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For more than a decade, China’s relationship with Indonesia has been defined by railways, industrial parks, nickel processing plants and large-scale infrastructure. Now, China is beginning to associate itself with something far more politically sensitive: President Prabowo Subianto’s flagship Free...

Opinion, China, China Diplomacy

Distribution of emergency shelter supplies in Abyan, Yemen funded by the Yemen Humanitarian Fund (YHF). Credit: UN OCHA/Altawasul By Maximilian Malawista UNITED NATIONS, Jun 10 2026 (IPS) In Yemen, increasing funding constraints on humanitarian operations have put millions of civilians...

Aid, Armed Conflicts, Crime & Justice

Chaff being loaded for cutting in a machine for fodder. Credit: Supplied By Rina Mukherji PUNE, India, Jun 10 2026 (IPS) Dharashiv is one of the poorest districts in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. Located in the semi-arid region of...

Active Citizens, Asia-Pacific, Development & Aid

For decades, the global financial community has treated sovereign debt crises like a broken thermometer: if we just improve the reading (transparency) and hold the technician accountable (through regulation and monitoring), the fever will break. Yet, from the streets of...

Opinion, adani group, Bangladesh

Saudi Arabia launched its second national carrier, Riyadh Air, on Wednesday after more than a year of delays, defying the economic turmoil triggered by the US-Israeli war on Iran and the strong competition from established Gulf airlines. A...

MENA

A truly bizarre series of events off the coast of Iran today that in my opinion were entirely provoked, if not staged, by the US. It started with multiple news reports that a US Army Apache helicopter had been shot...

Larry C. Johnson

Welcome. Here are the latest key updates: - The US military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) said it carried out “self-defence strikes” against Iran after the downing of a US helicopter allegedly by Iranian forces over the Strait of Hormuz on Monday...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said on Tuesday that his Movement and Palestinian factions engaged positively and flexibly with the proposals put forward by mediators during recent meetings in Cairo. In a statement, spokesman Qassem added that the Cairo talks focused...

News, Ceasefire talks, Gaza Strip

A few weeks ago, I heard two seemingly contradictory views about Indonesia. One came from a business executive who has spent decades operating in the Southeast Asian nation. His broad assessment was that Indonesia is still too important to ignore....

Opinion, Danantara, Indonesia

Niger, Mayahi, Village of Koren Habdjia. At the village health centre supported by UNICEF, mothers come for consultations with their children. This health centre provides care for childhood illnesses, maternal health, and pregnant women. It treats children for malnutrition and...

Africa, Climate Change, Crime & Justice

UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese presents her latest report before delegates at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland on 23 March 2026. Credit: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP By Andrew Firmin LONDON, Jun 10 2026 (IPS) For a...

Active Citizens, Aid, Armed Conflicts

GA During NPT Review Conference. Credit: Jonathan Granoff By Jonathan Granoff NEW YORK, Jun 10 2026 (IPS) Martin Luther King Jr. , when he received the Nobel Peace Prize, reminded us of “The fact that most of the time human...

Armed Conflicts, Global, Headlines

John Bolton is expected to plead guilty to a single count of retaining classified information as part of a plea deal with the Justice Department, which charged him in October 2025 with 18 counts of mishandling sensitive information. According to the...

John-bolton, Enewsletter, David-petraeus

Buried deep inside a 192-page intelligence authorization bill is Section 622, titled “United States-Israel Intelligence Sharing Enhancement.” It would require the president, acting through the director of national intelligence and as necessary the secretary of defense, to “expand and enhance...

Intelligence, Congress, Benjamin-netanyahu

As it pushes for a record breaking $1.5 trillion defense budget, the Department of Defense wants lawmakers to water down restrictions on the infamous revolving door between the Pentagon and industry, inviting more undue influence from the defense sector. The DoD’s...

Pentagon-budget, Ndaa, Congress

Since the beginning of the Iran war, Saudi Arabia has been grappling with how best to respond to the expansion of Middle East conflict. Having issued condemnations of Tehran’s strikes on the kingdom – and other Gulf states – in...

Middle East, Block 2, Iran War

Volodymyr Zelensky recently suggested that the war in Ukraine was beginning to turn in his country’s favor. The Ukrainian president insisted that Russia was “losing the initiative each day.” These comments came days after Zelensky wrote an open letter to...

