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Israel has launched a new electronic land registration system for the occupied West Bank ’s Area C, a move that Palestinians and rights groups warn will accelerate de facto annexation of occupied land. The system, known as the “Land...

MENA

This article was co-published with The Intercept. A company run by former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale, hired by the Israeli government to push pro-Israel views on a major conservative media network, has directed $13 million from Israel to several...

Israel, Brad-parscale, Donald-trump

- - - - Photo by Raymond Yeung on Unsplash If I’m being honest, I’m not the most responsible person in the world. I have some impulse control issues, which means I do some things without thinking...

This month , as delegates from around the world gathered at the United Nations to talk about nuclear nonproliferation, the U.S. and Russia chose to remind everyone just how much destructive power they command. On May 12, Russia staged...

Column, Courts & Law, Europe

Andrey Zvyagintsev’s “Minotaur,” winner of this year’s prestigious Grand Prix at Cannes, is the curious case of a remake that doesn’t escape its original’s orbit, and doesn’t want to. It mirrors Claude Chabrol’s 1969 erotic thriller “La Femme infidèle” (“The...

Arts & Culture, Film, cannes

South Korea’s latest Starbucks controversy is not only about a badly judged marketing campaign. It is about a recurring political habit: When public outrage gathers force, powerful actors treat collective denunciation as a substitute for due process and proportionate judgment....

Opinion, meongseokmari, Shinsegae

The immense economic and ecological risks being taken by the artificial intelligence industry have grown so impossibly large that no one — including the AI companies — has the means to gauge them. This historic boom,...

Business & Economy, Environment, News

Chips&Media CFrame60 is a next-generation frame compression hardware IP designed to address the growing bandwidth and memory challenges in modern SoCs targeting imaging, video, AI, and display applications. Unlike conventional compression architectures that prioritize either bandwidth reduction or image quality,…...

Chips&Media, IP, Bayer formats

Relatora da ONU para o Irã ignora sanções criminosas dos EUA e usa fontes imperialistas. Mandato é arma de guerra psicológica contra a revolução de 1979. Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su...

Português, Imperialism, International Law

Parents face anxious wait for updates after blaze tears through Utumishi girls academy in Gilgil, Nakuru county A fire has ripped through a dormitory at a girls’ school in Kenya’s Rift valley, killing at least 16 students. The fire broke out just...

Kenya, Africa, World news

When Shinsegae Group chairman Chung Yong-jin bowed before cameras in Seoul on May 26, 2026, it marked his second public apology in two weeks. The controversy stemmed from a Starbucks Korea promotion launched on May 18, the anniversary of the...

Northeast Asia, Block 2, Chung Yong-jin

GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has denounced the Israeli strike that killed and injured at least 30 civilians last night, calling it “a new crime” committed by the Israeli occupation army and a “renewed violation of the ceasefire agreement.” In a statement...

News, Gaza Strip, Hamas Movement

A medida que las economías de los países del BRICS continúan diversificándose y evolucionando, existe una necesidad cada vez mayor de armonizar la innovación, el crecimiento industrial y el desarrollo empresarial con los principios de equidad, sostenibilidad e inclusión. Únete...

Español, Brazil, BRICS

Shia National Movement leader Muqtada Al-Sadr announced the dissolution of the armed groups under his command, known as Saraya Al-Salam , with his armed supporters incorporating into the Iraqi state . He also called on...

MENA

Quantum gate simulation complexity explodes as qubit counts increase. One way to manage this complexity in simulation on classical computers is through use of decision diagrams in place of matrices. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst,...

Quantum Computing, bernard murphy, paul cunningham

In April, China’s National Development and Reform Commission moved to unwind Meta’s planned US$2 billion acquisition of Manus, the AI-agent startup founded in Beijing that had relocated its headquarters to Singapore in mid-2025. Meta had agreed to buy the company...

Southeast Asia, Artificial Intelligence, Block 1

BEIRUT, (PIC) At least 11 civilians, including children, were martyred in airstrikes targeting southern Lebanon at dawn Thursday, the second day of Eid al‑Adha. According to media sources, an ambulance crew from the Islamic Medical Association recovered three martyrs from beneath the...

News, Israeli aggression, Lebanon

Even after a ceasefire officially halted the US-Israel war with Iran on 8 April, the Gulf states have endured drone attacks originating from Iraq. Furthermore, there are growing indications that a large share of drones targeting these countries...

