Chinese online gamers and hobbyist artificial intelligence (AI) developers have been dealt a setback as Beijing banned the import of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090D V2, a graphics card specifically engineered for the Chinese market to comply with United States export...
Il ministro della Difesa Boris Pistorius ha dichiarato verso la fine di aprile che la Germania prevede di dotarsi dell’«esercito convenzionale più forte d’Europa» entro il 2039. A un secolo esatto di distanza dallo scoppio della Seconda Guerra Mondiale. Segue...
ANKARA, (PIC) Three Turkish Airlines planes carrying 422 activists from the “Global Sumud Flotilla” arrived at Istanbul International Airport on Thursday. The activists were released by Israeli occupation forces after being detained earlier this week in international waters while attempting to break...
BRUSSELS, (PIC) Members of the European Parliament have called for far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to be sanctioned under the European Union’s Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime following his publication of footage showing the abuse and humiliation of activists...
The global semiconductor market grew 25% in the 1st quarter of 2026 from the 4th quarter of 2025 to reach $299 billion, according to WSTS. The 1st quarter of 2026 was up 79% from a year earlier. The 25% quarter-to-quarter...
The New Silk Roads/BRI and its derivations such as the Northern Sea Route/Arctic Silk Road remain alive and kicking Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su SHANGHAI – This is it. The Russia-China strategic...
Today, Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao said the U.S. is pausing arms sales to Taiwan because of the war with Iran. “Right now we're doing a pause in order to make sure we have the munitions we need for Epic Fury,”...
Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies Tell me lies Tell me, tell me lies Oh no-no, you can’t disguise – Fleetwood Mac Perfidy. There is no other word to describe the assassination of Iran’s leadership while negotiations were ongoing....
Israel's ongoing war in Lebanon is expected to shrink the country's economy by at least 7 percent this year and could cost the country an estimated $20 billion, Finance Minister Yassine Jaber told Reuters . The current conflict,...
In a statement from the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s US arm, organisers say Israeli forces carried out a prolonged assault on civilian aid boats in international waters, using gunfire, water cannons and violent boardings against unarmed volunteers attempting to reach Gaza Read...
In July 2000, Mohamad Hammoud and his brother ran a multi-million-dollar cigarette smuggling operation in the US by transporting $7.9 million worth of cigarettes from North Carolina to Chicago – taking advantage of different tax regimes to turn...
TOKYO — Few market visuals are more striking than the South Korean won and the Kospi index suddenly tearing off in opposite directions. The won has slumped 4.5% this year, putting it among Asia’s weakest currencies. The Kospi, meanwhile, has exploded — up...
The Islamic Society of San Diego Tragedy struck the Muslim community of San Diego in a murderous attack by a pair of armed teenagers who killed three people, including a security guard, before shooting themselves at a mosque on 18...
An Ankara court on Thursday annulled the 2023 leadership election of Turkey's main opposition CHP party , in a sharp escalation against the country's embattled opposition, court documents showed. The move is the latest in a string of legal moves...
RAMALLAH /West Bank — PNN Economist Nabil Kukali said the strengthening of the Israeli shekel against the U.S. dollar and the Jordanian dinar is intensifying economic pressure on Palestinian households, amid a deep economic slowdown and structural...
The community works to preserve its identity amid pressure from real estate development and non-Indigenous settlers. Credit: Samuel Tremembé By Carla Ruas BELÉM, Brazil, May 21 2026 (IPS) On Brazil’s northeastern coast, the Indigenous community, Tremembé da Barra do Mundaú, lives...
The HAJJ. The Hajj is the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and is one of the Five Pillars of Islam — the core religious obligations that define Muslim practice. Every Muslim who is physically and financially able is...
Africa CDC says restrictions could increase public health risks and highlight ‘deeper structural injustice’ in global health A US travel ban for people coming from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda or South Sudan in response to the Ebola outbreak...
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Texas Democratic congressional candidate Maureen Galindo has called for American politicians who accepted money from pro-Israel groups to face treason charges, as a new report by rights group Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) renewed scrutiny of the deep...
ANKARA, (PIC) Following global outcry over their inhumane treatment in custody, the Israeli occupation regime deported on Thursday all the foreign activists kidnaped by Israeli forces from a Gaza-bound aid flotilla earlier this week. According to different media sources, the Global Sumud...
Dr. Mansoor Malik is a professor of psychiatry at John Hopkins. For most of his career, his work has been what you’d expect from a clinician-educator at a major academic medical center: healthcare worker wellbeing, peer support programs, minority physician...
Accurate, complete, and consistent technical documentation is a critical element of success for any embedded system design project. This includes IP, SoCs, and the associated hardware and software infrastructure. When documentation contains errors, the consequences go beyond engineering inefficiency. Errors...
