Israel’s parliament passed on Monday a law mandating the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel who are convicted of lethal attacks labelled as “terrorism.” The amendment to Israel’s Penal Code bars any possibility of...
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese warned the economic shocks of the war in the Middle East would be felt for months and encouraged citizens to take public transport in a rare address to the nation on Wednesday. The address...
Inside the gynaecology clinic of Karachi’s largest public hospital, the air felt several degrees hotter. It was only 9.30am on a Friday in late February, and the windowless waiting room was already packed with women jostling for a place to...
At least nine people were killed in Israeli strikes south of Beirut in the early hours of Wednesday, while attacks also continued in southern Lebanon and parts of the country's east. Lebanon's health ministry said an Israeli raid in Jnah, a...
Britain will this week hold a meeting of about 35 countries to discuss how to reopen the strategic Strait of Hormuz which has been crippled by the Middle East war , Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Wednesday. UK Foreign...
GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 72,289 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Wednesday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...
The United States and Israeli strikes on Iran have become increasingly concerning for the world due to the risks of further escalation and the impact on energy markets. In Taiwan, however, the focus has shifted in a different direction. Rather...
Israel is lobbying the Trump administration to allow it to bomb Iran's civilian infrastructure , Israeli news media reported Tuesday amid fears in Tel Aviv that the US president is looking to find an off-ramp to the devastating...
On March 29, President Donald Trump claimed that his war against Iran had effectively brought about “regime change” in Iran, since the United States and Israel had assassinated a significant number of its most senior political and military officials, including...
Bahrain has circulated a revised UN Security Council draft resolution on protecting commercial shipping in and around the Strait of Hormuz , retaining language authorising “all necessary means” but dropping an explicit reference to binding enforcement. Shipping through the waterway,...
Newenche walked alone. He travelled more than 300 km, navigating the ragged peaks of the southern Andes and crossing a national boundary, from Chile into Argentina. Without a herd, a territory, or a mate. When the young huemul ( Hippocamelus bisulcus )...
By: Rupakjyoti Borah - - - - Takaichi’s challenge. Reuters photo Recent developments in the Middle East, with fighting breaking out between the US and Israel on one side and Iran on the other, have brought into sharp focus Tokyo’s...
Indonesia’s sweeping nickel downstreaming policy, launched in 2020, is entering a more consequential phase. Having successfully halted raw ore exports, the government is now preparing to deploy a more assertive instrument: an additional export levy on processed nickel products. Energy...
ECA Deputy Executive Secretary for Programme Support, Mama Keita. By Busani Bafana TANGIER, Morocco, Apr 1 2026 (IPS) Africa must move swiftly to harness data and frontier technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) to drive its economic growth and make the...
Il Canada cerca di prepararsi a una potenziale invasione statunitense pur rimanendo nella NATO. Segue nostro Telegram . La recente decisione del governo canadese di espandere in modo significativo la propria presenza militare nell’Artico rivela ben più di una semplice...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed different areas of the West Bank last night and at dawn Wednesday and kidnaped at least 11 Palestinian citizens from homes. According to local sources, the IOF kidnaped three young men after raiding...
Since President Donald Trump named Kevin Warsh as his choice for Federal Reserve chair on January 30, 2026, financial markets have focused on one question: Is he still the inflation hawk he once was, or is he now more comfortable...
TOKYO — In Asia, no national leader has been more effective in spinning an underperforming economy than India’s Narendra Modi. Anytime the numbers disappoint, the prime minister rolls out the latest version of his party’s ad campaigns. Most recently, this...
GAZA, (PIC) In a scene that summarizes the cruelty of displacement in the Gaza Strip, the child Lana Al-Sab lost her life while sleeping inside her tent in a displacement area in the city of Deir al-Balah, after she was run...
Declassified recently exposed how the MoD splurged £1.5bn on the failed Watchkeeper drone project. The contract was awarded to Elbit Systems and Thales, who are now profiting from a multi-million dollar contract to export Watchkeeper X drones to...
By CIVICUS Apr 1 2026 (IPS) CIVICUS discusses the presidential election in the Republic of the Congo with Ivan Kibangou Ngoy, executive director of Global Participe, a civil society action-research organisation focused on democratic governance based in Pointe-Noire. Ivan Kibangou Ngoy On...
Yemen’s Houthis claimed a third missile attack on Israel on Wednesday as Israeli strikes on southern Beirut and a nearby town killed at least eight people. The group said the attack was carried out jointly with Iran and Lebanon’s...
ANKARA, (PIC) A high-level delegation from the Hamas Movement met on Tuesday with Turkish foreign minister Hakan Fidan in Ankara City and discussed with him different issues of mutual interest. The Hamas delegation included Khalil al-Hayya, head of the Movement in Gaza,...
