As public institutions continue to collapse under the weight of widespread destruction in Gaza, essential services such as education and electricity have increasingly shifted into private hands. Families now find themselves forced to pay for services that were once...
Lifestyle influencer died while on vacation with boyfriend, who local officials say has since had his passport ‘withheld’ Ashly Robinson, a US lifestyle influencer, died last week while on vacation in the Tanzanian islands of Zanzibar with her boyfriend, Joe McCann....
The Metropolitan Police in London have refused to accept a letter from pro-Palestinian supporters calling for the reversal of a decision to block their annual march marking the Nakba. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley had refused permission for pro-Palestinian supporters to...
Reading the statistics, it is natural to fall into despair. The counter-revolutionary war in Sudan is entering its fourth year. Thousands of civilians have been senselessly murdered, and many more have been injured, brutalised and traumatised beyond imagination. Millions of children...
Life is beginning to return to normal in the Gulf following weeks of upheaval caused by the war in the Middle East, with a truce between the US and Iran still holding. Schools, businesses and airlines across Gulf states have suffered...
On March 1, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps drone-bombed three Amazon Web Services cloud computing facilities in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Apps and banking services were disrupted, leading Amazon to “strongly recommend that customers with workloads running in...
London police said Wednesday they were hunting two suspects after an "attempted arson attack" on a synagogue in the north of the capital, amid an upsurge in antisemitic incidents. The pair, dressed in dark clothing and balaclavas, approached the synagogue...
By Martin WILLIAMS Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Officials from BAE Systems, Leonardo and Thales sit on advisory committees that oversee the ‘strategic direction’ of academic departments Arms industry executives have been given...
Senior research associate Emile Dirks spoke with Domino Theory about Xi Jinping’s view of national security in light of U.S. and Israeli cyber operations in Iran. Part of Xi’s strategy upon gaining power was to institute far-reaching...
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is the world’s second most dangerous antisemite, several spots ahead of white nationalist Nick Fuentes, according to a new report from the Israeli government. The report contains an analysis of 10 “prominent influencers in the...
By Mohammad REZA MORADI, General Director of Mehr News Agency’s Foreign Languages and International News Department , from Tehran / Iran Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su From Integration of Threat to Differentiation...
Three years into Sudan's war that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions and spawned numerous war crimes allegations, Germany said Wednesday it hoped donors would pledge more than $1 billion towards humanitarian efforts. Speaking ahead of a meeting...
More than 2,200 ants were found in Zhang Kequn’s luggage at Nairobi airport, with baggage destined for China A Chinese national has been sentenced to a year in prison and fined by a Nairobi court for attempting to smuggle thousands of...
In their unjust, illegal, and criminal war against Iran, the United States and Israel have suffered an undeniable, historic, and crushing defeat. They now find themselves forced to comply with Iran’s demands, despite all the victory posturing and triumphalist rhetoric...
FDD Senior Fellow Edmund Fitton-Brown joins Bill Roggio to assess the current state of the Iran War. From the dual blockade in the Strait of Hormuz to the failed peace negotiations, they consider: Why did Pakistan step up as mediator?...
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday said he would not "yield" to pressure to join the Iran war after US President Donald Trump threatened to scrap a UK trade deal. "We're not going to get dragged into this war....
‘I went to this tourist resort in Accra wanting to show how the people who live there fish, play – and rest. Africans aren’t often portrayed in this way. And the horse pulls it all together!’ This was taken at Labadi,...
The UK Parliament has approved a controversial bill granting police unprecedented powers to restrict, prevent, and impose strict conditions on protests . The move has triggered sustained opposition from campaigners who say the measures threaten the right to demonstrate,...
Dubai's iconic Burj Al Arab is closing for an 18-month restoration after sustaining minor damage during the Iran–UAE escalation , when debris from an intercepted drone struck the building's exterior. UAE authorities said air defences had intercepted an Iranian...
IoT permeates every aspect of our lives, in payment systems, access authorization, vehicles, utilities, factories, hospitals, and in so many other fields. Which makes these systems attractive targets for hacking and social disruption while also challenging to protect given the...
Israeli strikes continued to pound southern Lebanon on Wednesday, killing several people, just a day after Lebanon and Israel held rare talks in Washington that took place without any halt to the Israeli offensive . The ambassadors of...
A student shot at least four people dead including fellow pupils and wounded at least 20 others at a middle school in southeastern Turkey on Wednesday, the local governor said, marking the country's second school attack in two...
Dozens of boats carrying activists and aid for Palestinians in Gaza set sail from the northeastern Spanish city of Barcelona on Wednesday. Organizers of the Global Sumud Flotilla say that more than 70 boats and 1,000 people from around...
For some, the impact is already being felt but others remain in limbo over their energy security and are hostage to an unlikely de-escalation - Don’t get The Long Wave delivered to your inbox? Sign up here - It remains a...
