Nigeria has struggled to contain bandit groups who kidnap and kill but some communities are finding their own solutions In the 1980s, Dayyabu Abba-Kurfi’s striking prowess for his high school football club in north-west Nigeria earned him the unlikely nickname Doncaster,...
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Award-winning Somali referee Omar Artan has been dropped from officiating at the 2026 World Cup after being barred from entering the United States, world football's governing body FIFA said on Monday. A FIFA spokesperson confirmed in a statement that...
The heads of the Pakistani and Lebanese armed forces agreed to boost cooperation on Tuesday as they met in Pakistan with peace talks over the US-Israeli war on Iran and its fallout dragging on. Pakistan has been mediating between...
Far Away [Part 16] – Five Star Trading Company
Full ArticleA promising new life with Five Star brings friendship and the beginnings of prosperity, but the job exacts a bloody price. Read Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4...
Republican Congressman Thomas Massie has renewed calls for a congressional investigation into Israel's 1967 attack on the USS Liberty , delivering a rare speech on the floor of the US House of Representatives to honour the 34 American...
Hello, Welcome to our live coverage. Here are the latest key updates: - US President Donald Trump claims he is in the “final throes” of a deal, as Iran and Israel stop attacks. Meanwhile, Tehran warns that strikes will resume if...
Hello, Welcome to our live coverage. Here are the latest key updates: - US President Donald Trump claims he is in the “final throes” of a deal, as Iran and Israel stop attacks. He had reportedly said that the deal is...
Iran says it will no longer wait for threats, declaring new strategic regional defense doctrine , so says Sadeq Larijani. Larijani is a prominent Iranian Shia cleric, conservative politician, and senior regime figure. He is best known for serving as...
World Bank Enables Corruption in Bangladesh
Full ArticleBy Anis Chowdhury SYDNEY, Jun 9 2026 (IPS) The World Bank considers corruption a major obstacle to eradicating global poverty . The Bank officially has a zero-tolerance policy against fraud and corruption in its projects. Concerned with widespread...
New Geopolitics Threatens More Food Crises
Full ArticleBy Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Felice Noelle Rodriguez KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jun 9 2026 (IPS) Recent geopolitical trends threaten more food crises, especially in developing countries. A new IPES-Food report urges a strategy of ‘resilient self-reliance’, proposing available opportunities to...
The internationalization of Armenia’s elections
Full ArticleFor a small, land-locked nation between the Black and Caspian Seas and surrounded by Iran, Russia, and Turkey, Armenia has had a bright spotlight shone on it the last couple of months. The reason? The country’s most consequential election since...
Given the uneven course of the Russian economy during the first five months of 2026, Russian authorities, especially President Vladimir Putin, were keen to minimize the impacts of any possible stagnation at the 29th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. When...
Years ago, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev described Baku’s relationship with Israel as an iceberg, with 90% hidden below the surface. Last week, CNN attempted to pull the hidden portion into full view. Notably, the report relied on four anonymous sources with...
On Monday, the Washington Post ran an opinion article defending Section 224, the controversial proposal to integrate the U.S. and Israeli militaries by expanding cooperation in co-production of weapons, joint ventures, and research. However, the Post did not...
In February 2026, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveiled what may be his most ambitious foreign policy doctrine yet. Standing before his cabinet ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Israel, Netanyahu announced a “hexagon of alliances”, a...
Turkish Interior Minister Mustafa Ciftci recently sparked controversy by expressing his desire to one day govern Jerusalem and suggesting that territories once ruled by the Ottoman Empire could again fall under Turkish sovereignty. Ciftci's remarks are the latest indication that...
Malaysia’s Anwar Faces A Reformist Archrival
Full ArticleBy: Wong Chin Huat - - - - Scattered pictures/of the smiles we left behind/Smiles we gave to one another/For the way we were… Three and a half years into leading an ideologically diverse coalition government, Malaysia’s Prime...
Not since the notorious 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) provided for indefinite detention of American citizens, has the annual funding bill been as misused as this year. Embedded in the bill is an insult to every American who values...
Reprinted with permission from Trita Parsi’s Substack. Israel has now responded militarily to Iran, defying Trump’s publicly expressed wishes. Israeli commentators have been explicit that Israel could not allow Iran to establish a new regional equation – one in which...
Iran and Israel said Monday that hostilities between them had halted, after the two countries exchanged strikes that threatened to reignite the Middle East war . Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the "fire on that front is contained"...
A key governing body of the International Criminal Court on Monday suspended chief prosecutor Karim Khan as he faces sexual abuse allegations against a member of his office. The 21-member bureau of the Assembly of...
Israeli strikes on south Lebanon killed at least 14 people on Monday, the Lebanese health ministry said, including seven after Iran threatened to attack Israel again if it continued bombing the country . Iran-backed Hezbollah meanwhile said it...
As we mark 100 days since the start of the US-Israel war on Iran and two months of a dubious 'ceasefire', direct hostilities between Iran and Israel have resumed. Iran's missile strikes came after its leadership warned that...
