For more than a decade, China’s relationship with Indonesia has been defined by railways, industrial parks, nickel processing plants and large-scale infrastructure. Now, China is beginning to associate itself with something far more politically sensitive: President Prabowo Subianto’s flagship Free...
Distribution of emergency shelter supplies in Abyan, Yemen funded by the Yemen Humanitarian Fund (YHF). Credit: UN OCHA/Altawasul By Maximilian Malawista UNITED NATIONS, Jun 10 2026 (IPS) In Yemen, increasing funding constraints on humanitarian operations have put millions of civilians...
Chaff being loaded for cutting in a machine for fodder. Credit: Supplied By Rina Mukherji PUNE, India, Jun 10 2026 (IPS) Dharashiv is one of the poorest districts in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. Located in the semi-arid region of...
For decades, the global financial community has treated sovereign debt crises like a broken thermometer: if we just improve the reading (transparency) and hold the technician accountable (through regulation and monitoring), the fever will break. Yet, from the streets of...
Saudi Arabia launched its second national carrier, Riyadh Air, on Wednesday after more than a year of delays, defying the economic turmoil triggered by the US-Israeli war on Iran and the strong competition from established Gulf airlines. A...
BETHLEHEM, West Bank / PNN / A delegation from the international humanitarian organization LIFE Foundation visited Bethlehem Governorate to assess local needs and explore opportunities for future cooperation, as part of ongoing efforts to support vulnerable communities in Palestine. The delegation was...
A truly bizarre series of events off the coast of Iran today that in my opinion were entirely provoked, if not staged, by the US. It started with multiple news reports that a US Army Apache helicopter had been shot...
Welcome. Here are the latest key updates: - The US military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) said it carried out “self-defence strikes” against Iran after the downing of a US helicopter allegedly by Iranian forces over the Strait of Hormuz on Monday...
GAZA, (PIC) Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said on Tuesday that his Movement and Palestinian factions engaged positively and flexibly with the proposals put forward by mediators during recent meetings in Cairo. In a statement, spokesman Qassem added that the Cairo talks focused...
A few weeks ago, I heard two seemingly contradictory views about Indonesia. One came from a business executive who has spent decades operating in the Southeast Asian nation. His broad assessment was that Indonesia is still too important to ignore....
Amazon and Sony among firms that may have sourced coltan, used in phones, from supply chains controlled by the M23 rebels, says Global Witness Leading global brands including Amazon, Ericsson and Sony are “likely” to have sourced minerals linked to a...
Niger, Mayahi, Village of Koren Habdjia. At the village health centre supported by UNICEF, mothers come for consultations with their children. This health centre provides care for childhood illnesses, maternal health, and pregnant women. It treats children for malnutrition and...
UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese presents her latest report before delegates at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland on 23 March 2026. Credit: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP By Andrew Firmin LONDON, Jun 10 2026 (IPS) For a...
GA During NPT Review Conference. Credit: Jonathan Granoff By Jonathan Granoff NEW YORK, Jun 10 2026 (IPS) Martin Luther King Jr. , when he received the Nobel Peace Prize, reminded us of “The fact that most of the time human...
John Bolton is expected to plead guilty to a single count of retaining classified information as part of a plea deal with the Justice Department, which charged him in October 2025 with 18 counts of mishandling sensitive information. According to the...
Buried deep inside a 192-page intelligence authorization bill is Section 622, titled “United States-Israel Intelligence Sharing Enhancement.” It would require the president, acting through the director of national intelligence and as necessary the secretary of defense, to “expand and enhance...
As it pushes for a record breaking $1.5 trillion defense budget, the Department of Defense wants lawmakers to water down restrictions on the infamous revolving door between the Pentagon and industry, inviting more undue influence from the defense sector. The DoD’s...
Cities see surge in attacks and extortion demands at clinics in townships, leaving patients and staff vulnerable The three gunmen showed up just 10 minutes after the security guards had arrived for the early morning shift. Tshiamo Nere* admits he was...
Since the beginning of the Iran war, Saudi Arabia has been grappling with how best to respond to the expansion of Middle East conflict. Having issued condemnations of Tehran’s strikes on the kingdom – and other Gulf states – in...
Volodymyr Zelensky recently suggested that the war in Ukraine was beginning to turn in his country’s favor. The Ukrainian president insisted that Russia was “losing the initiative each day.” These comments came days after Zelensky wrote an open letter to...
INDIA bloc meeting of opposition parties was held in New Delhi on June 8, 2026 (Source: News on AIR) The Pandora’s box has been opened within the month of the stunning election results in the Kerala state assembly election as...
By: Ben Raiwin Kiatkwankul - - - - Three feasibility studies, zero committed foreign capital, 349 years of revivals. Thailand’s Land Bridge is back on the cabinet agenda. Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul’s cabinet has directed a fresh 90-day review, to...
InSight Crime, a thinktank which claims to fuse “investigative journalism with academic rigor,” accuses Nicaragua’s government of “hiring assassins” to hunt down and kill opponents abroad. This bold accusation is based on no more than “circumstantial” evidence, strongly suggesting political...
It remains unclear whether Iran’s effort to establish a new equation in the region has truly succeeded — an equation in which, for the first time, Iran would directly strike Israel if Israel attacks Lebanon. What is clear is that...
