We must demand societal change that transforms harmful power structures. Only then can we secure healthier, more equal lives and sustainable futures. Credit: Duncan Shaffer/Unsplash By Johanna Riha and Asha George KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 23 2026 (IPS) The world of...
On Wednesday, journalist Amal Khalil and photographer Zeinab Faraj were reporting from southern Lebanon when an Israeli airstrike reportedly hit a car in front of them. The two journalists, working for the Lebanese newspaper Al Akhbar,...
Gaza's first elections in more than two decades are set to take place in Deir al-Balah amid Israel's ongoing offensive, as the latest drone strike killed five Palestinians, including three children, despite a ceasefire reached last October. Voting in...
A senior Iranian parliament official said on Thursday that Tehran has received the first revenue from tolls it imposed on the strategic Strait of Hormuz in its war with the United States and Israel . "The first revenue...
Iran has banked the first proceeds from the tolls it is exacting on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz , a senior official said Thursday, as disruption triggered by the US-Israeli war against the Islamic...
The Turkish parliament voted on Wednesday to prevent children under the age of 15 from accessing social media platforms , state media agency Anadolu reported, the latest country to try such a ban. Under the law,...
US Secretary of the Navy John Phelan will leave office "immediately," the Pentagon announced Wednesday, without providing an explanation for the sudden exit. Phelan's departure follows the removal of top US Army officer general Randy George and two other...
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Wednesday that a number of allies in the Gulf region and in Asia have requested currency swap lines from the United States to help deal with energy shocks and...
The rise of scam centers across Southeast Asia, particularly in Myanmar and Cambodia, has put a spotlight on existing economic inequalities and how these vulnerabilities are preyed upon to exploit the most vulnerable. With American losses funding the system, US...
When renowned British Iraqi visual artist Dia al-Azzawi first held a solo exhibition in the city he now calls home — London — it came about by pure coincidence. Presented in 1978 at the Patrick Seale Gallery ,...
The scenario that is emerging is one of the dissolution of the Western left into a woke progressivism invented by financial capital. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su On April 17th and 18th,...
The African Union Commission and the Economic Commission for Africa announce an emergency plan to respond to the impacts of the Middle East conflict. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPS By Busani Bafana TANGIER, Morocco, Apr 23 2026 (IPS) Fearing the Middle East war...
In Gaza, the issue of missing children has become one of the most painful and alarming humanitarian crises facing thousands of Gazan families. Made worse since the outbreak of Israel's genocide in Gaza in October 2023, the...
GAZA, (PIC) One Palestinian civilian was martyred and others were injured on Thursday in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, amid ceasefire violations persisting for the 196th consecutive day. Medical sources reported that the young man, Yehya Abu Shalhoub, was martyred and...
The family of former Zambian president Edgar Chagwu Lungu has launched an urgent court bid in Pretoria after his body was taken from a mortuary without their permission by the South African Police Service (SAPS) and Zambian authorities. Esther Lungu...
Trump sounds crazy, but he is not. He is, however, the product of an American empire that had gone completely mad. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Trump’s “crazy antics” on Truth Social,...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out a large-scale arrest campaign in the West Bank and Jerusalem, kidnaping dozens of Palestinian citizens from their homes last night and at dawn Thursday. According to local sources, the IOF kidnaped a...
Fertilizer input stress is beginning to rebuild upstream as shipping disruptions continue to constrain flows through critical energy and chemical corridors. Recent developments across Middle Eastern routes, namely the blockades at the Strait of Hormuz, combined with tightening export conditions...
The acting head of Malawi’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) allegedly used confidential corruption case files involving senior opposition politicians as leverage to pressurise the parliamentary committee examining his conduct. The allegation is contained in a formal, seven-page complaint filed on 22 April...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) Arab Prisoners’ Day, observed annually on April 22, comes amid a marked rise in the number of Arab detainees in Israeli prisons. This follows Palestinian Prisoners’ Day on April 17, during what is described as one of the harshest...
Dozens of Israeli settlers belonging to the "Pioneers of Bashan" movement on Wednesday stormed the border between the Syrian village of Majdal Shams and Mount al-Sarakhat, and raised an Israeli flag over one of the village homes. Majdal Shams...
Iran and the US are continuing to dig in their heels in the ongoing standoff over the Strait of Hormuz , an issue which threatens to torpedo Pakistan's efforts to broker a long-term peace between the...
Iran and the US are continuing to dig in their heels in the ongoing standoff over the Strait of Hormuz , an issue which threatens to torpedo Pakistan's efforts to broker a long-term peace between the...
GAZA, (PIC) Israeli violations in Gaza do not begin at the moment of bombardment, nor do they end with the announcement of a ceasefire on paper. What unfolds on the ground tells an entirely different story: repeated gunfire, targeting of areas...
