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The Lebanese health ministry said Israeli strikes on Tuesday killed eight people, including civil defence rescuers, and wounded two soldiers in the country's south, despite an ongoing ceasefire . The Israeli military, meanwhile, announced it had found and destroyed...

MENA

A new website established by the Israeli government through a contract with Trump’s former campaign manager seeks to manipulate AI platforms into denying established accounts of Hind Rajab’s killing. Israel has created nine English language websites explicitly aimed at manipulating...

Foreign Agents, Israel-Palestine, Brad Parscale

The Senate voted on Tuesday to block debate on an effort aimed at stopping President Donald Trump from taking military action against Cuba without authorization from Congress. Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla) raised a point of order on the Senate floor,...

Tim-kaine, War-powers, Congress

A New York apre la Conferenza di Revisione del Trattato di Non-Proliferazione Nucleare nel momento più drammatico dal 1986. Iran sull’orlo del ritiro, Israele fuori, New START scaduto, tutti gli arsenali in espansione. Cronaca di un’architettura che si sgretola. Segue...

Italiano, China, Iran

The United Nations on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Algoney Hamdan Daglo Musa, younger brother of the head of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and three Colombian mercenaries accused of recruiting former Colombian personnel to fight in the country. A...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) Former US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman has held the policies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responsible for what she described as a “genocide” in Gaza, accusing the United States of being complicit. In an interview with Bloomberg,...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli aggression

RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Palestine Center for Prisoners’ Studies has highlighted the Israeli authorities’ denial of essential medical assistive devices to prisoners, exacerbating their suffering and limiting their ability to cope with disabilities and various injuries. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the...

News, Israeli violations, Prisoners

GAZA, (PIC) A spokesperson for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Thameen Al-Kheetan, has urged Israeli authorities to lift all restrictions affecting basic necessities of life and allow the flow of humanitarian aid into the Gaza...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli aggression

A group of Jewish ultra-Orthodox anti-conscription protesters on Tuesday stormed the home of Israel's military police chief, barricading themselves in his garden in protest over moves to punish those who refuse to answer conscription call-ups. The move came after Israel's High...

MENA

A drone strike on the southern Sudanese city of Rabak has killed 11 people, a local hospital source told AFP on Tuesday, with a second drone strike reported further north in Khartoum state. A security source said the strike...

MENA

A Hamas operative who was killed during the recent war with Israel founded a Gaza-based charity that has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars online. The charity continues to solicit donations, including through a New York-headquartered platform. The post...

Long War Journal, News, Al Khair Challenge

A pirate attack off Somalia is the work of a new group of "opportunistic criminals", security officials said on Tuesday, complicating a threat that costs the shipping industry billions of dollars. Piracy was rampant off the coast of Somalia in the...

MENA

Oil-rich and with limited exposure to international money markets, both Iran and Russia know how to manage war/proxy-war with the political West. Ian Proud was a member of His Britannic Majesty’s Diplomatic Service from 1999 to 2023. He served as the...

Geopolitics, Article, Ian Proud

Iraq's air defence systems on Tuesday fired at a drone flying over Baghdad's fortified Green Zone where the US embassy is located, a military source told AFP . It was the first such incident in the Iraqi capital since a...

MENA

The case for South Korea hedging its relationship with the United States may have become harder to dismiss. Washington’s trade policies and the economic consequences of the US-Israeli war on Iran have raised the cost of close alignment at the...

Opinion, Block 1, Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP)

Tunisian President Kais Saied on Tuesday ordered the dismissal of Energy and Industry Minister Fatma Thabet Chiboub, ahead of a parliament meeting to review controversial draft laws on renewable energy contracts. The dismissal was announced in a brief statement...

MENA

Last month, a data analyst at financial tech giant Intuit showed up to a company Zoom call in full IDF uniform. Intuit’s products include the widely-used tax return program TurboTax. This article was originally published by Do Not Panic! The...

Big Tech, Israel-Palestine, Gaza

A Tunisian court on Tuesday rejected the provisional release of two prominent journalists jailed on financial charges, with media rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) decrying "judicial harassment" against them. Since President Kais Saied staged a sweeping power grab in 2021...

MENA

Algeria goalkeeper Luca Zidane is a doubt for the World Cup after suffering a jaw and chin fracture while playing for his club Granada in Spain's second tier. The son of former France great Zinedine Zidane was taken off...

Sports

A German journalist who went missing in Syria more than three months ago is likely detained in a prison in Damascus, a lawyer for her said Tuesday, as international calls and pressure for her release mounted. "We assume that her health...

MENA

The image of an Israeli army soldier destroying a statue of Jesus in South Lebanon with a sledgehammer garnered international media attention. However, it did not receive sufficient outrage, given its wider significance in relation to the attitude...

