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Sampa Tembo’s genre-hopping third album meets the moment with charisma and cheek In 2019, as Sampa the Great, Sampa Tembo became the first woman to win an Australian Recording Industry Association award for hip-hop or…
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Diego Mesa, GEF CEO and chairperson, addresses media on the status of finance mobilisation at COP17. Credit: Stella Paul/IPS By Stella Paul YEREVAN, Armenia, Oct 30 2026 (IPS) The second week of COP17 was dominated by…
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The US’s decision to give haven to defeated far-right presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro is entirely predictable, but no less appalling for that. Bolsonaro fled with the collusion of Argentina’s fascist president…
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While AI is transforming nearly every industry, some of its most significant advances are happening inside the semiconductor factories building the chips that power it. If you design AI systems, those manufacturing…
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The UK government has barred leading Swedish human rights and climate campaigner Andreas Malm from entering the UK. As with other campaigners for Palestinian rights , the Burnham regime has used the excuse that Malm’s…
Armed Conflicts
Lana Nusseibeh from United Arab Emirates, candidate for the position of the next Secretary-General, briefs reporters after the informal dialogue held with the candidates for the position of the next Secretary-General…
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Peace is often understood as the absence of war. In Afghanistan, there is no active war under Taliban rule, but in the Afghani society, the economic instability, violations of rights, and unresolved ethnic and social…
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On 9 September, the container ship Dubai Tower berthed at Teesport in northeast England with a hold full of Chinese batteries and energy-storage equipment, 25 days after leaving Ningbo-Zhoushan and sailing over the top…
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It’s almost hard to remember, but just a few years ago, a lot of very smart people thought that science was in terminal decline. Respected researchers were writing papers with titles like “Are Ideas Getting Harder to…
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Credit: UN Women/Samar Abu Elouf By UN Women NEW YORK, Oct 30 2026 (IPS) More than 37,000 civilians were killed in conflict last year. Women and girls accounted for one in four of these deaths – double their proportion…
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There is no end in sight for the drivers of illegal mining, while police action appears ineffective Cora Bailey has been encountering illegal miners ever since she first started treating injured animals in the townships…
China
The Trump administration is carrying out a major shift in U.S. policy toward Myanmar. After the 2021 coup , the administration of former President Joe Biden demanded a return to democracy and sanctioned the military…
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There is a certain kind of travel itinerary you learn to recognize after a career in the intelligence business. A politician under criminal investigation, ordered by his country’s Supreme Court to surrender his passport…
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By: Tim Daiss Indonesia’s recent decision to move ahead with Russian floating nuclear power may eventually give the country a new source of low-carbon electricity to help reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. Fair enough…
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A pair of activists subpoenaed by Trump’s Justice Department have announced their refusal to cooperate with investigators on an apparent legal fishing expedition into pro-Palestine donor Fergie Chambers. They call…
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As we indicated in Part 1, even by the end of the 18th century, the nation of “Ukraine” was nowhere to be seen on the maps of the era. And shortly thereafter the greatest map-making assemblage of nations that the world…
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Protection through EU Instruments and International Partnerships On 18 June 2026, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) launched an investigation under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 into Germany’s…
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The Australian government’s new “Defence Legislation Amendment (Accelerating Capability and Protecting Bases) Bill 2026” is about to hand foreign militaries and corporations – in particular the US and Israel – special…
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In my new piece for The Lever , I take a look at how Corporate Democrats’ donor-coddling neoliberalism lost America’s red states for a generation — and how populists are competing to win them back with a very different…
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Samsung Electronics reported the most profitable quarter in its history on Thursday, with operating profit of 107.4 trillion won on revenue of 195.3 trillion won, and still watched its shares close more than 4% lower. At…
Front Page: Inside Stories
When most people are asked “who controls hip hop?” they are unlikely to think of a 67-year-old Israeli Zionist who comes from a family of Israeli spies and state officials. But Lyor Cohen is the real deal. The brash…
Europe
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Two Answers in Two Days Forty-eight hours after the Student List won about 140 of the National Assembly’s 250 seats, two of its own accounts of how Serbia’s next government will be chosen already differed. The weekly…
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Israeli elections on Oct. 27 produced a complex result, with neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc nor the opposition alliance, led by Gadi Eisenkot, winning enough seats in the Knesset to form a government…
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For decades, militaries have chased the next revolution in warfare. But what actually makes a revolution in military affairs revolutionary? Is there one happening now? Does it matter? Is it just about drones and AI or…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
