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A reflection on Bergen County, faith, and the quiet ache of spiritual misalignment I. The Hardness of a Place There is a particular hardness to Bergen County — a quiet, polished hardness that settles into people’s bones…
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LONDON / PNN - Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched through central London and Berlin on Saturday, demanding an end to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. Protesters carried signs reading “Stop the…
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RAMALLAH / PNN / Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called for presidential and legislative elections to be held simultaneously on Sept. 11, 2027, postponing legislative polls previously scheduled for Nov. 28, as…
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EUV has long been an interesting story. We have written 200+ articles on EUV and they just keep on coming. Thankfully the premier lithography conference is right here in Silicon Valley. SPIE began in 1955 as the Society…
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A new Italian restaurant has opened in Istanbul: Lucente. But what first caught my attention was not its menu, but the approach taken to create it. The team learned pasta-making from a family that has been producing…
East Asia
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In November, China will host the APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting, drawing attention to Sino-Japanese relations. Compared to China, Japan appears more optimistic, viewing the summit as an opportunity to restart dialogue…
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A Samsung memory chip worker earning about $60,000 a year could receive roughly $560,000 in bonuses before tax, according to the company’s largest union. Its estimate includes both Samsung’s existing profit-sharing bonus…
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A multibillion-dollar private initiative to overhaul US submarine manufacturing marks an urgent push to revitalize naval industrial capacity at a pivotal moment in the Indo-Pacific balance of power. This month, multiple…
Eurasia
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Secretary Marco Rubio will visit Samarkand, Uzbekistan, in “mid-October” to attend a C5+1 summit to engage the Central Asian region. He will also lead a “historic” delegation of “more than 100 American companies,” hoping…
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Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers A controversial research trial that will withhold hepatitis B vaccines from some African newborns was given…
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Fund our high schools instead of genocides Photo: Stephane Jouteux For the third week in a row, high school students across France are taking to the streets demanding more investment in their education. They want more…
RAMALLAH, Palestine / PNN / Wisal Abu Alia As the olive harvest season approaches, Palestinian villages and towns are preparing for an annual event that extends far beyond agriculture, forming a vital part of the…
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Jasmine Jobson goes the distance as the British-Somalian boxer battling pain from her past and her family’s disapproval in a heavyweight, tick-the-boxes production The true-life success story of boxer Ramla Ali is…
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Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. ***IranIn late September, U.S. and Iranian…
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Iran war could turn rising oil and food costs into a debt crisis, forcing countries to put their populations before creditors. Energy prices and the risk of a world depression Robinson Erhardt: Michael, I woke up to a…
Geopolitics
Israel was forged out of ethnic cleansing and apartheid. The Greens have very belatedly recognised what should have been obvious all along Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict…
Austerity
Thousands of protestors have set up encampments in city squares across Spain. The immediate spark has been the housing crisis but years of neo-liberal driven austerity have brought matters to a head Steven Marsh is a…
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Committee recognises work of South African who chaired UN commission that concluded Israel was guilty of genocide in Gaza The Nobel peace prize has been awarded to Navi Pillay, the South African former UN human rights…
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What would the world look like if the nations of the world decided to allow everyone to thrive in peaceful coexistence? — Why doesn’t that seem to work? Which troublesome elements would need to be neutralized? By Peter…
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TSMC’s 2026 Open Innovation Platform Forum presented artificial intelligence as the force reshaping semiconductor design. Its central argument is that faster chips will require progress across the whole system: logic…
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As scholars of democracy , we are watching America’s warning signs flash red. We expect America’s long-building constitutional crisis to soon escalate. Earlier this year, we hosted a national workshop to assess the…
Business & Economy
Look, I’ve been around the block. I know what it means when a feature of my life is suddenly appended with words like -coded and -core . It means the things about myself that I can’t or don’t want to change are being…
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The following story is co-published with Matt Bivens’ Substack newsletter, The 100 Days. “No,” said the priest. “It is not necessary to accept everything as true. One must only accept it as necessary.” “A melancholy…
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I’m still not feeling particularly well, which is why there wasn’t a post yesterday. There won’t be much of one today, I’m afraid. I’m in the path of the hurricane in the Gulf, so my day is going to be getting the paying…
