It may sound hard to believe, but the almost trillion-dollar US military is struggling to fight cheap drones in its war with Iran. Iran has built a simple drone, the Shahed, with a motorcycle-type engine, loaded it with explosives and...
Soft power is notoriously hard to quantify, but it’s difficult to argue that global soft power has been shifting steadily toward East Asia in recent decades. A few years ago, I wrote a post about how South Korea became a...
There is a certain grim symmetry to watching Washington, in the spring of 2026, once again flailing about in the Persian Gulf — blockading Iranian ports, rattling sabers over a strait it cannot fully control and dispatching delegations to Islamabad...
Even as U.S. President Donald Trump vows to usher in a “new dawn” for Cuba, possibly through military force, his administration is pursuing high-level diplomatic talks that seem to be producing some concrete results. Over the weekend, the New York Times...
In a sign of mounting pressure on European leaders over Israel’s violence in occupied Palestinian territories and beyond, more than a million EU citizens have called for suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement via a European Citizens' Initiative — a...
A two-year-old speech by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in which he suggested that Turkey should take a more assertive posture toward Israel, recently recirculated online as if it were a fresh threat of military attack against Israel. Pro-Israel X...
By: Tim Daiss - - - - Japan’s recent offer of US$10 billion in loans to Southeast Asian countries to secure oil supplies comes at a moment of heightened market anxiety. Oil prices have spiked to multi-year highs amid Middle...
A top envoy to US President Donald Trump has asked FIFA to replace Iran with Italy in the upcoming World Cup, The Financial Times reported on Wednesday. The plan is an effort to repair ties between Trump...
Britain and France have agreed a new three-year deal to stop undocumented migrants making the risky journey across the English Channel, according to a French interior ministry roadmap seen by AFP on Wednesday. Under the deal, France pledged...
Iran vowed on Wednesday not to reopen the Strait of Hormuz so long as a US naval blockade remained in place despite a ceasefire extension, as it announced the seizure of two ships trying to cross...
Gaza's civil defence agency said an Israeli airstrike targeted a group of civilians in a northern part of the Palestinian territory late on Wednesday, killing five people including three children. Gaza remains gripped by daily violence despite a 10...
According to Israel’s new death penalty law, Palestinian children, like adults, could, in practice, find themselves facing the gallows. This might take some by surprise, or even be dismissed as an exaggeration. Sadly, it is neither. The death penalty law,...
As a candidate for president, Donald Trump infamously promised to end endless wars and be the president of peace. In office, President Trump has launched illegal regime change wars in Iran and Venezuela; bombed at least five other countries; threatened...
If the objective of the U.S. war upon Iran is to ensure that that country does not develop nuclear weapons, that goal was attained more than a decade ago through a far different approach than the one now being followed...
The Israeli military said it apprehended and returned dozens of Israelis who had briefly crossed into Syria on Wednesday, with Israeli media reporting that the group were activists from a settler organisation. The military said around 40 people gathered...
An Israeli airstrike killed a Lebanese journalist and wounded another on Wednesday while they were working near the border with Israel, according to their employer and rescuers. The civil defence agency's press office said rescuers were "able to recover...
Turkey is making efforts to revive negotiations between Russia and Ukraine and bring together the leaders of the warring sides, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in a meeting in Ankara,...
Europa o Eurasia? Cosa sceglierà Nikol Pashinyan? E cosa dovrebbero fare le organizzazioni eurasiatiche se optasse per Bruxelles? Segue nostro Telegram . Recentemente, la Russia ha chiarito all’Armenia la necessità di una scelta esistenziale: Unione Economica Eurasiatica o Unione Europea....
A second French soldier died on Wednesday from wounds suffered in a weekend ambush against UN peacekeepers in Lebanon blamed on Hezbollah , President Emmanuel Macron said. A first soldier, staff sergeant Florian Montorio, was shot dead in the Saturday...
President Donald Trump has claimed victory in the war in Iran even before the conflict is over. But despite the killing of the country’s leader and seriously degration of its military, there is an argument being made that the Islamic...
NEW YORK, (PIC) The Executive Board of UNESCO, at its 224th session, unanimously adopted a resolution concerning the follow-up on the implementation of the organization’s decisions regarding the situation in the Gaza Strip. The resolution highlighted the damage inflicted on hundreds of...
BEIRUT, (PIC) Lebanon’s National Council for Scientific Research has recorded damage to and destruction of more than 62,000 housing units as a result of Israeli operations during six weeks of war with Hezbollah, a Lebanese official said on Wednesday. During a press...
To figure out the future trajectory of Europe, Bulgaria is as good a place as any to start. On the edge of the European Union bordering Turkey and the Black Sea, the Balkan nation is, as of 2014, one of the...
The Palestinian health ministry said Israeli settlers shot dead Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, the third victim of deadly gunfire in two days. The ministry said 25-year-old Awda Atef Awawdeh was killed by settler gunfire...