RAMALLAH / PNN/ A 29-year-old Palestinian man died on Wednesday evening after being shot during an attack by Israeli settlers on the town of Deir Dibwan, east of Ramallah, according to medical and local sources. The victim, identified as Ouda Atef Ouda...
Imagine a poker game in which one player has spent decades mastering every bluff, every tell, every hidden card. Their opponent, playing for the first time, relies on instinct, bravado and the vague hope that sheer force of will can...
Bethlehem / PNN/ More than 1,000 artists and production companies worldwide have called for a boycott of the Eurovision Song Contest, scheduled for May in Vienna, in protest against Israel’s participation. The statement, published on the website of the “No Music for...
BEIRUT / PNN / The Lebanese Red Cross announced on Wednesday evening the killing of journalist Amal Khalil in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon while she was carrying out her journalistic work. The Lebanese Ministry of Health said in an earlier...
GAZA, (PIC) At least five Palestinian civilians were martyred and several others were injured, including a woman and a girl, on Wednesday evening, in Israeli attacks in separate areas of the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Information Center (PIC) reporter said that five...
The bear has been provoked and has warned, repeatedly and explicitly, what it will do if the provocations continue. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The warning The Russian Defence Ministry’s publication of...
The Palestine movement in the United Kingdom has begun preparations for a Nakba Day march despite British police not yet approving the planned route. The Palestine Solidarity Campaign , one of the movement’s largest organisations, announced that this...
By Sania Farooqui BENGALURU, India, Apr 23 2026 (IPS) The period after Armenia’s 2018 “ Velvet Revolution ” maintains a fragile status which presents both substantial democratic and feminist achievements and rising internal and external international pressures. Gulnara Shahinian, Founder &...
Most of the US military bases and facilities in the Persian Gulf (listed below) have been hit by Iran during the first five weeks of the war. And many of these are no longer operating or have been effectively destroyed....
The BBC , Guardian and Sky News have repeatedly used language, tone and framing that dehumanises Palestinian casualties, a UK media monitor has said. By analysing 11,295 excerpts from 686 articles covering the same events across...
Donald Trump’s deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face a renewal of American bombardment was due to expire this week, but was extended at the last moment, this time with no defined time limit. But the...
Credit: UNFPA Lebanon By UN Population Fund CAIRO, Egypt, Apr 23 2026 (IPS) Six weeks into the 2026 Middle East military escalation, UNFPA Arab States Regional Office warns that its impact on 161 million women and girls living in conflict-affected areas...
It may sound hard to believe, but the almost trillion-dollar US military is struggling to fight cheap drones in its war with Iran. Iran has built a simple drone, the Shahed, with a motorcycle-type engine, loaded it with explosives and...
Soft power is notoriously hard to quantify, but it’s difficult to argue that global soft power has been shifting steadily toward East Asia in recent decades. A few years ago, I wrote a post about how South Korea became a...
There is a certain grim symmetry to watching Washington, in the spring of 2026, once again flailing about in the Persian Gulf — blockading Iranian ports, rattling sabers over a strait it cannot fully control and dispatching delegations to Islamabad...
Even as U.S. President Donald Trump vows to usher in a “new dawn” for Cuba, possibly through military force, his administration is pursuing high-level diplomatic talks that seem to be producing some concrete results. Over the weekend, the New York Times...
In a sign of mounting pressure on European leaders over Israel’s violence in occupied Palestinian territories and beyond, more than a million EU citizens have called for suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement via a European Citizens' Initiative — a...
A two-year-old speech by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in which he suggested that Turkey should take a more assertive posture toward Israel, recently recirculated online as if it were a fresh threat of military attack against Israel. Pro-Israel X...
Chile is seeking to rescue the critical minerals from its mountains of mining waste, amid concerns this re-exploitation could damage communities and environments. Tailings are the mixtures of ground rock and water left behind after extraction at a mine, their deposits...
By: Tim Daiss - - - - Japan’s recent offer of US$10 billion in loans to Southeast Asian countries to secure oil supplies comes at a moment of heightened market anxiety. Oil prices have spiked to multi-year highs amid Middle...
Iran’s military might was never going to be a match for the US and Israel. So instead it turned to the highly effective weapon it has at its disposal – geography. Blocking off the Strait of Hormuz has shaken the...
A top envoy to US President Donald Trump has asked FIFA to replace Iran with Italy in the upcoming World Cup, The Financial Times reported on Wednesday. The plan is an effort to repair ties between Trump...
Britain and France have agreed a new three-year deal to stop undocumented migrants making the risky journey across the English Channel, according to a French interior ministry roadmap seen by AFP on Wednesday. Under the deal, France pledged...
Iran vowed on Wednesday not to reopen the Strait of Hormuz so long as a US naval blockade remained in place despite a ceasefire extension, as it announced the seizure of two ships trying to cross...
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