Perspectives

Many complex PCB designs have high data-rate signals like USB, PCIe, DDR and HDMI which call for more thorough verification methods to ensure compliance plus mitigate any signal integrity, power integrity and EMI/EMC issues. Siemens has a methodology that uses...

EDA, Siemens EDA, ddr4

Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodríguez Delcy Rodríguez said the country’s recent amnesty is ending as the NGO Foro Penal reports that 473 political prisoners remain in custody. In addition, Caracas is fast-tracking investment laws, opposition leader María Corina Machado plans...

Long War Journal, News, US-Venezuela

Footage purportedly leaked from Syria's Sednaya Prison was posted to social media on Tuesday, showing the inside of the notorious detention centre used by Syria's deposed Baathist regime. Activists say the surveillance footage shows days in the run-up to...

MENA

Two prominent leaders of Iran-aligned armed factions in Iraq , Abu Alaa al-Wala’i and Haider al-Gharawi, have recently come under renewed scrutiny after the United States placed multimillion-dollar bounties on them, accusing their groups of carrying out attacks against...

MENA

This morning, the United Arab Emirates announced that it was going to formally withdraw from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). The move comes as yet another signal of a deepening split between Saudi Arabia and the UAE on...

Oil, Saudi-arabia, Iran-war

This morning, the United Arab Emirates announced that it was going to formally withdraw from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). The move comes as yet another signal of a deepening split between Saudi Arabia and the UAE on...

Oil, Saudi-arabia, Iran-war

Children involved in the UActive visit a school in the Mykolaiv region that Russian forces destroyed. It cannot be rebuilt. Credit: UActive By Ed Holt BRATISLAVA, Apr 28 2026 (IPS) “What’s important is to make sure that you can immerse yourself...

Active Citizens, Aid, Armed Conflicts

Iran has banned the export of steel products, local media on Tuesday reported customs authorities as saying, after airstrikes targeted its steel industry in the war with Israel and the United States. Fars news agency reported a directive...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) When a survivor emerges from beneath the rubble, they do not come out alone. They carry with them a destroyed home, a silenced voice, and faces that the final moments failed to save. For this reason, the stories of...

Zionist Terrorism, Gaza Strip, Israeli genocide

British police were on Tuesday investigating a suspected arson attack on a London memorial wall that currently commemorates Iranians killed in anti-government protests in Iran. The Metropolitan Police said the attack in Golders Green in north London took...

World

Pirates appear to be taking advantage of international naval strength being diverted to Middle East Three vessels have been hijacked off the coast of Somalia in the past week, raising fears of a resurgence in piracy around the Horn of Africa,...

Somalia, Piracy at sea, Shipping industry

The main topic of talks between Maia Sandu and Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv was the "demilitarization” of Transnistria. Russia is preparing by advancing relevant legislation. Statements on Chernobyl Anniversary The President of Moldova, Maia Sandu, visited Kyiv on April 26, 2026,...

World

Ukraine and Israel traded diplomatic blows on Tuesday as President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned what he said were grain purchases from occupied Ukrainian territory "stolen" by Russia and threatened sanctions against those attempting to profit from it. Kyiv considers all...

World

After months of political deadlock, the Shiite parties that comprise Iraq’s largest parliamentary bloc named Ali al Zaidi as the country’s prime minister-designate. Zaidi, a businessman who has not previously held a government position or been publicly affiliated with a...

Long War Journal, News, Coordination Framework

Right at this moment, we are witnessing an unprecedented shift of resources from domestic investments in the United States to the military-industrial complex (aka the war machine). The only comparable period in our history was the buildup to World War II,...

War & Peace, Military-industrial Complex, Pentagon

JAFFA, (PIC) An Israeli court has extended the detention of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the Gaza Strip, without leveling charges against him, a rights group said. Abu Safiya, a pediatric consultant, was detained on December 27,...

News, Administrative detention, Husam Abu Safiya

Two years ago today , an intense heat wave engulfed much of Brazil. For five days at the end of April 2024, temperatures in the central and southern regions climbed to sweltering heights. Many affected were still reeling from another...

Americas, Environment, Health & Wellness

Middle East and North Africa military expenditure reached $218 billion in 2025, marking a near-standstill with just 0.1% growth from the previous year – a dramatic slowdown after the region's unprecedented 15% spending surge in 2024, according to...

MENA

Interpretare la rivalità israelo-turca come una semplice controversia contingente sarebbe fuorviante Segue nostro Telegram . La logica preventiva Per comprendere perché la Turchia sia progressivamente entrata nel perimetro delle preoccupazioni strategiche israeliane, occorre partire da una premessa metodologica: in Medio...

Italiano, Iran, Israel
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