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Democrats on the US House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday demanded that President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice “stop the cover-up” of former special counsel Jack Smith’s full investigation into Trump’s retention of classified documents following his first term, after new material sent...

United States, Donald Trump, Jack Smith

Buon senso vorrebbe che ucraini ed europei puntassero a chiudere il conflitto al più presto, prima che la sconfitta diventi disfatta, dal momento che non esiste nessuna possibilità che gli ucraini riconquistino i territori perduti o impediscano ai russi di...

Italiano, Donbas, European Union

Brussels/PNN/ In a joint statement, missions representing countries including Belgium, Canada, Denmark, the European Union, Ireland, Finland, France, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Switzerland denounced Israel's “settler terrorism” and expressed shock over recent killings...

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The US Justice Department last October announced the largest asset seizure in American history: a cache of bitcoin then valued at $15 billion tied to the Cambodia-based Prince Group that prosecutors alleged oversaw an empire of human trafficking and industrial-scale...

Southeast Asia, Bitcoin, Block 1

C lick here to read the article on Asia Times. The Cayman Islands sits at the heart of a network of British financial jurisdictions. Together, they manage trillions in assets, influencing global capital flows and investment networks. China, which was...

Front Page Top Slider, John P. Ruehl

‘Economist Ann Pettifor explains how America’s industrial decline has its roots in the dismantling of the international monetary system established at Bretton Woods and in the rise of a global financial system that prioritizes capital mobility over production.’ In...

Finance, Financial Institutions, Globalisation

The former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency finds parallels in the lies over Iraq about nuclear weapons and the lies over Iran today. Interview by David Hearst, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. Cross-posted from Middle East...

Geopolitics, Article, David Hearst

The far-right had a successful local election, as did France Insoumise, but neither have shown that they can win the presidential election in 2027. Frédéric Sawicki is professor of political science at Paris 1 University of Panthéon-Sorbonne. Cross-posted from The...

EU politics, National Politics, Article

Maybe you’re reading this article while listening to a podcast. Or you’re participating in a dull Zoom meeting. Or you’re talking on the phone with a relative. Maybe you’ve just read the first three lines of this article three times without...

War & Peace, Donald Trump, multitrashing

Credit: Sanjit Pariyar/NurPhoto via AFP By Andrew Firmin LONDON, Mar 25 2026 (IPS) Less than six months after Nepal’s Generation Z rose up in protest , the country has a new prime minister. A 35-year-old former rapper who soundtracked the...

Active Citizens, Arts, Asia-Pacific

Around 230 students and teachers in Iran have been killed since US-Israeli attacks began, with over 600 schools and cultural sites damaged, according to the country’s Education Ministry on Tuesday. Iran’s Education Minister, Ali Reza Kazemi, said that...

MENA

UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday named veteran UN diplomat Jean Arnault as his personal envoy to support efforts to end the Middle East conflict, saying the "world is staring down the barrel of a wider war." Guterres told...

World

Israeli authorities evicted 11 Palestinian families from their homes in east Jerusalem on Wednesday, an AFP journalist reported, a move that settlers have increasingly used to occupy the vacated properties. An AFP correspondent on the...

MENA

RAMALLAH, (PIC) Palestinian prisoner institutions directed an urgent appeal to the “free people of the world” to take immediate action to stop the draft law of executing Palestinian prisoners, warning of its imminent approval in the Israeli Knesset. The institutions said, in...

News, Execution law, Knesset legislation

In the pursuit of advanced extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography for high-NA patterning, metal oxide resists (MORs) offer significant promise but face challenges like critical dimension (CD) variation due to atmospheric interactions. Presented at SPIE Advanced Lithography + Patterning 2025 by...

Events, Lithography, HNA-EUV

The US-Israel war on Iran has opened Pandora’s box, and its impacts are likely to be felt for a long time. As the conflict unfolds, however, there is a growing divergence between US and Israeli aims regarding what they define...

Unfiltered

An army-aligned Sudanese governor accused Ethiopia on Wednesday of having backed an offensive on the south, a day after Sudan's paramilitary forces said they had seized control of the border town of Kurmuk. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces...