Canada, the UK, Australia, Japan and six other countries condemned the killings of UN peacekeepers in Lebanon on Tuesday while calling "for an urgent end to hostilities" in the country where Israeli attacks have killed over 2,000 people...
Juman Simaan' s book Olive Growing in Palestine: Stories of Everyday Forms of Resistance (University of Georgia Press, 2026) does not commence with a description of the olive groves. Instead, it describes the presence of Israeli colonialism on...
Is a greener China a model for the rest of the world? Alex Wang, a professor at UCLA who spent decades practising environmental law in China, attempts to answer this in the latest in a series of short explainers by...
Sahar Francis, a Palestinian lawyer and human rights defender, will tour Ireland to speak about Israel’s new racist execution law, and the ongoing abuse of Palestinian political prisoners, of which there are currently some 10,000, including 350 children. Monday 20th...
With renewed tensions between the US and Iran following the breakdown of negotiations in Islamabad on Saturday, the spectre of regional war has returned to loom over the Red Sea, along Yemen's western coast, once again placing Hodeidah Governorate...
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif set off on a four-day diplomatic blitz to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey on Wednesday, his office said, as Riyadh offered $3bn to ease UAE-linked debt pressure. "Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif will undertake...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has welcomed Italy’s decision to suspend the renewal of its military cooperation agreement with Israel, calling it “a step in the right direction” amid the ongoing attacks in Gaza and escalating regional tensions. In a press release...
Orbán should take a step further in distancing Hungary from Europe. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The recent electoral defeat of Viktor Orbán marks a relevant turning point in Hungarian politics, but...
GAZA, (PIC) Gaza Strip municipalities warned of an imminent collapse of the basic services system, in light of the continued siege and the Israeli prevention of the entry of fuel, heavy equipment, and spare parts, which exacerbates health and environmental crises...
The US military said early on Wednesday that its blockade of Iranian ports had been "fully implemented", preventing all of the country's trade by sea. On X, US Central Command (CENTCOM) shared a statement from Commander Admiral Brad...
Hungary's outgoing Prime Minister, Viktor Orban , has long been considered Israel's closest ally in Europe and a staunch supporter of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, despite his corruption scandals and multiple wars in the Middle East. Now that...
Damascus, Syria - Failed peace talks between the US and Iran in Islamabad and continued Israeli violations in Lebanon have left the Middle East’s fragile ceasefire teetering on the edge in recent days. Last Wednesday, Israel...
The entire Scottish leadership of Your Party has resigned, just two months after its founding conference in Dundee, in a move that exposes deep internal divisions within the newly formed "alternative left" party. The Interim Scottish Executive...
Bethlehem / Special investigation Report for PNN – By Monjed Jadou A journalistic investigation conducted by the Palestine News Network (PNN), in cooperation with Palestine Press Operator, has found that the new electoral law governing the 2026 local elections restricts...
Türkiye’s Salda Lake, widely regarded as the only terrestrial analogue to Jezero Crater on Mars, is preparing to host a major astrobiology event in June with participation from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and leading international universities, as...
In Gaza , where crises are often measured in airstrikes and casualty figures, a quieter emergency is unfolding inside tents and overcrowded shelters. Away from the headlines, mothers are struggling to secure the most basic hygiene items for...
- - - - Could the current (and worsening) global energy crisis have one small silver lining: halting the advance of the monstrous regiment of sports utility vehicles (SUVs)? Despite widespread advocacy by media and politicians in most countries—though notably less...
UK officials believed Nato expansion “would provoke [the] Russians” if a large group of European states joined the military organisation, declassified files from 1997 show. A March 1997 briefing for prime minister John Major outlined UK support...
A second round of Iran-US negotiations could take place in Pakistan later this week, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, as momentum builds towards securing a permanent end to the devastating regional conflict . Marathon peace talks in...
A Pakistani delegation led by the country's powerful military chief travelled to Iran on Wednesday afternoon, hours after US President Donald Trump suggested a second round of peace talks could take place later this week. The visit by Pakistani...
TOKYO – Amid all the smoke surrounding a Chinese slowdown, economists are getting a view of some serious fire this week. Case in point: exports grew just 2.5% year-on-year in March, a rate markedly below the previous few months. It’s...
Rev. Munther Isaac, pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Beit Sahour, warned of an escalating Israeli targeting of the Christian presence in Palestine. He stressed that what Christians are experiencing...
Trump is not an aberration, a deviation from the system. He is the system finally becoming visible in all its self-undermining contradictions. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The No Kings protests, which...
- - - - President Obama meets then-President-elect Trump at the White House on November 10, 2016, courtesy of The Hill via YouTube. In August 2013 — in the wake of our Snowden reporting, which revealed the...
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