When American and Chinese presidents meet, it is usually the upstart China that is desperate to be treated as an equal by the world’s pre-eminent superpower. Yet on May 14 when Donald Trump flies to Beijing for the first of four...
The UK's local elections in May have offered a telling window into where British politics is heading. Arguably, they signal one of the most profound challenges to the post-World War II two-party system in modern Britain, as mainstream support...
Human rights groups have warned that a new Israeli bill proposing public trials and possible death sentences for Palestinians accused of involvement in the 7 October 2023 attack could violate international law and turn court proceedings into "show...
Agentic AI is often presented as a revolutionary shift in semiconductor manufacturing, driven by large language models and generative AI. However, this framing overlooks an important reality: today’s advances are built on decades of prior work. As Jonathan Holt of...
Despite the newfound discovery of sexual harassment and the taxpayer-funded settlements, the United States Congress has failed to implement any lasting policy reforms to protect staff from sexual misconduct. Credit: Shutterstock By Joseph Chamie PORTLAND, USA, May 11 2026 (IPS) After...
The European Union approved a new wave of sanctions targeting Israeli settlers and organisations linked to violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank during a meeting of the bloc's foreign ministers on Monday. EU...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) has accused the Israeli prison service of repressing Palestinian female detainees in Damon jail 10 times during March and April. “Israel holds 88 female prisoners in Damon jail, along with several others in interrogation and...
Britain on Monday slapped sanctions on a dozen Iran -linked individuals and entities accused of involvement in "hostile activities" by Tehran targeting the UK or other countries. Updating its official sanctions list, the Foreign Office in London imposed the...
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 7 May 2026. The founder of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Prof. Kwame Karikari, has renewed calls for the imperative of a broadcasting law in Ghana, warning that the...
An Israeli charity that offered to help Brits move to the West Bank has been photographed at an event in London, despite calls for it to be sanctioned. Shivat Zion had a stall at an ‘Aliyah Fair’, held in...
Originally published by Pacific Forum, this article is republished with permission. The war on Iran waged by the US and Israel has caused multidimensional and likely irreversible tectonic shifts. At the global level, the negative effects of the war extend...
It’s been a tough couple of months for women officials in Washington — or, more accurately, in Trumpland. In early March (Women’s History Month, by the way), in a Truth Social post, the president fired Secretary of Homeland Security...
Tehran’s reply on May 10 was entirely predictable. Ceasefire, security guarantees for the Strait, total sanctions relief, reparations — the standard package. What apparently surprised Washington was the timing, which produced President Donald Trump’s terse verdict: “totally unacceptable.” Even so,...
On Monday, an expanded meeting of the Georgian Church was held at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi, where 39 members of the Synod voted for a new patriarch; 57-year-old Bishop Shio, who served as locum tenens for Patriarch Ilia...
- - - - Paying the price The British empire left behind many issues at the heart of world troubles today. Among the least recognized but a key to ongoing problems in the Middle East and the Gulf regions in...
Originally published by Pacific Forum, this article is republished with permisson. The 2025 US National Security Strategy and the 2026 US National Defense Strategy emphasized the Trump administration’s renewed focus on defending the American homeland and diplomatic priorities toward the Western Hemisphere. Both documents...
GAZA, (PIC) In a scene that summarizes the scale of the humanitarian disaster left by the Israeli war of genocide on the Gaza Strip, the families of the martyrs face worsening suffering in finding decent graves to bury their loved ones,...
- - - - Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash The term “grifter” gets thrown around an awful lot, often as an insult for anyone who makes money expressing opinions, but has a different opinion from me....
La Mad Man Theory non è fallita, si è evoluta, e il palcoscenico su cui opera non è più il Consiglio di Sicurezza dell’ONU ma il terminal Bloomberg di ogni sala trading del mondo. Segue nostro Telegram . The Madman...
As President Donald Trump tries to assert power over U.S. elections, he has raged on social media, cajoled Republican lawmakers and unleashed the Department of Justice on his political enemies. What has he accomplished with all that effort? Not a...
The Israeli military said on Monday it had sentenced two soldiers to imprisonment after one of them was photographed placing a cigarette in the mouth of a statue of the Virgin Mary in southern Lebanon. An image...
As the global target to eliminate hunger by 2030 fast slips out of reach, investing in how the world feeds itself is the only way to avert a crisis. Investing in agrifood systems—from production and processing to distribution and consumption—is...
Writing for The Wall Street Journal in 1980, the godfather of neoconservatism, Irving Kristol, argued that conservatives ought to stop worrying about deficits and focus on the important work of cutting taxes. Unlike traditional fiscal conservatives, who insisted...
Ruling the world is a tricky business The top story last week, at least in terms of shock value, might well be the ongoing saga of the Trump White House ballroom, which started out as a $200 million development off...
Recently, I had the opportunity to stand in a friend’s kitchen eating pupusas , the Salvadoran national food, while listening to an update on conditions in Central America from Cristosal’s Noah Bullock. Cristosal is a key Central...
