Thousands of Albanians took to the streets of Tirana on Tuesday night to protest against a development planned by a company linked to Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner , on an environmentally sensitive part of the Adriatic...
Credit: Adobe Stock Photo / Source: UN News A staggering 55 million people across West and Central Africa are expected to suffer crisis levels of hunger, or worse, during the lean season from June to August as funding cuts to...
At a security conference in Singapore over the weekend, the three AUKUS partners – the United States, United Kingdom and Australia – announced a tweak to their partnership that has generated quite a lot of attention in Canberra. Australia will...
The natural instinct of any government facing a more fragmented global system is to guard its policy flexibility and keep its hands free to respond to whatever comes next. But the countries that consistently attract long-term investment tend to choose...
Progressives on both coasts were celebrating Tuesday night as election results came with key left-wing wins for the New Jersey and California primaries. If they continue to do well in the general election in November, the so-called squad of progressive...
Germany granted citizenship to a record 332,500 people last year, a 14% increase, with Syrians making up the largest group for the fifth year in a row, according to data released by the Federal Statistics Office on...
One of the most notable outcomes of last month’s Xi-Trump summit in Beijing was not tangible. Rather, it was Xi Jinping’s introduction of a new authoritative formulation, or tífǎ, for US-China relations. Such authoritative concepts have long been an important...
‘What's also needed is a comprehensive reform of the entire transport management system’ Originally published on Global Voices Advox Two security cameras mounted on a pole. Representative image by user Atypeek Dgn via Pexels. Used under a...
TOKYO — The billionaire CEOs who accompanied US President Donald Trump to Beijing last month are probably feeling some whiplash. Some of that disorientation comes from Trump himself — a president who built two campaigns on confronting China and has...
Iranian drones and missiles targeted Kuwait and Bahrain on Wednesday, hours after the United States said it had carried out strikes on an Iranian military facility on Qeshm Island, amid heightened tensions around Gulf states that host major...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnaped and assaulted a number of Palestinian citizens during raids in the West Bank last night and at dawn Wednesday, amid settler attacks in different areas. According to local sources, the IOF searched dozens...
Hours after Iraq's ruling Coordination Framework coalition authorised Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi to monopolise weapons under state control, the Asaib Ahl al-Haq militia, led by Qais al-Khazali, announced that it had begun "implementing procedures to separate from the Popular...
The tensions between the US and Iran remain very taut after both sides exchanged of fire late on June 2 (early morning June 3 in the Persian Gulf). It apparently started when a US helicopter tried to stop an Iranian...
Lebanon's aviation regulator has launched a safety audit of Middle East Airlines (MEA) after pilot groups raised concerns that crews were being asked to fly near airstrikes and penalised for reporting safety incidents. The audit puts scrutiny on the...
For those just joining us, here are the latest updates of the day: - Tit for tat strikes between Iran and the United States occurred overnight. It began with the United States military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) announcing "self-defence" strikes on...
Under Singapore’s increasingly sweltering skies, the lobby of the Shangri-La Hotel in late May 2026 offered a revealing snapshot of a world edging toward deeper fragmentation. The 23rd edition of the Shangri-La Dialogue, held from May 29 to 31, brought...
The tensions between the US and Iran remain very taut after both sides exchanged of fire late on June 2 (early morning June 3 in the Persian Gulf). It apparently started when a US helicopter tried to stop an Iranian...
AI ha già ridisegnato la mappa dei conflitti globali. La vera sfida è la costruzione di una architettura di amministrazione adatto per la velocità e la complessità di questa trasformazione. Segue nostro Telegram . Il doppio uso come condizione strutturale...
Il corridoio di Zangezur cambia nome e padrone. Il Caucaso meridionale esce dall’orbita russa, l’Iran perde il transito verso il Caspio, Pechino registra il nuovo nodo regolatorio occidentale lungo la propria via centrale. Cronaca e lettura di un atto che...
In the dog days of summer 70 years ago, Gamal Abdel Nasser announced the nationalization of the Suez Canal. The move triggered the invasion of Egypt by a joint force of British, French and Israeli troops. Although the military operation...
Why the “Peacemaker” Kushner’s peace plan became the detonator for a new Middle East war. He came to the White House to broker “the deal of the century,” but ended up unleashing a war that closed the Strait of Hormuz....
Every year, when dark clouds gather above the dense forests of the Philippines, 56-year-old Mini Baeyens, of the Aplay Kankanaey tribe, vigilantly watches the sky. One afternoon, as he prepared to trek into the forest to gather medicinal plants, a...
What if certain famous moments from the seerah have been misunderstood? A closer reading reveals a Prophet ﷺ of greater dignity and compassion than we sometimes give him credit for. When Popular Retellings Go Wrong Many Muslims first encounter the Seerah...
As the Trump administration seeks to steady U.S. relations with China, the issue of Taiwan has once again made its way to the front pages. Skeptics of a U.S.-China detente worry that any attempt to cozy up to Beijing will...
