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Spain ended France's dream of a third World Cup triumph on Tuesday, taming their star-studded attack in a 2-0 victory to reach the final against England or Argentina. Didier Deschamps' men were hot favourites to lift the trophy after a string...

Sports

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday abruptly scrapped a planned 20 percent levy on ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz amid clashes with Iran, saying he would instead seek compensation from Gulf allies via trade deals. Trump said Middle Eastern leaders...

MENA

US forces carried out strikes against Iran for a fourth day in a row on Tuesday and reimposed a naval blockade to prevent ships from sailing to or from the country's ports. The military action came after US President Donald Trump...

MENA

Lebanon and Israel concluded the first day of Washington-mediated talks in Rome on Tuesday, a US official said, as Israel said it was ready to move forward with plans to withdraw from two parts of southern Lebanon . The US-brokered negotiations...

MENA

British prime minister-in-waiting Andy Burnham backed Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's controversial immigration crackdown in a parliamentary vote on Monday night. The wide-ranging bill would make it easier for authorities to deport asylum seekers and impose a "refugee tax" in return for...

World

PEN America has insisted it continues to defend Palestinian writers and regards Israel's actions in Gaza as "a genocide", after its outgoing president accused the organisation of sidelining Palestinians and resigned in protest, the organisation told The New Arab on...

MENA

The author of ‘Empire of AI’, a book about OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, discusses technology, power and sovereignty. Alessio Giussani is the editor-in-chief of the Green European Journal . He was formerly contributing editor of Eurozine (Vienna) and a...

Solutions, Alessio Giussani, Article

NATO 3.0, where European countries do the heavy-lifting of arms spending to keep the US happy, is under construction. Dr. Joseph Gerson is the president of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament, and Common Security; co-president of the International Peace Bureau; and...

Geopolitics, Article, Joseph Gerson

‘Karl Marx’s analysis of capitalism’s tendency to replace living labor with machines can help shed light on how AI take-up may develop.’ In Jacobin . Read the article HERE . The post Branko Milanović – What Marx Can Tell Us About Artificial...

Finance, Artificial Intelligence, Branko Milanovic

RAMALLAH, (PIC) Palestinian prisoner advocacy organizations, together with several former detainees, launched an international campaign on Tuesday to combat sexual violence against Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli detention facilities. The campaign was announced during a press conference at the Al-Bireh Municipal Hall,...

News, Gaza Strip, Palestinian prisoners

The Kerala Chief Minister VD Satheesan’s choice of the New Indian Express editor Santwana Bhattacharya for his first major media interview after assuming office 50 days ago comes as no surprise. Both are noted intellectuals and humanists at the core...

Articles, AI in education sector, China

GAZA, (PIC) When a residential apartment is reduced to rubble within minutes, and when a doctor leaves an operating room only to find the hospital itself under threat, the issue is no longer about abstract numbers or “collateral damage.” Israel’s assault on...

Zionist Terrorism, Gaza Strip, Israeli crimes

Sunday marked a decade since an Arbitral Tribunal at The Hague handed a near total victory to the Philippines, a U.S. treaty ally, in its maritime dispute with China. Despite the ruling, the dispute has escalated in recent years with...

China, Southeast-asia, Donald-trump

As the United States marks 250 years since its founding as an anti-colonial republic, its global power and democratic system are facing a profound crisis, according to Khalil Jahshan, executive director of Arab Center Washington DC. In an interview conducted byThe...

Analysis

England captain Harry Kane has displayed a "clear double standard" by speaking out on Qatar before the 2022 World Cup while warmly discussing Donald Trump and remaining silent on controversies surrounding this year's tournament, British-Palestinian commentator Hamza Yusuf told The...

Sports

By Vani S. Kulkarni PHILADELPHIA, Jul 14 2026 (IPS) Ask why so many Indian classrooms struggle, and the answers arrive in the language of audit: Too few trained teachers, too many vacancies, weak colleges of education and low accountability. Each of these...

