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Kurdish politician and former Iraqi foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari disclosed that the Coordination Framework recently received two direct messages from the White House explicitly rejecting Maliki's candidacy for prime minister. In an interview with — قناة دجلة الفضائية (@DijlahTv) February 16,...

Complicating security in Asia, Trumps sees China as a contingent, not a constant competitor H.Seidl Tue, 02/17/2026 - 15:01 picture alliance/dpa/HPIC | Da Qing Comment Feb 17, 2026 4 min read Complicating security in Asia, Trumps sees China as a contingent, not...

Scale of child recruitment Ramadan intensification Al-Lahabi indicates that the absence of a comprehensive national educational philosophy grounded in respect for rights and freedoms opens the door to the creation of identity-distorted generations. "When there is no comprehensive national framework, narrow narratives...

Meanwhile, the US has publicly declared its opposition to some of the basic goals in the UN’s socio-economic agenda, including gender empowerment and policies relating to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), while dismissing climate change as “a hoax” and a...

Governments convened in Rome on Monday (February 16) for a critical round of UN biodiversity negotiations, launching the world’s first global review of how countries are acting to protect nature. The sixth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI-6)...

The Munich Security Conference is underway, and both American and European politicians have taken the opportunity to lament the end of the old “rules-based” order. The problem is that the order to which they refer never truly existed. With a...

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas...

Eldar Mamedov is a Brussels-based foreign policy expert and Non-resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute. Picture by Eneas De Troya BRAVE NEW EUROPE is one of the very few Resistance Media in Europe. We publish expert analyses and reports by some of...

Serena Di Luccio is Positive Money’s EU Advocacy and Campaigns Manager. Picture by Mrb-Wind Why renewable energy is necessary for energy security Why renewable energy is necessary for industrial competitiveness Why renewable energy is necessary for social stability Conclusion: Renewables must remain a political priority BRAVE...

Nathalie Louisgrand is an associate professor at Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM). Her research focuses on French gastronomy and its transmission. The forefather of fast food A whole new business model Bouillons: back by popular demand since 2017 A back to the future phenomenon...

  CIVICUS discusses the recent protests in Iran with Sohrab Razaghi, executive director of Volunteer Activists, a Netherlands-based diaspora organisation empowering Iranian civil society. Protests triggered by economic grievances erupted across Iran on 28 December, quickly evolving into broader anti-regime protests. The...

In the mountainous coffee-growing region of Morán municipality, in Lara state, generations of campesino families have built their lives growing coffee. Steep slopes, misty mornings, and hard physical labor are part of daily life in this territory, where coffee is...

China sees opportunities in global disorder H.Seidl Mon, 02/16/2026 - 12:19 picture alliance / ASSOCIATED PRESS | Alex Brandon Comment Feb 16, 2026 6 min read China sees opportunities in global disorder US actions have limited impact on China Fishing in troubled waters Europe’s...

Aligning Chinese and international norms Progressive or performative? Recommended Towards international best practice Aerial view of the Zijin copper mine in Bor, Serbia. A Zijin representative says the guidelines can help Chinese companies investing overseas to navigate global ESG requirements and manage project risks...

By 9 a.m. on a Wednesday, Hawa Hussein Farah is already watching the temperature climb. Awake since 6 a.m., she has prepared her three children for school before walking them to class and heading to Suuq Mugdi, an open-air market...

This year Manila is chairing ASEAN. What can we expect from the new leader, well-known for its pro-US position and myriad of internal political issues? Out of order The previous ASEAN chair, Malaysia, formally ceded its position to the Philippines...

Speaking at a conference sponsored by Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and BAE Systems, Ocasio-Cortez accused the Trump administration of insufficient commitment to the US-NATO war against Russia, echoed the Trump administration’s accusations that Iran has killed “tens of thousands of protesters”...

Laura Dogu, newly appointed US envoy to Venezuela, is described by the Los Angeles Times as an appropriate choice because she “navigated crises” in Nicaragua and Honduras during periods of “social and political volatility.” What the LA Times fails to...

