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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has pledged to propose legislation within weeks to proscribe Iran's Revolutionary Guards, a report said Friday. Starmer made the comments while speaking to the Jewish Chronicle newspaper during a visit on Thursday...

World

Italian biopharmaceutical company Kedrion said on Friday it may struggle to ensure the timely delivery of vital plasma-based medicines to patients in Iran if the United States and Israel's war creates supply chain disruptions. Chief Executive Ugo Di Francesco...

World

Criminally, the NATO aggressors are creating a boiling frog situation for Russia. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The European Union announced its 20th round of economic sanctions against Russia this week. The...

Business, Editorial, Europe

As part of Moscow’s efforts to expand its Unmanned Systems Forces, a vocational training center affiliated with Russia’s main Shahed drone producer is recruiting for a new unmanned systems brigade. Its recruitment messaging highlights fulfilling mandatory military service requirements while...

Long War Journal, News, russia

Washington has vowed to curb what it sees as the unauthorized extraction of intellectual property from United States-developed artificial intelligence models, sharpening its stance just as China’s DeepSeek unveiled its latest system. The White House Office of Science and Technology...

US-China, Anthropic, Artificial Intelligence

An Iranian delegation arrived in Pakistan on Friday for talks to revive ceasefire negotiations, two Pakistani government sources told Reuters . The delegation includes Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. Araghchi "will hold meetings with Pakistan's senior leadership to...

World

The Trump administration is placing economic sanctions on a major China-based oil refinery and roughly 40 shipping companies and tankers involved in transporting Iranian oil. The move, announced Friday and first reported by The Associated Press , makes...

World

Pravda.Ru editor-in-chief Inna Novikova conducted an interview with Professor, Doctor of Biological Sciences Galina Nechitailo to talk about risks of genetically modified products. From nutrition on Earth to the survival of our planet — a conversation about health, science, and...

Science

Extreme weather has swept across large parts of the United States this month, bringing dozens of tornadoes, flooding, softball-sized hail, and winds near 200 miles per hour. Although much of it hit Texas, the Midwest, and Vermont, the extreme weather...

Environment, climate change, Mariana Islands

Ernie Dosio, a 75-year-old vineyard owner, was hunting an antelope species in Africa when the incident occured - Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox - An American millionaire big-game hunter has died...

California, Hunting, Gabon

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday once again suggested the international community should show gratitude for President Donald Trump’s illegal war with Iran, which has led to a global oil supply shock and created the potential for food shortages in the...

Middle East, Block 3, Common Dreams

The Trump era outpaces expectations. It routinely shows us that we can be abandoned by more institutions, and become much more fascist, much faster than we thought. The worst things happening for the worst reasons can feel hacky...

Column, Courts & Law, Opinion

Gaza’s healthcare system, devastated by over two years of Israeli war, now requires $10 billion in investments over a period of five years, the World Health Organization said on Friday. Reinhilde Van de Weerdt, WHO Representative for the...

MENA

US software giant Palantir Technologies is expanding its work with several UK public bodies despite growing controversy over its political relationships, military contracts and the potential impact of its technology on privacy and civil liberties. Founded in 2003, Palantir builds...

MENA

The US is considering lifting sanctions on the repressive East African state of Eritrea as it looks to deepen its influence along the Red Sea coast, according to The Wall Street Journal . Trump's Africa envoy...

MENA

The closure of a UK Foreign Office unit tasked with documenting, recording, and verifying incidents and attacks where Israel has potentially breached international law has closed, citing funding cuts. The unit focused on Israeli activities in Gaza and, more...

MENA

BEIRUT, (PIC) The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has revealed documented testimonies indicating a pattern of Israeli forces looting civilian property in southern Lebanon, including breaking into homes and stealing money and personal belongings, in a serious violation of international humanitarian law...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli aggression

Iran's new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei was seriously wounded in the US-Israeli airstrike that killed his father and predecessor Ali Khamenei but is mentally sharp, the New York Times reported on Thursday. Citing several Iranian...

MENA

WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice dropped its investigation Friday of the Federal Reserve and Chair Jerome Powell over building renovation costs, a move that could open the door for new Fed leadership next month — and signaled a victory...

