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On June 16, the Pentagon announced that U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) would revert to its 1947 name, U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM). U.S. officials called it a restoration of "deep historical roots" and insisted that the command's area of responsibility, stretching...

In the iconic final sequence of The Godfather, Michael Corleone eliminated his rivals one by one while his son was being baptized. The scene stands as one of cinema’s most compelling depictions of power and the consolidation of control, and...

The outbreak of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz catalyzed an energy market shock that reverberated globally, creating “the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market,” according to the...

By: Tita C. Valderama - - - - The Philippine Senate, sitting as an impeachment court, opened Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial on Monday in what could become the country’s most consequential constitutional proceeding since the conviction of former...

Pakistan has quietly begun mediating between Libya's rival eastern and western power centres , news agency Reuters reports- citing two Pakistani sources- in a previously unreported Pakistani effort that would further raise its diplomatic profile if it...

The UN aid chief held a phone call Monday with Sudan's RSF paramilitary leader on hostilities around El-Obeid, and stressed the need for sustained humanitarian access to the city, his agency said. Tom Fletcher spoke to Mohamed Hamdan Daglo,...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government has threatened to fight a Supreme Court order regarding a media regulator, reigniting a judicial dispute that shook Israel in the months leading up to Hamas' October 7, 2023 attack . The decision comes ahead...

A Syrian ex-general and a former police officer were handed eight-year jail sentences by a Viennese court on Monday for torturing opponents of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad . The trial is the latest to see suspects from the Syrian civil...

Lebanese state media said an Israeli strike on a car in the country's south on Monday killed four people, including three women, despite a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah . Lebanon's official National News Agency (NNA) said a...

Il panafricanismo è stato storicamente ideologia e prassi. Agli occhi dei suoi ispiratori questo non poteva mai rimanere un discorso chiuso, rigido, dogmatico e limitato sulla consapevolezza razziale. Dopo la scomparsa dei suoi leader carismatici (da Nkrumah a Sankara, fino...

The Israeli parliament approved a bill in its first reading on Monday to set up a commission of inquiry into the security failings that led to the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 . "The purpose of the proposed law...

A Gaza doctor was abducted and has been held captive in an Israeli dungeon for more than 550 days, for the crime of trying to save Palestinians caught up in the Israeli slaughter. James Smith is a lecturer in Humanitarian Policy...

The rise of ‘Pax Americana’. Read part 1 of this series, on the American revolution, here . Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog President Monroe,...

What Marx thought about the role of the individual in history. Norman Solomon is the national director of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. The paperback edition of his latest book, War Made Invisible: How America...

Israel is only at the beginning of a "revolution in settlement" building, far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Monday, declaring that the government's expansionist ambitions would extend beyond the occupied West Bank to the Naqab and Galilee. "I...

GENEVA, (PIC) The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has warned that Israeli authorities are turning the Gaza Strip into a “genocidal ghetto,” imposing a tragic reality whose severity and intensity surpass that of the infamous Srebrenica enclave. “Israel is legitimizing and enforcing a...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party has become ideologically inseparable from its far-right coalition partner Otzma Yehudit, Israeli and Palestinian politicians and analysts told The New Arab , after a Likud minister publicly acknowledged there were...

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Damascus on Monday for the first visit by a Western European head of state since Syria's new authorities took power in 2024. Macron, who will depart on Tuesday, will advocate for "a free,...

As a funeral ceremony for Iran’s slain Supreme Leader began over the weekend, the Islamic Republic appeared to use an unusual form of diplomatic signalling through Qur’anic recitation. Delegations from across the region and beyond travelled to Tehran to...

Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim that Christian villages in southern Lebanon had asked to be annexed by Israel has been emphatically rejected by Lebanese Christian leaders, who accused the Israeli prime minister of peddling a dangerous falsehood designed to inflame sectarian tensions...

After 20 years ruling over the Gaza Strip, Hamas dissolved its government on Monday, the movement announced in a statement . The head of Hamas’s government emergency committee and the government follow up committee is stepping down, and the emergency...

The Israeli government blocked the creation of a specialist prosecution unit designed to dismantle organised crime networks in Palestinian communities inside Israel , reigniting long-standing accusations that successive governments have failed to seriously confront spiralling violence...

Israel’s continued imprisonment of prominent Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu Safiya is "political, not legal" and keeping him behind bars despite mounting evidence of torture brings him "closer to death", Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) has told...

A jury has acquitted an activist of violent disorder at an Israeli-owned arms factory targeted by Palestine Action in August 2024. William Plastow, 35, was acquitted on Monday at the Old Bailey due to what presiding Judge Patrick Field said was...

Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) appear to be preparing a major offensive on North Kordofan’s capital of El-Obeid . In recent weeks, they have reportedly amassed troops around the strategic city, which links southern and western Sudan with...

GAZA, (PIC) The announcement of the resignation of the head of the Government Work Follow-up Committee in the Gaza Strip, and the dissolution of the government emergency committee, constitutes a political and administrative development that goes beyond the procedural dimension to...

In the heart of historic Philadelphia, community activists have spent more than a year fighting to preserve Black history against Trump administration attempts to rewrite it. On June 18, a federal appeals court sided with...

Elon Musk became — at least temporarily — the world’s first trillionaire on June 12 after his space, telecommunications and AI company SpaceX had the largest initial public offering in history. Initially priced at $135 per share...

- - - - Photo by Adrian Fleur on Unsplash I’ll be the first to admit that the United States is not perfect now, nor has it ever been. Nothing created by man ever will be. I...

In 1850 , the anti-slavery, unionist President Zachary Taylor spoke at Fourth of July celebrations in Washington, D.C. Afterward, he walked along the Potomac River. Hot and sweaty, on his return to the White House, he drank a lot of...

Hundreds of women employees of the Agriculture Ministry from governorates across Egypt staged a march in Giza on Monday, demanding the ministry pay out salaries that have been suspended for the past five years, one of the protestors told Mada...

On July 1, 2025 , the U.S. Agency for International Development laid off thousands of staff, including me. A year later, I’m still wrestling with what it all meant. The justifications offered at the time — that USAID was riddled...