Ukraine War, Block 2, Drone Warfare

INDIA bloc meeting of opposition parties was held in New Delhi on June 8, 2026 (Source: News on AIR) The Pandora’s box has been opened within the month of the stunning election results in the Kerala state assembly election as...

Articles, Kerala politics

By: Ben Raiwin Kiatkwankul - - - - Three feasibility studies, zero committed foreign capital, 349 years of revivals. Thailand’s Land Bridge is back on the cabinet agenda. Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul’s cabinet has directed a fresh 90-day review, to...

InSight Crime, a thinktank which claims to fuse “investigative journalism with academic rigor,” accuses Nicaragua’s government of “hiring assassins” to hunt down and kill opponents abroad. This bold accusation is based on no more than “circumstantial” evidence, strongly suggesting political...

Uncategorized

Since January 2026, when the intensification of U.S. policies aimed at suffocating the Cuban people began, I have had the opportunity to travel to the island three times. Each time I return with my heart a little more broken, but...

Democracy & Governance, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Cuban Embargo

PARIS, (PIC) France announced on Tuesday a new package of sanctions targeting Israeli officials and settlers over expanding settlement activity and settler violence in the occupied West Bank, in coordination with Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Norway. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël...

News, France, Israeli crimes

RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Tuesday evening detained Mustafa Hussein Abdel Karim Bani Odeh, 52, a former Palestinian prisoner from the town of Tammun, southeast of Tubas, while passing through the Ein Siniya checkpoint near Ramallah in the...

News, Arrests, Israeli violations

Come Israele si avvale di altri paesi della regione per raggiungere i propri obiettivi militari in Iran. Segue nostro Telegram . Lo scorso dicembre, Israele è diventato il primo Paese a riconoscere formalmente il Somaliland, una regione autonoma...

Italiano, Iran, Israel

The United States is led by a sociopath who stands at the head of an American political economy and foreign policy in his image. Michael Hudson’s Killing the Host , The Collapse of Antiquity and The Destiny of Civilization are...

Finance, Geopolitics, Article

How we can stop runaway climate breakdown while tackling global inequality is perhaps the great challenge of our epoch. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michae l Roberts’ blog Picture by...

Climate Crisis, Finance, Inequality

President Xi Jinping has, over the years, drastically cut short his foreign travels. More like Chairman Mao, he prefers to host world leaders in Beijing. His foreign visits that averaged about 14 trips a year during 2013–19 fell to one...

Opinion, Block 2, Kim Jong Un

The weekend exchange of strikes between Iran and Israel has put US President Donald Trump under even more domestic and international pressure to end the unpopular war he launched with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu more than three months ago....

Opinion, 1979 Iran hostage crisis, Benjamin Netanyahu

Xi Jinping's visit to Pyongyang and new agreements with Moscow have led to developments that, according to supporters of closer regional cooperation, make Western sanctions increasingly ineffective and potentially counterproductive for the United States. North Korea Develops Rapidly as a Nuclear...

World

Artificial intelligence (AI) has sharpened the tools of espionage and deception on all sides, giving spy agencies new power to identify and groom human sources while also arming adversaries with synthetic identities and deepfakes that are increasingly difficult to detect....

World, Block 3, China

While in Wisconsin, President Donald Trump sat down with NBC News to discuss the ongoing U.S.-Iran military conflict. During the interview it was clear that Trump is fundamentally misreading the situation inside Iran. When asked about negotiations with the...

War & Peace, Iran, Mojtaba Khamenei

The 2026 World Cup will see more Arab teams than ever participate, with a total of eight teams and 208 players selected. Arab teams have featured often - but not frequently - in nearly 100 years of World Cup tournaments....

Sports

The financing required to build resilient water and sanitation systems continues to leave governments overburdened with debt repayments, excessive borrowing costs, and illicit financial flows. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo/IPS By Mavis Owusu-Gyamfi and Francisca Tatchouop Belobe Jun 9 2026 (IPS) Somewhere...

Africa, Development & Aid, Headlines

As vehicles become increasingly software-defined, automotive semiconductor suppliers face growing pressure to deliver higher compute performance while maintaining strict requirements for power efficiency, reliability, and long-term product support. Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), electrification, … com/eda/370099-customized-foundation-ip-enables-the-next-generation-of-automotive-compute/">Customized Foundation IP Enables the...

Automotive, EDA, FinFET
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