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It’s an honor to attend events like this as a guest, and even more so as a speaker. On Friday at 3:30 p.m., I’ll be moderating a panel with the CEOs of three of the hottest AI startups. I definitely have a few questions…
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The South African-born jurist and former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay has won a Nobel her efforts to promote peace and international law. The 85-year-old, who is an ad hoc judge at the international court of…
Democracy & Governance
Political scientists have a fairly dry checklist for what makes a regime oppressive: it silences dissent, it turns state power against its own people, it treats international law as optional, and it punishes…
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Walmart serves 280 million shoppers a week and churned out more than $22 billion in profit in the last fiscal year. So, suffice it to say, I was floored – and maybe even a bit flattered – when the retail behemoth issued…
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Children in Gaza wait in the hope of receiving food. Credit: UN News By UN Women UNITED NATIONS, Oct 9 2026 (IPS) Since October 2023, 50,000 women and girls in Gaza have been killed or seriously injured. • UN Women…
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India’s removal of approximately 130 million names from electoral rolls has triggered nationwide protests, with opposition parties accusing the Election Commission of conducting a voter verification drive that could…
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A kill chain measured in seconds cannot depend on processes measured in weeks or months. The Pentagon recognizes that drone proliferation and AI-enabled lethal targeting are reducing decision cycles and increasing the…
Geopolitics
Thoughts on Gaza, China, and Afghan drug lords. Matthew Hoh is the Associate Director of the Eisenhower Media Network. A former Marine and State Department official who resigned in protest over the wars in Iraq and…
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In 79 A.D., Gaius Plinius Secundus, known today as Pliny the Elder, was the supreme commander of the Roman imperial fleet, permanently stationed at Misenum near Naples. He died during the eruption of Vesuvius, after…
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When people think about what ChatGPT or other large language models are doing behind the scenes, it’s common to reach for the language of computing. You might assume there is a database, or a logical series of steps…
Biodiversity
By Madhu Rao and Tyson Miller SINGAPORE, Oct 9 2026 (IPS) When governments gather in Yerevan this month for the 17th UN Convention on Biological Diversity , they will weigh a promise nearly 200 countries adopted six…
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The Bunker appears originally at the Project on Government Oversight and is republished here with permission. The U.S. ended its military campaign in Iraq on September 30, as the final American combat troops based there…
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Let’s imagine a bit of “future history” in Ukraine. It is February 2027. The Ukrainian winter has been unusually cold, and Russian air strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, transportation grid, and communications…
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President Donald Trump traveled to Baltimore this week to announce a $7 billion deal with the defense tech firm Anduril to build autonomous submarines as well as components for the Navy’s Virginia-class attack…
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South Korea’s maiden flight test of a domestic hypersonic glide vehicle highlights an accelerating bid to field counterstrike assets capable of bolstering autonomous deterrence against North Korea’s expanding nuclear…
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On the morning of September 30, flydubai flight FZ1073, a Boeing 737 MAX 8, left Dubai for Tel Aviv with 174 passengers aboard, 27 of them children. About two and a half hours into the flight, the first officer attacked…
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A Chemical Nobody Had Heard Of On 3 October, five days before EU trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič landed in Beijing, China’s commerce ministry opened an anti-dumping investigation into p-nitrotoluene. It is a European…
Middle East & Africa
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The hour after detectionGulf security is usually discussed in terms of deterrence, military capability, and external partnerships. All three matter. But when a crisis begins, the deciding factor can be more modest…
Activism
“Following Harry” is available on Amazon, Apple and other digital platforms starting Oct. 13. More info at followingharry.org . Born in 1927 in Harlem, the Grammy, Tony, Emmy and Oscar award winner Harry Belafonte grew…
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In a few hours the NBS will release September inflation and price data, and we should get more data on economic activity over the holiday period. In this issue: 1. European Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security in…
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This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 18 September 2026. On 14 September 2026, the National Cybercrime Court (Pôle national de lutte contre la cybercriminalité) in Bamako sentenced Abdrahamane Keïta…
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 18 September 2026. Guinea’s High Authority for Communication (HAC), has banned French international news channel, France 24 , from broadcasting nationwide with…
This statement was originally published on mediarightsagenda.org on 2 October 2026. Introduction LAGOS, Friday, October 2, 2026: Concerned by reports of unresolved disruptions affecting access to TikTok in parts of…
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Several years ago, the US Army embarked on a sweeping small-arms revolution. Its previous service rifles, based on the M16 platform and its 5.56 mm cartridge, were deemed inadequate for modern combat. The result was the…