On the surface, the launch of Israeli-Lebanese negotiations earlier this week seems like a big deal. In the first face-to-face talks between Lebanese and Israeli officials in more than 30 years, ambassadors from all three countries met under the auspices...
The director of the Pentagon’s new “ Economic Defense Unit ” was a board member of Tier 1 Group, which trained four of the Saudi operatives involved in the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Websites dating back...
Even with its hands full in an unpopular , costly and deadly war in Iran, the Trump administration seems to be ramping up preparations for military action in Cuba following weeks of relative calm between the two countries. On...
Several recent developments suggest that the longstanding dominance of the global arms market by the United States could be poised for decline, including in the Middle East. Given the way U.S. arms have been used in the region in this...
Informal migration, plus climate change and rising numbers of cases globally, are complicating the tireless efforts of the landlocked African country to eradicate the killer disease The freezer is filled with blue-lidded tubes of cows’ blood, ready to be defrosted and...
US President Donald Trump’s unprovoked war of choice in Iran has been a goldmine for America’s fossil fuels industry, which is earning massive windfall profits thanks to the rise in the price of petroleum. An analysis published by The Guardian on Wednesday estimated that...
FIFA President Gianni Infantino said Wednesday that Iran will participate in the World Cup “for sure” despite its war with the United States . Speaking at CNBC ’s Invest in America Forum, Infantino said it is important that...
By: Ainur Rohmah - - - - In a moment of mounting global uncertainty marked by intensifying great-power rivalry, persistent conflicts in the Middle East, and the recalibration of alliances across the Indo-Pacific, Indonesia appears to be quietly adjusting the...
The health of jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi is critical after she suffered a heart attack last month, supporters warned on Wednesday. Her Iran-based family and legal team were on Saturday allowed a second in person...
Remarks by a Tunisian lawmaker about rape and sub-Saharan African women migrants have triggered outrage, with rights groups condemning the comments as racist and sexist. Migration is a sensitive issue in Tunisia , a key transit point for...
With the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East and Donald Trump’s open threats of annihilation against Iran, all pretences are now being dropped in the war in Ukraine as well. Merz and Zelensky visited arms factories together and...
Syria began loading its first tanker carrying Iraqi oil on Wednesday at the Baniyas port refinery, according to state media and an AFP correspondent, after Iraq was largely unable to export during the Middle East war...
Another effort to limit U.S. arms shipments to Israel failed in the Senate on Wednesday as the body voted down a pair of measures that would block certain military sales to the country. The two joint resolutions of disapproval —...
At the peak of the crisis, oil surged to $110–116/bbl. But it remains volatile at $90–100 after ceasefire pause. Liquefied natural gas (LNG) took an even harder hit. Oil price surged more than 50%, but LNG soared as much as...
The President is committing lives and treasure to war. Congress has not authorized it. And no citizen has any legal standing to object. That is not a constitutional republic operating as designed. It is one operating as though the founding...
he makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness… They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be...
YouTube has terminated a channel belonging to a pro-Iran group producing viral Lego-themed AI videos that ridicule US President Donald Trump , the Google -owned platform said Wednesday, sparking online criticism. Explosive Media, a group of pro-Tehran creators that...
This year's Jewish pilgrimage on Tunisia 's island of Djerba will welcome more worshippers after two years of scaled-down participation due to safety concerns, organisers said on Tuesday. The pilgrimage to the Ghriba synagogue , Africa's oldest, has in...
Norway is lifting the ban on investments in Syrian government bonds by its $2.2 trillion wealth fund, in a further sign of the Middle Eastern country's re-entry into global finance after the ousting of former Syrian president...
French luxury group Hermes reported weaker than expected first-quarter sales on Wednesday as the Iran war hit spending in the Middle East as well as in Europe, with fewer tourists visiting Paris or London and buying designer items. Investors'...
This year’s US-Philippines Balikatan Exercise provides plenty of evidence Japan is outdistancing the ghosts of World War II and subsequent decades of faux pacifism. Japan is deploying a large, multi-service force to participate in Balikatan. And it is not hiding...
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...
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