White House budget director Russell Vought said on Wednesday he could not estimate the cost of the Iran war , as he defended President Donald Trump 's request for a massive $1.5 trillion annual military budget against bipartisan...
South Korea has secured 273 million barrels of crude oil from the Middle East and Kazakhstan through the end of the year, with supplies routed outside the Strait of Hormuz , presidential chief of staff Kang Hoon-sik said on...
A Kuwaiti migrant went on trial Wednesday in a London court charged with planning a knife attack on Israel's London embassy just days after his UK asylum application was refused. Abdullah Sabah Albadri, 34, of no fixed...
Nel pieno della crisi mediorientale, la Cina chiama la comunità internazionale a sostenere il ritorno della pace nel Golfo e denuncia i limiti di una politica statunitense verso Pechino sempre più ideologica, disinformata e priva di autentica conoscenza del paese....
An Istanbul court on Tuesday sentenced a veteran Turkish journalist to two years and six months in prison on charges of " spreading misleading information ", the journalist and the rights groups said. The case against Zafer Arapkirli, a...
US rapper Kanye West postponed late Tuesday his concert in the French city of Marseille, following reports that the country's interior minister was seeking to block the performance. "After much thought and consideration, it is my sole decision to postpone...
WASHINGTON — The White House budget director on Wednesday defended the administration’s latest request for Congress, testifying before the House Budget Committee that a 43% increase in defense spending and a 10% cut to domestic programs is the best path...
The head of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog said Wednesday that “very detailed” measures to verify Iran’s nuclear activities must be included in a potential U.S.-Iran agreement to end their war in the Middle East . International Atomic...
The United States said on Wednesday it was discussing a possible second round of peace talks with Iran in Pakistan and was optimistic about reaching a deal, as Tehran threatened to shut down Red Sea trade unless Washington...
In the universe of far-right politics, the three members of the Axis of Evil are Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Viktor Orban. The first presides over the most powerful country in the world. The second launched the first major land...
Gaza's civil defence agency said on Tuesday that a toddler was among 10 people killed in separate Israeli strikes in the northern part of the besieged Palestinian territory . Violence continues despite a ceasefire in the Gaza...
CHICAGO /PNN / The General Secretariat of the Arab Network for Culture, Opinion and Media has condemned what it described as ongoing abuses against prominent Palestinian prisoner Marwan Barghouti, marking the 24th anniversary of his imprisonment with a call for...
Reprinted with permission from The Realist Review. There is a saying often repeated in circles critical of the foreign policy establishment: “Whoever gets elected, you always get John McCain”. You’re especially likely to hear it when a president turns into...
An Iranian national convicted in France on charges of inciting terrorism went back to Iran on Wednesday, one week after two French nationals detained in Tehran returned to France , according to Iranian state television. Mahdieh Esfandiari was sentenced by...
Germany is beginning to form Ukraine's military potential on the basis of German technologies and industrial capacities, throwing down a challenge to Russia. Ukraine Became One of Germany's Federal States Volodymyr Zelensky was received in Berlin on a red carpet and...
Donors exceed funding target at Berlin conference but prospects for ceasefire remain distant More than £1bn (€1.15bn) has been pledged for war-ravaged Sudan at a conference in Berlin, eclipsing the funding target organisers had set to help mitigate the world’s largest...
A drone struck an Iranian Kurdish group on Tuesday, killing a woman in Iraq's northern Kurdistan region , a party official told AFP . It was the first such attack against Iranian Kurds in Iraqi Kurdistan since a fragile...
Security forces in Syria have detained more than 40 Palestinians during a security campaign carried out in recent days in the Damascus and Damascus countryside governorates, according to a report issued on Tuesday by the Action Group for...
Israel's High Court was on Wednesday hearing four petitions backed by the country's attorney general that seek to oust hardline National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir . The case is the latest example of the tension between the judiciary and...
What are the possible economic and financial consequences of the War of Aggression by the US and Israel against Iran? Dillon Maxwell is a member of the Socio-economics Policy Analysis and Research Collective (SPARC) and a PhD Economics candidate at SOAS,...
A ceasefire in Lebanon is expected to come into effect within hours following what sources described as Iranian pressure and intensive Pakistani mediation efforts. Iranian sources told The New Arab that the agreement remains uncertain and dependent...
Review the specifications of any state-of-the-art microcontroller and you will discover the high dynamic current the device can consume. Examining the high clock rates and low tolerable voltage drop will lead you to the all-important power delivery network, or PDN....
Western economics appear once again to be in turmoil Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Robert’s Blog Photo licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license...
CALLING ALL FUNDRAISERS: Are you interested in raising funds for the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign by participating in one of the 250 running, walking, climbing or other multisport events in Ireland from Bundoran to Bohereen; Dunboyne to Doneen; FEARmanagh to...
Egypt could receive up to $2 billion in Chinese investment in its aluminium sector as producers in the Gulf face major setbacks due to the Iran war. Chinese industrial group Henan Zhongfu is in talks with the government...