Acque limpide e montagne verdi: la costruzione della Bella Cina attraverso parchi, biodiversità e civiltà ecologica
Full ArticleDai grandi parchi nazionali alla protezione delle specie rare, la Cina ha trasformato la tutela ambientale in pilastro della modernizzazione socialista, integrando sviluppo, biodiversità, transizione verde e il principio secondo cui “acque limpide e montagne verdi” sono ricchezza. Segue nostro...
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun made a rare direct appeal to the Israeli government and its people to come to the negotiating table to end the war, warning in a CNN interview aired Monday that a military...
GAZA, (PIC) Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said that the killing of nearly 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza since the ceasefire took effect demonstrates that the genocide is still ongoing and that Gaza’s residents continue to face relentless attacks. In a statement on Monday,...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Israeli authorities have canceled all legal visits scheduled for Monday for Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons and have also barred detainees’ families from attending hearings at the Ofer Military Court. The announcement came in a joint statement by...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Monday evening severely assaulted and detained several Palestinian workers at the Al-Issawiya checkpoint in Occupied Jerusalem while also arresting another Palestinian at the Container military checkpoint southeast of the city. In a statement,...
Iran has sent a clear message to Trump that if he wants a deal, the US President will have to rein-in Israel. Connor Echols is the managing editor of Responsible Statecraft. He was previously the managing editor of the NonZero Newsletter....
Shocking that these protestors of good conscience could be sentenced as if they are terrorists, despite not being charged with a terrorist offence. Read the full article HERE . The post Middle East Eye – Palestine Action: Judge refuses...
Asbel Bohigues – PSOE’s corruption scandal is the weak link in Spain’s left-wing government
Full ArticleSpanish Prime Minister and PSOE leader Pedro Sánchez has been the great political survivor, but the constant corruption scandals may finally push him out of power. Asbel Bohigues is professor of political science at the University of Valencia. Cross-posted from...
A Labour government banning left-wing activists from entering the country because they advocate for Palestine just about sums up the moral dearth of those in power in the UK today. Bart Cammaerts is Professor of Politics and Communication and Head of...
Hidden details of the dialogue between the leaders of two major powers over the fate of the Island of Freedom may help avoid a forceful scenario and preserve Russia's position in Cuba. Putin Created Intrigue With Remarks About Talks With Trump...
UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi called on Iran on Monday to "re-engage" with him so inspections can resume at sites the US and Israel bombed a year ago , as the US led a push for a...
More than a third of lawmakers from Britain's governing Labour Party signed a letter on Monday calling on the government to end trade with Israel's illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. "There is an urgent need for accountability...
Broadcom, a US supplier of the chips and networking technology that underpin the global artificial intelligence boom, missed revenue expectations last week. Not by much. On Monday, South Korea’s stock market had fallen more than 8%, Samsung Electronics had lost...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has called on the Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership to mobilize its global diplomatic network in support of the Gaza Strip and its people. In a statement on Monday, Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem the PA leadership to instruct...
At SAFE Forum 2026 , Synopsys announced significant advancements in its collaboration with Samsung Foundry, expanding AI-powered design, verification, test, and IP solutions for Samsung’s most advanced process technologies. The announcement underscores the growing importance of electronic design automation...
Iran launched its first direct ballistic missile strike against Israel on Sunday night since the fragile 8 April ceasefire went into effect. Tehran made clear its strike was in retaliation for Israeli strikes against the Dahiyeh district...
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 recent...
Aviation across the Middle East has once again been disrupted after a brief but intense exchange of attacks between Iran and Israel prompted airspace restrictions, flight diversions and renewed safety measures across the region. The latest escalation saw...
EUA atacam relatores da ONU que denunciam racismo, pobreza ou sanções. Defendem “interferência” quando convém e arruínam quem investiga seus crimes. Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su As tensões entre Washington...
Frequent fires in central Gaza Strip destroy lands, raise fears of additional displacement
Full ArticleGAZA, (PIC) The eastern areas of central Gaza Strip, especially the vicinity of the al-Bureij and al-Maghazi refugee camps, are witnessing an escalation in the outbreak of fires during the recent period, amid field data and local testimonies suggesting the use...
Campanha de desinformação anti-russa se intensificou devido ao Fórum. Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su A realização do Fórum Econômico Internacional de São Petersburgo (SPIEF) em 2026 consolidou mais uma vez a...
Irán se arriesga a entrar en guerra
Full ArticleEs probable que esta fase del conflicto iraní solo termine cuando Occidente caiga por el precipicio económico que se avecina… Únete a nosotros en Telegram , Twitter y VK . Escríbenos: info@strategic-culture.su La guerra de Estados Unidos con Irán ha traspasado...
Aid organisations and rights advocates have warned that Israel 's decision to shut all land crossings into Gaza could have catastrophic consequences for Palestinians in the territory, with experts telling The New Arab that the move risks...
JENIN, West Bank / PNN/ Israeli occupation forces began large-scale demolition operations on Monday in the village of Barta’a, southwest of Jenin, targeting 15 Palestinian homes on the grounds that they were built without permits, in one of the largest...
Platner’s Imperfections
Full ArticleOften, when Graham Platner comes up (which is too often), my mind drifts to Claire McCaskill. The current MS NOW analyst was the last Democrat to represent Missouri in the Senate. Notably, she lost in 2018 to Josh Hawley, the...
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