The recent US-Israel-Iran conflict has confirmed a structural shift in warfare: artificial intelligence is no longer just enhancing military operations — it is compressing the time available to prevent escalation. In this conflict, AI-enabled decision-support systems processed vast streams of...
Kurds have expressed cautious support for Iraq's conscription bill . Some perceive it as an economic opportunity for youth, while others caution that it may intensify political and sectarian competition within security institutions. Parliament Speaker Haibat al-Halbousi recently expressed support...
Wars in Ukraine and the Middle East have propelled drones into the headlines. The word “drone” now stretches to cover everything from hobbyist camera rigs available on Amazon to the Predator and Reaper systems the United States has relied on...
Mangroves, reefs and coastal ecosystems are more than natural assets — they are frontline climate solutions. Across Pacific villages, including Naidiri on Fiji’s Coral Coast, these systems are helping reduce erosion, protect livelihoods and support long-term resilience. Credit: Ludovic Branlant/SPC...
After weeks of bombardments in southern Lebanon that have killed more than 2,000 people and displaced more than one million residents, Israel has announced a ten-day ceasefire with Lebanon. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however, vowed to keep Israeli troops...
Every few years, like clockwork, the idea resurfaces from the salons of Brussels and the op-ed pages of Le Monde and Der Spiegel: Europe must build its own defense architecture, a “European pillar” of security, a NATO without Washington. The rhetoric is invariably...
The sharp escalation around the Strait of Hormuz has become one of the most dramatic events in global politics in 2026, calling into question the previous principles of freedom of maritime trade and the stability of the global energy system....
By CIVICUS Apr 17 2026 (IPS) CIVICUS discusses the spread of AI-powered surveillance in Africa with Wairagala Wakabi, executive director of the Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) and co-editor of Smart City Surveillance in...
As Pete Hegseth was fighting an uphill battle to be confirmed as the secretary of defense, an experienced politico came running to whip votes: Norm Coleman, a former Republican senator from Minnesota. After shepherding Hegseth around the Hill and lobbying his...
This month marks the third anniversary of the war in Sudan. Estimates of the death toll range from 150,000 to 400,000 or more; 2025 was, according to the United Nations’ internal estimates, a particularly deadly year for civilians. The humanitarian...
Seven deaths and 15 injuries have been recorded in the past year as crocodiles move their habitats closer to human settlements • Warning: contains graphic descriptions of crocodile attacks Ng’ikalei Loito was walking out of the warm waters of Lake Turkana on...
A 58% jump in TSMC’s quarterly profit, announced on April 16, should change how investors think about the AI economy. Those numbers are not speculative, based on projections or optimistic. They’re realized profits, delivered here and now. A fourth consecutive...
Let me give you the bottomline up front… Despite positive developments in expanding the ceasefire to include Lebanon and Hezbollah, the Trump administration announced new sanctions on Iran that will end any chance of negotiations with Iran. Unless Trump reverses...
By: Xiaochen Su - - - - Build we must The 2021 bursting of the Chinese real estate bubble has generated a growing chorus of analyses comparing China’s economic trajectory today with Japan’s stagnation since the...
Lebanese Finance Minister Yassine Jaber on Thursday said his government had good meetings this week with the International Monetary Fund and remained committed to working toward a lending programme. Current events, including the Israeli war on Lebanon , had delayed...
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said Thursday his country was "ready" for a possible US attack on the communist island following months of mounting pressure from President Donald Trump. "We don't want that (confrontation) but it is our duty to be ready...
US President Donald Trump said Thursday Washington and Tehran were "very close" to a peace deal and insisted that Iran had agreed to hand over its enriched uranium, a key sticking point in negotiations. The United States had earlier threatened to...
IMF economists warned Thursday that the war in Iran could have "very, certainly severe" consequences far outside the region - especially for energy-importing countries. Countries in East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa are among the countries most affected now - and who...
Trump administration officials are discovering that a daunting number of longstanding U.S. allies and security clients are adopting hedging policies or even openly opposing Washington’s decision to wage war against Iran. That sobering reality has become even clearer over the...
In the aftermath of last week’s big meeting of the Democratic National Committee in New Orleans, supporters of the U.S.-Israel alliance have been quite content. “We’re pleased that the DNC Resolutions Committee rejected a set of divisive, anti-Israel resolutions,” the...
A ceasefire in Lebanon was announced on Thursday by US President Donald Trump, but its reality tells a very different story. The ceasefire was not the product of American diplomacy, nor Israeli strategic calculation. It was imposed – largely as...
The collapse of the U.S.-Iran talks in Islamabad this week, followed swiftly by Washington’s announcement of a maritime blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, has been widely framed as a return to the familiar patterns of...
You could say the impending stagflationary tsunami serves him right because Trumpy is an arrogant, clueless know-it-all, who basically knows practically nothing at all. At least with regard to the manifold issues of prosperity, constitutional governance and war & peace...
French Finance Minister Roland Lescure told reporters Thursday that the Strait of Hormuz needs to reopen "but not at any price," adding that G7 leaders stand ready to mitigate the war's economic fallout. Finance ministers and central bank governors...
