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Israeli authorities have released a player on the Palestinian national women's football team following six days in detention after she was summoned by Israel's Jerusalem police, her mother told the press on Monday. Wissam Halawani said Israeli police released...

China’s deployment of the HQ-16F missile opposite Taiwan reflects Beijing’s growing concern that future wars may be fought not just across the Strait, but deep inside the mainland itself. This month, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that China...

When Indonesia’s rupiah breached the new psychological threshold of 18,155 per US dollar today (June , the currency’s lowest ever level, social stability alarm bells rang louder than at any time since the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis. Attempts to...

SANA’A, (PIC) Yemen’s Ansarullah group has announced a complete ban on Israeli maritime navigation in the Red Sea, declaring that Israel-linked vessels are considered legitimate military targets effective immediately. Ansarullah also said on Monday that it had launched a barrage of missiles...

The Israeli military bombed Iran on Monday shortly after US President Donald Trump urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to respond to an Iranian missile barrage, which came in retaliation for Israel’s earlier bombing of Beirut. “I am going to call Bibi right now...

Israel has carried out nearly 3,500 air strikes on Lebanon and hundreds of controlled explosions since the U.S. announced a ceasefire for the country on April 16, Lebanon's Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said on Monday. The US-brokered ceasefire came into...

GAZA, (PIC) Two Palestinian civilians were martyred and others were wounded on Monday morning when an Israeli airstrike targeted tents sheltering displaced families in the Mawasi area of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Information Center (PIC) reporter said...

Donald Trump’s attempt to tie an Iran peace settlement to a mandatory expansion of the Abraham Accords reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of how dramatically the Middle East has changed since the Gaza war and why old diplomatic formulas no longer...

Weebit Nano has achieved a critical milestone in the commercialization of Resistive Random Access Memory (ReRAM) technology with the successful tape-out of two customer products integrating its embedded non-volatile memory IP. One of the products has already returned first silicon...

JENIN, (PIC) The Israeli occupation army started carrying out large-scale demolitions in the village of Barta’a, southwest of Jenin in the northern West Bank, on Monday, targeting several homes under the pretext of unlicensed construction. Local sources reported that Israeli bulldozers began...

GAZA, (PIC) The Gaza Center for Human Rights condemned Israel’s decision to close Gaza’s crossings, including Kerem Shalom and Rafah, amid the military escalation between Israel and Iran, calling it another act of collective punishment against more than two million Palestinians. In...

Former Straits Times editor-in-chief Warren Fernandez writes with characteristic elegance in his latest RSIS piece, “With or Without You: The U2 Doctrine Comes to Shangri-La”, carried in The Straits Times on June 3, 2026. The piece gives cause for three...

Marine biologist Issah Seidu has found a way for Ghana’s fishing communities to earn a living – and help protect the ancient and critically endangered fish species Guitarfish are an odd-looking and ancient species, with the tail of a shark and...

African migrants say legal status offers little protection as rallies against illegal immigration gain momentum African migrants in South Africa say they are living in fear after a series of marches calling for illegal immigrants to leave reignited long-held xenophobic sentiment...

GAZA / PNN/ Four Palestinians, including a woman, were killed and several others wounded, some critically, in an Israeli drone strike northwest of Gaza City on Sunday evening. Medical sources at Al-Shifa Hospital reported that an Israeli drone fired a missile at...

On 18–19 May 2026, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid the first official visit to Norway by an Indian prime minister in 43 years — one of the most substantive stops of his broader May 2026 European tour. The trip...

Bethlehem / PNN / Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday that Israeli forces are approaching control of approximately 70% of the Gaza Strip, as military operations continue and areas occupied by the Israeli army inside the enclave expand. Speaking at...

Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodriguez will meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday after arriving in Istanbul on a surprise visit, officials said. Rodriguez, who has led Venezuela since US forces captured former socialist president...

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF launched a wide campaign of raids and arrests across the West Bank last night and at dawn Monday. In Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, Israeli forces stormed the village of Beitin and kidnaped a young...

As regular readers of this blog know, I’m pretty ambivalent about trade barriers as an economic policy. On one hand, I think targeted tariffs and other trade barriers can be used to protect strategic industries from surges in underpriced import competition, especially by geopolitical...

Hello, For those just joining us, here are the key updates: - A new round of violence erupted after Israel launched attacks on the southern suburbs of Beirut on Sunday, killing at least two people and wounding 20 others - -...

Coup maker Senior General Min Aung Hlaing’s allies want the world to believe that Myanmar’s military is “on the upswing” and “mounting a comeback” in a war that foreign media increasingly describe as “forgotten.” Recent US media coverage leans into...

Israeli military aircraft launched an aggression on western and central Iran early Monday, with explosions reported in Tehran, Tabriz, Isfahan, and Karaj. The IRGC subsequently responded with strikes on Israeli military bases. Read Article HERE The post Al Mayadeen:...

This week, while families gathered outside examination halls across China, some in red qipao for luck, 12.9 million students sat for the gaokao, the world’s largest annual standardized test. On the other side of the Pacific, American higher education is...

As social attitudes shift and concern for animal rights grows, the dog meat tradition in many parts of Nigeria is increasingly being questioned Every weekend in Lagos, 36-year-old Izien Aigbodion walks down his street with his three dogs – a poodle...

Amid global turmoil, Türkiye remains resilient. No economy is isolated from the effects of today’s geopolitical landscape, with rising energy prices and supply chain disruptions being felt worldwide. Yet the broader picture in Türkiye is one of continued momentum, with...

Indonesia’s financial markets were jolted Monday (June as the rupiah hit a new record low of over 18,155 to the US dollar and the main stock index fell 4%. Investors are rapidly dumping their rupiah-denominated assets, with foreigners...

Norway captain Martin Odegaard equalised 15 minutes from time to force a 1-1 draw with Morocco in their World Cup warm-up international on Sunday. Morocco had been ahead from the seventh minute when Brahim Diaz thundered home a shot...