I was recently in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and approached a group of young men in front of the Indian embassy. I told them I was a University of Toronto researcher. I asked: “Are you from the scam compounds?” Scam compounds...
A rival of Syrian Druze leader Hikmat al-Hijri was killed in Suweida by unknown assailants on Tuesday, amid heightened tensions in the area over the administration of the southern Syrian province. According to local sources cited by Arabi21...
Sara Gandini Segue nostro Telegram . Dalla guerra al virus allo scontro con il nemico di turno: se prestiamo attenzione a queste tendenze ci accorgiamo che stiamo diventando tutti sacrificabili Correva il biennio 2020-2021 e, sotto gli effetti della pandemia...
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni was supposed to be Europe’s bridge to US President Donald Trump . It may be burning. After chastising Pope Leo XIV , Trump turned his ire on Meloni, long one of his closest European allies,...
The United Nations just released its 2025 Global Climate Report , and, predictably, the outlook for our Earth is incredibly dire. The past 11 years were the 11 warmest on record, and planet’s energy imbalance — the amount of...
The future of the Pakistan-brokered ceasefire between the United States, Israel, and Iran remains deeply uncertain. Whether it marks a fleeting pause in what may prove to be a protracted conflict , or the first fragile step toward...
By Dr. Rassem Bisharat Al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights and Targeted Villages affirms that the on-the-ground realities in the area extending between Al-Sawahra al-Sharqiya, Abu Dis, and Al-Eizariya, along with the surrounding small and scattered Bedouin communities, indicate...
The question of who should be responsible for meeting the rapidly growing need and expenses for elderly care remains a contentious issue in many countries. Credit: Shutterstock. By Joseph Chamie PORTLAND, USA, Apr 15 2026 (IPS) Who should be responsible for...
What a lively Sunday April 13 proved to be. We had the landslide defeat of Hungary’s Viktor Orbán; the predictable failure of 24 – some reports say 21, but who’s counting? – hours’ worth of talks in Islamabad between America and...
The US economic strangulation of Cuba has created unbearable hardships for the population. Medea Benjamin describes what she saw on a recent solidarity delegation and how we can break the blockade Medea Benjamin, a co-founder of the antiwar organization CODEPINK,...
Iranians are itching to fight – in case the ceasefire collapses. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su All hail the almighty return of Pirates of the Caribbean, now upgraded to Pirates of the...
GAZA, (PIC) In a narrow alley in Khan Yunis, Umm Ahmad Al-Arablashi sits clutching her cheek, her face tightened by relentless pain. For days she has barely slept not because of airstrikes or explosions, but because of an infected tooth she...
Iran secretly acquired a Chinese spy satellite in late 2024 that has allowed it to target US military bases across the Middle East during the current war, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, an account Beijing...
Israeli authorities have reportedly authorised building illegal settlements on private Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, weeks after 34 new settlements were approved there, amid the Israeli government’s plan to accelerate its de facto annexation of...
Israeli forces are destroying more than 1,000 homes a day in Lebanon, according to a preliminary assessment by Lebanon’s National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS), which described Israeli attacks on the country as an "unprecedented escalation". The report found...
Israel is seeking to divide southern Lebanon into multiple zones as part of a potential deal with Beirut, including the creation of a buffer zone aimed at disarming Hezbollah, even as Lebanon pushes for an immediate ceasefire. Lebanon and...
The United States has denied visas to Palestinian representatives seeking to attend the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, several sources told The New Arab . The meetings began on Tuesday and will run...
Israel's ambassador to Washington, Yechiel Leiter, stated that Israel and Lebanon had agreed to "liberate Lebanon from Hezbollah.” The statement followed the first direct talks in decades between official representatives of Israel and Lebanon, which took place in Washington on April...
Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti has been subjected to repeated "brutal assaults" inside Israeli prisons while held in solitary confinement, according to a rights campaign, as abuses against Palestinian detainees continue to escalate. The Popular Campaign for the...
- - - - Photo by Mick Haupt on Unsplash One of my favorite movies is A Knight’s Tale, with Heath Ledger, Alan Tudyk, Paul Bettany, and many others. It’s a fantastic movie that, while infused with...
As public institutions continue to collapse under the weight of widespread destruction in Gaza, essential services such as education and electricity have increasingly shifted into private hands. Families now find themselves forced to pay for services that were once...
Lifestyle influencer died while on vacation with boyfriend, who local officials say has since had his passport ‘withheld’ Ashly Robinson, a US lifestyle influencer, died last week while on vacation in the Tanzanian islands of Zanzibar with her boyfriend, Joe McCann....
Appointment of Roelf Meyer seen as attempt to improve relations amid false US accusations of ‘white genocide’ South Africa has appointed a former apartheid government chief negotiator during the talks that ended white rule in the 1990s as ambassador to the...
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