Analysis

The United Nations has placed Israel on its “blacklist” of entities suspected of committing sexual violence in conflict , placing the Israeli Prison Service and multiple other Israeli entities on the list. The UN's move follows...

MENA

A Blairite, a Brownite, a Corbynite and a Starmerite walk into a pub, and the person working behind the bar asks, “what are you drinking, Andy?” If you want a sense of Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham’s political compass, this...

Voices

The Trump administration will extend deportation protections and work permits for thousands of Lebanese nationals in the US for six months, according to a notice posted to the Federal Register on Wednesday. Some 11,000 people from Lebanon are covered...

World

For many young people in Jordan, there is a growing gap between finishing university and finding a job, with nearly 40% of youth unemployed , and even higher rates among young women, despite high levels of higher education. At the...

Society

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan took part in the Hajj pilgrimage while New York’s Zohran Mamdani participated in public celebrations this week marking Eid al-Adha , the most important festival in the Islamic calendar. Khan shared a photo...

World

When you benefit from an unjust system it can be difficult to recognize you’re living in one. It’s our job to continually point that out. By Joe LAURIA Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us:...

Editor's Choice, Colonialism, Donald Trump

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed different areas of the West Bank last night and on Thursday morning, raiding homes and kidnaping and assaulting Palestinian citizens. In al-Khalil, Israeli forces kidnaped six Palestinians and assaulted women and children during...

News, Arrests, IOF raids

Former Yemeni president Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi has died in Saudi Arabia, a source in the Yemeni presidency told AFP on Thursday. Hadi, who was in his eighties, "died in the Saudi capital following a sudden health crisis",...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) Eid al-Adha has arrived for the third consecutive year for the children of the Gaza Strip amid ongoing Israeli aggression, and an almost complete absence of manifestations of joy and rituals that were associated with this occasion in previous...

Reports, Eid al-Adha, Gaza children

Former Qatar Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy and Industry Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah died on Wednesday, 27 May, in London at the age of 74. Al-Attiyah was considered one of the leading figures behind the development...

MENA

RAMALLAH, (PIC) A horde of extremist Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian families on Wednesday in the Khalayfa area east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. Local activist Fares Kaabneh said that the settlers assaulted Palestinian families in the Khalayfa area near the...

News, Jewish terrorism, Settler crimes

The United States has reimposed sanctions on the United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese , just days after quietly lifting the measures that had targeted her over her advocacy for Palestinian rights...

World

Everything is bigger in Texas. On Tuesday, the state's closely watched primary runoff races saw important results that highlight some of the most important campaign issues of 2026 —from MAGA to AIPAC to dark money. In one of...

World

Notes from China on recent events Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Russian President Vladimir Putin’s latest trip to China highlighted a reality that many Western observers still fail to understand: the strategic...

Asia-Pacific, Russia & CIS, World

Wars in the Middle East are often decided less by what is destroyed than by what continues functioning afterward — and how quickly those systems begin to fail. That distinction has become harder to ignore in the aftermath of recent...

Opinion, Block 2, Gulf Economies

Man mano che le economie dei paesi BRICS continuano a diversificarsi e ad evolversi, cresce la necessità di allineare l’innovazione, la crescita industriale e lo sviluppo imprenditoriale ai principi di equità, sostenibilità e inclusione. Segue nostro Telegram . L’eredità del...

Italiano, BRICS, China

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s state visit to China on May 25, 2026, sent a major geopolitical and geoeconomic signal at a moment when the international system is becoming increasingly fragmented between competing power blocs. The visit, marked by meetings with...

World, Aleksandar Vucic, Belt and Road Initiative

Iran's football federation expects FIFA to facilitate multiple-entry visas for the United States for the Iranian national team ahead of the 2026 World Cup, its president said in a video broadcast by Iranian media Thursday. " FIFA is expected...

World

Credit: United Nations At a time of accelerating global crises and transformation, the question is no longer whether young people should be at the table, but how power is being shared with them. With more than 2.6 billion people aged...

Civil Society, Democracy, Featured

“Acting on instructions from President Vladimir Putin, Sergey Lavrov notified the US side that the Armed Forces of Russia, acting in response to the Kiev’s regime continued terrorist attacks on civilians and civilian facilities in the Russian territory are launching systematic and...

Guest Contributor

GAZA, (PIC) At least 10 civilians were martyred and several others were injured in an Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza City on Wednesday night. The Red Crescent said its crews recovered the bodies of 10 martyrs, including four children and...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli ceasefire violations
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