Israeli forces killed a paramedic and wounded a woman in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday morning, medical sources reported. The paramedic, named by Wafa news agency as Ibrahim Saqr, was killed in an air strike near the...
The United States ' "special relationship" is now more closely aligned with Israel than the UK, Britain’s ambassador to Washington has said, in remarks that come at a sensitive moment for transatlantic ties. Christian Turner made the comments during a...
The reported decision by the United Arab Emirates to leave OPEC and OPEC+ is more than a dispute over oil production. It is a sign that the old architecture of oil power is being reshaped by national strategy, Gulf competition...
Russia and China have always liked Trump in the White House, largely for his ineptitude and weakness more than anything else. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Is Trump and Netanyahu planning a...
Malawi’s parliament has announced plans to exhume the remains of former vice-president Saulos Chilima and eight others who died in a June 2024 military aircraft crash in northern Malawi. The move forms part of a renewed parliamentary inquiry into...
By Ron PAUL Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Last weekend my Institute for Peace and Prosperity hosted another conference here on the Texas Gulf Coast. Not only did we have a full...
TOKYO — As the US-Israeli war on Iran drags on indefinitely, Asia is realizing the extent to which 2026 is a major game-changer for a region that had been “the main driver of global growth.” This is the International Monetary...
Several cities in Mali , including the capital Bamako and the northern city of Kidal, were hit by a wave of attacks over the weekend, carried out by Tuareg separatist fighters from the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) alongside Islamist...
Solo i prossimi mesi potranno far comprendere la verità, ovvero se la crisi che attenaglia il continente può finire entro l’anno in corso oppure se occorrerà aspettarne ancora molti altri. Segue nostro Telegram . La notizia più rilevante delle ultime...
When Heba, a mother of four, was suddenly displaced from her home in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh on 2 March following the Israeli bombardment , the last thing on her mind was grabbing a pack of menstrual...
Iran has reportedly asked Donald Trump to end the blockade of its ports, the US president said in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday, claiming Tehran told him the country was in a " state of collapse...
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is visiting Vietnam from May 1-3 and Australia from May 3-5, with energy security, critical minerals and China’s maritime posture expected on the agenda. The most consequential element may be a foreign policy address she...
The recent Al-Qaeda and ALF offensive in Mali requires us to look at the region to understand the real state of things. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The struggle for...
Five members of the same family were killed in an airstrike in southern Lebanon overnight on Wednesday, as the Israeli military continues to flout a supposed ceasefire with Hezbollah. The strike targeted a building belonging to the...
On 25 March 2026 in Somalia, Nasra and Muslimo, both in Grade 8, attend class at Kabasa Primary School in Dollow. The school serves children from displaced and host communities. Through education, safe spaces and life-skills programmes, UNICEF supports girls...
There is a certain irony in seeing some of the world’s richest countries quietly ask the United States for financial relief. For decades, the Gulf monarchies cultivated an image of inexhaustible wealth: sovereign funds the size of nations, skylines raised...
Contemporary U.S. foreign policy remains one of the key drivers of global instability, producing complex consequences for both the international system and American society itself. There is a common belief that the American people are utterly bad, entirely ignorant, and...
Picture alliance/AA/Royal Court of Saudi Arabia. Source: International Politics & Society The war with Iran is exposing deep fractures beneath the surface of Gulf unity. Still, cooperation remains the only viable option. By Sebastian Sons BONN, Germany, Apr 29 2026...
US President Donald Trump has instructed aides to prepare for an extended blockade of Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing US officials, as Washington plans for a prolonged postponement of talks but without taking...
JERUSALEM /PNN/ A new report by Médecins Sans Frontières says Israeli authorities have used access to water as a “weapon” in Gaza, depriving Palestinians of essential supplies in what the group described as a systematic campaign with severe humanitarian consequences. The report,...
India’s response to the unfolding crisis in the Strait of Hormuz has, so far, been restrained. That restraint was not accidental but reflected a conscious adherence to strategic autonomy at a time when the situation was still evolving, outcomes were...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) A Palestinian young man was martyred on Wednesday morning after being shot by Israeli forces during a raid on the town of Silwad, northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. According to local sources, 37-year-old Abdul-Halim Hammad was shot...
Coastal villages throughout the Solomon Islands rely on selling fish for household incomes. Selling fish in Auki, Malaita Province, Solomon Islands. Credit: Catherine Wilson/IPS By Catherine Wilson SYDNEY, Australia, Apr 29 2026 (IPS) It is an invisible contaminant that has been...
Seychelles’ pioneering blue bond offers a compelling lesson in practical ocean finance. Credit: Michaela Rimakova/Unsplash By James Alix Michel VICTORIA, Seychelles, Apr 29 2026 (IPS) As the world prepares for the Global Environment Facility (GEF) meeting in Samarkand next month, Seychelles’...