Those of us who have spent years chronicling the long, tragicomic history of American diplomacy in the Middle East could be forgiven a certain weary déjà vu watching Secretary of State Marco Rubio convene Israeli and Lebanese officials at the...
By: Tita C. Valderama - - - - The Philippine Senate is entering its most turbulent chapter since the impeachment trial of former President Joseph Estrada in 2000, today resembling less a legislative chamber than a battlefield between two rival...
The Donald seems to think he has all the time in the world to end the conflagration he and Bibi started in the Persian Gulf. Today he even told the mullahs to take a hike when they suspended any further...
Amnesty International has joined a criminal complaint against FedEx Belgium over the alleged unlawful transit of arms shipments to Israel, including parts for F-35 fighter jets used by the Israeli military in Gaza , the rights...
Colonos sionistas em Portugal promovem propaganda de guerra: confundem antissionismo com antissemitismo e levam “cultura israelense” para combater críticos ao genocídio. Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su Chamou-se “Fórum IBEX 2026” e...
The Neo-Nazi problem in Ukraine is not simply a Kremlin invention. Marta Havryshko is a U.S.-based author and researcher focused on Ukrainian nationalism, the far right, and the Russo-Ukrainian War. Havryshko holds a PhD in History from the Ivan Franko National...
Ben Gvir beating and humiliating flotilla activists is not an anomaly, it’s a product of the rise of the Israeli far-right which has been long in the making. Vijay Prashad is the Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. His most...
Profits are rising because the labour share is falling. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Picture by Jakub Hałun At the end of 2025, corporate...
‘The decision to ban Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur from the UK marks further escalation in the clampdown on critics of Israel.’ In Tribune . Read the article HERE . The post Karl Hansen – The Hasan Piker...
By Nicolas J.S. DAVIES Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su On May 24, Iran rejected President Trump’s latest fake peace deal, confirming that he had misrepresented what Iran had agreed to and that...
WEST BANK, (PIC) New Zealand announced Tuesday that it has barred three extremist Israeli settlers from entering the country over their involvement in expanding illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. Foreign Minister Winston Peters said the ban applies to Itamar Yehuda...
BEIRUT, (PIC) At least eight Israeli soldiers were injured on Tuesday in attacks carried out by Hezbollah using explosive drones targeting Israeli military positions in southern Lebanon. Hebrew-language media reported that two explosive-laden drones struck separate Israeli military units operating in southern...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has revealed that Israeli authorities continue to escalate the arrest of Palestinian women through systematic detention campaigns, bringing the number of female prisoners back up to 89 following the arrest of four young...
Amid widespread and growing public opposition to the Israeli genocide of Gaza and South Lebanon, a controversial new bill seeks to formally integrate the U.S. and Israeli militaries like never before, making it difficult to tell where one ends and...
People from town of potential site for US citizens exposed to Ebola say it puts them at risk in country with no known cases People from a town in central Kenya where the US wants to set up an Ebola quarantine...
The story of the "Russian institute" in Haifa unexpectedly raised a far more interesting question — who shapes public opinion in Israel, and with whose money? It appears that Israel's election campaign has begun before it has even been officially announced....
The Armed Forces of Ukraine have stepped up UAV strikes on Russian territory. The danger lies in the fact that Kyiv has moved their production into NATO's military-industrial complex, effectively becoming an unofficial participant in the alliance. Ukraine Enters Military-Industrial Complex...
New Palestine Book by Ramsey Hanhan “Palestine Bleeds for You“, out June 9 Ramsey Hanhan’s new collection of poetry and essays on Gaza, “Palestine Bleeds For You” (Fomite Press, 2026) is scheduled for release on June 9. “All we can...
For years, Lebanese chef Husen Fayad dreamed of bringing the skills he learned at the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu culinary school in Paris back to Lebanon, using them to celebrate the country's cuisine and showcase the beauty of...
Qatar and Indonesia are moving closer to signing a defence cooperation agreement as the two countries seek to deepen military ties and expand collaboration in training, defence industries and security coordination, officials said on Tuesday. The development comes amid a...
The strategic cooperation between Semidynamics and SiPearl to develop a European sovereign rack-scale AI compute platform is important for reasons that extend far beyond technology. It represents a major step toward Europe gaining greater control over its artificial...
Israel and the United Arab Emirates are growing closer because of the US-Israeli war on Iran , a senior Israeli official told AFP , citing increased military cooperation and opportunities to increase trade and business ties. Two Israeli...
Israeli forces have detained four female Birzeit University students following a series of overnight raids across the Ramallah area as part of a growing pattern of targeting students and academic institutions in the occupied West Bank . The...
Even if the US-Israeli war on Iran stopped immediately, disrupted global humanitarian supply lines would not recover before 2027, the United Nations said Tuesday. Nearly 100 days on from the 28 February US-Israeli attacks on Iran which...
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