Gaza's civil defence agency said Thursday that Israeli fire killed four people, including one child, in different locations across the Palestinian territory. Israeli violence continues despite a ceasefire in the Gaza war that came into effect on October 10. Saleh...
The top United Nations official in Sudan told AFP on Thursday that the country, facing the world's largest humanitarian crisis, has been "abandoned" as the war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)...
Nel Vecchio Continente il moltiplicarsi dei conflitti, oltre a peggiorare l’esborso per il pieno di benzina e di gasolio, accrescere lo scontrino della spesa al supermercato, lasciare a terra qualche aeroplano senza cherosene, offre l’impressione di un generale disinteresse per...
Internal immigration records from northern Malawi reveal how a little-scrutinised border crossing is being used to move migrants from East and Central Africa toward routes leading to South Africa. The documents describe a transport chain operating through the Chitipa District,...
Kinetic events and military actions continue in Gaza, including 14 violations of the fragile ceasefire by Palestinian terrorists, according to the Israeli military. The Israel Defense Forces has documented an uptick in planned attacks against Israeli soldiers in the enclave. The...
The US House of Representatives on Thursday rejected an effort to curb President Donald Trump's authority to wage war in Iran , another setback in Democrats' campaign to force Congress back into decisions over military action in the Middle...
On April 16, Syrian President Ahmad al Sharaa met with Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) commander Mazloum Abdi in Damascus to discuss advancing the integration of the SDF into state institutions, following a January agreement. The talks come amid shifting control...
The trans-Himalayan arc, a high-altitude desert landscape spanning from Leh and Lhasa to Gilgit and Thimphu, has long been romanticized as a pristine, stoic wilderness of ice and silence. Yet, today, a grittier and more urgent reality is unfolding within...
While presenting itself as a victim on the international stage, the United Arab Emirates silently entered the war against Iran on the side of Washington and Tel Aviv. From sharing data from AI-powered radar systems, to bombing Iranian civilian targets,...
Many of the National Basketball Association’s biggest stars are quietly allying themselves with the State of Israel, making official visits to the country, meeting IDF troops, and investing in its national security industry. Meanwhile, individuals criticizing Israel and supporting Palestinian...
On January 30, the leaders of the new ruling coalition of the Netherlands presented a coalition agreement, which says that the new cabinet plans to send 3 billion euros annually to support Ukraine over the next three years, and seeks...
BEIRUT, (PIC) US President Donald Trump announced on Thursday evening that a 10-day ceasefire has been reached in Lebanon, set to take effect at midnight. Hezbollah, however, has tied its commitment to the truce to Israel’s adherence to halting all military...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli authorities forced a Jerusalemite resident on Thursday to self-demolish his own home in the town of Silwan in Occupied Jerusalem. The Jerusalem Governorate reported that resident Omar Abdul Majeed Abu Rajab was compelled to carry out the...
GAZA, (PIC) Two civilians, including a child, were killed on Thursday evening by Israeli gunfire in the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, and in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. The PIC correspondent confirmed that the 9-year-old Saleh Badawi was...
The United States will blockade Iranian ports for "as long as it takes," US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday, threatening renewed strikes if Tehran does not make a deal. "If Iran chooses poorly, then they will have a...
US President Donald Trump announced in a Thursday social media post that the governments of Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a 10-day ceasefire that will begin on Thursday evening. The president also said that he would be inviting Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
Is Cuba next in line for a US attack? US President Donald Trump has repeatedly said it could be, and USA Today on Wednesday cited “sources familiar” with the matter who said that the Pentagon is “quietly ramping up” preparations to wage war on the socialist...
The volume of antidepressant, antipsychotic, and tranquilizer sales has increased in Russia, analysts told Izvestia, pointing to a continuing trend in the country's mental health landscape. In January-March 2026, Russians purchased 22% more antidepressants than during the same period last year,...
Government employees in Netherlands hold one-day national strike over pay; strikes across London involving academic staff at London Metropolitan University, passenger support staff at a London Stansted airport, bus drivers at Stagecoach and teachers at Great Ormond Street Hospital; strike...
Russia has developed a recombinant genetically engineered vaccine against dengue fever, and its clinical trials are now beginning, according to Veronika Skvortsova, head of the Federal Medical-Biological Agency (FMBA). "A recombinant genetically engineered vaccine against dengue fever has been developed, and...
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 7 April 2026. On April 5, 2026, police in Nouakchott dispersed a protest against rising fuel prices using tear gas. The demonstration, organised by the president of the Renouveau du Mouvement...
President Trump exhibits what forensic mental health experts have identified as the “Dark Triad” of personality traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy. What this represents is a constitutional emergency. The following letter was sent to the bipartisan leadership of Congress on...
The path to peace in the Middle East will be long and treacherous Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and former planner and advisor at the US State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. As an independent...
Marco Rubio speaks openly of revitalising colonialism, as allied states acknowledge the demise of the rules-based world order Marco Carnelos is a former Italian diplomat. He has been assigned to Somalia, Australia and the United Nations. He served in the foreign...
Global Voices aggregates news from independent sources around the world. Articles are filtered by sentiment to highlight constructive discourse.
Learn more about Global VoicesTrending keywords, sentiment trends and publishing activity from the last 30 days.
View Statistics