Aya waited three years before becoming pregnant with her first child. The then-21-year-old was already prepping a small room for the baby, eager to meet them. But two months into her pregnancy, Israel started its genocidal war. Israeli...
The finest backhanded compliment I receive, and the one I receive most often, is: “Good piece; I actually understood this one.” A title like the one above is, on that evidence, an act of commercial self-harm. It guarantees that many...
GAZA, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnaped three brothers while they were fishing off the coast of Gaza on Monday morning. Zakariya Bakr, head of the fishermen’s union in Gaza, said that gunboats intercepted the fishermen’s boat and took them to...
Internet access in Iran is deteriorating at an unprecedented pace, pushing the country further into digital isolation as authorities impose sweeping restrictions following the outbreak of the US-Israel war on 28 February. Hours after bombs first hit downtown...
Indonesia is entering a critical test of its fiscal resilience. Beneath the government’s optimistic narrative of a stable economic growth rate of around 5% lies a structural anomaly carrying significant systemic risks. The accumulation of central government debt, now edging...
Banknotes are now so tattered that even buses refuse to accept them, as a dollarised economy and mobile phone payments push up the cost of essentials As US troops withdrew from Somalia in the spring of 1994, a teenaged Muse Omar...
The history of the United States of America is full of violence and illegal killings of innocent people on its land and abroad. The illegal shooting at Kent State University is one of the examples. On 4 May 1970, the...
There is a familiar parlor game underway in Washington and Tel Aviv, played with renewed enthusiasm now that Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid have once again merged their parties under the banner Beyachad, and the polls are showing — as they...
The $1.2 billion renovation of the Palais des Nations was intended to reaffirm Geneva's centrality to the multilateral system. Instead, the city’s international quarter is emptying. The World Health Organization (WHO) has cut hundreds of positions . The U.N....
The Trump administration will host a new round of talks this week aimed at ending the latest warfare involving Israel and Lebanon. No new developments on the Lebanese front give reason for optimism that this round will yield an agreement that...
Although the current war with Iran dominates global attention, a more dangerous situation — between two nuclear-armed powers — continues to worsen: the confrontation between the United States and China over Taiwan. While widely recognized, this confrontation has been overshadowed...
In a new video released today by the channel Inside China Business , host Kevin Wamsley delivers a pointed critique of Western energy analysts and oil-industry insiders who predicted that China — the world’s largest importer of crude oil...
A Dutch expedition cruise ship, the MV Hondius, docked in Tenerife on Sunday after weeks adrift with three deaths and eight hantavirus cases on board. The strain involved is the Andes virus, the only hantavirus known to transmit between humans....
When President Donald Trump arrives in Beijing this week for talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the choreography will almost certainly be familiar: firm handshakes, oversized rhetoric, carefully calibrated symbolism and declarations about “historic” economic opportunities. But beneath the spectacle...
- - - - It is more in sorrow than anger that much of East and Southeast Asia perceives the US under Donald Trump to be drifting all too rapidly away. By default, the primary beneficiary is China, though there...
Conflicts in the Middle East are increasing dangers for whales off South Africa by shifting sea traffic into their habitats and heightening the risks of collision, researchers told news agency AFP . The rerouting of shipping around...
The UK and France will on Tuesday host a multinational meeting of defence ministers on military plans to restore trade flows through the Strait of Hormuz , the British government said. The announcement came hours after Iran warned London and...
Last week, on May 5, 2026, President Trump told a group of young children in the Oval Office that “we have to make a journey down to Iran to take the nuclear weapon. They would have had a nuclear weapon within...
La tradizione strategica cinese subordina la guerra alla stabilità politica, alla legittimità e alla ricerca dell’armonia, mentre la concezione statunitense moderna ha trasformato la forza militare nello strumento ordinario della propria egemonia globale dal 1945 a oggi. Segue nostro Telegram...
Last month, Nexteer auto parts workers in Saginaw, Michigan voted down a tentative agreement presented by the UAW bureaucracy by more than 96 percent. The reaction from the shop floor to a new TA brought by the union last week...
US President Donald Trump on Sunday branded Iran's terms for ending the Middle East war "totally unacceptable," raising the likelihood of renewed conflict after weeks of negotiations. Iran had responded to Washington's latest peace proposal earlier in the day,...
Matt Crowley is Chief Executive Officer of Scintil Photonics. A physicist by training, Matt built his career transitioning advanced semiconductor technologies from development to volume manufacturing. Before Scintil, he led MEMS technology company Vesper Technologies to high-volume production and through...
1st Lt Kendrick Lamont Key Jr was participating in largest military exercise among US, Nato allies and African nations A search team recovered the body of a US soldier who went missing near a cliff during a training exercise in Cap...
Iran's imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi has been moved to a hospital in the capital, Tehran, and has been granted a suspension of her sentence on heavy bail, a foundation run by her family said on...
