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Parents face anxious wait for updates after blaze tears through Utumishi girls academy in Gilgil, Nakuru county A fire that ripped through a dormitory at a girls’ school in Kenya overnight has killed at least 15 students, according to police, while...

Kenya, Africa, World news

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s state visit to China on May 25, 2026, sent a major geopolitical and geoeconomic signal at a moment when the international system is becoming increasingly fragmented between competing power blocs. The visit, marked by meetings with...

World, Aleksandar Vucic, Belt and Road Initiative

Iran's football federation expects FIFA to facilitate multiple-entry visas for the United States for the Iranian national team ahead of the 2026 World Cup, its president said in a video broadcast by Iranian media Thursday. " FIFA is expected...

World

Credit: United Nations At a time of accelerating global crises and transformation, the question is no longer whether young people should be at the table, but how power is being shared with them. With more than 2.6 billion people aged...

Civil Society, Democracy, Featured

“Acting on instructions from President Vladimir Putin, Sergey Lavrov notified the US side that the Armed Forces of Russia, acting in response to the Kiev’s regime continued terrorist attacks on civilians and civilian facilities in the Russian territory are launching systematic and...

Guest Contributor

Here are the latest updates: - Back and forth contradictory statements between Iranian and US officials about the deal and what it entails - - Meanwhile, the United States has carried out new strikes on an Iranian military site near...

MENA

Myanmar’s revolution is now being decided as much in headlines and briefing rooms as in the wartime hills of Sagaing and Karenni. The most dangerous narratives are no longer the crude slogans on military television; they are the polished “balanced”...

Opinion, ASEAN, ASEAN-Myanmar

GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement and its armed wing, al-Qassam Brigades, have mourned commander Mohamed Awda, who was assassinated in an Israeli strike in northern Gaza on Tuesday evening. In a statement released on Wednesday, Hamas said that Awda, the Brigades’ chief...

News

South Korea’s push for nuclear-powered submarines could transform it from a US security client into an undersea strategic power, while at the same time accruing steep financial, technological and proliferation risks. This month, multiple media outlets reported that South Korea’s...

Military, AUKUS, Block 1

А war against Iran could be a test of the new South Korean government’s foreign policy in terms of multilateralism, combining international alliances with a stance of self-reliance and “independence.” Diplomatic relations between Iran and South Korea began in 1962....

Politics, South Korea, Geopolitics

Since the US–Israel war against Iran began in late February, images of giant billboards in Tehran have been ubiquitous across traditional and social media. These billboards have been placed in some of the busiest and most visible parts of the...

Middle East, Iran Billboards, Iran Propaganda

Donald-Trump-asleep-in-Oval-Office I am going to start wearing a neck brace… Trump’s conflicting comments about the peace negotiations with Iran have given me whiplash. Today at a Cabinet meeting , President Trump asserted that Iran is “ negotiating on fumes...

Larry C. Johnson

This month, as delegates from around the world gathered at the United Nations to talk about nuclear nonproliferation, the U.S. and Russia chose to remind everyone just how much destructive power they command. On May 12, Russia staged a test launch...

Russia, Nuclear-weapons, Trump-administration

Ecuador’s president , Daniel Noboa, has used his country’s spiraling security crisis to tighten his grip on power. Under the banner of the “war on drugs,” his government has expanded emergency rule and intensified a crackdown on political opponents....

Daniel-noboa, Trump-administration, Donroe-doctrine

The emerging deal between the United States and Iran represents an existential danger to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political future. With his coalition fracturing and elections approaching, Netanyahu can’t survive a peace that leaves Hezbollah intact and Iran’s nuclear...

Benjamin-netanyahu, Lebanon, Iran-war

by Ron PAUL Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The pattern of media reports – based on White House leaks – that an agreement with Iran is almost completed has become predictable. Where...

Editor's Choice, Diplomacy, Donald Trump

The Western-controlled “news” media are endeavoring to corner Russia in a no-win situation. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The increasing lethality of the NATO-backed Kiev regime’s attacks on Russian civilians is not...

Americas, Europe, Russia & CIS

By: B A Hamzah - - - - Photo from Exercise Balikatan Facebook page The unprecedented participation of 1,400 Japanese combat soldiers in the seven-nation Balikatan Exercise 2026, the longstanding annual drill between the Armed Forces of the Philippines...

Reprinted from Andy Worthington’s website. 962 days since Israel’s genocide in Gaza began, and 227 days since a ceasefire took effect through the implementation of the first phase of Donald Trump’s “Peace Plan”, Nickolay Mladenov, the Bulgarian former UN official...

