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By Andrew WONG Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su U.S. President Donald Trump’s visit to China raises the question: what exactly did the United States and China achieve through these talks? The answer...

Editor's Choice, China, Donald Trump

Violence flares before protests on Thursday over president’s decision to remain in office after his term expired Fierce clashes have taken place between government troops and militias allied with the opposition in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, damaging property and forcing some civilians...

Somalia, World news, Africa

East Jerusalem - From 1997 to 2007, Israel transferred 150 families from the Arab al-Jahalin Bedouin tribe from their villages in the eastern Jerusalem hinterland to a satellite of the Palestinian town of Al-Eizariya known as Al-Jabal,...

In-depth

The Moroccan national team will enter the 2026 FIFA World Cup this summer in the United States, Canada and Mexico, carrying the momentum of their achievement in Qatar 2022. Still, they have haunted memories of the 1998 World Cup...

Sports

As smart glasses normalize mass surveillance in the U.S., cities must decide how to protect public anonymity Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su America is being watched. Not by a government decree, not...

Editor's Choice, Big Brother, Big Tech

Donald Trump’s explosive telephone call to Benjamin Netanyahu has taken the internet by storm. But can we really believe it’s true? Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Donald Trump’s explosive telephone call to...

Middle East, World, Benjamin Netanyahu

GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 72,956 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Thursday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...

News, death toll, Gaza Strip

Miss Imani had just finished benchmark testing and was sending her last student back to the classroom when she heard it: the sharp crack of gunfire that echoed off the high ceilings of the Islamic Center of San Diego's...

Society

China’s newly revealed sailless submarine may be designed not only to evade detection but also to threaten the undersea infrastructure underpinning Indo-Pacific military and economic power. This month, Naval News reported that China has covertly launched a highly advanced, “sailless”...

Military, Block 2, China

When Senior General Min Aung Hlaing arrived in India on May 30 for his first official overseas visit as Myanmar’s new “president,” the photo op was exactly what he wanted. The man who seized power in a coup, jailed elected...

Opinion, India, Min Aung Hlaing

More than a week after setting out on a mission to deliver aid to Palestinians living through Israel's genocide in the besieged Gaza Strip, ten international volunteers remain detained in eastern Libya, where they have now spent four...

MENA

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, head of the Higher Islamic Council in Occupied Jerusalem, has warned of a new Israeli draft law aimed at restricting the call to prayer (Adhan) and banning it in Jerusalem and 1948 occupied Palestine. In press...

News, Adhan ban, Aqsa Mosque

Franco-Iranian author and film director Marjane Satrapi, best known for the graphic novel and film "Persepolis", has died aged 56. "Marjane Satrapi died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and...

World

Over two months after his detention by immigration agents, advocates of Wisconsin-based Palestinian activist Salah Sarsour are raising concerns over reports of a dramatic decline in his health. Family and attorneys of Sarsour, who is in his...

World

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon said Thursday that a peacekeeper was killed and two others wounded when shelling hit their base in the country's south the previous night. "A UNIFIL peacekeeper died early this morning from critical...

MENA

The 2026 summit between Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, despite having resulted in no specific agreements, demonstrated that the Korean question is no longer a priority for either the United States or China. Both parties appear to have come to...

China, DPRK, North Korea

La risposta dell’Iran alla provocazione americana ha chiarito senza ombra di dubbio che l’attuale versione del quadro proposto per il cessate il fuoco di 60 giorni non regge. Segue nostro Telegram . MOSCA – L’Iran detiene un vantaggio insuperabile in...

Italiano, Diplomacy, Iran

Portugal and Austria defeated Germany for seats on the powerful but deeply divided UN Security Council on Wednesday in a hotly contested race after intense campaigning. Germany's close relations with Israel and leading role in rallying support for Ukraine...

World

WEST BANK, (PIC) Five Palestinians were injured on Thursday morning after Israeli soldiers assaulted them during a raid in the town of Dawha, west of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. According to Palestinian security sources, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed...

News, IOF raids, Israeli crimes

Picture alliance/abaca. Even the world’s strongest fleet is reaching its limits. Source: International Politics and Society, Brussels The US failure in Iran exposes the limits of power. But it also shows a deeper loss of moral and leadership capital that...

