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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and US President Donald Trump on Thursday agreed the "need for a practical plan" to get shipping moving again through the Strait of Hormuz following the US-Iran ceasefire , the UK leader's...

MENA

Former Iranian foreign minister, Kamal Kharazi, died Thursday from wounds suffered in US-Israel strikes on April 1, Iranian media reported. Kharazi, 81, had been serving as the head of the Strategic Council for International Relations, which is part of the foreign...

MENA

A drone strike on the paramilitary-controlled town of Kutum in Sudan's North Darfur state has killed at least 32 civilians, including women and children, a medical source and three residents told AFP on Thursday. The strike on Wednesday came...

MENA

Si può definire la tregua come una pace, o si tratta solo dell’ennesimo stratagemma? Segue nostro Telegram . La risposta breve è «no». Trump stava inventando di sana pianta quando ha affermato di essere già in trattativa con «importanti» esponenti...

Italiano, Diplomacy, Donald Trump

CNBC anchor Sara Eisen got dragged on social media this week over her on-air comments asking whether US President Donald Trump’s threat to destroy Iran’s civilization was good for investors. As the US-Israeli war on Iran and the Iranian military’s closure of...

Finance, Common Dreams, Donald Trump

President Donald Trump’s threats to wipe out Iran, "a whole civilisation," ended the restraint that Democrats have largely exercised when it comes to discussions about removing him from office in his second term. By the dozens, Democrats said Trump should no...

World

A historic synagogue in Tehran, originally built in 1958, was destroyed on the Jewish holiday of Passover by Israeli airstrikes on April 7th. The Rafi-Nia Synagogue, located in central Tehran, was one of the longstanding institutions serving Iran’s Jewish community. Constructed...

Behind The Headlines, Foreign Affairs, Front Page: Foreign Affairs

The Art of Losing

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No real estate crook should complete a project on time, let alone ahead of schedule, but Donald Trump wrapped up the Iran war years shy of the average American loss. Technically, after threatening a genocide, he...

Column, Courts & Law, Middle East

The Red Cross said it was "outraged by the devastating death and destruction" in densely populated areas across Lebanon Wednesday as Israel launched a massive wave of attacks. Heavy explosive weapons with wide-area effects struck bustling neighbourhoods, including the capital...

MENA

US President Donald Trump said in a late-night boast that the American military is already looking ahead to its “next conquest” as the Middle East remains embroiled in a deadly military conflict that Trump and his ally, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, unleashed...

United States, Block 2, Cuba

RAMALLAH /PNN/ Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Israel is pursuing what he described as “decisive political measures” in the occupied West Bank that would effectively eliminate the prospect of a Palestinian state, reflecting hardline positions within the current Israeli...

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Israel's energy ministry said on Thursday that it had instructed Energean to begin resuming operations at the Karish natural gas platform off Israel's Mediterranean coast following the U.S. ceasefire with Iran. The platform has been closed since February 28, when the...

Energy

Thousands of Iranians rallied Thursday in a tribute to former supreme leader Ali Khamenei, killed on the first day of the war with the United States and Israel , expressing criticism of talks expected in Pakistan this week. Holding portraits...

MENA

After four week of war, a ceasefire between Iran and the US has been reached. While the details remain hazy, it is a welcome development, and the region has taken a step back from the edge. But in Lebanon, the...

The New Arab Voice

yieldHUB is a unique company that focuses on yield optimization for the semiconductor industry. The company aims to bring engineering teams together with a platform that allows sharing of data analytics and knowledge about products to improve yield. This goal...

Analytics, EDA, yieldHUB

“There will be a considerable rebalancing of strategic and political power in the world in the next few years” Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: FreePik Over the last couple of weeks , I’ve...

Geopolitics, Article, Aurelien

UK Green Party leader Zack Polanski has called for his country to withdraw from its trade agreement with Israel and to impose sanctions on Tel Aviv, following Israel's deadly strikes on Lebanon , which killed over 250...

World

An American delegation, led by Vice President JD Vance and including Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, arrives in Islamabad Friday for talks with Iranian delegation led by Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s speaker of parliament, who is a former mayor of...

Opinion, Field Marshal Asim Munir, Iran war 2026

Vice President J.D. Vance is investigating reports that senior Pentagon officials in January held a tense, allegedly threatening meeting with Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the Vatican’s ambassador to the US. According to multiple reports, the official told the cardinal that...

World

US President Donald Trump bashed NATO and appeared to renew his threats over Greenland after a closed-door meeting with alliance chief Mark Rutte, during which he was expected to discuss possibly leaving the pivotal security bloc. Trump's outrage at...

World

Twenty-one-year-old Waad Al-Shafei recites verses from the Quran as she rocks and pats her son Jawad. Their home is barely fit to live in: cramped and dark even during the day, with worn-out furniture, it is only accessible through narrow passageways...