Uncategorized

Vampires preying on humanity & the planet…the US military is the World’s biggest threat …we are joined by investigative journalist @AbbyMartin to discuss her mind-blowing film ‘Earth’s Greatest Enemy’ – a call to action for all Listen HERE The post...

Climate Crisis, Geopolitics, Sustainability

RAMALLAH / PNN/ Economist Nabil Koukali said the Bank of Israel’s decision to cut interest rates to 3.75% reflects growing concern over an economic slowdown amid the impact of war and regional tensions, warning of direct repercussions for Palestinians closely...

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US President Donald Trump on Tuesday used his social media platform to boost prediction markets – a burgeoning industry from which Trump’s family stands to profit – and lashed out at state leaders working to regulate them, singling out officials in Illinois, New York...

United States, Block 4, Commodity Futures Trading Commission

As Israel launched a new bombardment of Lebanon on Tuesday, its far-right Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir suggested that it was trying to derail ongoing peace negotiations between US President Donald Trump and Iran. During a press briefing on Tuesday, the influential settler-politician railed against...

Middle East, Block 2, Gaza flotilla

European leaders decided not to evacuate their diplomats from Kyiv and accepted all associated risks. Those risks are enormous, as they could ultimately lead to the collapse of the Ukrainian front. EU's Decision Described as Criminal Negligence Officials in Brussels and...

World

As the US and Iran try to come to terms on a peace deal to end their months-long war, US President Donald Trump this week has introduced a new demand – that other countries in the Middle East sign on...

Middle East, Abraham Accords, Benjamin Netanyahu

AL-KHALIL, (PIC) A limited number of Muslim worshipers observed the Eid al‑Adha prayer at the Ibrahimi Mosque in al-Khalil City, south of the occupied West Bank, amid tight Israeli security measures. According to local sources, Israeli forces closed the gates of the...

News, Ibrahimi Mosque, Israeli violations

Some experts criticize White House approach and say not allowing Americans to return to US hurts treatment efforts The Trump administration is building a quarantine and treatment center in Kenya for Americans affected by the Ebola outbreak,...

Trump administration, Ebola, Kenya

On March 25, Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced the Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act . In his speech introducing the law at a press conference, Sanders explained the thinking behind the proposal...

Activism, Business & Economy, Column

“Democracy” is a slogan, a value-judgement more than it is a description, and a term of praise and abuse in political debates more than a defined programme. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Licensed under the...

National Politics, Article, Aurelien

Israel said on Wednesday that it had killed Mohammed Odeh, the reported new chief of Hamas ’s military wing, in a series of overnight air strikes on Gaza City, marking the latest in a string of targeted...

MENA

Israel launched broad strikes on Lebanon including near the city of Tyre on Wednesday, as Hezbollah said its fighters clashed with Israeli forces beyond an Israeli-declared "yellow line" in the south despite a ceasefire. Israel last week vowed to...

MENA

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation police kidnaped a Palestinian girl after assaulting her and forcibly removing her hijab near the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on Tuesday morning. A video showed the moment police officers chased the girl near the Bab al-Hitta...

News, Aqsa Mosque, Arrests

Malcolm Ducker, a British former RAF pilot, set sail earlier this month towards the Gaza Strip in the hopes of reaching the devastated enclave in an act of solidarity with the long-suffering people there. Ducker, who departed from Sicily,...

MENA

Four activists could be sentenced as terrorists next month despite not being convicted of terrorism offences. Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, and Fatema Rajwani are among several Palestine Action activists accused of raiding an Israeli weapons factory in Bristol in...

Archive, Intelligence, Middle East

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warns of ‘catastrophic collision of disease and conflict’, as Uganda closes border with DRC The head of the World Health Organization has called for an immediate ceasefire in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to help...

Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ebola, Uganda

The first hijab-wearing Miss Wayne County rode through a Memorial Day parade in Michigan on Monday, drawing a wave of Islamophobic and racist backlash online, including from far-right and MAGA-aligned accounts. Ameera Hashwi, a Lebanese-American attorney, was...

World

Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi urged armed factions on Wednesday to join state institutions, as the US mounts pressure on Baghdad to disarm groups backed by Iran . Zaidi, who only recently took office, has voiced support for the...

MENA

Palestinians marked Eid al-Adha in the West Bank amid continued economic recession and ongoing Israeli raids and attacks However, families have tried to hold on to their holiday traditions despite arrests, displacement and loss caused by the Israeli occupations. Despite...

MENA

- - - - Photo by Paulo Silva on Unsplash Zohran Mamdani, the current Mayor of New York City, ran his campaign as a socialist. He talked about the “warm embrace of collectivism” as if that were...

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