It is still early days, but things are not looking rosy for AI Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog It seems that Asian AI bubble has…
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Why Norway and Finland Were Right to Call Putin Glenn Diesen is a political scientist, political commentator, politician and professor at the Department of Business, History and Social Sciences, University of…
Geopolitics
Palestine Action is one of the only Western organizations utilizing direct action to impede the machinery of genocide fueling Israel’s apartheid project—triggering a full frontal attack from the West. The world watches…
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Faris Odeh was 14 when he stood alone in front of an Israeli tank with a stone in his hand. Ten days later, a Zionist soldier shot him dead. Hüseyin Doğru is a German journalist and documentary filmmaker based in Berlin…
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Israeli firms have contracts for the security and systems of Spain ‘s rail operator Renfe, whose trains were involved in the deadly crash this week that killed at 69 people. Anti-genocide activist Nicole Jenes quizzed…
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By Shahiduzzaman DHAKA, Bangladesh, Oct 29 2026 (IPS) Dowry is still persisting in society in one form or another. This deeply entrenched social practice continues deepen household poverty and cause violence against…
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Today’s note is just focused on the Fifth Plenum communiqué that was released earlier today. I have included a full bilingual translation of the brief communique the end. As expected, the Plenum approved the “Resolution…
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A political group dedicated to supporting farmers is pouring millions of dollars into advertisements targeting Republican candidates over policies that have hurt agricultural communities, including the rising cost of…
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On October 15–16, at the tail end of SEMICON West 2026, PDF Solutions held its 2026 CONNECT Conference at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco. PDF Solutions Vitals Santa Clara–based PDF Solutions is a semiconductor…
RAMALLAH / PNN / Palestinian farmers have harvested approximately 57% of the land targeted for this year's olive harvest, covering 445,000 dunams out of 780,000, despite attacks and field conditions that have hindered…
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Indigenous leaders from Brazil, DRC, Indonesia, Gambia, Peru and Thailand are named the Indigenous People’s Ambassadors for Primary Forests at COP17. Credit: Stella Paul/IPS By Stella Paul YEREVAN, Armenia, Oct 29 2026…
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An effective learned power model for a CPU could be a significant advantage in early estimation of power performance against realistic workloads in complex architectures. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence)…
HEBRON, West Bank / PNN / An ongoing Israeli military operation in Hebron has displaced 537 Palestinian families, comprising 3,361 people, and disrupted education for hundreds of thousands of students across the…
Democracy & Governance
The president who lost the first round won the runoff in an unprecedented turnaround. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva finished behind Flávio Bolsonaro in the first round on October 4, 2026, with 45.16 percent of the vote to…
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The Fairford air base incident – considered by many to be a false flag to excuse greater UK collaboration in the US and Israel’s war on Iran – has taken yet another bizarre turn. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has…
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President Donald Trump is intensifying his campaign efforts in South Carolina as a surprisingly competitive Senate race threatens Republican control of a traditionally safe seat. With the midterm elections approaching…
Middle East & Africa
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Israel’s inconclusive election has left Benjamin Netanyahu in office as caretaker prime minister, but without a clear parliamentary majority. Although his Likud party emerged as the largest faction, an opposition bloc…
China
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Designed to dwarf even the Marshall Plan, the American program to rebuild Europe after World War II, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was first unveiled by President Xi Jinping in a 2013 speech at Nazarbayev…
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Murdoch ‘education’ hack Jack Grove is boasting about being shortlisted for a journalism award for his scribblings about the late Prof Jason Arday’s supposed “extensive plagiarism”. Mr Grove is so chuffed, in fact, that…
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Show Notes: On today's show Andrew and Bill begin with five questions on the Fifth Plenum as Xi continues his corruption crackdowns and propaganda campaigns emphasize ideological unity and discipline. Topics include: The…
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As it concludes its successful and productive chairmanship of BRICS, India hosted the group’s traditional meeting of parliamentarians in its capital on October 26–27, 2026. Parliamentary diplomacy is a key component of…
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Amid the rapid expansion of AI and data centers alongside growing climate commitments as the demand for clean energy rises, nuclear power is increasingly viewed as a reliable source to fill the gaps and complement the…
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By CIVICUS Oct 29 2026 (IPS) CIVICUS discusses voter suppression ahead of the USA’s 2026 midterm elections with Aklima Khondoker, an Atlanta-based civil and voting rights attorney, civil society organisation executive…
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Writers are being bombarded daily with invitations from fake book groups and offers to publicise their work. For the scamming industry, aspiring authors can be a soft touch • This piece first appeared in the Dial ‘Hello…