Japan’s Machida Zelvia advanced to the final of the Asian Champions League Elite by beating Shabab Al-Ahli of the United Arab Emirates 1-0 on Tuesday. Yuki Soma's first-half goal secured a meeting with defending champion Al-Ahli of Saudi...
Yes, it is that time of year again, the 2026 TSMC Technology Symposium kick-off event in Silicon Valley. TSMC has never been in a better position to forecast the future of semiconductor technology and the industry itself. TSMC closely collaborates...
The Israeli Knesset voted 62 to 48 to approve a law that makes the death penalty the default punishment for Palestinians convicted in military courts of killing Israelis. The result is a system of capital punishment...
An Algerian bookshop that was raided and temporarily shut by police over a signing by the sociologist Fatma Oussedik has reopened ahead of schedule, the book's publisher said in a statement on Tuesday. The publisher, Koukou Editions, had said over the...
Armed men burst into the apartment where student Mohamad lived with his Alawite family in the Syrian city of Jableh on March 7 last year and forced the 20-year-old and his father to lie face down as they...
The dollar edged up against the euro on Wednesday on lingering concerns about the ongoing US-Israeli war with Iran , even after President Donald Trump extended the ceasefire to give Tehran more time to present a unified proposal for...
Israeli attacks on Lebanon during its latest war have damaged or destroyed more than 50,000 housing units in the country , a government estimate found on Wednesday. "Within about 45 days (of the war), we had 17,756 destroyed housing...
There are no children in the Afghan border village of Barikot, where the school has been smashed by shells and the playground sits deserted after weeks of war with Pakistan. Almost all of the 8,000 residents fled after the conflict erupted...
A new report finds the U.S. has fired at least 45% of its critical Patriot missile interceptors, and over 53% of its THAAD interceptors during its war on Iran. The report, released by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)...
Iran's judiciary denied on Tuesday that eight women arrested over protests that shook the Islamic republic this year were at risk of execution, after US President Donald Trump urged Tehran to release them to help negotiations. Rights groups have...
Sitting along the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Philippines’ volcanic geology features porous rocks that allow water to move easily underground and flow into its ocean. These hidden flows – called submarine groundwater discharge – are known to maintain balance in...
Tehran has refused to take an official position after US President Donald Trump’s announcement of an extension of the US ceasefire with Iran, while conditioning further negotiations on the lifting of the US naval blockade. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...
Trump’s tariff war will be seen in retrospect to be peanuts to the threatened strike on China’s supply lines. Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Strategic Culture online journal...
The “Total Shutdown Tuesday” protests opposed a sharp fuel price hike, raising petrol prices by over 16 percent and diesel by more than 24 percent. The hike, driven by disruptions to global oil supplies by the US-Israeli war against Iran,...
WEST BANK, (PIC) A Palestinian young man was martyred on Wednesday evening, succumbing to serious injuries from live bullets fired by armed Jewish settlers during their terrorist attack on the town of Deir Dibwan, east of Ramallah in the occupied West...
Signatories of the open letter supporting the boycott from No Music For Genocide include Brian Eno, Massive Attack, Paloma Faith, Paul Weller, Kneecap, Hot Chip, Of Monsters and Men, IDLES, Primal Scream, Sigur Rós, Young Fathers, Mogwai, Black Country New...
Top British universities been revealed to have paid a private firm to "spy" on pro-Palestine protesters and academics, drawing backlash from activists. Twelve institutions, including the University of Oxford, King's College London (KCL), University College London, the London School...
An Italian Constitutional Court ruling has opened the way for the enforcement of compensation linked to the Distomo massacre , marking a significant development in the long-running legal battle over German war reparations. Read Article HERE The post...
Israeli involvement in the delivery of humanitarian aid to a besieged south Lebanon border village has raised questions over the relationship between Israel and the organisation behind the shipment, following an investigation by The New Arab. The...
There will not be a negotiated settlement to the Iran war. It will have to be fought out to a conclusion, whatever that might be. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: Screen Grab I’ve written on...
As of my recent posts on quantum computing (QC), superconducting QC is the leading technology contender, exemplified in systems from IBM, Google, and Fujitsu. Other technologies such as ion trap, neutral atom, photonic and quantum dot have generally been viewed...
Safe cities cannot be built on a foundation of exclusion. They are built on trust, dignity, and the right to exist without fear. Credit: Shutterstock By ElsaMarie D’Silva and Harish Iyer MUMBAI, India, Apr 22 2026 (IPS) On 30 March,...
Without understanding the astonishing network of power exercised by the United Arab Emirates you would have no idea why the UAE was hit particularly hard by Iran in recent weeks. Nor would you know what fuels chaos from Libya to...
The United States blocked a plane carrying nearly $500 million in banknotes from delivering the cash to Iraq, US media reported on Tuesday, piling pressure on Baghdad to fight Iran-backed groups. The Wall Street Journal reported that...
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