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The Trump administration plans to deport a number of Iranians and other migrants to Central African Republic, a chronically unstable country racked by violence and poverty, two lawyers and an official briefed on the matter told Reuters...

World

US President Donald Trump on Thursday announced a "great settlement" to end the war with Iran, saying he expected a deal to be signed in Europe as soon as this weekend, while Tehran says no final decision on an...

MENA

As signals mounted early Thursday that President Trump planned to escalate with Iran, two congressional Republicans urged him to abandon what they said are fruitless negotiations with the Islamic Republic. While saying they wanted to see the war with Iran end,...

Diplomacy, Congressional-republicans, Republicans

As Nicolás Maduro’s foreign minister and vice president, interim Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez previously helped build Caracas’s ties to Russia, China, and other US adversaries. Despite Washington's desire for Venezuela to now orient toward the West, Rodríguez is also courting...

Long War Journal, News, china

Shares in China’s biggest e-commerce companies fell on Thursday after Beijing’s market regulator summoned five of the country’s largest online shopping platforms over deceptive promotional practices ahead of the annual “618” (June 1 shopping festival. Alibaba’s Hong Kong-listed shares...

China, Alibaba, Block 2

In the 1950s and 1960s, a massive wave of underground humor swept across the USSR and the Eastern Bloc featuring a fictional broadcaster called Armenian Radio (known in the West as Radio Yerevan). Many of the jokes involved food lines...

Military, Block 1, NATO

In October 2023, Israel found an excuse to breathe new life into an old story of slaughter and expulsion. The chief differences this time have been of scale and duration Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the...

Geopolitics, Article, Jonathan Cook

DOHA, (PIC) Hamas Political Bureau member and negotiation delegation member Hossam Badran said that meetings between Palestinian factions in Cairo are taking place in a positive and constructive atmosphere, noting that there is broad agreement on a unified national position regarding...

News, Gaza Strip, Hamas Movement

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli government is expected on Thursday to approve the allocation of 1 billion shekels (approximately $338 million) for new settlement projects in the occupied West Bank, including infrastructure development and expanded services for settlements and outposts, according...

News, Israeli violations, Settlement

The 2026 World Cup finally kicks off on Thursday with Spain and France as the clear pre-tournament favorites. Spain, ranked second in the latest FIFA Men's World Rankings, are co-favorites at +450 by BetMGM along with third-ranked France. Spain are...

Sports

One in two workers at France’s national railways walk out over pay and conditions; further protests across Iran’s cities by high school students, academics, sacked steel workers and medical students as living standards plummet due to US sanctions and savage...

There will be an unprecedented eight Arab nations at the 2026 World Cup, which takes place in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. The tournament has been expanded, from the 32 that competed at the 2022 tournament to 48...

In-depth

While promising more strikes against Iran on Thursday, President Donald Trump suggested that the US would soon be “taking” Kharg Island in a bid to seize “total control” of the country’s oil and gas market. That’s an operation that would likely require ground troops....

Middle East, Block 2, boots on the ground

Israel’s escalating military campaign in Gaza and the occupied West Bank is "claiming an intolerable price" in Palestinian children's lives, UNICEF has warned, as killings, injuries and detentions surge to unprecedented levels. In its latest statement...

MENA

The explosive growth of artificial intelligence is transforming the semiconductor industry, and nowhere is this more evident than in the memory sector. AI training and inference workloads are fundamentally memory-intensive, driving unprecedented demand for advanced DRAM architectures, High Bandwidth Memory...

Chiplet, Foundries, AI Boom

Drone strikes on the strategic Sudanese city of El-Obeid killed 23 people, a rights group and witnesses said on Thursday, in one of the deadliest aerial attacks the city has seen since the war began . Drone warfare...

MENA

New documents from government agencies such as the FBI and Department of Homeland Security show that Washington is preparing for widespread anti-A.I. riots, as the technology destroys communities and industries across the country. Ironically, the Trump administration is already using...

Front Page: Inside Stories, Front Page: National, Investigations

The prospects of forming a Joint Palestinian Arab electoral list within Israel's 1948 boundaries have significantly diminished ahead of forthcoming Israeli Knesset elections, after hopes rose in recent weeks amid popular support from Palestinian citizens of...

MENA

Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al Zaidi is set to visit Washington, DC, as his government seeks investment, security cooperation, and support for efforts to strengthen state authority. A central focus of his agenda is bringing weapons held by Iranian-backed militias...

Long War Journal, News, Iraq

BEIRUT, (PIC) Lebanon’s Health Ministry said on Thursday that the death toll from Israel’s assault on the country since March 2 has risen to 3,711, with 11,483 others wounded. Israeli warplanes carried out strikes on several areas across southern Lebanon and Baalbek...