GAZA, (PIC) Abu Obeida, spokesman for al-Qassam Bridges of Hamas, has expressed pride in martyr Ayman al‑Hashlamoun’s armed clash on Monday with Israeli forces in Qalandia refugee camp, north of Occupied Jerusalem. In a statement on Monday, Abu Obeida also commended West...
Open-source information and commercially available facial recognition tools have identified three suspects— Amjad Qadoum, Yasir Samir, and Mustafa Shaheen—who were involved in the October 7 Hamas-led massacre in southern Israel. Facial recognition tools and social media exploitation can yield verifiable...
Lebanon's president has urged the United States to put pressure on Israel to cease fire and stop home demolitions in south Lebanon, the presidency said on Monday, as the death toll from Israeli attacks rose. Lebanon's health ministry...
Ramallah, occupied West Bank - Israeli opposition leaders Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett have merged their parties under a single banner called Beyahad (Together), to challenge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in elections expected by October. The move revives...
Government agency inquiries into AI tool using journalistic content with no compensation for media companies Originally published on Global Voices Advox Image using Canva elements created by Global Voices. The Administrative Council for Economic Defense (Cade) , linked to...
It has been a while since something truly exploded my brain, but this did it. Nancy O'Brien Simpson A 22-foot statue of Donald Trump, wrapped in gold leaf, now stands at his Doral golf course in Miami. Trump proudly unveiled it on...
A top Iranian official on Monday said a peace proposal summarily rejected by President Donald Trump was a “reasonable and generous” path toward ending the war. Esmail Baghaei, the spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, said during a press conference that “the only thing we...
Crises de segurança no Oriente Médio reacendem importância do equilíbrio de forças no Mediterrâneo Oriental. Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su Recentemente escrevi sobre a possibilidade de uma aliança militar entre Grécia,...
GAZA, (PIC) The Israeli occupation army continues, since reaching the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip on October 10, 2025, to impose new field conditions through daily bombing operations and assassinations, in parallel with expanding military zones westward outside what is...
GAZA, (PIC) Inside one of the crowded displacement camps in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, the Palestinian child Mohammed Odeh feels his way with slow and cautious steps, after losing his eyesight due to the explosion...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Hordes of extremist Jewish settlers escorted by police officers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem on Sunday morning and later in the afternoon, amid tight restrictions on the entry of Muslim worshipers to the holy site. According to...
MANILA – The Philippine House of Representatives voted to impeach Vice President Sara Duterte Monday for large-scale corruption and threats to assassinate the country’s leader. But as the House was voting, Duterte’s allies in the Senate launched a coup and...
The semiconductor industry is entering a post-Moore’s Law era in which scaling transistor density alone is no longer sufficient to sustain historical performance growth. As discussed in the panel Beyond Moore’s Law: The Future of Semiconductor Manufacturing , the...
Embattled British Prime Minister Keir Starmer came out fighting Monday, vowing to prove his "doubters" wrong as he sought to quell a growing threat to his leadership following disastrous election results. Starmer pledged his ruling Labour party would be...
French President Emmanuel Macron has denied that France planned to send warships directly into the Strait of Hormuz after Iran warned Paris and London of a "decisive and immediate response" to any military deployment...
As Russia moves closer to deploying the Poseidon nuclear torpedo aboard its dedicated Khabarovsk carrier submarine, the weapon is increasingly emerging as a test of deterrence, arms control and undersea warfare. This month, Naval News reported that Russia is advancing...
GAZA, (PIC) Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip killed two civilians and left several others wounded, while the bodies of two martyrs were recovered on Monday, marking yet another violation of the ceasefire now in its 214th consecutive day. According to media...
US President Donald Trump has threatened to launch an expanded military operation against Iran dubbed "Project Freedom Plus" after rejecting Tehran's response to a US proposal aimed at ending the war . The remarks have raised questions about...
Iran and the United States were at an impasse again Monday over how to end their war while their ceasefire grew increasingly shaky, with the two sides exchanging fire in recent days, ships and Gulf states being targeted,...
By Kit KLARENBERG Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su A scandal has erupted over covert NATO conferences with the Western entertainment industry. Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone show how NATO has...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Old City in occupied Jerusalem is witnessing a continuous escalation in Israeli measures, after the installation of a new iron gate between Souq Al-Qattanin and Bab Al-Hadid, one of the most prominent paths leading to the holy...
An Israeli soldier was killed, and others were wounded in southern Lebanon in a Hezbollah explosive drone attack announced by the Israeli military on Monday, amid growing concern over the group's advanced drone warfare tactics . The Israeli...
Palestinian Mohammad Al-Asaasa never imagined that the first hours of grief following his elderly father's death, Haj Hussein Mohammad Hussein Al-Asaasa (Abu Ezzat), from the village of Al-Asaasa, south of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank, would turn into...
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