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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....

Italiano, Armenia, Caucasus

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...

MENA

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...

Middle East, Block 1, Donald Trump

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...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli aggression

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...

News, Israeli aggression, Israeli genocide

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...

Democracy & Governance, Bulgaria, European Union

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...

MENA

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...

Sports

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...

Events, Foundries, TSMC

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...

Perspectives

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...

MENA

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...

Economy

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...

MENA

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...

MENA

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)...

Stockpiles, Iran-war, Thaad

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...

MENA

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...

Pollution, Ocean, Groundwater

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...

Long War Journal, News, Iran

The “Total Shutdown Tuesday” protests opposed a sharp fuel price hike, raising petrol prices by over 16 percent and diesel by more than 24 percent. The hike, driven by disruptions to global oil supplies by the US-Israeli war against Iran,...

WEST BANK, (PIC) A Palestinian young man was martyred on Wednesday evening, succumbing to serious injuries from live bullets fired by armed Jewish settlers during their terrorist attack on the town of Deir Dibwan, east of Ramallah in the occupied West...

News, Jewish terrorism, Settler crimes

Top British universities been revealed to have paid a private firm to "spy" on pro-Palestine protesters and academics, drawing backlash from activists. Twelve institutions, including the University of Oxford, King's College London (KCL), University College London, the London School...

World

An Italian Constitutional Court ruling has opened the way for the enforcement of compensation linked to the Distomo massacre , marking a significant development in the long-running legal battle over German war reparations. Read Article HERE The post...

EU politics, National Politics, Greek City Times

Israeli involvement in the delivery of humanitarian aid to a besieged south Lebanon border village has raised questions over the relationship between Israel and the organisation behind the shipment, following an investigation by The New Arab. The...

MENA

There will not be a negotiated settlement to the Iran war. It will have to be fought out to a conclusion, whatever that might be. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: Screen Grab I’ve written on...

Geopolitics, Article, Aurelien

As of my recent posts on quantum computing (QC), superconducting QC is the leading technology contender, exemplified in systems from IBM, Google, and Fujitsu. Other technologies such as ion trap, neutral atom, photonic and quantum dot have generally been viewed...

Quantum Computing, bernard murphy, QEC

Safe cities cannot be built on a foundation of exclusion. They are built on trust, dignity, and the right to exist without fear. Credit: Shutterstock By ElsaMarie D’Silva and Harish Iyer MUMBAI, India, Apr 22 2026 (IPS) On 30 March,...

Gender, Headlines, Human Rights

Without understanding the astonishing network of power exercised by the United Arab Emirates you would have no idea why the UAE was hit particularly hard by Iran in recent weeks. Nor would you know what fuels chaos from Libya to...

Geopolitics, Article, Eugene Doyle

The United States blocked a plane carrying nearly $500 million in banknotes from delivering the cash to Iraq, US media reported on Tuesday, piling pressure on Baghdad to fight Iran-backed groups. The Wall Street Journal reported that...

World

Colombian mercenaries backed by the United Arab Emirates assisted Sudan’s RSF paramilitary group in seizing El Fasher in 2025, contributing to war crimes committed during the 18-month takeover, a new report has found. An investigation...

MENA

US efforts to install a post-Hamas administration in Gaza are in danger of unravelling as obstruction by Israel threatens to collapse the nascent Palestinian committee before it even enters the devastated territory. At least four of the...

MENA

The United Arab Emirates says it has dismantled an Iran-linked “terrorist organisation” targeting the Muslim Shia community of the UAE. But the evidence made public so far tells a different story — one that raises serious questions about whether these...

Daily Digest, Foreign Affairs, Front Page: Foreign Affairs

Syrian and Palestinian rights monitors have denied reports of a fresh wave of arrests targeting Palestinian refugees in Damascus, clarifying that the detentions being discussed took place about a week ago and that no new campaigns have...

MENA

As towns and villages across Vietnam lined their streets with Lunar New Year decorations, including spring flowers and red-lettered banners, in Vinh Tuong, celebrations were sparse. No new furniture was bought; no house renovation or repainting was allowed. With most men...

Energy, Energy transition, Livelihoods

Restrainers in the West have found themselves homeless. President Donald Trump ’s catastrophic decision to launch a war against Iran has displaced the non-interventionist voices on the American right . In Europe, meanwhile, the bland Atlanticist centrism and,...

Column, Europe, Middle East

When Sudan's war broke out on 15 April 2023, few imagined it would still be burning three years later . Fewer still imagined the scale of what it would become: one of the worst humanitarian crises on the...

Analysis

WEST BANK, (PIC) The number of Palestinian women in Israeli jails has surged to 90 prisoners as of April 2026, according to the Palestine Information Center (Mo’ta). In a statement released on Wednesday, Mo’ta explained that most Palestinian female prisoners are held...

News, Detained women, Israeli prisons

The UAE's ambassador to the US has mounted a defence of the country's economy after US President Donald Trump appeared to confirm reports that the Gulf state was exploring emergency liquidity options to deal with the fallout of...

MENA

At its narrowest point, the Strait of Hormuz is barely 33 kilometers. Because of its location in the middle of the oil-rich Middle East, the strait can disrupt global energy flow and halt economies. After the United States and Israel launched...

Energy, iran war, strait of hormuz

- - - - Photo by Amanna Avena on Unsplash A couple of weeks ago, Savanah Hernandez, a Turning Point USA reporter, was assaulted by three members of the same family, plus one’s boyfriend, at an anti-ICE...

A Palestinian Authority team tasked with looking into the fate of more than 11,000 Palestinians missing and forcibly disappeared from Gaza commenced its work on Tuesday. The first meeting was chaired by Justice Minister Sharhabil al-Zaeem , in...

MENA

Republicans are at it again , and it’s hard to overstate how chilling this is and what it tells you about the direction people in this party want to take America. Texas Rep. Chip Roy is preparing to introduce legislation he’s...

Activism, Column, Courts & Law

MPs have called for sanctions against an Israeli charity, after it was caught on camera by Declassified offering to help UK citizens move to an illegal settlement in the West Bank. Last week, our undercover investigation revealed...

Archive, Middle East, Charity Commission

Los casos se multiplican, incluyendo los de muchos prisioneros que denunciaron haber sido desnudados por completo y mantenidos así durante horas o incluso días, en condiciones degradantes. Únete a nosotros en Telegram , Twitter y VK . Escríbenos: info@strategic-culture.su A...

Español, Gaza Strip, Human Rights
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