Bethlehem / PNN/ More than 1,000 artists and production companies worldwide have called for a boycott of the Eurovision Song Contest, scheduled for May in Vienna, in protest against Israel’s participation. The statement, published on the website of the “No Music for...
BEIRUT / PNN / The Lebanese Red Cross announced on Wednesday evening the killing of journalist Amal Khalil in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon while she was carrying out her journalistic work. The Lebanese Ministry of Health said in an earlier...
The bear has been provoked and has warned, repeatedly and explicitly, what it will do if the provocations continue. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The warning The Russian Defence Ministry’s publication of...
The Palestine movement in the United Kingdom has begun preparations for a Nakba Day march despite British police not yet approving the planned route. The Palestine Solidarity Campaign , one of the movement’s largest organisations, announced that this...
By Sania Farooqui BENGALURU, India, Apr 23 2026 (IPS) The period after Armenia’s 2018 “ Velvet Revolution ” maintains a fragile status which presents both substantial democratic and feminist achievements and rising internal and external international pressures. Gulnara Shahinian, Founder &...
Most of the US military bases and facilities in the Persian Gulf (listed below) have been hit by Iran during the first five weeks of the war. And many of these are no longer operating or have been effectively destroyed....
The BBC , Guardian and Sky News have repeatedly used language, tone and framing that dehumanises Palestinian casualties, a UK media monitor has said. By analysing 11,295 excerpts from 686 articles covering the same events across...
Donald Trump’s deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face a renewal of American bombardment was due to expire this week, but was extended at the last moment, this time with no defined time limit. But the...
Credit: UNFPA Lebanon By UN Population Fund CAIRO, Egypt, Apr 23 2026 (IPS) Six weeks into the 2026 Middle East military escalation, UNFPA Arab States Regional Office warns that its impact on 161 million women and girls living in conflict-affected areas...
It may sound hard to believe, but the almost trillion-dollar US military is struggling to fight cheap drones in its war with Iran. Iran has built a simple drone, the Shahed, with a motorcycle-type engine, loaded it with explosives and...
Soft power is notoriously hard to quantify, but it’s difficult to argue that global soft power has been shifting steadily toward East Asia in recent decades. A few years ago, I wrote a post about how South Korea became a...
There is a certain grim symmetry to watching Washington, in the spring of 2026, once again flailing about in the Persian Gulf — blockading Iranian ports, rattling sabers over a strait it cannot fully control and dispatching delegations to Islamabad...
Even as U.S. President Donald Trump vows to usher in a “new dawn” for Cuba, possibly through military force, his administration is pursuing high-level diplomatic talks that seem to be producing some concrete results. Over the weekend, the New York Times...
In a sign of mounting pressure on European leaders over Israel’s violence in occupied Palestinian territories and beyond, more than a million EU citizens have called for suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement via a European Citizens' Initiative — a...
A two-year-old speech by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in which he suggested that Turkey should take a more assertive posture toward Israel, recently recirculated online as if it were a fresh threat of military attack against Israel. Pro-Israel X...
By: Tim Daiss - - - - Japan’s recent offer of US$10 billion in loans to Southeast Asian countries to secure oil supplies comes at a moment of heightened market anxiety. Oil prices have spiked to multi-year highs amid Middle...
Iran’s military might was never going to be a match for the US and Israel. So instead it turned to the highly effective weapon it has at its disposal – geography. Blocking off the Strait of Hormuz has shaken the...
A top envoy to US President Donald Trump has asked FIFA to replace Iran with Italy in the upcoming World Cup, The Financial Times reported on Wednesday. The plan is an effort to repair ties between Trump...
Britain and France have agreed a new three-year deal to stop undocumented migrants making the risky journey across the English Channel, according to a French interior ministry roadmap seen by AFP on Wednesday. Under the deal, France pledged...
Iran vowed on Wednesday not to reopen the Strait of Hormuz so long as a US naval blockade remained in place despite a ceasefire extension, as it announced the seizure of two ships trying to cross...
Gaza's civil defence agency said an Israeli airstrike targeted a group of civilians in a northern part of the Palestinian territory late on Wednesday, killing five people including three children. Gaza remains gripped by daily violence despite a 10...
According to Israel’s new death penalty law, Palestinian children, like adults, could, in practice, find themselves facing the gallows. This might take some by surprise, or even be dismissed as an exaggeration. Sadly, it is neither. The death penalty law,...
As a candidate for president, Donald Trump infamously promised to end endless wars and be the president of peace. In office, President Trump has launched illegal regime change wars in Iran and Venezuela; bombed at least five other countries; threatened...
If the objective of the U.S. war upon Iran is to ensure that that country does not develop nuclear weapons, that goal was attained more than a decade ago through a far different approach than the one now being followed...
