has postponed a meeting that had been due to take place in Saudi Arabia next month on global collaboration, growth and energy "in light of current regional developments", Saudi Arabia's state news agency said on...

Economy

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) delivered on Tuesday evacuation and demolition notices for seven inhabited homes belonging to Palestinian families in the eastern neighborhood of Qalandia village, north of Jerusalem. The orders require the residents to vacate and demolish...

News, Demolition policy, Displacement policy

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr on Tuesday declared a state of national energy emergency in response to the Middle East conflict and what he called an "imminent danger" posed to the country's energy supply. Marcos said a committee has...

Energy

Hormuz War Game

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Lo Stretto di Ormuz è il nuovo «scenario di guerra». Nel giro di pochi giorni, il mondo ha cominciato a tremare, ancora più di quanto non facesse già. Segue nostro Telegram . Che si aprino le danze Ci siamo. Lo...

Italiano, Energy, Iran

By Alan MACLEOD Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Forced into a humiliating U-turn amid a potential global economic meltdown, the Trump administration announced today that it may remove sanctions on Iranian oil...

Editor's Choice, Iran, Israel

“It’s a huge problem, a real and present threat.” That was former US secretary of state John Kerry’s answer when I asked him last week about the shrinking space for trusted, fact-based climate reporting. We were talking at the Sustainable Markets...

Energy, Conflict, Energy transition

These are stressful times in functional verification. We are being pushed to more aggressively embrace AI-based automation, knowing we will continue to be held accountable for quality of results. Verification misses could upend careers, maybe enterprises. It is tempting to...

AI, agentic, bernard murphy

"The Week of Resistance Against Israeli Colonialism and Apartheid" officially began today, Tuesday, 24 March, during a conference organised by the Student Frameworks Secretariat at the Media Solidarity Centre in western Gaza City, under the slogan "Palestine Liberates...

MENA

Conservationists celebrate second twin birth just two months after another set discovered in Virunga national park A second set of mountain gorilla twins has been born in Virunga national park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in...

Endangered species, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Wildlife
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