Once again an antidote to the daily war propaganda we are being fed by Western state and corporate media of the Epstein Class Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and former planner and advisor at the...
Soaring oil prices and the blockade are preventing food, fuel and medicine being delivered to millions of people in desperate need, say NGOs The volatility of global oil prices caused by the US and Israel’s war on Iran is taking a...
Desperate to secure a conviction of Palestine Action defendants, a draconian British judge has forbidden them from referring to the principle of jury equity in their closing speeches. It is one of countless restrictions aimed at blocking the activists from...
If the situation persists, a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz—a vital maritime corridor—could disrupt African agriculture. According to agricultural development specialist Chabi Yayi, this reliance raises concerns that extend beyond the current crisis. Over the past few decades, global...
The Panama-flagged, Japanese-owned Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC), Idemitsu Maru, has passed through the Strait of Hormuz on its way to Nagoya with a cargo of 2 million barrels of oil from Saudi Arabia. The vessel also carries a reminder...
Cartoon by Nemo Trump assembled his national security team in Washington on Monday afternoon to figure out how to respond to Iran’s latest missive delivered via Pakistan — i.e., end the blockade and then we’ll talk about other issues. The...
The recent electoral defeat of Viktor Orban has drawn widespread attention, with most commentary focused on its implications for Europe and the Russia-Ukraine war. Yet this emphasis overlooks a broader strategic consequence: the potential disruption of China’s approach to Europe....
The anniversary of the operation to liberate the Kursk Region from Ukrainian nationalists, marked in Russia, coincided with the visit of high-ranking Russian officials to the DPRK and the opening of a memorial museum, underscoring the importance of this event...
China’s new law on Industrial and Supply Chain Security, which took effect immediately in early April, introduces a significant new layer of regulatory oversight targeting cross-border industrial activity and global supply chains. It will inevitably have far-reaching implications for multinational...
As a child, Azara Long often visited a linen shop on Sutter and Powell in San Francisco run by a Lebanese couple. Years later, she told a local newspaper that it was there, in that shop, that her path toward...
While recent global attention has focused on the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has effectively held closed since late February in a move that has disrupted world energy supplies, a quieter but also important development has been taking shape in...
The US Department of Agriculture issued a Food Price Outlook on April 24 which showed significant increases in a range of food prices, with more on the way, due to the economic shocks caused by the Trump administration’s illegal war...
In remarks unlikely to endear him to U.S. President Donald Trump, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, recently offered a brutally candid assessment of Washington’s war on Iran. "This whole affair is, to say the least, ill-considered," Merz said. "At the moment,...
These days, everyone in Washington is talking about U.S. missile stockpiles. The previously niche topic has been thrust onto the front page of major newspapers and is discussed daily on television and radio programming. And for good reason. After the...
Delegates at event in Cape Verde highlight opportunities from tech while stressing AI is no replacement for talent Last July, the Nigerian singer-songwriter Fave found herself caught up in a viral moment: an unauthorised version of a track featuring an AI...
South-east Asia, which relied heavily on the Middle East for energy and fertiliser, is desperately seeking to plug huge gaps in its supplies The European Union has sounded the alarm to countries in south-east Asia, urging them not to turn to...
On April 22, Indonesia’s finance minister went off-topic during a symposium and raised the possibility of tolling the Strait of Malacca in light of the current Hormuz crisis, drawing swift rejections from the foreign ministers of Singapore, Malaysia and even...
- - - - Thủ Thiêm’s future On March 26, Vietnamese state media announced that all households in Ho Chi Minh’s Thủ Thiêm New Urban Area had “agreed to move,” accepting compensation and resettlement. Domestic media had already announced that...
FIFA has approved a rule change allowing Afghan women footballers to play official international matches in FIFA competitions, giving players exiled since the Taliban's return to power a route back into international football. Afghanistan's women's national team has not played...
On April 17th, Congress voted to pass a brief 10-day extension of section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). This sets the new expiration date for April 30th, 2026. Section 702 was added to FISA in 2008 with...
Well, it bears repeating. Again. The Iranians never had a nuke, had no near-term prospect of weaponizing their enriched uranium stockpiles, were not hell-bent on blowing up the world and were not two weeks from anything other than still another...
It is tempting to argue that Israel’s new military doctrine is predicated on perpetual war – but the reality is more complex. Not that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would object to such an arrangement. On the contrary, his relentless...
Libya's Tripoli Criminal Court on Tuesday convicted four members of "a criminal gang" involved in human trafficking, abductions for ransom and torture, with sentences up to 22 years, the attorney general's office said on its Facebook page. The attorney general's office...
Donald Trump 's picture will soon appear in some US passports, officials said Tuesday, shattering another norm as the president aggressively puts his personal stamp on government institutions. The State Department, following reports by Fox News and The...
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