Over the past month, there has been a notable increase in the intensity of the air war in Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. Strikes in mid- and late-May and early June have been characterised by significantly larger numbers of drones and...
Ghanaian President John Mahama’s high-profile visit to London this week, designed to showcase Ghana as a premier destination for foreign investment, was overshadowed by controversy around the country’s mining sector, including bitter disputes with South African powerhouse, Gold Fields. The Ghanaian...
A differenza di Bahrein ed Emirati Arabi Uniti, che hanno avuto un ruolo centrale anche nella fase aggressiva della recente recrudescenza del conflitto israelo-statunitense contro l’Iran, il Kuwait si è trovato schiacciato in una morsa. All’alleanza strategica con Washington (che...
In a remote mining town at the center of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola outbreak, grief and mistrust are complicating efforts to stop the virus. Health workers are trying to treat the ill and bury the dead, but some...
Iranian retaliatory strikes on three US bases in the Persian Gulf, in response to continued aggression against southern Iran, inflicts American losses and throws the future of an already shaky ceasefire into doubt. Stifling the Trump administration’s attempts to achieve...
A House committee summarily struck down an amendment to strip a measure from the massive annual defense policy bill that would provide Israel “a higher level of military-industrial integration" with the U.S. than Washington has "with any other country...
Newly released data, published by the International Defense Cooperation (SIBAT) of Tel Aviv’s Ministry of Defense, revealed that arms exports for the year 2025 amounted to $ 19.2 Billion – an all-time record. This means Israel rakes in record...
By CIVICUS Jun 4 2026 (IPS) CIVICUS discusses the outlook ahead of Peru’s runoff presidential election with David Hidalgo, journalist and executive director of OjoPúblico, a Peruvian digital investigative journalism outlet. David Hidalgo In the first round of voting on 12 April,...
GAZA, (PIC) In a Strip exhausted by the war of extermination and drained by repeated waves of displacement, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza continue their lives inside temporary tents, amidst humanitarian conditions that deteriorate day after day, and growing...
- - - - Photo by The Climate Reality Project on Unsplash Scott Pelley is the latest person bounced from 60 Minutes. He’s probably not going to be the last, either. Bari Weiss, as head of CBS...
The 2026 FIFA World Cup is just a week away. But for a young football team in one of Rio de Janeiro’s poorest favelas, their moment on the international stage has already happened. Last month, they represented Brazil in the...
A large majority of Labour Party members support a full arms embargo on Israel and a ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements, according to new polling that highlights growing pressure on Prime Minister Keir Starmer...
Iran's supreme leader said on Thursday that the United States and Israel had been dealt a "decisive blow" in the Middle East war, after the government reported "no tangible progress" in negotiations on ending the conflict. Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei's message,...
Iran's World Cup squad is set to arrive in Mexico on Sunday, with players and staff still awaiting US visas just one week before the tournament gets underway. The players, who have been attending a training camp in...
Labour is presiding over a social catastrophe, including the deepest levels of poverty in 30 years, and trailing the far-right Reform, the Conservatives and the Greens in general election polls. If he successfully becomes an MP, Burnham is expected to...
Four Iranian-flagged oil tankers passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, a first since 15 April and the US blockade of Iranian ports, according to maritime tracking firm Kpler. In data published on Thursday, the firm detected the...
Embedded systems programs rarely fail because of a lack of execution capability. They fail because critical engineering documentation drifts out of alignment over time and distance. Simply put, the team is correctly following the wrong instructions. This includes requirements, architecture,...
On football’s extreme commercialization Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His new book, The Visions of inequality , was published October 10, 2023. Cross-posed from Branko Milanović’s blog Global Inequality and More 3.0...
GAZA, (PIC) The Palestinian Center for Human Rights said on Thursday it had documented a sharp rise in Israeli mass killings and assassinations targeting Palestinian civilians in Gaza, warning that the pattern reflects Israel’s systematic continuation of genocide and efforts to...
Lebanon's "founding father" is being honoured at a moment when the country needs his message more than ever, according to a priest involved in the campaign that led to his beatification by the Catholic Church. Speaking to The New Arab...
Syria’s participation by President Ahmed Al-Sharaa in the European summit recently held in Cyprus marked an important milestone on the path toward building a new partnership with the European Union and Mediterranean Middle Eastern states. From the...
Interest in unidentified objects in the sky often emerges during periods of uncertainty, when people seek explanations for phenomena that appear mysterious or difficult to understand. The human mind tends to interpret unusual sights as warnings, threats, or messages from beyond...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Hordes of extremist Jewish settlers escorted by police officers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards on Thursday morning, amid tight restrictions on the entry of Muslim worshipers to the holy site. According to local sources, at least 181 settlers entered...
MPs could vote to ban soldiers in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) from entering the UK, Declassified can reveal. Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has tabled an amendment to the Armed Forces Bill to ban the entry of foreign...