Armed Conflicts, Crime & Justice, Democracy

Government troops and militias allied with the opposition exchanged fire overnight and on Thursday morning in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, damaging property and forcing some civilians to flee, residents say. The violence flared up ahead of planned protests on Thursday...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) Nine Palestinian civilians were martyred and 15 others were wounded early Thursday morning in a series of Israeli airstrikes on apartments in Gaza City. Medical sources at al‑Shifa Hospital reported the arrival of nine fatalities and 15 injured following air...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli ceasefire violations

Global airline bosses gathering in Rio de Janeiro this weekend will be searching for answers to the industry's biggest crisis since the pandemic, with the US-Israel war on Iran driving up jet fuel costs, forcing flight detours, and...

World

Iran is losing the war against the US and Israel by most visible measures. Its air defenses have been obliterated, its senior leadership dead, and its already flagging economy is on the verge of collapse, with its crucial oil and...

Opinion, Block 2, Gulf States

Euro area annual inflation is expected to be 3.2% in May 2026, up from 3.0% in April according to a flash estimate from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union . Read Article HERE The...

Economics, Eurostat, Link

No, I have not been given access to NSA Sigint, but I have confirmed that the phone call last week between Iranian President Pezeshkian and Pakistani Prime Minister Shariff was over a non-secure line. I am reliably informed that this...

Larry C. Johnson

On Wednesday (June 3), Kyrgyzstan secured an upset victory over the Philippines to win a seat on the United Nations Security Council for the 2027-2028 term. After taking a surprising 105-85 lead in the first ballot, the Central Asian nation...

World, Block 2, Central Asia

The wave of currency depreciation that battered Indonesia’s foreign exchange market throughout April and May 2026 has pushed the rupiah to record lows, dangerously close to a new psychological threshold of 18,000 against the US dollar. When the currency broke...

Southeast Asia, 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, Bank Indonesia

As the government’s standing plummets to an all-time low due to a reckless disregard for the welfare of its people, mass protests sweep across major Iran’s cities, including Shiraz, Tabriz and Tehran. Driven by a threat to their economic survival,...

Diplomacy, Iran, Iran-nuclear-deal

Up until last week, it would have been unthinkable that a partner and mediating stalwart like Oman would be a target in Washington. Yet, here we are. President Donald Trump, in a characteristically offhand remark during a cabinet meeting, warned that...

Iran, Iran-war, Trump-administration

Islamic State-linked militia blamed for raids in North Kivu as governor says three patients with disease fled clinics Rebel attacks around a town that is one of the centres of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have...

Global development, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ebola

For three decades, Iffat Rachid Edriss walked Lebanon’s coastline with a clear purpose: protecting the sea she loves. She organised cleanups, conducted research, and helped rescue marine species, including turtles, seals, and dolphins. Through wars, economic crises, and environmental challenges,...

Africa, Aid, Armed Conflicts

By: Salman Rafi Sheikh - - - - On May 24, a suicide car bomb tore through a military train near Quetta, the capital of Pakistan’s restive Balochistan Province, killing at least two dozen soldiers. Hours later, Pakistan’s army chief...

Reprinted with permission from Trita Parsi’s Substack. “You’re fucking crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. I’m saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.” According to Axios, this is what Donald...

Uncategorized

Lebanon and Israel have agreed to the implementation of a ceasefire, according to a joint statement with the United States released by the State Department on Wednesday following negotiations in Washington . The ceasefire is contingent on a complete...

MENA

The US House of Representatives passed a resolution Wednesday ordering the withdrawal of American troops from the US-Israeli war on Iran - a largely symbolic move that nonetheless delivers a political blow to President Donald Trump. Four...

MENA

The House of Representatives successfully passed a resolution Wednesday that would direct President Donald Trump to remove U.S. armed forces from hostilities with Iran absent congressional approval. The legislation passed by a vote of 215-208, with all Democrats voting in favor....

War-powers, Congress, Congressional-democrats

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House passed a resolution Wednesday to force President Donald Trump to withdraw from the war with Iran and require congressional approval for further military action in the country. The 215-208 vote, in which four Republicans voted...

Middle East, Block 3, Donald Trump
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