Nearly 700 civilians have reportedly been killed in drone strikes in Sudan since January, the United Nations aid chief said Tuesday, decrying that three years of civil war had created the "world's largest humanitarian crisis". Now entering a fourth...
Devastating attack killed up to 200 people, many of them civilians, with military saying it was a ‘precision airstrike’ Survivors and observers have questioned the Nigerian military’s rationale for a devastating airstrike on a busy market that killed as...
This article contains references to suicide and may be distressing for some readers. Egypt's parliament is expected to discuss family and custody laws following the death of a mother of two who died by suicide during a livestream, in a...
A court in Ulan-Ude has determined the fate of Mikhail Pichugin, a native of Buryatia who survived a 67-day drift in the Sea of Okhotsk after losing two relatives — his older brother Sergey and his 15-year-old nephew Ilya. A criminal...
Saudi Arabia is urging the US to drop its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz , despite claims from Washington that its Gulf allies are supportive of the action, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. Citing unnamed...
I hesitated before writing a post on this war. Until today. Finally the fog of war has lifted. Trump’s decision to impose a blockade on shipping moving out of the Gulf is a deliberate act of economic sabotage of the global...
When Volodymyr Zelensky landed in Damascus on 5 April, the visit was framed as part of Kyiv’s broader diplomatic outreach across the Middle East. Yet behind the optics of post-war reconstruction and economic cooperation, a more consequential dimension...
Rashid* Ahmed Idris was playing on the banks of the Nile in Omdurman with his friends when, in 2023, life changed forever. "Suddenly, we saw dust rising and realised fighting had started," he said, the peace pierced by a shell...
Efforts are underway to secure a second round of talks between the United States and Iran before a fragile two-week ceasefire expires on 21 April, as mediators push to narrow remaining differences. Although neither side has officially confirmed participation, reports suggest...
Lebanese and Israeli representatives are scheduled to meet in Washington on Tuesday for rare, US-mediated talks on ending the war in Lebanon. The meeting mediated by Secretary of State Marco Rubio will include the Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors to Washington and...
From the left, Rev. Tolbert Thomas Jallah Jn with Mariann Bassey Olsson during the launch of the campaign in Cartagena, Colombia. Credit: AFSA. By Isaiah Esipisu NAIROBI, Apr 14 2026 (IPS) Over 800 households in Ikolomani Constituency in Kakamega County, Western...
A teenager opened fire at a high school in Turkey's southeastern province of Sanliurfa on Tuesday, wounding at least 16 people, including students and teachers, before killing himself, Governor Hasan Sildak said. The assailant, a 19-year-old former student, used...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has expressed its appreciation to the participants in the second mission of the Global Sumud Flotilla for their bold efforts to break the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip. In a statement issued Monday evening, Hamas hailed...
The war with Iran is not just a geopolitical conflict. We see religious rhetoric used to cast strategic interests as a moral or sacred matter. US House Speaker Mike Johnson described Iran’s majority faith tradition, Shiite Islam, as a “misguided...
By: Tim Daiss - - - - China is in a tightening bind. A fragile two-week ceasefire has kept the Strait of Hormuz partially open, but flows remain constrained and increasingly shaped by political tolerance rather than market forces. For...
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Monday a "major" defence partnership with Indonesia following a meeting with the Southeast Asian nation's defence minister at the Pentagon. "We are elevating our relationship to a Major Defense Cooperation Partnership, in recognition of the...
The international rule of law must be upheld for peace and stability to prevail in the Middle East, China's President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday, in a rebuke of the US-Israeli war on Iran. While Beijing has repeatedly criticised the US-Israeli...
Viktor Orban’s “democratic ouster” is expected to remove Hungary’s procedural opposition to the EU’s planned 90 billion euro loan to Ukraine, to be financed by members raising common debt. State-run RT published a detailed article about this plan last December,...
Se gli USA hanno alzato la bandiera bianca sventolata dalle mani di Mr. President, non perdiamo l’attenzione sugli eventi: quella bandiera è già il sudario impregnato di sangue di nuovi martiri. E qualcuno, prima o dopo, chiederà vendetta. Segue nostro...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed different areas of the West Bank and Jerusalem last night and at dawn Tuesday, raiding homes and kidnaping several Palestinian citizens. According to local sources, the IOF kidnaped three young men from their...
Two shipments of military components bound for Israel from the UK have been seized in Belgium, it can be revealed. This follows an alert issued to authorities in Brussels by Declassified , Belgian NGO Vredesactie , Irish news outlet...
Parliamentary elections in Hungary ended in defeat for the Fidesz party, led by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. According to preliminary data, the opposition Tisza party, led by Péter Magyar, received more than two-thirds of the seats in parliament, that is,...
In the opening months of 2026, a fierce, 40-day conflagration between Iran, the United States and Israel upended decades of received wisdom regarding military power. The conflict did not hinge on the stealth of an F-35 fighter or the sophistication...
Dozens of protesters were detained by police in New York City on Monday during demonstrations calling for the blocking of arms sales to Israel and an end to US military support for its ally. Demonstrators included the anti-war group...
