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Today, the Senate narrowly blocked a war powers resolution, which would have halted ongoing and unauthorized U.S. military hostilities against Iran. The resolution, sponsored by Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), and co-sponsored by 26 other Senators, will fail to advance in...

War-powers, Senate, Iran-war

Quando von der Leyen avverte che «abbiamo altre opzioni», l’immagine ostile che viene in mente è quella di un interrogatore della Gestapo che fa roteare le pinze in mano. Segue nostro Telegram . La presidente della Commissione europea Ursula von...

Italiano, European Commission, European Union

The fight for supremacy between competing artificial intelligence behemoths has become part of the rapidly escalating U.S. war against Iran. Anthropic, creator of the chatbot Claude, has seen a spike in public interest after its CEO announced that the company...

Business & Economy, Ear to the Ground, Military

More than a year has passed since the fall of Bashar al-Assad 's government, yet the file of children who were detained along with their parents or born in prison remains fundamentally unresolved. For more than a decade, Syria's security...

Society

There is an old joke. Why does the Italian Navy have glass bottomed boats? Answer: So they can see the previous Italian Navy. It is looking like the joke can be redirected, although it will be some time before Iran...

Middle East, Block 1, Iran navy

On January 30, the Department of Justice released its latest tranche of 3.5 million documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein. Years of emails, texts, and images were suddenly in the public domain. Epstein, a serial rapist, masterminded a global human trafficking...

Daily Digest, News, Top Story

Israel has once again entered war to solve its “existential problems once and for all”. History suggests those promises of total victory rarely survive contact with reality Gideon Levy is a Haaretz columnist and a member of the newspaper’s editorial board....

Geopolitics, National Politics, Article

European nations are joining the United States and Israel in their war on Iran. From providing economic and diplomatic support, to supplying military assistance to Washington, Europe is moving from a passive supporter to an active participant in the campaign...

Daily Digest, Foreign Affairs, Investigations

Iran has lashed out at its neighbors with hundreds of missiles and drones. However, a careful analysis of the data shows that Tehran's ballistic missile launches have been dropping since the start of the conflict, largely because of the impact...

Analysis, Long War Journal, ballistic missiles

BEIRUT, (PIC) The confrontation between Israel and Hezbollah is entering a more intense and expansive phase, shifting from sporadic exchanges of fire to heavy air and missile strikes. The escalation has been accompanied by mass evacuation warnings and the displacement of...

News, Israeli crimes, Israeli violations

By External Source Mar 4 2026 (IPS) Women and girls have never been closer to equality. And never closer to losing it. In 1995, 189 governments adopted the Beijing Declaration. A global promise for the equal rights of all women and...

Gender, Gender Identity, Gender Violence

Every Saturday in Amman, a circle of children bursts with colour, sound, and movement. Paints spill across tables, musical instruments jingle in eager hands, and trainers weave gently between them. Laughter, curiosity, and unrestrained joy fill the room, while mothers...

Society

Islamic State (IS) remnants in Syria appear emboldened by recent events. Syrian interim President Ahmed Al-Sharaa’s government offensive against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF ) has strategically weakened that longtime adversary, and thousands of IS affiliates escaped...

Analysis

In the vastness of the ocean lie many unique organisms, genes and molecules. They offer huge potential for new medicines to fight disease but the pipeline for their development is nascent. Most drugs on the market originate from terrestrial sources. But...

Ocean, Biodiversity, Health

A new report has found that President Trump’s illegal and unprovoked war against Iran has now cost American taxpayers upwards of $5 billion and counting. Citing costs associated with Trump’s attack on Iran last June, as well as American-led strikes...

Pentagon-budget, Defense-department, Iran

With the demise of diplomacy, the conflict has moved from the realm of strategic calculus and realism into one of psychological conditioning. Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Strategic...

Geopolitics, National Politics, Alastair Crooke

Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday defended his handling of the US-Israeli war against Iran after President Donald Trump launched a scathing attack over the British leader's initial refusal to allow the Americans to use UK air...

World

Safety engineers, hardware designers and reliability specialists in safety-critical industries like automotive, aerospace, medical device and industrial automation use FMEDA (Failure Modes, Effects and Diagnostic Analysis). ISO 26262 compliance for ADAS, braking systems and ECUs require FMEDA in the automotive...

EDA, Siemens EDA, adas

An Iranian drone reportedly hit and caused damage to the United States’ CIA station in the Middle East on Monday. Two drones struck the United States Embassy compound in Riyadh on Monday, in what officials describe as...

