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A panel of federal judges ruled Thursday that US President Donald Trump’s sweeping 10% tariffs on most imports are unlawful, another major legal blow to the centerpiece of the Republican president’s economic agenda – which has failed to produce the manufacturing boom...

Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 100th Saudi Pro League goal on Thursday as Al-Nassr beat Al-Shabab 4-2 to move five points clear at the top of the table. The 41-year-old forward converted a Sadio Mané cross at the near post with 15...

Russia's oil and gas revenues fell sharply in January-April 2026, according to data released by the Russian Finance Ministry. Compared with the same period last year, revenues from oil and gas exports dropped by more than one-third — down 38.3% to...

In the contemporary world, rivalry among powerful countries has reached its apex, with the strongest states often competing for alliances, resources, strategic positioning, and global influence to advance their interests. Although the tactics of the powerful states have diversified, their...

An investigation based on leaked audio recordings has that the US, Israel , Argentina, and Honduras were allegedly working to spread fake news and misinformation to destabilise the governments of Latin America, including Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico . On...

On May 8, 2026, legendary television presenter, naturalist, writer and public figure Sir David Attenborough celebrates his 100th birthday. He devoted his life to showing humanity the beauty and fragility of nature. His story is both the biography of an...

In the functional verification space, Breker Verification Systems stands out for its vast and long-standing understanding and ability to solve many of the seemingly intractable complexity challenges, especially in the system space. I recently talked with Dave Kelf, Breker’s CEO,...

Two months into the war in Iran, the reasons the US gave for launching this conflict – and Washington’s minimum criteria for claiming success – now appear unintelligible. So much so that US officials are now arguing the war had...

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Tens of thousands of Palestinians performed Friday prayer at the Aqsa Mosque amid strict Israeli security measures. In a statement, the Jerusalem Governorate said that tens of thousands of worshipers had arrived at the Mosque since the early...

This sharpening convergence was on full display in early May, when the EU and Japan convened the 7th High-Level Economic Dialogue (HLED) in Brussels. The meeting reflected a notable hardening of language and intent. European and Japanese officials focused squarely...

In late April to early May, Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Penny Wong, went on a tour of East Asian countries, having visited Japan, China and South Korea. The aim of this trip was Canberra’s desire to maintain a foreign...

BEIRUT, (PIC) Israeli air strikes and artillery shelling intensified across southern Lebanon on Friday, killing a Lebanese civil defense worker and leaving dozens martyred or wounded in some of the heaviest attacks since the announcement of a ceasefire. Field sources said the...

DOHA, (PIC) Khalil al-Hayya, head of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, in the Gaza Strip, said Israel’s attempts to impose its will through assassinations and attacks on political leaders and their families “will fail,” following the assassination of his son Azzam...

A Lebanese emergency worker was killed in a targeted Israeli airstrike in the south of the country on Friday, according to Lebanese authorities. Israel has mounted daily attacks across the country in violation of the ceasefire that was supposed...

A clearly frustrated President Donald Trump appeared to threaten to use nuclear weapons against Iran, which is ironic considering he made such a big deal about the fear of nuclear holocaust in the Ukraine war conflict when he...

A Tunisian court sentenced a prominent journalist to one year in prison on Thursday, according to his supporters, after he criticised judges he said had wrongly convicted other journalists. The verdict came on the same day that the United Nations' rights...

TOKYO – Indonesian officials are working overtime to dismiss any suggestion that Jakarta is catching a whiff of 1997 in the air. But the force of their interventions to steady the rupiah tells a very different story. Bank Indonesia is hemorrhaging...

Paris will return its ambassador to Algeria and send a senior envoy to ceremonies marking a colonial-era massacre in its former colony to improve frayed relations, the French presidency said on Friday. Ties between France and Algeria have been...

In the uneasy politics of energy transition, few ideas are as seductive — or as risky — as compromise. Ammonia co-firing, now being advanced through Japan’s Asia Zero Emission Community (AZEC) at Indonesia’s Suralaya and Paiton coal plants, is one...

Iraq's oil ministry has denied US accusations against its deputy minister, who the United States hit with sanctions over alleged support to Iran as Washington escalates pressure on Baghdad to break with Iranian-linked groups. The US State Department on...

US President Donald Trump said the ceasefire with Iran was still in place despite an Iranian attack on three American destroyers in the Strait of Hormuz that increased fears Friday that the truce was faltering. The US...

The U.S. military struck two empty Iranian-flagged oil tankers on Friday that it said were seeking to violate the ongoing U.S. blockade, U.S. Central Command said in a post on X, adding that a third Iranian-flagged vessel had been disabled...

GAZA, (PIC) Israeli occupation forces on Friday continued violating the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip for the 211th consecutive day through artillery shelling, gunfire, and attacks targeting civilians in several areas across the territory. Local sources reported that Israeli tanks opened...

WEST BANK, (PIC) Israeli forces carried out a series of raids across the occupied West Bank on Friday, including arrests, while settlers attacked Palestinian property by setting a vehicle on fire and spray-painting racist slogans east of Ramallah. In Nablus, Israeli forces...

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Jerusalem resident Mohammad Mahmoud Al Abbasi began emptying his house in the town of Silwan, south of Al Aqsa Mosque, on Thursday in preparation for demolishing it himself. This was in compliance with a decision issued by the...