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The recent US-Israel-Iran conflict has confirmed a structural shift in warfare: artificial intelligence is no longer just enhancing military operations — it is compressing the time available to prevent escalation. In this conflict, AI-enabled decision-support systems processed vast streams of...

South Asia, AI Warfare, Block 2

Kurds have expressed cautious support for Iraq's conscription bill . Some perceive it as an economic opportunity for youth, while others caution that it may intensify political and sectarian competition within security institutions. Parliament Speaker Haibat al-Halbousi recently expressed support...

MENA

Wars in Ukraine and the Middle East have propelled drones into the headlines. The word “drone” now stretches to cover everything from hobbyist camera rigs available on Amazon to the Predator and Reaper systems the United States has relied on...

Military, Block 2, Drone Warfare

After weeks of bombardments in southern Lebanon that have killed more than 2,000 people and displaced more than one million residents, Israel has announced a ten-day ceasefire with Lebanon. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however, vowed to keep Israeli troops...

Opinion, Benjamin Netanyahu, Gaza War

Every few years, like clockwork, the idea resurfaces from the salons of Brussels and the op-ed pages of Le Monde and Der Spiegel: Europe must build its own defense architecture, a “European pillar” of security, a NATO without Washington. The rhetoric is invariably...

Opinion, Block 2, Europe

As Pete Hegseth was fighting an uphill battle to be confirmed as the secretary of defense, an experienced politico came running to whip votes: Norm Coleman, a former Republican senator from Minnesota. After shepherding Hegseth around the Hill and lobbying his...

Congress, Saudi-arabia, Qatar

This month marks the third anniversary of the war in Sudan. Estimates of the death toll range from 150,000 to 400,000 or more; 2025 was, according to the United Nations’ internal estimates, a particularly deadly year for civilians. The humanitarian...

Civil-war, Chad, Boulos

A 58% jump in TSMC’s quarterly profit, announced on April 16, should change how investors think about the AI economy. Those numbers are not speculative, based on projections or optimistic. They’re realized profits, delivered here and now. A fourth consecutive...

Technology, AI Companies, AI Profits

By: Xiaochen Su - - - - Build we must The 2021 bursting of the Chinese real estate bubble has generated a growing chorus of analyses comparing China’s economic trajectory today with Japan’s stagnation since the...

Lebanese Finance Minister Yassine Jaber on Thursday said his government had good meetings this week with the International Monetary Fund and remained committed to working toward a lending programme. Current events, including the Israeli war on Lebanon , had delayed...

Economy

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said Thursday his country was "ready" for a possible US attack on the communist island following months of mounting pressure from President Donald Trump. "We don't want that (confrontation) but it is our duty to be ready...

World

US President Donald Trump said Thursday Washington and Tehran were "very close" to a peace deal and insisted that Iran had agreed to hand over its enriched uranium, a key sticking point in negotiations. The United States had earlier threatened to...

MENA

IMF economists warned Thursday that the war in Iran could have "very, certainly severe" consequences far outside the region - especially for energy-importing countries. Countries in East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa are among the countries most affected now - and who...

Economy

Trump administration officials are discovering that a daunting number of longstanding U.S. allies and security clients are adopting hedging policies or even openly opposing Washington’s decision to wage war against Iran. That sobering reality has become even clearer over the...

Uncategorized

You could say the impending stagflationary tsunami serves him right because Trumpy is an arrogant, clueless know-it-all, who basically knows practically nothing at all. At least with regard to the manifold issues of prosperity, constitutional governance and war & peace...

Uncategorized

French Finance Minister Roland Lescure told reporters Thursday that the Strait of Hormuz needs to reopen "but not at any price," adding that G7 leaders stand ready to mitigate the war's economic fallout. Finance ministers and central bank governors...

Economy

Gaza's civil defence agency said Thursday that Israeli fire killed four people, including one child, in different locations across the Palestinian territory. Israeli violence continues despite a ceasefire in the Gaza war that came into effect on October 10. Saleh...

MENA

The top United Nations official in Sudan told AFP on Thursday that the country, facing the world's largest humanitarian crisis, has been "abandoned" as the war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)...

