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An investigation into the death of a Palestinian teenager in an Israeli prison has been closed by an Israeli judge, who said even though it's clear the boy was starved, the cause of death is undeterminable, a newly-unsealed...

MENA

RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex‑Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Society have accused the Israeli occupation police of executing 21‑year‑old Qasim Shuqairat following a raid on his home in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel al-Mukaber on...

News, Israeli crimes, West Bank

A marine drone struck a Turkish crude oil tanker that had departed Russia, causing an explosion in the Black Sea near Istanbul's Bosphorus Strait on Thursday, Turkey's transportation minister said. The incident, one of several in recent months involving...

MENA

Capire i meccanismi attraverso i quali la lobby israeliana negli Stati Uniti ha storicamente influenzato la politica estera nordamericana appare fondamentale per interpretare la contemporaneità geopolitica del Vicino Oriente. Qui si cercherà in primo luogo di tracciare un breve profilo...

Italiano, AIPAC, Israel

The Israeli military said air defences responded to missile attacks from Iran on Thursday that, according to medics, left six people lightly wounded and caused some damage. A spokesperson for Israel's Magen David Adom emergency medical service said paramedics...

MENA

Intelligence agencies are often blamed when the use of military force has an unexpected or negative outcome. Pundits often argue leaders end up in difficult situations because they are not fully informed, or intelligence agencies got it wrong. Of course,...

Opinion, Hormuz Blockade, Iran Regime Change

Foreign ministers from the G7 meet outside Paris starting Thursday, with European nations and allies seeking to narrow differences with the US over the Middle East war while keeping other crises like Ukraine and Gaza high on the...

World

The group "Saraya Awliya al-Dam" has emerged as one of the most prominent Iraqi factions involved in the US-Israeli war on Iran . It has claimed dozens of strikes and attacks on targets it says are "American" across various areas...

MENA

Egypt is clamping down on media incitement aimed at relations with fellow Arab countries, especially the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, threatening to take punitive action against violators. The expanding campaign is energised by an escalating tug of war...

MENA

AL-KHALIL, (PIC) A Palestinian worker was killed and seven others were injured on Thursday after their vehicles overturned and came under gunfire during a chase by Israeli forces and settlers at the entrance of Masafer Yatta, south of al-Khalil. Dr. Iyad Abu...

News, Israeli crimes, Settler crimes

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Palestinian citizens fended off an attack by extremist Jewish settlers targeting their homes and property on the outskirts of Mikhmas town, north of Occupied Jerusalem, on Wednesday evening. Local sources reported that a group of settlers stormed the al‑Makibra...

News, settler attacks, West Bank

Over 8,554 grave violations against children have occurred in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories during the ongoing conflict. Credit: UN News By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Mar 26 2026 (IPS) The ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which began October 2023, has claimed...

Armed Conflicts, Crime & Justice, Democracy

Kurdish fashion designer Lara Dizeyee 's creative roots aren't drawn from the usual stories of televised runway shows or teenage afternoons flipping through glossy fashion magazines. Her story, instead, begins with exile during the Iran–Iraq War , when her...

Lifestyle

By A. K. Abdul Momen NEW JERSEY, USA, Mar 26 2026 (IPS) Who benefits from a war of choice against Iran? The immediate political winners may include President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But if the war continues for...

Armed Conflicts, Crime & Justice, Economy & Trade

The language of power often reveals more than it intends. In a rare moment of candor on March 7, US President Donald Trump described the confrontation with Iran as “a big chess game at a very high level … I’m...

Middle East, 15-Point Iran Plan, Block 2

Gold has long enjoyed a reputation as a financial “safe haven” during stormy times. But over the past few months of geopolitical chaos and market panic, the precious metal has moved more like a roller coaster than a steady ship...

Finance, Block 2, Flight to Quality

The furnaces at Vaikunth Dham, the largest crematorium in India’s Maharashtra state, have gone quiet. The operators only had enough liquified petroleum(natural) gas (LNG) for a few more cremations. From here on out, the dead would be cremated by electricity...

World, 1973 Oil Shock, Asia Energy Crisis

While South Korea is preoccupied with the safety of its citizens, the impact of the conflict on fuel supplies, and changes in the Seoul-Washington alliance, North Korea has expressed uncompromising political and diplomatic support for Tehran. The DPRK’s Stance: “A...

DPRK, North Korea, Politics

With the end of the post-World War II global order, every great power is now effectively a rogue state. Russia is trying (and failing) to reestablish its old empire. China is menacing its neighbors and funding aggressive proxies around the globe....