Society

GAZA, (PIC) The Guardian published a report on Thursday highlighting the suffering of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip who lost limbs during the war, saying that many now face complex humanitarian and legal challenges after moving to Egypt for medical treatment. Ola...

News, Egypt, Gaza patients

Dozens of states issued a joint statement at the United Nations on Thursday condemning "unacceptable aggressive behavior" toward UN peacekeepers in Lebanon and calling for increased protections after the deaths there of three Indonesian soldiers. The 63 countries and...

MENA

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday he has instructed ministers to begin direct peace negotiations with Lebanon "as soon as possible," a day after massive Israeli attacks killed more than 300 people . "In light of Lebanon's...

MENA

Whether by design or indecision, Donald Trump continues to keep the world guessing. Even after the Pakistani-brokered, fragile two-week ceasefire, odds are split on whether he sticks to diplomacy or is simply using negotiations as a smokescreen to transition the...

Voices

WEST BANK, (PIC) Israeli occupation authorities are planning to establish 34 new settlement outposts across the northern West Bank and the al-Khalil area, in what Palestinian officials describe as a major escalation of settlement expansion. Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission head...

News, Settlement expansion, West Bank

When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy concluded his Middle East tour with 10-year defence cooperation agreements signed with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE, the headlines focused on diplomacy. The more consequential story is what those agreements reveal about how...

Analysis

As the US-Israel war on Iran continues with no final resolution yet, can anyone still doubt that the state of Israel makes the world less safe? The ferocious US-Israel war on Iran has lasted six weeks, raining death and destruction on...

Voices

A chorus of hawkish Israeli politicians is urging the country’s military to intensify its weekslong ground and air campaign against Hezbollah and pave the way for a more permanent presence in the country’s south. On April 5, 18 Israeli lawmakers...

Courts & Law, Middle East, Military

Pakistan has declared two days of local holidays in the capital at short notice from Thursday, authorities said, ahead of talks between the United States and Iran due to take place in Islamabad. No reason was given in the...

World

The Justice Department has just launched a criminal investigation of Cassidy Hutchinson. Remember her? Hutchinson was the young, courageous former White House aide whose testimony before Congress implicated President Donald Trump in the violence that erupted at the...

Column, Courts & Law, Opinion

At least 2.5 million low-income people quickly lost help affording groceries under a Republican-passed law that added new requirements for the nation’s largest nutrition program and shifted hundreds of millions of dollars in costs from the federal government to...

Courts & Law, Economic Justice, Health & Wellness

The head of Iran's nuclear energy agency on Thursday ruled out any restrictions on the country's enrichment of uranium , saying the demand by the United States and Israel "will not come true". "The claims and demands of our enemies...

MENA

Two Shia Saudi citizens were executed in the kingdom's Eastern Province after they were convicted of "terror offences", Saudi authorities announced on Thursday. Mustafa Ali al-Subaiti and his nephew Ali Hassan al-Subaiti were found guilty of "joining a foreign...

MENA

As edge AI systems become more centralized and compute-dense, on-chip data movement is increasingly the architectural bottleneck. NXP’s expanded deployment of Arteris network-on-chip (NoC) and cache-coherent interconnect IP highlights a broader industry trend: interconnect architecture is now a first-order design...

Arteris, IP, AI

While Iranians had been holding their breath in anticipation of possible targeting of the country’s power stations and the resulting repercussions affecting various aspects of daily life, many exhaled with the announcement of a ceasefire and its entry into force...

MENA

BEIRUT, (PIC) The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said on Thursday that Israel’s large-scale and ongoing attacks on Lebanon may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, calling for an urgent international investigation. In a statement, the group said field data from...

News, Euro-Med Monitor, Israeli aggression

Beirut, Lebanon - One hundred and sixty bombs in ten minutes. That is how Israel ushered in ‘Operation Eternal Darkness’ - the bloodiest day of the war in Lebanon - with devastating attacks across the...

In-depth

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation police in Jerusalem released pro-Aqsa activist Muntaha Amara after arresting her earlier on Thursday morning near the Aqsa Mosque, which was reopened after 40 days of closure. “I came today to perform prayers at the Aqsa...

News, Aqsa Mosque, Entry ban

The Israeli government has quietly approved 34 new settlements in the occupied West Bank on 1 April, as ministers accelerate the territory's de facto annexation ahead of this year's elections, according to Israeli media reports. Netanyahu's far-right...

MENA

By Ian PROUD Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The U.S.-Israel conflict is not a matter pertinent to NATO for the blindingly obvious reason that Washington is the aggressor and not the victim....

Editor's Choice, Donald Trump, Iran
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