The renovation of a long-closed Greek Orthodox school on an Istanbul island will be finished in September, although it does not yet have a licence to reopen, the patriarchate said Sunday. Located on Heybeliada, one of the Princes' Islands,...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Warnings are escalating in Occupied Jerusalem over plans by extremist Temple Mount groups to carry out an unprecedented storming of Aqsa Mosque on Friday, May 15, coinciding with the so-called “Hebrew anniversary of Jerusalem’s occupation,” amid widespread Palestinian...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement on Sunday condemned Israel’s continued targeting of police personnel in the Gaza Strip, saying the policy is part of systematic attempts to undermine social stability and spread chaos. In a press statement, the Movement described the killing...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged the people of India to cut down on petrol and diesel consumption amid supply disruptions due to the Middle East war . India is one of few countries in the region that...
US President Donald Trump is set to press Chinese President Xi Jinping on Iran when he visits Beijing in coming days, a senior administration official said Sunday, as Trump seeks a deal to end the Middle East war...
AMMAN / PNN / Jordan’s minister of culture has appointed Yazan Al-Khdeir as director of the Jerash Festival for Culture and Arts, replacing Ayman Samawi, in a move aimed at leveraging leadership experience to strengthen the festival’s international standing. Al-Khdeir brings...
Lebanon's health ministry said two paramedics from the Islamic Health Committee were killed and five others wounded on Sunday in two Israeli strikes on the country's south despite a ceasefire . As the state-run National News Agency (NNA)...
Why was Palestine not explicitly placed at the center of Iran’s ceasefire framework? Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of the Palestine Chronicle. Cross-posted from Ramzy Baroud’s website Thinking Palestine For many years, being accused of being ‘pro-Iran’...
BEIRUT, (PIC) Lebanon’s health ministry said on Sunday evening that the death toll from the ongoing Israeli aggression, which started on March 2, 2026 has climbed to 2,846 martyrs. The health ministry’s emergency operations center added in its daily report that the...
China did not get here by making fossil fuels expensive. It got here by making clean technology cheap Aidan Regan is a professor of political economy at the school of politics and international relations at University College Dublin (UCD) Cross-posted from...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Hebrew reports revealed an Israeli plan to demolish a large commercial area east of al-Eizariya town, east of occupied Jerusalem, in a step that would completely close the E1 highway area to Palestinians, which is the axis that...
Somali opposition figures and witnesses said one person was killed Sunday after security forces opened fire to break up an anti-government protest in the capital Mogadishu. The protest was planned by opposition leaders under the slogan "Dareen Hiil Shacab" (Solidarity with...
BEIRUT, (PIC) Israeli strikes killed at least three people, including two paramedics, in southern Lebanon on Sunday. Lebanon’s health ministry said that the two paramedics of the Islamic Health Committee were killed and five others were wounded Sunday in Israeli strikes. The ministry...
Qatar sharply condemned the targeting of one of its commercial ships by a drone in the Gulf on Sunday morning. It was the latest such strike in recent days, which have seen Iran and the US escalate attacks amid an...
Egypt’s foreign ministry announced on Sunday that it successfully secured the release of 1,379 nationals who were detained in Libya over illegal migration cases since the start of this year, amid ongoing efforts to curb the number...
The second session of a landmark trial against a former prominent member of the Assad regime , who was responsible for overseeing a violent crackdown during the 2011 uprising, was held in Damascus on Sunday. The trial against...
Como o PT pode ser tão ingênuo ao ponto de seus líderes defenderem tão apaixonadamente o sequestro dos direitos do parlamento pelo STF, fazendo as vezes de papagaios da propaganda imperialista a favor do judiciário? Junte-se a nós no Telegram...
Estimados lectores, en la gran traducción del día les traemos al español un artículo del presentador y corresponsal Yunpeng Zhang en The China Academy. Únete a nosotros en Telegram , Twitter y VK . Escríbenos: info@strategic-culture.su Vamos con ello: Firmado...
By Tom ENGELHARDT Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su And We Are All His Apprentices Now Unlike every other TomDispatch piece, this one won’t be broken up with section titles...
Scored on a scale where higher numbers mean deeper crisis, these 20 nations rank as the most vulnerable on Earth according to the Fragile States Index. Leading the list is Somalia, followed by Sudan) and Syria. All 20 suffer from...
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed to fight on, describing his government as a "10-year project" despite mounting calls for him to quit after his party’s drubbing in local elections earlier this week. Starmer's Labour Party suffered the worst local...
Violent Israeli settlers launched at least 20 attacks on Palestinians in various areas across the West Bank in two days, with reports detailing civilians being severely wounded and homes being set ablaze. The string of attacks, which...
Iran responded to Washington's latest peace proposal on Sunday, after drones threatened several Gulf region targets and Tehran warned it would not hold back from retaliating against any new US strikes. According to state broadcaster IRIB , Tehran's response, passed...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed different areas of the West Bank on Sunday morning and earlier at dawn, raiding homes and kidnaping a number of Palestinian citizens. According to local sources, the IOF kidnaped a father and his...
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