Asia-Pacific, Economy & Trade, Education

It’s no secret that the climate negotiations are failing. The simple fact is that the carbon concentration of the atmosphere continues to rise, rapidly and along a pathway that threatens—but does not yet guarantee—true catastrophe. That said, there’s little agreement on...

Energy, Environment, Global Just Transition

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has condemned a new agreement between the Israeli occupation government and the northern West Bank settlement council, which greenlights 12,000 new housing units for Jewish settlers. In a statement released on Tuesday, Hamas warned of severe...

News, Hamas Movement, Israeli violations

On June 30, the U.S. Congress held its first hearings in 49 years on the Cold War-era mind control program known as MKULTRA. Prior to this latest meeting of Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s Task Force on the Declassification of...

Column, Courts & Law, Health & Wellness

BEIRUT, (PIC) Anxiety inside Lebanon’s Palestinian refugee camps is no longer limited to shrinking healthcare and education services provided by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). As calls to sideline or replace the agency intensify, refugees are...

Reports, Lebannon, Palestinian refugees

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump “acted in bad faith” when he swiftly dropped his tax return lawsuit and directed his Cabinet members to establish a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, a federal judge in Florida ruled Monday. Federal Judge Kathleen Williams of...

Courts & Law, News, Politics

- - - - Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash When Elon Musk hit trillionaire status, albeit briefly, the left went absolutely nuts vilifying him. Why? Because he was rich. Never mind that he’s made his money by defending free speech, building electric cars, making...

News

US President Donald Trump has threatened to strike Iran's Pickaxe Mountain, home to a heavily fortified underground complex linked to Tehran's nuclear programme that has not been inspected by international monitors since construction began in late 2020. Nuclear experts told The...

MENA

The following story is co-published with Luke Savage’s Substack . The recent swathe of electoral victories by the Democratic Socialists of America has provoked a predictably delicious meltdown throughout the political establishment. James Carville is apoplectic . Centrist Democrats are suddenly...

Activism, Column, Economic Justice

Syria's new authorities had exactly five days to sit with the shock of one attack before another followed . On 2 July, a bomb tore through a popular café near the Justice Palace in central Damascus, killing ten people. The day...

Analysis

Good afternoon and welcome to our new live page, where we're continuing to track developments in the region. Visit our previous live page to catch up on developments earlier today. Here are the key developments on Tuesday afternoon: • The US military has...

MENA

The sister of recently deceased US Senator Lindsey Graham has been appointed to serve the remainder of her late brother's Senate term. Darline Graham Nordone, Graham's younger and only sibling, was appointed by South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster on Monday to...

World

Political sources and others close to the Iraqi government said to The New Arab on Tuesday, 14 July, that the US administration is seriously pushing a plan to strip Iran-backed Iraqi armed factions of drones and advanced long-range missiles with...

MENA

Brasil: decadência do futebol e ascensão evangélica na seleção refletem desordem urbana e precariedade, não causalidade religiosa. Catolicismo persistente. Junte-se a nós no Telegram , X e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su Esta Copa do Mundo foi a primeira na qual havia...

Português, Brazil, Crisis

The recent visit of the Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to India marks a significant moment in the geopolitics of great powers. International politics has always been an arena of great power rivalry. Over the past few centuries, several consequential...

India, Japan, Politics

GAZA, (PIC) Fresh Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip killed at least 10 Palestinian civilians, including a woman and a child, and injured several others on Tuesday, while another citizen died of wounds from a previous strike. The Palestinian Information Center (PIC)...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli ceasefire violations

Für die Illusion eines Sieges über Russland ist Deutschland bereit, bis zum letzten Ukrainer Krieg zu führen Vor einem Tag bestellte das russische Außenministerium den deutschen Botschafter Alexander Sebastian Léonce von der Wenge Lambsdorff ein und wies ihn auf die Unzulässigkeit...

Deutsch, Germany, NATO
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