GAZA, (PIC) In front of the rubble of her destroyed home in Gaza, Majdal Saadallah stands still. She stares into nothing, trying to hold on to the last moment she shared with her eight-year-old son, Ahmad. “He was laughing,” she says. “Holding...
BAGHDAD, (PIC) Mohammad Darwish, head of Hamas’s leadership council, congratulated Iraq’s newly elected president, Nizar Mohammad Saeed Amidi, on his election as President of the Republic of Iraq, expressing his best wishes for success in his duties. In a statement on Monday,...
TULKAREM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation army demolished on Monday a commercial facility and a house belonging to Palestinian citizens in Tulkarem under the pretext of unlicensed construction. According to local sources, bulldozers escorted by Israeli forces stormed the town of Izbat Shufa...
The Rohingya did not choose dependency on aid. It was created by the restrictions surrounding them. Credit: UNHCR/Amanda Jufrian By Mohammed Zonaid COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh, Apr 14 2026 (IPS) While global attention right now is on escalating geopolitical tensions involving the...
In the span of 12 days, two councils were formed claiming to lead Myanmar toward peace and unity. They could not be more different — and the contrast between them is the clearest argument yet for why Washington and the...
Pakistani officials said Tuesday that Islamabad has proposed a second round of talks to the US and Iran, as a fragile ceasefire in the Middle East still holds. US Vice President JD Vance said negotiations with Iran "did make...
The past week marked a decisive turning point in the trajectory of the US–Israel war on Iran . What began as a fragile pause in fighting quickly unravelled under the weight of unresolved disputes, competing priorities, and continued escalation...
The Democratic National Committee is facing criticism from some on the left wing of the party after it did not pass a resolution specifically condemning AIPAC at its annual meeting. The resolution reached at the three-day gathering...
For three years, ceasefires have been ignored and we have descended back into chaos. Now there is a credible plan for peace on the table Freedom, peace and justice. Three words that united the Sudanese people and became the banner under...
Artificial intelligence is rapidly learning to autonomously design and run biological experiments, but the systems intended to govern those capabilities are struggling to keep pace. AI company OpenAI and biotech company Ginkgo Bioworks announced in February 2026 that OpenAI’s flagship...
The Indo-Pacific’s quest for critical mineral security is colliding with an uncomfortable reality: the geography of heavy rare earth elements (HREEs) does not map neatly onto internationally recognized sovereignty. As the Quad — comprising the United States, India, Japan and...
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Apr 14 2026 (IPS) Trump 2.0 has been marked by the blatantly aggressive exercise of power to secure US interests as defined by him. While many recent trends even predate his first term, his...
The world economy survived the shocks of the Ukraine-Russia conflict, which has had limited impact on economic growth. But the escalation of hostilities in the Middle East has transformed what had been, until early 2026, a surprisingly benign outlook into...
Nima conducted an excellent interview of Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi (University of Tehran), a prominent Iranian analyst and a personal friend of mine, who was part of the Iranian delegation in Islamabad. The good professor — in the video...
The already fragile two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran appeared to give way over the weekend, after talks in Islamabad collapsed and President Donald Trump ordered a U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical node...
The velocity at which President Trump’s war on Iran has spiraled out of control is unsurprising. History neither repeats nor rhymes, but patterns flash like neon signs in the recent U.S. experience in the Greater Middle East. The combination of...
If the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran is ultimately assessed as a defeat, some measure of blame could be cast on five pro-Israel “think tanks” that consistently promoted military action against the Islamic Republic in the eight months before it began,...
Amid growing evidence of fungi’s key role in ecosystems and storing carbon, African scientists are championing the need to preserve ‘funga’ as much as flora and fauna Madagascar has long been celebrated for its remarkable wildlife, with the vast majority of...
A UN official lamented Monday that the world does not seem to care about a cycle of atrocities in Sudan as its civil war nears the three-year mark . The conflict has killed tens of thousands, displaced more...
Higher oil prices caused by the US-Israeli war on Iran could raise inflation rates in Ukraine by 1.5 to 2.8 percentage points, Ukraine's top central banker said on Monday. National Bank of Ukraine Governor Andriy...
The International Monetary Fund , World Bank and International Energy Agency on Monday urged countries to avoid hoarding energy supplies and imposing export controls that could worsen what they called the biggest shock ever to the global...
By: Khanh Vu Duc - - - - Hanoi is calling it “new momentum.” As General Secretary and President Tô Lâm arrives in Beijing this week for his first overseas trip after consolidating the top two leadership posts, Vietnamese state...
After a sleepless and at times tense night in Islamabad , Iranian and US officials ended their highest-level talks in decades without a breakthrough, but 11 sources familiar with the negotiations said dialogue was still alive. The weekend...
President Trump was presented with a great opportunity on Saturday to take the off-ramp from his war on Iran. After threatening Iran that “a whole civilization will die tonight,” Trump managed to get a two week pause in the war...
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