Cuba’s blackouts are getting worse. Many are going days without any light at all and the public electric company is “fighting to provide even a few hours of power a day.” The gas stations are empty. There are “mosquitos everywhere.” People in high-rise apartments are cooking with charcoal, risking carbon monoxide poisoning and deadly fires.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria—On the evening of May 16, the village of Metele in Nigeria’s Borno state was hit by a series of airstrikes carried out in coordination between the U.S. and Nigerian militaries.
A letter from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has exposed the driving force behind the push to restructure US-Israel military relations. In Netanyahu’s own words, it is “my plan”.
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing the Treasury Department to shut down bank accounts used to support illegal immigration. Trump announced the order in a June 2 Truth Social post, saying it targets the banks, credit card companies, and other financial institutions that ...
The enemy's psychological warfare assumes that humans are rational calculators of pain and reward. But societies built and sustained on the concept of resistance do not operate on that logic. They operate on memory, dignity, and justice.
During the afternoon of May 20, the Eje del Buen Vivir in Bellas Artes, Caracas, became a space of resistance and reflection. In the Venezuelan capital, a group of people gathered to converse with Argentinian journalist Sebastián Salgado, editor of Data Urgente, in an event that promised much more than information: it was a political...
The shift will strip away the political and diplomatic oversight mechanisms that make the relationship publicly accountable, moving it from a visible annual aid vote into the opaque machinery of defense acquisition, where oversight is limited and political accountability is minimal. The result would be a defense relationship that is simultaneously deeper and less transparent.
...Baghaei said the silence and indifference of international institutions, especially the UN Security Council, has emboldened the Israeli regime to escalate its aggression and continue committing crimes in Lebanon.
A group of pro-Israel activists has filed a cease and desist motion in response to a prominent Brooklyn grocery store’s decision to boycott Israeli products, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency has learned.
Rodrigo Paz, Bolivia’s embattled president who you might remember from my recent article ‘the Bolivian people rise up and say ‘No’ as the US just tried to kidnap former president Evo Morales’, stood before the cameras on Monday and announced that he would slash his own salary by 50%.
Damning new data from inside the Pentagon suggests that U.S. forces are currently expending more resources defending Israel from missile strikes than Israeli forces themselves...
The United Arab Emirates paid Colombian mercenaries to help Sudan’s militant group, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), massacre thousands of civilians in the northeastern African country, a report says.
The strike was triggered by the worsening economic crisis and a collapsing quality of life. Fuel shortages and poor‑quality gasoline and diesel hit the country hard. Transport grounded to a halt and inflation accelerated toward 14%. Food prices spiked highest.
Four paramedics were killed, and two others were injured in two strikes on emergency centers in the town of Hannawiyah in the Tyre district, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported on Friday.
Starting a year before the shootdown, the Cuban government filed multiple protests on repeated violations of its airspace by BTTR aircraft overflying populated zones and dropping thousands of leaflets and other materials calling for popular insurrection against the government.
The FAA opened a protracted investigation, met with BTTR president Jose Basulto, and warned him multiple times not to continue his “taunting” provocations. The agency took steps to suspend his pilot’s license but allowed him to keep flying, even as he repeatedly filed false flight plans.
High-level U.S. officials, including White House Cuba point man Richard Nuccio, State Department undersecretary Peter Tarnoff, and Secretary of Transportation Federico Peña repeatedly expressed their concerns to the FAA that BTTR flights should be permanently grounded and repeatedly warned that Cuba’s redlines to protect its security should be taken seriously. Their efforts to press the FAA to clip Basulto’s wings failed. Only after the shootdown did the FAA issue a concrete “cease and desist” order against Basulto for what it called “careless or reckless” operations that “endanger the lives or property of others.”
The decision, quietly announced by the government on Tuesday evening, includes waivers on new sanctions blocking purchases of jet fuel and diesel refined from Russian crude oil in third countries and echoes a similar move by the US.
Bahraini scholars have called on Islamic authorities and organizations worldwide to intervene amid the ruling regime’s crackdown on the country’s Shia community.
“David Barnea was appointed head of the Mossad in 2021. Iran had been the organization’s main arena of operations for years. Barnea ordered a dramatic change in an area that had been marginal until then - driving influence within the general Iranian public. Under him, this area became central to the campaign against Iran”, the investigation noted.
Treasury officials consulted with Jeffrey Epstein about using cryptocurrency during negotiations with Iran over nuclear deal, even as he made investments in blockchain technology.
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A spokesperson for the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters said Thursday that Iranian forces delivered an immediate, decisive response to US military aggressions in the Strait of Hormuz and along Iran
In a statement, Ebrahim Zolfaghari noted that the "aggressive, terrorist, and outlaw" US military, in violation of a ceasefire, targeted an Iranian oil tanker.
The US military buildup across West Asia remains at an all-time high. The Russian Security Council recently warned that Washington could be using diplomacy as a cover to launch ground operations.
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