Following the dramatic shifts on the battlefields of Myanmar’s civil war in recent years, 2026 was always likely to be a year of decision. By the halfway mark of early July,the broad implications of “decision” have become increasingly clear: Crunch...
A Tunisian appeals court has sentenced imprisoned opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi to three years in prison and fined him for his decision to donate the prize money from a Gandhi Peace and Tolerance Award to the Tunisian Red Crescent, in...
Over the past two decades, China’s rise as the world’s largest bilateral creditor has profoundly altered the global development finance landscape. Yet international scholarship on Chinese sovereign lending — especially to Africa — remains trapped in a binary: Western-centric “debt-trap...
BRUSSELS (PNN) – By Fairoz Odeh – Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa signed a new financial support agreement with the European Union on Friday during a ceremony with European Commissioner for the Mediterranean Dubravka Šuica, on the sidelines of the High-Level...
Nablus / PNN/ As brightly coloured kites climb above Burin, a Palestinian village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, children race across a sun-baked hillside, watching their creations soar into the sky. Behind them, the red-roofed houses of Har Bracha, an Israeli settlement,...
Egypt and Turkey have agreed to expand defence and security cooperation across various fields, building on improved political relations. During a closed-door meeting in Ankara on Monday, the defence ministers of both countries discussed ways to advance bilateral defence industry projects...
The United States on Monday announced a sweeping campaign against the International Criminal Court (ICC) that could include further sanctions and other measures, accusing it of posing "an intolerable threat to US sovereignty." The Trump administration said it would pressure other...
Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council announced on Monday, 13 July, that it had recovered 375 kilograms of gold as part of a corruption case involving detained Deputy Oil Minister Adnan Al-Jumaili, who remains under investigation. The announcement comes as Iraqi authorities persist...
As of July 13, traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has slowed down significantly. According to Kpler data, only six oil tankers were able to pass through the strait on July 12. LNG carriers, meanwhile, made no transits over the...
Welcome, Here are the key updates of the day: - US President Donald Trump said a US blockade will be reimposed on Iran, and Washington will "become the guardian" of the Strait of Hormuz for a whopping 20 per cent fee. - - For...
Quiet service and a long-term vision for upcoming generations were the hallmarks of a little-known yet important Islamic teacher in the United States who passed away this week. Yahiya Emerick may not be a household name, but it is likely...
The Israeli army wiped out the family of Hamas military commander Mohammed Mahmoud Shabana from Gaza's civil registry after an airstrike killed his wife and five children in a displacement camp in southern Gaza. The strike, which hit a tent sheltering...
Damning evidence of the culture of Britain’s special forces, from their training camps in Herefordshire to the battlefields of Afghanistan, was released on Tuesday. It was disclosed by the judge-led inquiry set up in the wake of detailed reports of unarmed...
Aerial view of the Port of Dubai Emirate located in Jebel Ali district, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Credit: WikiMedia/Imre Solt By Maximilian Malawista UNITED NATIONS, Jul 14 2026 (IPS) Despite the importance of international trade as an engine for economic growth and development,...
JAKARTA – The annual Indonesia-Singapore Leaders’ Retreat, held at Merdeka Palace in Jakarta on July 6, was more than a routine diplomatic exercise. With Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto and Singapore’s Prime Minister Lawrence Wong presiding, the summit marked the full...
By Anis Chowdhury SYDNEY, Jul 14 2026 (IPS) Philippines was the most advanced Southeast Asian country with the highest per capita GDP until about the early 1960s. Its per capita GDP in purchasing power parity terms were about the same as South...
strait-of-hormuz-3-1024×536 The United States, according to Donald Trump’s letter to Congress, has started a new war with Iran. Apparently no one told the Orange Man that the US does not have enough weapons in its arsenal to pursue a campaign that...
Opening his new Presidential Center in Chicago, Barack Obama once again gave eloquent expression to his faith in the fundamental American values of democracy and community. Yet, a decade after his presidency, he has still not published his promised second volume...
As the establishments of both major parties remain firmly wedded to Washington’s foreign policy consensus, particularly on U.S.-Israel relations, hard ideological factions on the right and left now seem willing to work together to present new challenges to that unanimity. Exhibit...
Seventy-nine years ago this month, President Harry Truman signed the National Security Act , which quickly morphed into today’s metastasizing, often abusive, national security state. With the stroke of his pen, Truman blessed the creation of the National Security Council to...
For all practical purposes, the US-Iran Memorandum of (Mis)Understanding is over. The dispute over how to manage the Strait of Hormuz in the interim has pushed the two sides back into open war. But to what end? There is little reason to...
The Ukrainian military is steadily replacing dangerous frontline tasks with ground robots. In April, President Volodymyr Zelensky ordered the military to field at least 50,000 unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) in 2026, calling them “the next big step” in saving soldiers’ lives. Ihor...
On June 21, in the hills of Hpapun Township in Karen State, the commander of the junta’s Light Infantry Battalion 19, Major Kyaw Min Thant, was killed by the bodyguard he had personally chosen from his own ranks — a...
