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Violence flares before protests on Thursday over president’s decision to remain in office after his term expired Fierce clashes have taken place between government troops and militias allied with the opposition in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, damaging property and forcing some civilians...

On 3 May 2026, Polish President Karol Nawrocki announced the creation of a Council for a New Constitution. The initiative, framed as a response to chronic institutional deadlock, has opened a debate that reaches far beyond technical constitutional reform. It...

The Moroccan national team will enter the 2026 FIFA World Cup this summer in the United States, Canada and Mexico, carrying the momentum of their achievement in Qatar 2022. Still, they have haunted memories of the 1998 World Cup...

GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 72,956 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Thursday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...

China’s newly revealed sailless submarine may be designed not only to evade detection but also to threaten the undersea infrastructure underpinning Indo-Pacific military and economic power. This month, Naval News reported that China has covertly launched a highly advanced, “sailless”...

When Senior General Min Aung Hlaing arrived in India on May 30 for his first official overseas visit as Myanmar’s new “president,” the photo op was exactly what he wanted. The man who seized power in a coup, jailed elected...

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, head of the Higher Islamic Council in Occupied Jerusalem, has warned of a new Israeli draft law aimed at restricting the call to prayer (Adhan) and banning it in Jerusalem and 1948 occupied Palestine. In press...

Franco-Iranian author and film director Marjane Satrapi, best known for the graphic novel and film "Persepolis", has died aged 56. "Marjane Satrapi died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and...

Franco-Iranian author and film director Marjane Satrapi, best known for the graphic novel and film "Persepolis", has died aged 56. "Marjane Satrapi died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and...

The 2026 summit between Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, despite having resulted in no specific agreements, demonstrated that the Korean question is no longer a priority for either the United States or China. Both parties appear to have come to...

WEST BANK, (PIC) Five Palestinians were injured on Thursday morning after Israeli soldiers assaulted them during a raid in the town of Dawha, west of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. According to Palestinian security sources, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed...

With the Bundibugyo strain of the disease spreading across the DRC and Uganda, scientists and researchers are trying to find rapid solutions There is no vaccine or treatment available for the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola that is spreading in the Democratic...

Government troops and militias allied with the opposition exchanged fire overnight and on Thursday morning in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, damaging property and forcing some civilians to flee, residents say. The violence flared up ahead of planned protests on Thursday...

GAZA, (PIC) Nine Palestinian civilians were martyred and 15 others were wounded early Thursday morning in a series of Israeli airstrikes on apartments in Gaza City. Medical sources at al‑Shifa Hospital reported the arrival of nine fatalities and 15 injured following air...

Iran is losing the war against the US and Israel by most visible measures. Its air defenses have been obliterated, its senior leadership dead, and its already flagging economy is on the verge of collapse, with its crucial oil and...

Euro area annual inflation is expected to be 3.2% in May 2026, up from 3.0% in April according to a flash estimate from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union . Read Article HERE The...

On Wednesday (June 3), Kyrgyzstan secured an upset victory over the Philippines to win a seat on the United Nations Security Council for the 2027-2028 term. After taking a surprising 105-85 lead in the first ballot, the Central Asian nation...

On his way back from India to the United States, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio paid a brief but significant visit to Armenia. This unexpected gesture from Washington raises a legitimate question: what is behind such keen interest in...

The wave of currency depreciation that battered Indonesia’s foreign exchange market throughout April and May 2026 has pushed the rupiah to record lows, dangerously close to a new psychological threshold of 18,000 against the US dollar. When the currency broke...

Islamic State-linked militia blamed for raids in North Kivu as governor says three patients with disease fled clinics Rebel attacks around a town that is one of the centres of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have...

For three decades, Iffat Rachid Edriss walked Lebanon’s coastline with a clear purpose: protecting the sea she loves. She organised cleanups, conducted research, and helped rescue marine species, including turtles, seals, and dolphins. Through wars, economic crises, and environmental challenges,...

Reprinted with permission from Trita Parsi’s Substack. “You’re fucking crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. I’m saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.” According to Axios, this is what Donald...

NATO partisans in both Europe and the United States are perpetual optimists about Ukraine’s prospective fortunes in its war against Russia. Lately, there has been yet another inundation of such accounts in Western news media outlets. Many of them emphasize...

Lebanon and Israel have agreed to the implementation of a ceasefire, according to a joint statement with the United States released by the State Department on Wednesday following negotiations in Washington . The ceasefire is contingent on a complete...

The US House of Representatives passed a resolution Wednesday ordering the withdrawal of American troops from the US-Israeli war on Iran - a largely symbolic move that nonetheless delivers a political blow to President Donald Trump. Four...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House passed a resolution Wednesday to force President Donald Trump to withdraw from the war with Iran and require congressional approval for further military action in the country. The 215-208 vote, in which four Republicans voted...