Lebanon said it would complain to the United Nations Security Council over Israeli assaults , ongoing since early March amid the US-Israeli war on Iran. In a sign of divisions, Lebanese ministers from Hezbollah and its ally Amal boycotted a...
US President Donald Trump on Thursday pushed back his deadline for strikes on Iran's energy assets to 6 April, saying it was at Tehran's request and that talks were "going very well". Trump had denied earlier that he was desperate...
On this week’s MintCast podcast, MintPress director Mnar Adley is joined by Robert Inlakesh, a staff writer at MintPress and political analyst specializing in Middle East geopolitics — they discuss Hezbolla’s military wins against Israel. As Israel intensifies its military...
As a result of military action by the US and Israel against Iran since February 28, the Strait of Hormuz – a vital choke-point between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman — has been effectively closed to most...
Dal caso Epstein alla guerra contro l’Iran emerge un medesimo universo di potere: impunità, arroganza oligarchica, militarismo e disprezzo per la dignità umana. Difendere l’Iran oggi significa anche difendere una delle matrici storiche della civiltà contro la violenza di un...
Shadowy pro-Israel group Terror Alarm is crowdfunding a $1 million bounty for the capture of a well-known Iranian academic and media personality – and Twitter is refusing to remove it. But who are Terror Alarm? MintPress traces the company back...
Pakistan's military resumed operations against Afghanistan after a temporary pause, Pakistan's foreign ministry said on Thursday, dashing hopes of a permanent ceasefire. Pakistan and Afghanistan's worst fighting in years erupted last month , claiming heavy human losses on...
Against a backdrop of mounting regional instability, political and military developments in the MENA are now inseparable from the legal considerations surrounding them. Indeed, when sovereign states face a large-scale armed attack, they have a legal right to self-defence. This is...
Turkish spy chief Ibrahim Kalin’s March 22 meeting with senior Hamas leaders in Istanbul highlights Turkey’s continued high-level engagement with the group, reinforcing Ankara’s role as a mediator in Gaza ceasefire negotiations while omitting any discussion of Hamas’s disarmament. The...
Is the Iran war the starting gun on a multipolar world? Cross-posted from Michae l Hudson’s blog NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, March 19, 2026, and our dear friends, Richard Wolf and Michael Hudson, are here with us....
Iran doesn’t have to strike a knockout blow, it just has to endure and continue to place high costs on its enemy, something it is achieving with aplomb so far. Bamo Nouri, honorary Research Fellow, Department of International Politics, City...
The Iran war has proved that oil & gas markets are too volatile for the global economy to rely on, with a shift to renewables likely to be the long term outcome of the war, and one that will further...
Blue Nile Cascade project: An ‘East African energy hub’ or a catalyst for ‘direct confrontation’ on the Nile Fulfilling a decades-long plan to transform Ethiopia into a regional hydropower hub, the country’s Water and Energy Ministry announced this week it...
Lebanon's Hezbollah on Thursday again denied it had any presence in Kuwait, a day after the Gulf country announced more arrests of people allegedly linked to the Iran-backed group. "For the third time, Hezbollah reiterates its complete denial of...
Iran says more than a million troops and fighters have been mobilised to counter a possible US ground invasion , claiming that masses of people have come forward requesting to take part in defending the country Iranian authorities claimed...
As the consensus on climate action frays, the world needs to stop waiting for negotiations and start implementing what has already been agreed. That is according to the Brazilian diplomat André Corrêa do Lago. The president of COP30 in Brazil last...
Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s parliament speaker, has emerged as the highest-profile political figure in Tehran The profound significance of the two successive Iranian missile strikes on Dimona nuclear research centre, the most heavily guarded site in the whole of Israel, is...
Doha has openly begun speaking about the need to coexist with Tehran, placing the survival of its national economy above the political ambitions of the United States. A representative of Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Majed Al-Ansari, stated during a weekly...
Officials from Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states have responded cautiously to the prospect of an Iran-Israel-US ceasefire , as the war launched by Israel and the US against Iran which began on 28 February continues to engulf the Middle...
Such has been the intensity of events in the Persian Gulf, and the relentlessness of the media coverage, that the Iran war can feel older than it is. In fact, some of the oil tankers that left the Middle East...
The World Health Organisation is finding other routes to deliver emergency medical supplies from its Dubai hub to crises such as Lebanon via long overland journeys, an official said, but rising fuel costs could hamper shipments if the...
Ugand a’s military chief General Muhoozi Kainerugaba expressed solidarity with Israel in a barrage of posts on X, suggesting the East African country could enter the Iran war "on the side of Israel". "We want the war in the Middle East...
Economist Mikhail Khazin has proposed replacing protocol politeness with a regime of strict defense. Speaking on Govorit Moskva, he outlined a plan to halt all contacts with Western elites until they fully lift sanctions pressure. The logic is simple: no...