Buried deep within the thousands of pages of the annual U.S. National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a single provision labeled Section 224 has quietly become one of the hottest political flashpoints in Washington this year. On the surface, it looks...
Barbican, London This exhibition is so in love with the theoretical whimsy of utopian Panafrica that it loses superb artworks in an indigestible intellectual stew Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is a painter with the imagination of a great novelist. Her contribution to the...
Since January 2026, when the intensification of U.S. policies aimed at suffocating the Cuban people began, I have had the opportunity to travel to the island three times. Each time I return with my heart a little more broken, but...
PARIS, (PIC) France announced on Tuesday a new package of sanctions targeting Israeli officials and settlers over expanding settlement activity and settler violence in the occupied West Bank, in coordination with Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Norway. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Tuesday evening detained Mustafa Hussein Abdel Karim Bani Odeh, 52, a former Palestinian prisoner from the town of Tammun, southeast of Tubas, while passing through the Ein Siniya checkpoint near Ramallah in the...
Come Israele si avvale di altri paesi della regione per raggiungere i propri obiettivi militari in Iran. Segue nostro Telegram . Lo scorso dicembre, Israele è diventato il primo Paese a riconoscere formalmente il Somaliland, una regione autonoma...
GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from an Israeli strike in Gaza City rose on Tuesday evening after Malak Abdullah Qaddoum, a young Palestinian girl, succumbed to wounds she suffered two days earlier in an attack in western Gaza City. Local sources said...
On this Monday’s edition of The Target stream, Mint Press News’ Robert Inlakesh breaks down the confrontation between Israel and Iran, cutting through the propaganda and presenting the evidence available to suggest what damage was inflicted. After warning that any...
The United States is led by a sociopath who stands at the head of an American political economy and foreign policy in his image. Michael Hudson’s Killing the Host , The Collapse of Antiquity and The Destiny of Civilization are...
How we can stop runaway climate breakdown while tackling global inequality is perhaps the great challenge of our epoch. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michae l Roberts’ blog Picture by...
A new book, Capitalism at the Limit, explores how the socio-ecological dimension of our planetary crisis interacts with capitalism. Zeynep Öztürk is a PhD researcher at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna. Her areas of interest include...
Israel is a deeply sick colonial power and it’s the responsibility of the world to free the Palestinians from this nightmare. Read the full article HERE . The post Al Jazeera – ‘They were laughing’: Israel’s use of rape...
The idea you can have sporting fairness when you are dealing with an evil empire like the US is absurd. Read the article HERE . Picture by Mehr News Agency The post France24 – World Cup tickets for Iran...
On May 25, senior research associate Kate Robertson appeared before the Standing Senate Committee on National Security, Defence and Veterans Affairs to testify on Bill C-8. In her testimony, Robertson testified that targeted recommendations were needed to address constitutional...
President Xi Jinping has, over the years, drastically cut short his foreign travels. More like Chairman Mao, he prefers to host world leaders in Beijing. His foreign visits that averaged about 14 trips a year during 2013–19 fell to one...
A conflict of interests between Paris and Berlin has led to the termination of a joint aviation project, raising questions about Europe's ability to wage a war against Russia. Berlin and Paris Put Their Ambitions Above European Interests Germany and France...
The weekend exchange of strikes between Iran and Israel has put US President Donald Trump under even more domestic and international pressure to end the unpopular war he launched with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu more than three months ago....
Xi Jinping's visit to Pyongyang and new agreements with Moscow have led to developments that, according to supporters of closer regional cooperation, make Western sanctions increasingly ineffective and potentially counterproductive for the United States. North Korea Develops Rapidly as a Nuclear...
Artificial intelligence (AI) has sharpened the tools of espionage and deception on all sides, giving spy agencies new power to identify and groom human sources while also arming adversaries with synthetic identities and deepfakes that are increasingly difficult to detect....
While in Wisconsin, President Donald Trump sat down with NBC News to discuss the ongoing U.S.-Iran military conflict. During the interview it was clear that Trump is fundamentally misreading the situation inside Iran. When asked about negotiations with the...
The 2026 World Cup will see more Arab teams than ever participate, with a total of eight teams and 208 players selected. Arab teams have featured often - but not frequently - in nearly 100 years of World Cup tournaments....
Police dispersed demonstrators in Nanyuki, 120 miles from Nairobi, amid rising anger at US plans Kenyan police have shot dead a man during a protest against a proposed Ebola quarantine facility for US citizens. Patrick Wahome, who has organised protests in Nanyuki...
The financing required to build resilient water and sanitation systems continues to leave governments overburdened with debt repayments, excessive borrowing costs, and illicit financial flows. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo/IPS By Mavis Owusu-Gyamfi and Francisca Tatchouop Belobe Jun 9 2026 (IPS) Somewhere...
As vehicles become increasingly software-defined, automotive semiconductor suppliers face growing pressure to deliver higher compute performance while maintaining strict requirements for power efficiency, reliability, and long-term product support. Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), electrification, … com/eda/370099-customized-foundation-ip-enables-the-next-generation-of-automotive-compute/">Customized Foundation IP Enables the...
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