US President Donald Trump’s whimsical and profoundly ill-advised war against Iran has shredded the US reputation for probity. Trump committed a huge strategic blunder. The global consensus views the current crisis as an artificial emergency, and US allies are now...
By: Kalimullah Hassan - - - - As widely expected, Malaysia’s Barisan Nasional la st weekend swept to a resounding victory in elections in the populous southern state of Johor across the strait from Singapore, taking 48 of 56 seats and leaving its rival, Anwar...
The United States launched a fresh salvo of strikes against Iran early Tuesday, marking a new escalation in the resumption of hostilities, even as US President Donald Trump said a deal with Tehran was still possible. "We're going to hit them...
Thanks to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his Make America Healthy Again tribe, seed oils have been getting a lot of unwanted attention. The MAHA types despise them. Despise is not too strong a word. Cate Shanahan, a central MAHA...
The senator died Saturday night of an aortic dissection, at seventy-one, in the middle of a campaign for a fifth term. His communications director cited the medical examiner’s preliminary finding: a rupture in the body’s largest artery, the consequence of...
Reprinted with permission from The Jason Jones Show substack. Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter recently offered what he apparently believed was a devastating answer to those decrying the genocide in Gaza. “Jews do not use children’s blood...
One Indian crew member was killed and eight others were wounded when two Emirati oil tankers were struck by Iranian cruise missiles in the Strait of Hormuz, the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Defence said on Tuesday , in the...
Taiwan’s government and overseas ethnic groups have raised concerns after China implemented the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress this month, warning it forces Taiwanese people to accept Beijing’s political framework and threatens minority communities well beyond China’s borders....
The Trump administration is launching an effort to dismantle what it calls the threat to U.S. sovereignty by the International Criminal Court, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday. President Donald Trump and others in Washington, such as former President...
The Iranian foreign minister on Monday mocked President Donald Trump’s announcement that he was renewing the US blockade of Iran and that he expected a 20% fee from commercial vessels for “guarding” the key waterway. “POTUS is absolutely right,” the minister, Seyed...
Four in five Americans expect the U.S. war with Iran to drag on for an extended period, according to a Reuters /Ipsos poll conducted as fighting escalated and President Donald Trump declared a blockade of Iranian shipping in the Gulf. The...
Today’s top items: 1. Xi to speak at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) - Xi will be the keynote speaker at the WAIC in Shanghai Friday. That is an upgrade for the conference as in prior years the most senior...
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will travel to Algeria next week for an official visit aimed at ending years of tensions between the two countries over the Western Sahara dispute , his office said on Monday. The visit on 20 July...
LONDON, (PIC) Pro-Palestine activists raised the Palestinian flag on Tower Bridge in London on Monday, calling for the immediate release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, who has been held in Israeli custody since 2024. Participants...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) Fadwa Barghouti, the wife of imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, said the Israeli Prison Service has issued a new incitement report targeting her husband, describing it as part of ongoing efforts to persecute him. She said the report coincides with...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces expanded their raids and military operations across several areas of the West Bank and Occupied Jerusalem on Monday, triggering confrontations with Palestinian residents. Clashes broke out in the Al-Arroub refugee camp, north of al-Khalil, where...
La Corte di giustizia dell’Unione Europea ha esteso il divieto di diffusione dei contenuti di Russia Today anche ai siti gratuiti e non commerciali. Dietro il linguaggio della sicurezza, emerge una verità sempre meno occultabile: l’Occidente censura mentre predica libertà. Segue...
Accellera Systems Initiative invites the design and verification community to join us at the 2026 Design Automation Conference for a focused technical luncheon, “ Embracing AI for Advanced Design and Verification ,” on Tuesday, July 28, from 12:30–1:45 p.m. at...
The Palestinian Authority's survival now depends on emergency financial support from Arab states as Israel continues withholding vital tax revenues, an expert has told The New Arab , after President Mahmoud Abbas requested the Arab League activate a regional financial...
ALBAWABA- U.S. President Donald Trump has formally notified Congress of his decision to resume military pressure and sanctions against Iran, including the reinstatement of what he described as a targeted "Iranian blockade" in the Strait of Hormuz, as regional tensions...
Israel’s decision to provide more than $1.3 million in funding to a settler organisation sanctioned by the UK will embolden attacks on Palestinians and accelerate the annexation of the occupied West Bank , a leading Israeli human rights organisation has...
Fantasy stuff, but what it does achieve is undermine Western opposition to Iran charging for safe passage in the Strait. Read the article HERE . The post Al Jazeera – Trump says US will become ‘guardian’ of Strait of Hormuz and collect...
The Iran war is starting up again because the United States wants control over the Strait of Hormuz, but the same challenges in achieving that before the ceasefire still exist today. Trita Parsi is the co-founder and Executive Vice president of...
The US Treasury Secretary has outlined his vision for the United States in the world, where economic coercion is to be castigated unless the US itself is the one doing the coercing. Marco Carnelos is a former Italian diplomat. He has...
It doesn’t seem to matter who is the UK Prime Minister, ‘more money for arms’ is the rallying cry of the British establishment and all must obey. Tom Blackburn is a writer from Manchester. A founding co-editor of New Socialist, he...
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