Finance, Block 3, Donald Trump

When plans were announced for an open-pit copper mine in the cloud forests of Ecuador in 2004, they were vigorously opposed by residents. The project risked damaging forests, water sources and the area’s rich biodiversity, they said. In a rare victory...

Business, Conservation, Mining

Originally published by Pacific Forum, this article is republished with permission. Enough! Yes, this week’s decision by the Japanese Cabinet to relax restrictions on arms exports is a landmark in the country’s postwar history. It is not, however, the end...

Opinion, Japan constitution, Japan Pacifism

The manifesto published by Palantir Technologies last week is neither a technical document nor an economic vision. It is an explicit political document announcing a new phase in the trajectory of digital capitalism, a phase in which it has...

Activism, Business & Economy, Column

The Metropolitan Opera said Thursday that a major partnership with Saudi Arabia had fallen through, removing a key potential source of funds as it faces tough fiscal challenges. In September, the 143-year-old New York opera...

MENA

- - - - Photo by Keith Bond on Unsplash There are certain acts that we might like to believe are universally bad. Murder, for example, or theft. Those could be argued to be two ends of...

Ridurre la tragedia ucraina al febbraio 2022 significa cancellare otto anni di guerra nel Donbass, di fallimenti diplomatici e di oppressione delle comunità russofone. Oggi l’UE non lavora per chiudere il conflitto, ma per istituzionalizzarlo attraverso il riarmo. Segue nostro...

Italiano, Donbas, European Union

At the recent British Academy Film Awards ceremony in London, the BBC failed to edit out of the TV broadcast a guest hurling a racial slur at members of the cast of “ Sinners .” What seemed a...

Arts & Culture, Film, Opinion

A saint, a prophet, a dragon-slayer. Saint George has made his mark on religion, folklore, and as a national symbol. He is the patron saint of dozens of countries and cities, including England, Ethiopia, and Stockholm but Saint George probably never...

Offbeat

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is looking to eliminate funding in fiscal 2027 for the agency that serves as the primary federal funding source for libraries and museums nationwide. But congressional appropriators — who rebuffed similar efforts to...

Activism, Courts & Law, Education

Sign at No Kings demonstration. Credit: Peter Costantini By Peter Costantini SEATTLE. USA, Apr 24 2026 (IPS) This is the second part of a three-part commentary. Read Part 1: No Kings? Meet King Don and King John – Part 1...

Democracy, Headlines, Human Rights

After more than 15 years of collaboration with Dr. Eric Esteve and IPnest, SemiWiki has acquired the famed IP reports with Eric Esteve staying on through 2026 to ease the transition. Not only will SemiWiki provide the industry standard Interface...

IPnest, Semiconductor Services, alphawave

O que está por trás da lista de alvos na Europa revelada pela Rússia? Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su A divulgação recente de informações por parte do Ministério da Defesa da...

Português, Drones, European Union

The " Boycott of Israel " law in Lebanon has moved to the centre of political debate amid the launch of Lebanese-Israeli negotiations at the US State Department in Washington on 14 April and their continuation on Thursday, 23 April,...

MENA

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has said his attendance at a sports event in Damascus which drew backlash over "suggestive" dance routines was unplanned, and that he had not been aware of the programme beforehand. His remarks came after...

Offbeat

Israeli soldiers have been accused of widespread looting of civilian property in southern Lebanon , with commanders failing to intervene, according to soldiers and officers. Troops taking part in the invasion of Lebanon have stolen significant amounts of property...

MENA

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that he had received successful treatment for early-stage prostate cancer, without specifying when the treatment took place. In a statement on social media, as his annual medical report was released, Netanyahu,...

MENA

Iran says it’s not in a rush to negotiate, but reality signals something else. Bill Roggio is joined by FDD Senior Fellow Miad Maleki — a former US Treasury sanctions architect — to break down why Tehran walked away from...

Generation Jihad, Long War Journal, Iran

The US Justice Department announced that an American special forces soldier has been arrested and charged for pocketing over $400,000 by betting, on the basis of classified information, on the timing of the Trump administration’s abduction of Nicolás Maduro earlier...

United States, Common Dreams, Finance
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