GAZA, (PIC) One civilian was martyred and others were injured on Thursday evening in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City. Local sources said that at least one citizen was killed and others were injured as a result of a strike from an...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has called for urgent international action deterring Israeli attacks that continue to kill and injure civilians in the Gaza Strip. In a statement on Thursday, Hamas said that the Israeli occupation forces continue to target civilians and...
The massive aerial assault unleashed upon Kyiv and its surrounding regions this week offers a sobering window into the raw, industrial nature of modern warfare. As Ukrainian air defenses struggled against what Kyiv described as one of the...
As the government’s standing plummets to an all-time low due to a reckless disregard for the welfare of its people, mass protests sweep across major Iran’s cities, including Shiraz, Tabriz and Tehran. Driven by a threat to their economic...
He may not be a household name yet, but Greg Brockman is among the world’s most powerful individuals. The OpenAI co-founder is one of President Trump’s richest and most generous financial backers, and is spending tens of millions of dollars...
As the United States prepares to co-host the 2026 World Cup with Mexico and Canada, the world’s biggest sporting event will unfold in a volatile domestic and international context. Eleven U.S. cities are hosting “the beautiful game” against a...
NO AZURE FOR APARTHEID: Workers Protest Microsoft’s Build Conference for Third Year in a Row Over the past two days, June 2nd-3rd, Microsoft workers with No Azure for Apartheid have led protests and disruptions on land, sea, and air, of the flagship...
As talks for a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to end hostilities between Iran and the United States remain stalled, sporadic clashes persist in the Persian Gulf. Concurrently, Israel's destructive campaigns in Lebanon and a potential impasse in...
GAZA, (PIC) Gaza’s digital crisis is a multifaceted emergency defined by the systematic destruction of telecommunications infrastructure, a severe cash liquidity crisis that forces reliance on fragile digital wallets, and compounding data security threats. Over 64% to 80% of cell towers have...
GAZA / PNN/ Two Palestinians were killed and four others injured on Wednesday after an Israeli drone strike targeted the central Gaza Strip. According to local sources correspondents, an Israeli drone struck the courtyard of a home near the Makki Roundabout in...
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WEST BANK, (PIC) Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi said on Thursday that escalating settler militia attacks in the West Bank, including the burning of Palestinian land and destruction of property, amount to organized terrorism that requires action at all levels. Mardawi said the...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Jerusalem Governorate has warned that the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) plans to carry out a massive waste-disposal project for Jewish settlers on a large tract of Palestinian land in the village of Qalandia, northwest of Jerusalem. In a...
Dr. Nabil Kukal is the Founder and President, Palestinian Center for Public Opinion (PCPO) Recent movements in currency markets have reignited debate over the future of the Israeli shekel after the US dollar posted gains against the Israeli currency, pushing the...
BETHLEHEM, Palestine / PNN/ A new public opinion study has found that most Palestinians view emigration as a loss to society and the national cause, even as more than one-third say they have considered leaving the country amid growing economic, political...
This statement was originally published on mediarightsagenda.org on 25 May 2026. A consortium of organizations, including Media Rights Agenda (MRA), in April 2026 launched a four-year research and advocacy project aimed at addressing a pressing challenge of how to...
For any Americans who were paying attention, no less than twelve weeks ago Donald Trump said he would reopen Hormuz as his main objective against Iran. Now he proclaims a blockade of the strait he swore to open; welcome to...
In early May, an armed group of around 2,000 men attacked Nahua communities in the mountains of Guerrero state, Mexico. They shot at residents, used drones to bomb their homes, then turned to setting crops and community buildings on fire....
Despite multiple attempts by Israel to quell the fighting in Gaza and decapitate Hamas's leadership, the group continues a guerilla-style resistance. The IDF now fights on three active fronts: Lebanon, Iran, and Gaza. But it’s perhaps the forgotten war in...
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 21 May 2026. Digital activist Ibrahim Zigui, a member of the PPA-CI , the main opposition party, was sentenced on 18 May 2026 to five years’ imprisonment and a fine...
This statement was originally published on mediarightsagenda.org on 23 May 2026. A new continental movement aimed at advancing inclusion, equity, and authentic representation in the African media landscape has officially launched with the unveiling of African Journalists with Disabilities...
Syrian authorities have vowed to cooperate with European countries investigating war crimes and grave violations committed under Bashar al-Assad, pledging to publish a list of 1,000 individuals wanted for crimes during the former president's rule as states...
As Russia deepens cooperation with Afghanistan’s rulers, it faces a growing tension between regional influence, connectivity ambitions and its own security concerns. Few countries have warned more consistently about the dangers emanating from Taliban-ruled Afghanistan than Russia. Yet Moscow is...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has urged the UN to blacklist Israel as an entity involved in targeting children through killing, torture, displacement, and deprivation of their rights, calling for action to curb Israel’s violations against Palestinian children. This came in a...
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