The Israeli military said it apprehended and returned dozens of Israelis who had briefly crossed into Syria on Wednesday, with Israeli media reporting that the group were activists from a settler organisation. The military said around 40 people gathered...
An Israeli airstrike killed a Lebanese journalist and wounded another on Wednesday while they were working near the border with Israel, according to their employer and rescuers. The civil defence agency's press office said rescuers were "able to recover...
Turkey is making efforts to revive negotiations between Russia and Ukraine and bring together the leaders of the warring sides, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in a meeting in Ankara,...
Europa o Eurasia? Cosa sceglierà Nikol Pashinyan? E cosa dovrebbero fare le organizzazioni eurasiatiche se optasse per Bruxelles? Segue nostro Telegram . Recentemente, la Russia ha chiarito all’Armenia la necessità di una scelta esistenziale: Unione Economica Eurasiatica o Unione Europea....
A second French soldier died on Wednesday from wounds suffered in a weekend ambush against UN peacekeepers in Lebanon blamed on Hezbollah , President Emmanuel Macron said. A first soldier, staff sergeant Florian Montorio, was shot dead in the Saturday...
President Donald Trump has claimed victory in the war in Iran even before the conflict is over. But despite the killing of the country’s leader and seriously degration of its military, there is an argument being made that the Islamic...
GAZA, (PIC) Several civilians were injured on Wednesday after Israeli forces opened fire east of the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. Al-Awda Medical Complex in Nuseirat reported receiving three injured individuals following an attack by Israeli quadcopter drones targeting...
NEW YORK, (PIC) The Executive Board of UNESCO, at its 224th session, unanimously adopted a resolution concerning the follow-up on the implementation of the organization’s decisions regarding the situation in the Gaza Strip. The resolution highlighted the damage inflicted on hundreds of...
BEIRUT, (PIC) Lebanon’s National Council for Scientific Research has recorded damage to and destruction of more than 62,000 housing units as a result of Israeli operations during six weeks of war with Hezbollah, a Lebanese official said on Wednesday. During a press...
To figure out the future trajectory of Europe, Bulgaria is as good a place as any to start. On the edge of the European Union bordering Turkey and the Black Sea, the Balkan nation is, as of 2014, one of the...
The Palestinian health ministry said Israeli settlers shot dead Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, the third victim of deadly gunfire in two days. The ministry said 25-year-old Awda Atef Awawdeh was killed by settler gunfire...
Japan’s Machida Zelvia advanced to the final of the Asian Champions League Elite by beating Shabab Al-Ahli of the United Arab Emirates 1-0 on Tuesday. Yuki Soma's first-half goal secured a meeting with defending champion Al-Ahli of Saudi...
Yes, it is that time of year again, the 2026 TSMC Technology Symposium kick-off event in Silicon Valley. TSMC has never been in a better position to forecast the future of semiconductor technology and the industry itself. TSMC closely collaborates...
The Israeli Knesset voted 62 to 48 to approve a law that makes the death penalty the default punishment for Palestinians convicted in military courts of killing Israelis. The result is a system of capital punishment...
An Algerian bookshop that was raided and temporarily shut by police over a signing by the sociologist Fatma Oussedik has reopened ahead of schedule, the book's publisher said in a statement on Tuesday. The publisher, Koukou Editions, had said over the...
Armed men burst into the apartment where student Mohamad lived with his Alawite family in the Syrian city of Jableh on March 7 last year and forced the 20-year-old and his father to lie face down as they...
The dollar edged up against the euro on Wednesday on lingering concerns about the ongoing US-Israeli war with Iran , even after President Donald Trump extended the ceasefire to give Tehran more time to present a unified proposal for...
Israeli attacks on Lebanon during its latest war have damaged or destroyed more than 50,000 housing units in the country , a government estimate found on Wednesday. "Within about 45 days (of the war), we had 17,756 destroyed housing...
There are no children in the Afghan border village of Barikot, where the school has been smashed by shells and the playground sits deserted after weeks of war with Pakistan. Almost all of the 8,000 residents fled after the conflict erupted...
A new report finds the U.S. has fired at least 45% of its critical Patriot missile interceptors, and over 53% of its THAAD interceptors during its war on Iran. The report, released by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)...
Iran's judiciary denied on Tuesday that eight women arrested over protests that shook the Islamic republic this year were at risk of execution, after US President Donald Trump urged Tehran to release them to help negotiations. Rights groups have...
Sitting along the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Philippines’ volcanic geology features porous rocks that allow water to move easily underground and flow into its ocean. These hidden flows – called submarine groundwater discharge – are known to maintain balance in...
Tehran has refused to take an official position after US President Donald Trump’s announcement of an extension of the US ceasefire with Iran, while conditioning further negotiations on the lifting of the US naval blockade. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...
Trump’s tariff war will be seen in retrospect to be peanuts to the threatened strike on China’s supply lines. Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Strategic Culture online journal...
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