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Thanks to its longstanding policy of not hosting foreign military installations on its territory, Egypt has been spared the Iranian drone and missile strikes its Arab Gulf neighbors have absorbed in response to the U.S. and Israeli military campaign launched...

Iran-war, Israel, Natural-gas

As the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran enters a more “ dangerous and unpredictable ” phase, regional powers are scrambling to contain the fallout. With energy markets already rattled and the risk of spillover across the Persian Gulf and beyond...

Iran, Pakistan, Turkey

For 46 years, the United States styled itself as the ultimate guarantor of maritime freedom, and nowhere was this posture more rigidly enforced than in the Persian Gulf . Today, with the Strait of Hormuz closed to dollarized trade...

International-law, Maritime-security, Rules-based-order

Speaking in Beijing on March 26, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi of “immeasurably serious consequences” if energy and nuclear facilities are targeted amid the expanding Middle East conflict. The warning...

Opinion, 14th National People's Congress, China-India

For all their claims of military success in their war with Iran, the United States and Israel have yet to clearly define their rationale for starting the conflict, their goals and their exit strategy. With the Iranian regime having mounted...

Middle East, Block 2, Donald Trump

For years, markets have treated geopolitical tension as a one-way trade: buy dollars, sell Asia. The logic has been simple and, until now, largely reliable. Conflict pushes oil higher, capital rushes into US assets and Asian currencies weaken under the...

Finance, 160 Yen, Asian Currencies

There is a certain dark comedy in watching Washington once again discover — after the bodies have piled up and the treasury has been bled — that the war it started cannot be won on the battlefield. The US conflict...

Opinion, Block 1, China

Why has the UK introduced a ban on student visas for four countries? Today in Focus talks to affected students in Sudan and Afghanistan, as well as our home affairs editor, Rajeev Syal In early March, with little warning, the UK...

Immigration and asylum, Students, Cameroon

By: Dr. David Leffler - - - - Tell Hegseth better this… …than this The conflict with Iran continues to strain military resources, elevate geopolitical risk and destabilize the Middle East. Policymakers and defense leaders face a strategic environment where...

Washington is considering ground operations as joint US-Israeli strikes impact Iran’s military and internal security forces, reportedly causing thousands of casualties. Simultaneously, Tehran has increased security recruitment efforts, deployed foreign proxy militias, and escalated executions and arrests of Iranian citizens...

Long War Journal, News, basij

Originally appeared at TomDispatch. Can you even remember when the U.S. went to war with Iraq in 2003, when President George W. Bush announced that, “at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations...

Uncategorized

Israel will reduce its military imports from France "to zero" in retaliation for French policies it deems hostile towards its interests, a defence ministry spokeswoman told AFP on Tuesday. "The Director General of the Ministry of Defence,...

MENA

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa said on Tuesday that his country will stay out of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran unless Syria is subject to aggression and has no diplomatic solutions. "Unless Syria is targeted by any party, Syria...

MENA

This statement was originally published on mfwa.org . On March 12, 2026, Guinea’s High Authority for Communication (HAC) announced the suspension of two news websites, Africaturemedia.com and Guineesource.com , along with their associated content-sharing platforms, for a...

This statement was originally published on cpj.org on 30 March 2026. The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Ugandan authorities to immediately disclose whether they have detained journalist and activist Mukose Arnold Anthony and to ensure his safe return,...

The EU urged member states Tuesday to try to push down domestic demand for fuel and prepare to secure oil supplies , warning of potentially prolonged effects of the Middle East war on energy prices. US-Israeli attacks on...

World

This statement was originally published on rsf.org on 26 March 2026. Africa’s Great Lakes region is a sea of red and orange on the map of the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) World Press Freedom Index, meaning the journalists...

Iran’s imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi may have suffered a heart attack, one of her lawyers said Tuesday. Two of Mohammadi’s lawyers and her sister visited her in Zanjan Prison in northwestern Iran on Sunday,...

