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As a retired Metropolitan police detective, I’m alarmed that senior officers might ban Palestine marches in central London in the wake of the Golders Green stabbings. Every march I have attended as a citizen has been nothing but peaceful....

The top US diplomat, Marco Rubio , went to the Vatican on Thursday for talks with the first US pope, Leo XIV, against the backdrop of sharp tensions between the White House and the Vatican. The US secretary of state's...

Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su This article is adapted from a speech given at the Ron Paul Institute Spring Conference in Lake Jackson TX on 25 April 2026. I’m going to begin...

The Trump administration is framing its barrage of sanctions announced on April 24, targeting the Hengli Petrochemical refinery in Dalian and 40 associated shipping entities, as a masterstroke of pre-summit leverage. As President Trump prepares to meet President...

Britons voted Thursday in local elections set to heap more pressure on beleaguered Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer and energise the rise of hard-right and left-wing populists. The ballot across Scotland, England and Wales is Starmer's biggest electoral test...

A group of prominent Irish footballers, musicians and actors have joined a growing campaign urging the Republic of Ireland to boycott upcoming Nations League matches against Israel later this year over the war in Gaza. The campaign, organised by...

Iran announced it was reviewing the latest American proposals on ending the war, as US President Donald Trump threatened the country with a new wave of bombing unless a deal is reached that includes reopening the crucial Strait...

Malawian Farmers harvest sweet potatoes in fields where no chemicals have been used. Credit: Albert Khumalo By Benson Kunchezera and Tanka Dhakal LILONGWE & VIENTIANE, May 7 2026 (IPS) For decades, pesticides have been a quiet pillar of Malawi’s agriculture,...

The Yerevan summit appears not as a milestone but as a failed maintenance operation, a necessary rite to reaffirm the plausibility of a project whose practical limits have long since been reached. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and...

Beneath a grand dome, pierced by arched windows of stained glass, where ceramic tiles carry the curves of Arabic calligraphy, and white marble columns frame the recesses, accented by intricately carved mashrabiya , the Arab Hall of Leighton...

Malawi’s parliament has opened a third formal investigation into the June 2024 military aircraft crash that killed former vice-president Saulos Chilima and eight others , renewing scrutiny of aviation oversight and unresolved questions left by two earlier...

Across the US, Muslims are running in the 2026 midterms at the federal, state and local levels, a change from a decade ago, when it was far less common. Some are running for re-election, while others are aiming to hold...

US President Donald Trump’s decision to pause an operation aimed at guiding ships through the Strait of Hormuz reportedly came after pressure from Gulf allies and threats to restrict US military access to regional bases, according...

US President Donald Trump’s decision to pause an operation aimed at guiding ships through the Strait of Hormuz reportedly came after pressure from Gulf allies and threats to restrict US military access to regional bases, according...

Concerns are growing in Israel over a possible agreement being shaped between the United States and Iran , driven mainly by three issues linked to Iran's missile programme, Tehran's regional allies, particularly Hezbollah , and the failure to...

Beneath a grand dome, pierced by arched windows of stained glass, where ceramic tiles carry the curves of Arabic calligraphy, and white marble columns frame the recesses, accented by intricately carved mashrabiya , the Arab Hall of Leighton...

The Palestine Coalition on Wednesday filed a complaint against the Metropolitan Police Commissioner over two media interviews, in which he accused the groups of antisemitism. The complaint, sent to the London Mayor's Office, was made regarding Mark Rowley's...

GAZA, (PIC) When a child survives an Israeli bombing in Gaza, it does not mean they have emerged unharmed. They may remain alive, but the world they knew: the home, the school, the neighborhood, the mother’s voice in the morning, and...

The Israeli army has blocked local authorities and reserve liaison officers in northern settlements and towns from accessing the Shual system, a key platform used to identify the direction of rockets launched from Lebanon and predict likely impact...

As the US and Iran battle for dominance in the Strait of Hormuz, recent remarks by Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth have taken a bizarre turn. At a Tuesday press conference at the Pentagon , a journalist asked...

Le tensioni tra il potere legislativo e quello giudiziario stanno aumentando. Segue nostro Telegram . Il rifiuto da parte del Senato brasiliano della nomina di Jorge Messias alla Corte Suprema Federale segna un punto di svolta significativo nelle dinamiche istituzionali...

Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani has pointed to a strong possibility that the United States and Iran could reach a diplomatic solution , despite the publicly declared differences between them. In...

In Guinea-Bissau, malaria continues to place a heavy burden on families and health systems, underscoring the need for prevention, early treatment and stronger development-led responses. Credit: UNDP Guinea-Bissau By Michael Adekunle Charles and Aissata De NEW YORK, May 7 2026...

Students at GH Rusheshe School in Kucikiro District, Rwanda, identified through the monitoring system through the ZERO Out of School initiative. By Noor Muhammad Ansari DOHA, Qatar, May 7 2026 (IPS) In 2024, 273 million children, adolescents, and youth were...

Jenin / PNN/ The Palestinian Ministry of Finance and Planning (MoFP), together with the Palestinian Water Authority (PWA), the European Union (EU), the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the German Development Bank (KfW), and the Jenin West Water Utility (JWWU), signed...

President Donald Trump abruptly paused “Project Freedom” — a US military operation to escort ships through the Iranian-blockaded Strait of Hormuz — roughly 36 hours after it began. According to NBC News , the reversal came after significant backlash...

The most explosive allegation against Israel is also the most emotionally painful one. A state founded in 1948 as a refuge for Jewish survivors of Adolf Hitler’s terror is committing genocide today, contend a range of historians, including Holocaust scholars,...