A new public artwork in New York City's historic "Little Syria" district has sparked backlash among Lebanese communities at home and abroad after several renowned poets, including Gibran Khalil Gibran, were described as Syrian rather than Lebanese. The installation, titled...
Heavy US aircraft losses in the Middle East are raising fresh doubts about whether US airpower can withstand sustained attrition in a future Pacific war against China. This month, the US Congressional Research Service (CRS) released a report stating that the US...
GAZA, (PIC) Hazem Qassem, spokesperson for Hamas Movement, said that the request by Nikolay Mladenov, the so called High Representative of the “Peace Council” in Gaza, for the UN Security Council to pressure Hamas by all means to fulfill its commitments,...
Saudi Arabia has reportedly urged the Trump administration to avoid any major military action against Iran until after this year's Hajj season , amid growing fears across the Gulf that renewed conflict could destabilise the region during one of...
GAZA, (PIC) In Gaza, forced evacuation does not seem to be an emergency event read within a limited military context, but rather turns with each new wave into a moment of complete collapse of daily life, and a forced resetting of...
18 May 2026 Lena Petrova: Welcome, everybody! Thank you so much for joining us. I’m Lena Petrova with a new episode of World Affairs in Context. Today, I have the privilege of welcoming back to the program a renowned American...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) Hamas leader Mahmoud Mardawi stated that what prisoners, especially female detainees, are subjected to in Israeli prisons, particularly Damon prison, reflects a dangerous escalation manifested in repeated raids on women’s sections and what he described as brutal repression, alongside...
Israeli forces beat Brazilian activist Thiago Avila unconscious, threatened to kill him and subjected activists aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla to torture and abuse after intercepting the Gaza-bound aid mission in international waters last month, Avila...
China’s leader Xi Jinping made a publicity splash last week during the visit to Beijing of US President Donald Trump when he referred to a book titled The Thucydides Trap about the ancient Greek historian’s treatise on war. The book’s...
Long before today’s attacks on leftist politicians and Palestine solidarity movements, Zionist leaders sold their movement as a defence against socialism and communism Joseph Massad is professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University, New York Cross-posted from...
L’ostinazione anti-russa dell’Occidente nel suo complesso si è rivelata un fallimento totale. Segue nostro Telegram . La memoria storica che plasma il presente Il 9 maggio rappresenta una delle date più cariche di significato nella storia russa: il Giorno della...
- - - - Photo by Alen Kajtezovic on Unsplash AOC doesn’t think anyone can earn a billion dollars. Well, she doesn’t think, but that doesn’t stop her from saying stuff like how it’s impossible to earn...
As drones dominate warfare in the Middle East, Ukraine and beyond, civilians are caught in the crosshairs. Hailing the machines as the future of war , the Pentagon is pouring funds into their development and procurement, as are other militaries...
Two British nationals are among five activists who were forcibly brought into a Stuttgart courtroom by police on Wednesday after statements they wished to read were seized from them. This was the latest escalation in a case that their lawyers have...
Not long ago , a social media creator named Ludovico “Pato” Cordoni appeared on the TikTok account of the Italian utility company Plenitude. In the video, Cordoni takes the channel’s 116,600 followers on a trip to the company’s headquarters, where...
Young people in the U.S. have won a major unsung victory: Starting in December, they will no longer be required to register or report their addresses for a possible military draft. But Congress has given the agency tasked with...
Is the United States headed for a second Civil War? According to a survey of likely midterm voters published by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights , 57% of Americans believe it is. Sixty-nine percent...
Demands grow for launch of formal discussion process on how country should address legacies of enslavement Emmanuel Macron is under pressure to open discussions on reparatory justice for France’s role in hundreds of years of enslavement of African people as he...
A single bug on a full-chip SoC can pull engineers off roadmap work for days or even weeks. It involves massive waveforms, thousands of files of RTL and UVM, and dense specs that aren’t always perfect. Finding these bugs have...
On 4 May, a barrage of drones struck Sudan’s international airport and several military installations in the capital of Khartoum. Sudan’s official army, known as the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF), blamed Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)...
Video footage of bound Egyptians pleading for their release sent to relatives on Monday underscores the perilous fate of the crewmembers on board an oil tanker seized by Somali pirates off the coast of the Horn of Africa country at...
Before Hamas. Before Al Qaeda. Before the Islamic State. There was… the Muslim Brotherhood. And for nearly a century, it has played the long game by building influence across the Middle East and even deep inside the West. Bill Roggio...
The majority of Jews worldwide could be living in Israel within the next decade, according to a new report by the UK-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research . The report, written by Professor Sergio Della Pergola and published on Wednesday,...
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No hay que olvidar que, si se necesita defender el capitalismo y la democracia, para eso está la CIA o un software viejo en manos de una empresa privada. Únete a nosotros en Telegram , Twitter y VK . Escríbenos:...
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