As semiconductor technology advances into increasingly complex and expensive process nodes, the economic and technical risks associated with ASIC design have grown dramatically. At advanced nodes such as Intel 18A, the cost of a single design error can escalate into...
Had I not read Angus Deaton’s Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality , I would not have learned that one of the most devastating blows to the economics profession was delivered by the film...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Saudi Arabia on Thursday for an unannounced visit, as the war in Iran spurs interest among Gulf countries in Ukrainian arms technology. The two countries are set to sign an agreement on "security...
The Lebanese singer, composer and playwright Ahmad Kaabour has died at the age of 70 after an illness, his family announced on Thursday, bringing to a close a career that helped define a generation of politically engaged Arab music...
US President Donald Trump has claimed that Iran wants him to be the next Supreme Leader, in a swipe at the apparent dangers of being the head of the Iranian government. Speaking at a National Republican Congressional Committee...
Anni Devi is beaming. At her home in Manafarsar, a village in north-western India’s Thar desert, the 82-year-old welcomes her grandson’s new wife as well as another new member of the household: an 18-inch sapling of jamun, the Indian blackberry. The...
Israel's Defence Minister, Israel Katz , announced on Thursday that an Israeli airstrike had killed Alireza Tangsiri, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' navy. "Last night, in a precise and lethal operation, the IDF eliminated the commander of the Revolutionary...
Tension has surged within NATO as attempts to turn the Baltic Sea into a closed alliance-controlled basin met a firm response from Moscow. The Kremlin avoided diplomatic back-and-forth and instead deployed missile systems to operational positions. Coastal complexes "Bal" and...
This story was originally published by High Country News . The images of towering clouds of black smoke rising from petroleum facilities in and around Tehran after U.S. and Israeli forces bomb them horrify observers who understand the...
The March 4, 2026, edition of the Arizona Daily Star put the facts succinctly : “A Haitian asylum seeker held for four months at Florence Correctional Center died Monday at a Scottsdale hospital due to complications from an infected tooth.”...
Senegal's appeal to be reinstated as Africa Cup of Nations champion was registered on Wednesday by sport's highest court, which set no timetable for a likely long process toward a verdict in a heated soccer controversy. The Senegal soccer...
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters . Chromebooks are scattered all around the classrooms of Floyd M. Jewett Elementary School in Mesick, Michigan. Towers of them are teetering atop bookshelves. They’re piled...
Here’s a litmus test for Democratic presidential contenders in 2028: Where do they stand on elite impunity and bringing justice to lawbreaking Trump officials and the “ Epstein class ”? Back in 2009, after nearly a decade of Republican...
- - - - Photo by Tyler Zhang on Unsplash If there’s one good thing about California, it’s that the legislature can’t raise taxes without the people voting to approve it. That’s actually not a bad idea,...
Apesar da resiliência histórica de Cuba, já pudemos testemunhar que, no longo prazo, embargos e sanções conseguem minar a força de vontade das lideranças e da população. Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós:...
Ingresar a BRICS+ dará sus frutos, en su momento. Únete a nosotros en Telegram , Twitter y VK . Escríbenos: info@strategic-culture.su Constituye un esfuerzo sobrehumano dirigir cualquier pueblo en tiempos de crisis. Sin ellos, [los tiempos de crisis]...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Israeli authorities have issued a travel ban against Jerusalemite activist Khadija Khweis, preventing her from leaving the country until August, following her summons for interrogation at the Al-Maskobiya police center in occupied Jerusalem on Wednesday. Khweis, a former prisoner,...
GAZA, (PIC) In light of a complex reality experienced by the Gaza Strip as a result of the war and its security and social repercussions, tribal initiatives have emerged as one of the community’s tools to try to contain dangerous phenomena,...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has condemned the forced displacement of Palestinian families in different areas of Occupied Jerusalem as a “renewed crime,” calling for international action to hold the Israeli occupation regime accountable for its violations in the holy...
By Larry C. JOHNSON Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su I’ll give you my answer up front… NO! Trump’s claims on Monday and Tuesday that the US and Iran are talking is false...
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said during a visit to Algeria on Wednesday that the two countries would work together towards "increasing deliveries of Algerian gas" to the EU member state. "We have decided to reinforce our already very...
By Patrick LAWRENCE Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The U.N. Security Council’s condemnation of Iran’s retaliatory strikes, along with the isolation of Cuba, show what U.S. assertion of raw power is doing to what...
Earlier this year, a group of Chinese automakers and steelmakers gathered in Shanghai to chart a new path for their industries. They pledged to work together to cut the carbon emissions generated by steel production. Their goal is to speed up...
Global demand for Russian oil exists-and it is significant. So high, in fact, that Russia may soon struggle to meet international energy requests, said Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov. "A lot," he told Vesti, when asked whether, besides Vietnam, there are current...
Nigeria and UK look to strengthen trade and economic ties amid growing calls from Africa and Caribbean for reparative justice “There are chapters in our shared history that I know have left some painful marks,” King Charles said during a state...
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