While many nations occasionally resort to a “state of exception” to deal with temporary crises, Israel exists in a permanent state of exception. This Israeli exceptionalism is the very essence of the instability that plagues the Middle East. The concept...

Mourners attended the funeral of one of the last leaders of Kenya's Mau Mau resistance movement in Ngorika near the Aberdare mountains. Christopher Njora Muronyo died at the age of 106, still carrying three bullets in his body from his...

Mouin Rabbani is a researcher, analyst, and commentator specialising in Palestinian affairs, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the contemporary Middle East. He is a co-editor of Jadaliyya and a non-resident fellow at the Qatar-based Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies. A...

ALBAWABA - Yuvraj Narayan was appointed as the new Group Chief Executive Officer of DP World. In addition, the new Chairman of DP World’s Board of Directors is Essa Kazim, replacing former leader Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, who was linked to...

ISIL terrorists who killed three police officers in a clash in the northwestern province of Yalova in late 2025 had previously plotted to assassinate the provincial head of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and had also devised plans...

Ian Proud was a member of His Britannic Majesty’s Diplomatic Service from 1999 to 2023. He served as the Economic Counsellor at the British Embassy in Moscow from July 2014 to February 2019. He recently published his memoir, “A Misfit...

Harald Kujat, general (ret.), was Inspector General of the German Armed Forces from 2000 to 2002 and Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, the highest military position in the North Atlantic Alliance, from 2002 to 2005 Michael von der Schulenburg worked...

Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and a winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. His website and blog can be found at www.jonathan-cook.net Cross-posted from Jonathan’s Substack Laboratory-grown PM ‘Nowhere else to go’ Target practice ‘Run...

RELATED How British intelligence destabilised democracy in Central America Latin American newspapers denounced the atrocities as United Fruit’s bidding, and students took to the streets in Honduras, Venezuela, and Cuba.  RELATED Britain’s hidden hand in Brazil’s 1964 coup d’etat Immediately...

In winning the 13th national parliamentary election, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) capitalized on a rare convergence of public exhaustion and strategic patience. Its 212-seat landslide was harvested through moments it had spent nearly two decades preparing for. At the...

WEST BANK, (PIC) A Palestinian young man sustained a bullet injury near the separation wall in northern Tulkarem, while other citizens were either detained or assaulted by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in different West Bank areas on Saturday evening. The Red...

A Palestinian NGO has denounced what it called an Israeli act of revenge after a video showed far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir overseeing the abuse of detainees in a military prison. Just days before the...

Residents who escaped violence tell of bandits riding in on motorbikes and shooting indiscriminately Armed assailants on motorbikes killed at least 32 people and burned houses and shops during raids on three villages in north-west Nigeria’s Niger state early on Saturday,...

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Saturday she believed US President Donald Trump still desires to own Greenland despite dialling back his recent threats to seize it by force. Asked at a security conference in Munich...

The United Nations is "fully committed" to piling on pressure for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan , which has been devastated by nearly three years of civil war, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Saturday. Since April 2023, the...

Lawyers group accuses Jean-Noel Barrot of spreading false information and exposing UN expert to risk of attacks after citing comments she did not make Read Article HERE Photo: Wikipedia The post Sondos Asem: French foreign minister faces criminal complaint...

In her short term as prime minister, Sanae Takaichi has shown that she has the same kind of reality distortion field that other singular political talents have. Her status as Japan’s first female prime minister, her middle-class (read: non-hereditary) background...

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar will attend US President Donald Trump's first formal Board of Peace meeting on 19 February, two Israeli officials said on Saturday. US officials told Reuters this week that Trump will announce...

Switzerland said Saturday that Oman would host talks between the United States and Iran in Geneva next week, with Washington pushing Tehran to make a deal to limit its nuclear programme. "Switzerland stands ready at all times...

Nearly 150,000 Afghans have returned from Pakistan and Iran this year, with the speed and size of the migration pushing Afghanistan deeper into crisis, the UN refugee agency said Friday. After decades hosting Afghans fleeing crises at...