MENA

This statement was originally published on ipi.media on 26 March 2026. Military regimes in Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso are widening crackdown on independent journalism, risking an information gap with regional and global consequences Following a series of military coups...

Semiconductor Intelligence estimates total semiconductor industry capital spending (CapEx) was $166 billion in 2025, up 7% from 2024. We estimate 2026 CapEx will be $200 billion, up 20% from 2025. TSMC was the largest spender in 2024 with $40.9 billion...

Semiconductor Intelligence, Semiconductor Services, bill jewell

The Gulf is asking for a war it cannot win and a peace it cannot survive. Across Western and regional media, Arab Gulf states are no longer merely supporting US strikes on Iran. They are urging Washington to go further:...

Columns, Middle East, Politics

A Tunisian court handed down a two-year prison sentence to news website editor Ghassen Ben Khelifa, in the latest prosecution targeting media workers, a move the journalists' union described as part of a "systemic" attack on...

MENA

Whether Trump decides to retreat or doubles down on the Iran war, the global economy is heading for the double-headed python of stagflation. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Cross-posted from...

Geopolitics, Article, Global economy

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Tuesday that they would target leading US technology firms like Apple, Google and Meta if more Iranian leaders were killed in "targeted assassinations". "These companies, starting from 8:00 pm (1630 GMT) Tehran time...

MENA

In the view of General de Gaulle, “Treaties are like young girls and roses; they last while they last.” By that standard, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization seems to be wilting pretty fast. The Israeli-U.S. war on Iran has opened...

Nato, Keir-starmer, Georgia-meloni

The Indo-Pacific concept was built on the assumption that maritime power could span oceans, secure access, and shape events at a distance. That assumption no longer holds. Across Eurasia, advances in missile technology, layered air defense and long-range strike capabilities...

Military, AUKUS, Australia

WASHINGTON — The White House defended skyrocketing gas prices Tuesday as a “short-term disruption” during the ongoing war in Iran, as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the administration will not “foreclose any option” in the conflict, including boots on...

Middle East, Block 4, energy shock

Spanish police on Tuesday said they had uncovered a technologically sophisticated and "maze-like" underground tunnel used to smuggle tonnes of hashish from Morocco to Spain 's North African exclave of Ceuta and Europe. The investigation found the site...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) A large protest took place in Gaza on Tuesday outside the International Committee of the Red Cross, where families of Palestinian prisoners, former detainees, and advocacy groups voiced strong opposition to new Israeli legislation, particularly the proposed “prisoner execution...

News, Execution law, Gaza Strip

For nearly 20 years, soybean traders have been honouring a pledge not to source from areas subject to deforestation in the Amazon. That agreement, known as the soy moratorium, is currently hollowing out. Experts fear deforestation could rise by a...

Forests, Amazon, Deforestation

An American journalist was kidnapped Tuesday in Baghdad by a suspected Iranian-backed Iraqi armed group, the United States said, as regional security deteriorates following the US-Israeli attack on Iran. The State Department said it had warned the journalist of security risks...

MENA

Yesterday, 30th March, Apartheid Israel passed a new law to mandate the death penalty for Palestinians, and only Palestinians, ‘convicted’ of lethal ‘terrorism’. The death penalty is an immoral and abhorrent form of punishment, but has an added...

Action Item, Press releases

Lebanon is preparing for the possibility that hundreds of thousands displaced by Israeli strikes and evacuation orders will not return home in the long term, Lebanese social affairs minister Haneen Sayed said on Tuesday. Sayed spoke to Reuters...

MENA

O Brasil está agora na rota do bioterrorismo e da guerra biológica, e a falta de uma preparação específica para isso pode cobrar um preço alto. Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su...

Português, Biological Weapons, Brazil

DOHA, (PIC) Hamas Political Bureau member Hussam Badran called for a comprehensive national mobilization, intensified resistance, and widespread public uprising to confront the “prisoner execution law.” Badran said that Palestinians face a historic test that goes beyond condemnation and requires concrete action,...

News, Hamas Movement, Israeli violations
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