(MENAFN - AsiaNet News) New Delhi [India], May 23 (ANI): Former Foreign Secretary of India and Ambassador to the United States, Nirupama Rao, has provided a comprehensive analysis of the ...

An AI system will work with humans to make a Nobel prize-winning discovery within 12 months and tradespeople will be helped by bipedal robots in two years, according to the co-founder of Anthropic. Jack Clark…

MAKKAH — Advisor at the Royal Court, member of the Council of Senior Scholars, and Imam and Preacher of the Grand Mosque Sheikh Saleh bin Abdullah bin Humaid affirmed that Saudi Arabia’s Hajj experience represents a global model for serving pilgrims in line with sustainable humanitarian and national values. He noted that this is reflected…

DUBAI: Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee has refused an invitation to attend an upcoming literary festival in Israel and has criticized the country’s actions in Gaza in a strongly worded letter to organizers. Writing ahead of the Jerusalem International Writers Festival, Coetzee said: “It will take many years for Israel to clear its name.”

The war that came to be known as the “40-Day War” between the United States and Iran, which began on February 28, 2026, and continues to this day, has posed a profound test for the Gulf Arab states, of which geography has compelled to bear the consequences of Iran’s policies since the 1979 revolution. This…

Pep Guardiola is more than a football manager, using his high-profile platform to highlight causes close to his heart. Legendary Liverpool manager Bill Shankly may have believed football was "much, much more important" than life…

Ghostwritten tirades, em-dashed bluster, and cartoonish AI fantasies reveal Trump’s pathetic unraveling

The World Cup represents football's pinnacle, the ultimate prize every young player dreams of winning. But whether the tournament is where the very best football is played is a different question entirely. Elite European clubs…

(MENAFN - Mid-East Info) Dubai, UAE,May 2026 - On International HR Day, workforce and AI transformation experts are urging HR leaders to move beyond the productivity narrative and take ownership of ...

Spain's boycott of the Eurovision song contest over Israel's war in Gaza puts it "on the right side of history", Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Friday, ahead of the final in Austria. "In the…

Bushnaq’s grandparents were Muslim Bosnians who left Bosnia for Ottoman Syria in the late 19th century after Austria-Hungary took control of Bosnia. The post ‘Beyond ironic’: Mamdani’s ‘Nakba’ video features non-Arab woman critics say has European roots appeared first on World Israel News .

Hollywood should be ashamed of the way it has treated stars like Susan Sarandon, Javier Bardem and Mark Ruffalo for opposing Israel's war in Gaza, a member of the Cannes Film Festival jury said Tuesday,…

(MENAFN - Asia Times) Empires rise and fall. They do not last forever. Imperial declines follow a gradual shifting of the economic tides, but are also punctuated and defined by critical tipping ...

Yasser Arafat was the first foreign leader to visit Iran after Khomeini’s 1979 Iranian Revolution. At the time, he believed the Palestinian cause was gaining a powerful new ally in revolutionary Iran, which immediately closed…

(MENAFN - The Peninsula) The Peninsula Doha, Qatar: The Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE) has announced the extension of the registration period for the third cohort of ...

A new opinion poll shows that Israelis, for the first time since he became their leader, no longer view Benjamin Netanyahu as the most suitable figure for prime minister, with Naftali Bennett overtaking him. The…

Modern geopolitical competition is increasingly shaped not only by military capabilities or economic leverage, but also by the ability to shape narratives. States now compete simultaneously across diplomatic, informational and psychological domains, where perception can influence legitimacy almost as much as battlefield outcomes. In this evolving environment, information warfare has become deeply intertwined with strategic…

The recurring Washington argument over Qatar — is it friend or foe, ally or adversary, partner or problem? — tells us less about Doha than it does about ourselves. Specifically, it tells us that a generation after the end of the Cold War and a quarter-century into the war on terror, American foreign policy discourse…

Jack Schlossberg apparently has calculated that he can win more votes in the Democratic primary by being anti-Israel than by being pro-Israel. The post Betraying JFK’s legacy on Israel: Jack Schlossberg appeared first on World Israel News .

(MENAFN - Daily News Egypt) The statement by Mojtaba Khamenei, the Iranian Supreme Leader, that–control over the Strait of Hormuz is equivalent to possessing a deterrent power on the level of a ...

The Saudi position, cloaked in the vocabulary of international law and Palestinian self-determination, serves the same purpose: to make any recognition of Israel conditional on terms Riyadh knows Jerusalem cannot accept. The post The Saudi ‘no’ appeared first on World Israel News .

(MENAFN - Caribbean News Global) By Khalid Al-Moteiry, Parviz Ahamadov, Shahad Alhomidi, and Volkan Cetinkaya Health systems globally are facing both supply- and demand-side pressures - from ...

For three decades after the Cold War, Washington operated under a dangerous assumption: that military supremacy could indefinitely compensate for diplomatic exhaustion. The United States possessed the world’s most advanced armed forces, unmatched naval reach, and a financial system capable of weaponizing sanctions against adversaries thousands of miles away. From the Balkans to Baghdad, this…

An Emirati TV host compared the Saudi regime to an ostrich burying its head in the sand, urging it to confront the Iranian threat head-on. The post WATCH: Emirati news host likens Saudi to an ‘ostrich in the sand’ when dealing with Iran appeared first on World Israel News .

When the missiles began arcing across the Persian Gulf in late February, falling on Riyadh’s Eastern Province as well as on American bases in Bahrain, Qatar, and the UAE, the editorial pages in Washington reached for a familiar refrain: now, surely, the Saudis would have to choose. The Iran war, we were told, would clarify…

While the US military has had many achievements in the Iran conflict, it’s been far from cost free. Iran conducted extensive retaliatory strikes targeting high-value US bases. According to international reports and satellite data, the damage to aircraft, radar, and communication systems throughout February and March was more significant than initially reported. In all, 16…

West Asia is not returning to the old regional order. Too many assumptions have failed, and too many actors have discovered the limits of their power. For years, security in the region was treated as something that could be imposed: by American military presence, Israeli deterrence, Iranian strategic depth, Gulf wealth, Turkish influence or the…

(MENAFN - Asia Times) West Asia is not returning to the old regional order. Too many assumptions have failed, and too many actors have discovered the limits of their power. For years, security in ...

There is a recurring temptation in American foreign policy to treat legal argument as a substitute for strategic thought. The controversy over Operation Epic Fury has yielded a remarkable specimen of this tendency. That the United States acted outside the bounds of international law is, or should be, without dispute. The exchange has been conducted…

Some seemingly regular events are so massive in their implications across various domains that they deserve their own write-up. TSMC’s highly unusual public complaint of ASML’s latest EUV pricing falls in that category. Not only because the “very very expensive” complainer is relentless in utilizing its own pricing power, but also because it is not…

(MENAFN - IANS) Islamabad, April 26 (IANS) For Islamabad, it would be wiser to "redirect its diplomatic initiatives toward internal stabilisation rather than focusing on mediating distant ...

In “Alice in Wonderland”, the King of Hearts says gravely, “Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.” If US President Donald Trump had followed this advice, he would not have paused the hostilities against Iran when he did. His penchant for making quick deals got in the…