MENA

An international deal to protect and sustainably use the ocean was hailed as “a triumph for multilateralism” and “a win for humanity” when it came into force on 17 January. But the very rules-based international order on...

Ocean, Geopolitics, Marine protection

The Moqattam Misdemeanor Court acquitted a defendant on charges of sexual harassment on Tuesday, shutting the door on the legal track pursued by Mariam Shawky after she published footage of the incident to document the harassment, prompting a viral response...

Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) displaced Palestinian families from 11 homes in the east Jerusalem district of Silwan, south of the Aqsa Mosque, on Wednesday. According to local sources, Israeli police forces and settlers wearing orange jackets stormed the...

News, Displaced families, Judaization

AL-KHALIL, (PIC) Settler attacks are escalating in Wad al-Watawat in the town of Surif, north of al-Khalil, where residents face a recurring pattern of arson and nightly intimidation, within a broader context of field attacks documented by human rights reports as...

Zionist Terrorism, al-Khalil, Settlement expansion

A Wednesday report from NBC News is raising concerns that President Donald Trump may be getting a rose-colored view of the war he started with Iran. According to NBC News, US military officials show Trump a daily two-minute video montage of operations conducted in the...

Middle East, Block 2, Donald Trump

GAZA, (PIC) Nikolay Mladenov, the High Representative for Gaza at the Peace Council, described conditions in the Gaza Strip as “extremely dire,” revealing that a comprehensive framework for disarmament and the reintegration of armed groups is currently under discussion with relevant...

News, Gaza Strip, Humanitarian crisis

Iran has rejected the Donald Trump administration's 15-point plan aimed at pausing the war in the country , which has spread across the Middle East, calling it "unreasonable" and maintaining that it would end the war on...

MENA

The UN Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) called on Libyan authorities on Wednesday to release political activist Al-Mahdi Abdulati, saying he was arrested and detained last week. Abdulati was detained on 18 March in the port city of Misrata, UNSMIL...

MENA

The following story is co-published with Luke Savage’s Substack . I have little to say about the late Robert Mueller as a person, not just because I didn’t know him but because I count myself among those who believed, then...

Activism, Column, Courts & Law

At 4:00 a. m. on September 20, 1977, the sky over Petrozavodsk, Karelia, was illuminated by a phenomenon that defied the physics textbooks of the era. Witnesses described a massive glowing "jellyfish” hovering above the city, casting thin rays of...

History, traditions

German carmaker Volkswagen is in talks with Israel's state-owned Rafael Advanced Defence Systems to shift production at one of its factories towards missile defence systems, according to a report by The Financial Times on...

World

The UN Human Rights Council on Wednesday condemned Iran's "egregious attacks" on its Gulf neighbours and demanded full "reparation" for all victims of its strikes. The 47-member council backed a resolution brought by the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)...

MENA

- - - - Photo by Phil Hearing on Unsplash Our country stands on the brink of…well, something. And something bad. I won’t pretend to know precisely just how bad, but I know it won’t be mild. What...

This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . On Monday , President Donald Trump ’s Department of the Interior announced that it will refund almost $1 billion to a...

Business & Economy, Courts & Law, Environment

Markwayne Mullin was sworn in as Homeland Security Secretary on Tuesday, replacing Kristi Noem, who left her post after allegations of misusing government funds and having an extramarital affair with her advisor Corey Lewandowski. The previous day, he was...

World

Iraqi armed factions that are aligned with Iran have expanded their daily attacks on military sites and what they say are US interests in Iraq and the region to include Syrian territory. This marks the first such expansion...

MENA

An Israeli drone strike has killed two Palestinians and wounded at least four others in Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp , medics said, in the latest Israeli breach of a ceasefire for the occupied territory. The strike hit early...

MENA

By Wyatt REED and Max BLUMENTHAL Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The Trump White House plagiarized its justification for attacking Iran from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, the main DC outfit promoting...

Editor's Choice, Iran, Israel
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