MENA

Nel Vecchio Continente il moltiplicarsi dei conflitti, oltre a peggiorare l’esborso per il pieno di benzina e di gasolio, accrescere lo scontrino della spesa al supermercato, lasciare a terra qualche aeroplano senza cherosene, offre l’impressione di un generale disinteresse per...

Italiano, Donald Trump, Establishment

Internal immigration records from northern Malawi reveal how a little-scrutinised border crossing is being used to move migrants from East and Central Africa toward routes leading to South Africa. The documents describe a transport chain operating through the Chitipa District,...

Africa, Chitipa migrants, Great Lakes to South Africa Route

The US House of Representatives on Thursday rejected an effort to curb President Donald Trump's authority to wage war in Iran , another setback in Democrats' campaign to force Congress back into decisions over military action in the Middle...

World

The trans-Himalayan arc, a high-altitude desert landscape spanning from Leh and Lhasa to Gilgit and Thimphu, has long been romanticized as a pristine, stoic wilderness of ice and silence. Yet, today, a grittier and more urgent reality is unfolding within...

Opinion, Climate Change, Tourism

While presenting itself as a victim on the international stage, the United Arab Emirates silently entered the war against Iran on the side of Washington and Tel Aviv. From sharing data from AI-powered radar systems, to bombing Iranian civilian targets,...

Daily Digest, Foreign Affairs, Front Page: Foreign Affairs

Many of the National Basketball Association’s biggest stars are quietly allying themselves with the State of Israel, making official visits to the country, meeting IDF troops, and investing in its national security industry. Meanwhile, individuals criticizing Israel and supporting Palestinian...

Front Page: National, Investigations, National

On January 30, the leaders of the new ruling coalition of the Netherlands presented a coalition agreement, which says that the new cabinet plans to send 3 billion euros annually to support Ukraine over the next three years, and seeks...

World

BEIRUT, (PIC) US President Donald Trump announced on Thursday evening that a 10-day ceasefire has been reached in Lebanon, set to take effect at midnight. Hezbollah, however, has tied its commitment to the truce to Israel’s adherence to halting all military...

News, Israeli aggression, Israeli violations

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli authorities forced a Jerusalemite resident on Thursday to self-demolish his own home in the town of Silwan in Occupied Jerusalem. The Jerusalem Governorate reported that resident Omar Abdul Majeed Abu Rajab was compelled to carry out the...

News, demolition, Israeli violations

GAZA, (PIC) Two civilians, including a child, were killed on Thursday evening by Israeli gunfire in the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, and in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. The PIC correspondent confirmed that the 9-year-old Saleh Badawi was...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli aggression

US President Donald Trump announced in a Thursday social media post that the governments of Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a 10-day ceasefire that will begin on Thursday evening. The president also said that he would be inviting Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...

Middle East, Block 3, Donald Trump

Is Cuba next in line for a US attack? US President Donald Trump has repeatedly said it could be, and USA Today on Wednesday cited “sources familiar” with the matter who said that the Pentagon is “quietly ramping up” preparations to wage war on the socialist...

World, Block 3, Donald Trump

The volume of antidepressant, antipsychotic, and tranquilizer sales has increased in Russia, analysts told Izvestia, pointing to a continuing trend in the country's mental health landscape. In January-March 2026, Russians purchased 22% more antidepressants than during the same period last year,...

Society

Government employees in Netherlands hold one-day national strike over pay; strikes across London involving academic staff at London Metropolitan University, passenger support staff at a London Stansted airport, bus drivers at Stagecoach and teachers at Great Ormond Street Hospital; strike...

Russia has developed a recombinant genetically engineered vaccine against dengue fever, and its clinical trials are now beginning, according to Veronika Skvortsova, head of the Federal Medical-Biological Agency (FMBA). "A recombinant genetically engineered vaccine against dengue fever has been developed, and...

Science

This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 7 April 2026. On April 5, 2026, police in Nouakchott dispersed a protest against rising fuel prices using tear gas. The demonstration, organised by the president of the Renouveau du Mouvement...

Marco Rubio speaks openly of revitalising colonialism, as allied states acknowledge the demise of the rules-based world order Marco Carnelos is a former Italian diplomat. He has been assigned to Somalia, Australia and the United Nations. He served in the foreign...

Geopolitics, Article, Marco Carnelos
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