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Newly endangered animals include desert frogs and snails in extreme ocean depths, both threatened by mining Life has colonised every corner of the planet by evolving ingenious survival strategies but these are increasingly being overwhelmed by destructive human activities, this year’s...

Member states handed back Syria's voting rights at the global chemical weapons watchdog on Thursday, following what they described as "a significant change in circumstances" since the fall of the Assad regime. Syria was stripped of its rights at the...

The United States has resumed cash shipments to Iraq after a delay, signalling its support for Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi's administration, with the premier expected in Washington later this month, a government spokesperson said Thursday. Iraq's revenues from oil...

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed different areas of the West Bank and Jerusalem on Thursday, raiding homes and kidnaping a number of Palestinian citizens. In Jenin, Israeli forces stormed the city’s Khillet al-Souha neighborhood and fired stun grenades...

Africa’s largest refugee population has seen rations and healthcare slashed as funding levels drop The skies are gloomy over the wattle-and-mud houses of Kiryandongo refugee settlement, home to more than 167,000 people . Spread across an undulating plateau, the...

While Tehran leaps at Washington’s throat and cuts off the last American hope of locking down the Heartland by controlling the Rimland, and Trump is falling out with his NATO counterparts in Ankara, at the same time, Lavrov is taking...

An international academic partnership is helping turn one of Laikipia County’s most destructive and invasive plants, the prickly pear cactus (Opuntia stricta), into a source of food security and clean energy while also helping end perennial resource conflict in the...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on July 2 produced a long list of agreements spanning artificial intelligence, batteries, critical minerals, defense manufacturing, energy resilience and financial cooperation. While the agreements...

“Her belly may be full, but her spirit will be empty.” — Captain Picard Usually, these “GDP is actually good” posts start with a big disclaimer — an acknowledgment of all the things GDP doesn’t measure, all the reasons that...

WEST BANK, (PIC) Extremist Jewish settler groups carried out attacks and set up an outpost in the occupied West Bank over the past 24 hours, under military protection. In al-Khalil, settlers stormed the hamlet of Khirbet al-Kharaba, east of as-Samu town, and...

With more than 80% of global trade by volume being transported by sea, maritime shipping lanes are indispensable to the world economy. That fact was starkly illustrated by the war in Iran, which saw Tehran effectively close the Strait of...

India and Japan are entering a new stage of global strategic partnership with a focus on economic and security cooperation. The visit of Japan’s new Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, to India on July 1-3 was marked by numerous significant agreements...

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) forced a Palestinian citizen and his son to demolish their homes in the east Jerusalem district of Silwan, south of the Aqsa Mosque, under the pretext of unlicensed construction. According to the Wadi Hilweh...

Tehran targeted several US bases and infrastructure in Bahrain and Kuwait, while Washington said it hit around 90 targets across Iran Read Article HERE Photo: Screengrab – Bahrain this morning The post Middle East Eye: US launches renewed strikes on...

A US judge ordered President Donald Trump on Wednesday to pay writer E. Jean Carroll $5 million after a civil jury found that he sexually assaulted and defamed her. Last week, the US Supreme Court refused to hear...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday informed his Syrian counterpart Ahmed al-Sharaa that he had decided to remove the country from the US list of designated state sponsors of terrorism. "I promised to remove all barriers stopping you...

The drama over the Strait of Hormuz escalated on Wednesday with Donald Trump declaring the MoU with Iran is dead and vowed more attacks on Iran. Trump continues to insist that Iran has no right to interfere with any ship...

Welcome, Here are the key updates: - Iran claims attacks on US forces in Bahrain and Kuwait after the US attacked Iranian cities for a second consecutive night, with reports saying at least 14 people were killed by the US attacks...

Donald Trump has just offered Recep Tayyip Erdoğan a stealth fighter jet that Israel doesn’t want him to have, Congress hasn’t cleared him to sell, and Gulf capitals are already using it as leverage against Washington itself. A Deal Three...

I visited Omsk once, or at least its airport; we were en route from Moscow to Ulan Ade on the Mongolian border, and the Aeroflot flight landed there to refuel. (It was a memorable journey; this was still the Soviet Union, and...

As NATO convenes once again to double down on military spending, arms production and the logic of deterrence through superior firepower — this despite the alliance’s own members having repeatedly used force in violation of international law in recent years, in Iran, Iraq, Venezuela, Libya, Syria and the...

For the second time since the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed, Washington and Tehran have slipped back into direct military confrontation. The United States struck “80 targets in Iran with precision munitions” after Iranian forces fired on several ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz without prior...

For decades, the South Pacific was largely relegated to the margins of global politics. Today, it has undergone a seismic shift, transforming into the epicenter of great-power competition. The defense treaty signed by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Fijian...

By: Andy Wong Ming Jun - - - - With fertility rates hitting record lows in Asian-Pacific states including China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and Singapore, the looming demographic cliff-edge is cutting into the numbers of people filling out their...

Reprinted with permission from Trita Parsi’s Substack. For the second time since the U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed, Washington and Tehran have slipped back into direct military confrontation. The United States struck “80 targets in Iran with precision...