BRUSSELS, (PIC) The European Union’s foreign policy chief has expressed deep concern over a new Israeli law allowing the execution of Palestinian prisoners, urging Israel to abide by its obligations under international law. In a statement on Tuesday, foreign policy chief Kaja...
Secretary of State MSecretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday that the United States "is going to have to reexamine" its relationship with NATO once the war against Iran has concluded.arco Rubio said on Tuesday that the United States...
Credit: UN Photo/Pasqual Gorri By UN Development Programme AMMAN / NEW YORK , Apr 1 2026 (IPS) New estimates by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) suggest the military escalation in the Middle East, now into its fifth week, may cost...
A-10 Warthog What is Donald Trump going to say about Iran on Wednesday night? Before I layout three possible outcomes, let’s examine what Trump is actually doing in terms of some key military assets (all of this is from open...
The Financial Times reported—based on information from sources with direct knowledge of the investments—that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s long-time financial advisor invested $9.4 million with defense contractors based on inside information about the start of the war against Iran...
For 46 years, the United States styled itself as the ultimate guarantor of maritime freedom, and nowhere was this posture more rigidly enforced than in the Persian Gulf . Today, with the Strait of Hormuz closed to dollarized trade...
Thanks to its longstanding policy of not hosting foreign military installations on its territory, Egypt has been spared the Iranian drone and missile strikes its Arab Gulf neighbors have absorbed in response to the U.S. and Israeli military campaign launched...
As the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran enters a more “ dangerous and unpredictable ” phase, regional powers are scrambling to contain the fallout. With energy markets already rattled and the risk of spillover across the Persian Gulf and beyond...
Speaking in Beijing on March 26, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi of “immeasurably serious consequences” if energy and nuclear facilities are targeted amid the expanding Middle East conflict. The warning...
For all their claims of military success in their war with Iran, the United States and Israel have yet to clearly define their rationale for starting the conflict, their goals and their exit strategy. With the Iranian regime having mounted...
For years, markets have treated geopolitical tension as a one-way trade: buy dollars, sell Asia. The logic has been simple and, until now, largely reliable. Conflict pushes oil higher, capital rushes into US assets and Asian currencies weaken under the...
There is a certain dark comedy in watching Washington once again discover — after the bodies have piled up and the treasury has been bled — that the war it started cannot be won on the battlefield. The US conflict...
Why has the UK introduced a ban on student visas for four countries? Today in Focus talks to affected students in Sudan and Afghanistan, as well as our home affairs editor, Rajeev Syal In early March, with little warning, the UK...
By: Dr. David Leffler - - - - Tell Hegseth better this… …than this The conflict with Iran continues to strain military resources, elevate geopolitical risk and destabilize the Middle East. Policymakers and defense leaders face a strategic environment where...
Washington is considering ground operations as joint US-Israeli strikes impact Iran’s military and internal security forces, reportedly causing thousands of casualties. Simultaneously, Tehran has increased security recruitment efforts, deployed foreign proxy militias, and escalated executions and arrests of Iranian citizens...
At some point it is wise indeed to pay heed to the numbers – and that’s overwhelmingly true with respect to the battling narratives about the Donald’s Iran War now raging in the Persian Gulf. The fact is, the Iranian...
The origins of chess are contested, but few dispute that while the game began in India, it was the Sassanian Persian Empire that refined it into a recognizable strategic system. It was Persia that codified its language, symbolism and intellectual...
Originally appeared at TomDispatch. Can you even remember when the U.S. went to war with Iraq in 2003, when President George W. Bush announced that, “at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations...
Israel will reduce its military imports from France "to zero" in retaliation for French policies it deems hostile towards its interests, a defence ministry spokeswoman told AFP on Tuesday. "The Director General of the Ministry of Defence,...
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa said on Tuesday that his country will stay out of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran unless Syria is subject to aggression and has no diplomatic solutions. "Unless Syria is targeted by any party, Syria...
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org . On March 12, 2026, Guinea’s High Authority for Communication (HAC) announced the suspension of two news websites, Africaturemedia.com and Guineesource.com , along with their associated content-sharing platforms, for a...
This statement was originally published on rsf.org on 24 March 2026. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the armed group M23, which controls parts of eastern DRC, has used shipping containers — devoid of light and...
This statement was originally published on cpj.org on 30 March 2026. The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Ugandan authorities to immediately disclose whether they have detained journalist and activist Mukose Arnold Anthony and to ensure his safe return,...
The EU urged member states Tuesday to try to push down domestic demand for fuel and prepare to secure oil supplies , warning of potentially prolonged effects of the Middle East war on energy prices. US-Israeli attacks on...
This statement was originally published on rsf.org on 26 March 2026. Africa’s Great Lakes region is a sea of red and orange on the map of the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) World Press Freedom Index, meaning the journalists...
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