Opinion, 1973 Oil Shock, Block 2

A March 12 fire that injured 200 sailors is just the latest embarrassing incident in the history of the USS Gerald R. Ford. The vaunted aircraft carrier has become a case study demonstrating how such a program will fail when...

Pentagon, Pentagon-spending, U-s-military

The Strait of Hormuz crisis has sparked a new round of debates on the implications for China of the U.S.-Israel war against Iran. Citing China’s reliance on imports of oil and liquified natural gas (LNG) that pass through the largely...

Iran-war, Asia, Energy-transition

Turkey has been pushing hard for an end to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran since the campaign began late last month. In the weeks leading up to February 28, Turkey joined Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states in lobbying the Trump...

Trump, Israel, Turkey

China is rapidly expanding its deep-sea research and mapping efforts across key global waters, raising concerns that these activities may support future undersea conflict. This month, Reuters and CNN reported that China is expanding a vast deep-sea research and mapping...

China, AMTI, Block 1

Cartoon by Eric Izabelle I think the picture sums it up… Iran is not going to negotiate with the Trump administration on Trump’s terms. Iran has set its terms and will not deviate from those. Here is a synthesis of...

Larry C. Johnson

Let’s begin by recalling why the US Navy shot-down an Iranian airliner in July 1988 and brought 241 innocent men, women and children to their doom. The answer, of course, is that the Navy was conducting patrol operations in the...

Uncategorized

For decades, the United States moved from covert assassination plots to openly embracing assassination or “targeted killing” as policy. Now, in its war with Iran, that evolution is reaching its most dangerous phase. On March 17th and 18th, the United...

Uncategorized

After protests across Iran turned deadly in January, President Donald Trump promised Iranians that “help is on the way.” On February 28th, the U.S. and Israel launched what immediately became a devastating war on Iran. American and Israeli warplanes began...

Uncategorized

Democrats on the US House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday demanded that President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice “stop the cover-up” of former special counsel Jack Smith’s full investigation into Trump’s retention of classified documents following his first term, after new material sent...

United States, Donald Trump, Jack Smith

Buon senso vorrebbe che ucraini ed europei puntassero a chiudere il conflitto al più presto, prima che la sconfitta diventi disfatta, dal momento che non esiste nessuna possibilità che gli ucraini riconquistino i territori perduti o impediscano ai russi di...

Italiano, Donbas, European Union

Brussels/PNN/ In a joint statement, missions representing countries including Belgium, Canada, Denmark, the European Union, Ireland, Finland, France, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Switzerland denounced Israel's “settler terrorism” and expressed shock over recent killings...

50,1

The US Justice Department last October announced the largest asset seizure in American history: a cache of bitcoin then valued at $15 billion tied to the Cambodia-based Prince Group that prosecutors alleged oversaw an empire of human trafficking and industrial-scale...

Finance, Bitcoin, Block 4

C lick here to read the article on Asia Times. The Cayman Islands sits at the heart of a network of British financial jurisdictions. Together, they manage trillions in assets, influencing global capital flows and investment networks. China, which was...

Front Page Top Slider, John P. Ruehl

‘Economist Ann Pettifor explains how America’s industrial decline has its roots in the dismantling of the international monetary system established at Bretton Woods and in the rise of a global financial system that prioritizes capital mobility over production.’ In...

Finance, Financial Institutions, Globalisation

The former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency finds parallels in the lies over Iraq about nuclear weapons and the lies over Iran today. Interview by David Hearst, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. Cross-posted from Middle East...

Geopolitics, Article, David Hearst

The far-right had a successful local election, as did France Insoumise, but neither have shown that they can win the presidential election in 2027. Frédéric Sawicki is professor of political science at Paris 1 University of Panthéon-Sorbonne. Cross-posted from The...

EU politics, National Politics, Article

Maybe you’re reading this article while listening to a podcast. Or you’re participating in a dull Zoom meeting. Or you’re talking on the phone with a relative. Maybe you’ve just read the first three lines of this article three times without...

War & Peace, Donald Trump, multitrashing

Credit: Sanjit Pariyar/NurPhoto via AFP By Andrew Firmin LONDON, Mar 25 2026 (IPS) Less than six months after Nepal’s Generation Z rose up in protest , the country has a new prime minister. A 35-year-old former rapper who soundtracked the...

Active Citizens, Arts, Asia-Pacific
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