News, Israeli aggression, Lebanon

The Federal Reserve is under new leadership. Kevin Warsh, Donald Trump’s appointee to succeed Jerome Powell as chair, was confirmed by the Senate on May 13. He will preside over his first meeting of the Fed’s interest-rate-setting Federal Open Market...

Finance, Block 2, Donald Trump

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, head of the Higher Islamic Council in Occupied Jerusalem, has called on Muslim worshipers to frequent the Aqsa Mosque and intensify their presence inside its premises and courtyards to protect it against Israeli schemes. In a...

News, Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Sabri

Lebanon cannot realistically stop the import of fibre-optic cables used by Iran-backed Hezbollah to manufacture drones because the component has widespread civilian uses, a Lebanese government source told The New Arab on Thursday. The Lebanese Ministry of...

MENA

A jury at Birmingham crown court is deliberating whether four pro-Palestine activists committed criminal damage at an arms factory in Wolverhampton. Defendants Iain Evans, Hisham Alkhamesi, Frank Sherman, and Hana Yun-Stevens believed the factory, used by arms firm Moog, supplied weaponry...

Archive, Arms Trade, Middle East

Somali referee Omar Artan, who was denied entry to the United States for the World Cup, was on Thursday named to officiate UEFA's Super Cup, European football's governing body announced. UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin poured praise on the Somali...

Sports

Dozens of federal immigration agents have been arrested — and in some cases, convicted — of crimes related to sexual and gender-based violence, according to a group of antifascist researchers. The Pacific Antifascist Collective (PAC) tracks federal immigration agents...

Activism, Countering Violence Against Women, Courts & Law

As temperatures in the village of Bemani, Iran, near the Strait of Hormuz, reached above 100°F this week, two water facilities were struck by bombs, cutting off the drinking water supply for 20,000 people in the area. An analysis by The New York Times late Wednesday...

Middle East, Block 3, Iran war 2026

- - - - Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash I haven’t talked much about the hinky stuff that transpired with the LA mayoral primary. It’s stupid to have a jungle primary in the first place, but...

This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . As the midterm elections approach , something strange has happened: Democratic politicians who once talked about climate change as the defining crisis...

Activism, Environment, News

Last June, train stations across France were transformed into impromptu immigration checkpoints. Citing a “surge” in illegal immigration, France’s then-interior minister, Bruno Retailleau, dispatched 4,000 police and immigration agents to more than 800 stations across the country. They boarded more...

Courts & Law, Europe, Immigration

Fatima Jabbe-Bio kept tenancy in Southwark despite living for much of year at presidential lodge in Freetown A social housing flat rented by Sierra Leone’s first lady has been seized by a London council. Southwark council confirmed it had repossessed the two-bedroom...

Social housing, Housing, Communities

Welcome. Here are the latest updates from today: - US President Donald Trump said he was calling off strikes on Iran on Thursday and signalled the signing of a possible deal with Tehran after top-level talks. - - "Based on the fact...

MENA

Welcome. Here are the latest updates from today: - US President Donald Trump said he was calling off strikes on Iran on Thursday and signalled the signing of a possible deal with Tehran after top-level talks. - - "Based on the fact...

MENA

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has applauded the detonation of an explosive device at Israeli forces in al-Jaberiyat neighborhood of Jenin City, calling it a “reflection of continuous Palestinian resistance in the occupied West Bank. In a statement on Thursday, Hamas...

News, Hamas Movement, Resistance operations

Israel is planning to establish a permanent military base in the West Bank city of Jenin , marking a significant escalation in its presence within the occupied territory. This would be the first time since the 1993 Oslo Accords...

MENA

- - - - Our Q&A discussions are a lot of fun, and we’re grateful to everyone who submits their questions. If you missed any of our live shows, the full streams are available here on Substack. This week’s...

President Donald Trump threatened to invade Iran’s Kharg Island in order to seize Iranian oil infrastructure there. “At some point in the not too distant future, we will be taking Kharg Island, and other oil infrastructure points, and assume total...

Donald-trump, Trump-administration, Kharg

Team Qatar Enjoy Successful Opening Day at the 24 Hours of Le Mans Encouraging start as Team Qatar by Iron Lynx set the fourth quickest time in yesterday’s first free practice session and progress into Hyperpole LMGT3 qualifying later today...

Middle East, News, NewsWire

Afghan media workers face growing restrictions under Taliban rule, with women journalists pushed further from reporting, broadcasting and public visibility. Credit: Learning Together. By External Source KABUL, Jun 11 2026 (IPS) Afghanistan ranks 175th in the Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom...

Asia-Pacific, Gender, Headlines
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