MENA

An elected leader who tries to seize absolute power through a military coup commits the most serious political transgression that can take place in a democracy. In December 2024, Yoon Suk Yeol attempted just such a coup to overcome opposition in...

Democracy & Governance, accountability, Brazil

By Sania Farooqui BENGALURU, India, Mar 4 2026 (IPS) The ordinary sounds of Nahid Ali’s home in Khartoum were completely drowned out by the sound of war which began on April 15 2023 . Her baby was just 21 days...

Active Citizens, Africa, Armed Conflicts

Qatar's prime minister condemned Iran's attacks on Gulf states in a call with Tehran's foreign minister on Wednesday, the first high-level contact since the Islamic republic launched its missile and drone campaign . Qatari premier Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman...

MENA

Keir Starmer has given his approval for Donald Trump’s US to attack Iran using British military bases. But the UK government imposes a considerable veil of secrecy over the US use of these bases, keeping the British public in the dark...

Americas, Archive, Military

The following story is co-published with Luke Savage’s Substack . Barely two months on from Mark Carney’s widely discussed Davos address, the Canadian prime minister recently had this to say in the wake of the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran...

Column, Military, Opinion

This story was originally published by Grist and WBEZ . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . Under the warm light of a hanging lamp, Marty Landorf carefully crumbled the dried flower head of a...

Activism, Environment, News

Pakistan's foreign minister, Ishaq Dar, said on Tuesday that Islamabad might have to join the Iran war because of the mutual defence pact signed with Saudi Arabia, as Iran ramps up its retaliatory attacks on US bases in...

World

- - - - Photo by Jeff Kingma on Unsplash What’s happening in Iran is kind of magical, in a way. I’m not making light of death and destruction, mind you, but it’s interesting to see ayatollahs...

After Israel launched a military attack on Iran on 28 February, the United States also followed just hours later. Iran responded by launching missile strikes and drone attacks on Israel. But it didn't end there. Iran's response extended to...

Perspectives

The Israeli Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), affiliated with Tel Aviv University, published data on Wednesday indicating that during the first four days of the Israeli-American assault on Iran , Tehran allegedly launched far more missiles and drones...

MENA

Brazil’s data centre capacity could triple by 2030, fuelled by companies from China and the US flocking to the country. The implications for local water and energy consumption are worrying experts. Brazil is already Latin America’s data centre hub,...

Energy, Business, Big data

A US submarine sank an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka on Wednesday, killing at least 87 sailors and leaving dozens missing, officials said. The sinking came as the war sparked by a joint US-Israel attack...

World

Soldiers from the US military were allegedly told that President Donald Trump was "anointed by Jesus" and that Washington's attack on Iran was "all part of God's divine plan" in a complaint to a US military watchdog on...

MENA

An Iraqi militia announced on Wednesday that it bombed a "vital target" in Jordan, in retaliation for joint US-Israel strikes that killed the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday. The attack marks the first such operation...

MENA

RVA23 marks a turning point in how mainstream CPUs are expected to scale performance. By making the RISC-V Vector Extension (RVV) mandatory, it elevates structured, explicit parallelism to the same architectural status as scalar execution. Vectors are no longer optional...

IP, RISC-V, isscc 2014

Several MENA countries have kept their airspace closed, as the US and Israeli strikes on Iran intensify across the Middle East , triggering widespread flight disruptions across the region. Open-source flight-tracking data reveal a patchy recovery across the Middle East...

MENA

Iran has changed forever. The US and Israel are firing missiles and dropping bombs on targets across Iran. Senior figures from the regime and the IRGC are being assassinated. Ayatollah Khamenei was killed on the first day of the war. The future...

The New Arab Voice

UN-mandated investigators probing rights abuses in Iran said on Wednesday they were appalled by the deadly strikes targeting the country's officials, saying extrajudicial killings were no way to deliver justice. The United Nations' Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran...

MENA

Toda essa entrega política vai ser suficiente para que o imperialismo e os seus lacaios no Brasil aceitem mais quatro anos de Lula e do PT no governo. Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para...

Português, Brazil, Imperialism

On February 28, the world watched in stunned silence as reports confirmed a devastating U.S.-Israeli kinetic operation in Tehran. According to reports, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and a number of other senior leaders were killed in the massive strikes....

War & Peace, Iran, Israel
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