BETHLEHEM, West Bank / PNN / A new episode of Palestine News Network’s Al-Makshouf programme has highlighted how independent journalism and public accountability can support Palestinians working to protect their land…
BETHLEHEM, West Bank / PNN / Palestinian athletes preparing for the World Armwrestling Championships in India are facing travel and training restrictions, while farmers grapple with a sharp decline in grape production…
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Three weeks ago, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s political obituaries had all been written. The far-right presidential candidate, Flavio Bolsonaro, son of the jailed former President Jair Bolsonaro, had…
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Lana Nusseibeh has been the face of a disastrous Emirates policy that has prolonged war and death. It is a scandal that she is even being considered Over the past few years, you can plot the plunge into global…
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Japan’s debate over nuclear-powered submarines is gaining momentum, but political deliberation should not be mistaken for a done deal. As Tokyo prepares to revise its three principal national security documents by the…
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By Shahiduzzaman DHAKA, Bangladesh, Oct 26 2026 (IPS) Bangladesh has achieved remarkable economic progress over the past few decades. Its garment industry has become globally important, millions of people have entered…
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“The story of our civilization is the greatest story ever known to man.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered these triumphalist words earlier this month as he stood before the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. Rubio’s…
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Arriving in the White House in 2021, President Joe Biden set about dismantling much of his predecessor’s foreign-policy agenda. But there was one clear area of continuity: China. Here, Biden retained the first Trump…
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Before diving into the latest analytical piece from Karl Miller, just a comment on President Lula’s surprising victory in the just concluded presidential election in Brazil. The betting markets favored Bolsonaro and…
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Two Ceasefires, Eleven Days Apart On 12 October, Donald Trump announced that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to stop attacking each other’s energy infrastructure. There was no text, no map and no monitor. Within a day…
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Brazilian presidential incumbent Lula da Silva ‘s feisty approach in the second phase of the election has paid dividends, taking him from a close second after the first phase to a clear win. Lula roasted and mocked…
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“First Comes November, Then Comes December” On Sunday, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said Moscow, Beijing and Washington had agreed “in principle” to a leaders’ meeting on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Shenzhen on…
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Nonpartisan analysts believe that Democrats have a good chance of winning the US House of Representatives and possibly the Senate in the upcoming midterm elections on November 3. This would give them some power in…
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The Trump administration recently announced a series of sanctions intended to “dismantle” the International Criminal Court (ICC) “brick by brick.” Let’s be clear: These sanctions are not meant to protect U.S. citizens…
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Gleb Tsipursky, PhD, is the CEO and co-founder of Disaster Avoidance Experts , a consulting and training firm focused on helping organizations adopt AI through employee engagement and practical workflow redesign. He is a…
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The current economic and politial crises in the West are the result of rampant neo-liberalism Craig Murray is a British former diplomat, political activist, human rights campaigner, blogger, and whistleblower…
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Instead of prioritizing stakeholder profit, the Witkoff-Europe combo should address Eurasian security architecture and NATO-Russia-China frontiers to gain traction in Moscow. Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat…
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The Empirical Case Against the Euro Steve Keen is an Australian economist and author. A post-Keynesian, he criticizes neoclassical economics as inconsistent, unscientific and empirically unsupported. Cross-posted from…
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Built to fight foreign interference, Europe’s security apparatus is now turning on its own people. Muslims and critics of Israel are first in line. Hüseyin Doğru is a German journalist and documentary filmmaker based in…
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The evolution of ECB monetary policy from the 2000s to now, and the effect that has played on bond yields over this time period. Ciaran McKenna is a research associate for Resilient Economics Think Tank in Scotland, as…
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AJ Cooper is the Co-Founder and CEO of Itera, which developed the first-of-its-kind ‘fluid’ circuit board to make electronics physically programmable. Chips and software have been programmable for decades, but the…
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Two US State Department officials, Darren Beattie and Ricardo Pita, led efforts to restore the right-wing Bolsonaro family to power in Brazil, according to ten current and former US officials. They pushed for sanctions…
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Americans are set to vote on November 3 in midterm elections that will determine control of Congress for the last two years of President Donald Trump’s term. Democrats aim to gain four seats to secure a majority in the…
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Concrete sprawl in Yaoundé has devastated the city’s trees and parks, so volunteers are stepping up, shrub by shrub A little piece of paradise is buried under the asphalt that is now lined with parked cars. The romantic…
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Serbia is having parliamentary elections on Sunday, focusing on the potential change in leadership from longtime leader Aleksandar Vucic to a popular student movement seeking accountability. Aleksandar Vucic, leading the…
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Vincent Cobée is a global industrial executive with more than 30 years of leadership experience, most of it spent in the highly demanding automotive industry, where he built a successful track record leading large-scale…
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Lisa Spelman is CEO of Cornelis , where she leads the company’s efforts to advance high-performance networking for AI and HPC infrastructure. She brings more than 20 years of experience across AI, cloud, enterprise…
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French police have been captured on video standing back to allow neo-nazi thugs to attack students and trade unionists protesting against the Macron government’s war on education and public services. The footage shows…
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The Pentagon’s self-described “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth recently announced a plan to live stream the execution by firing squad of former Army Major Nidal Hasan, a wheelchair-bound veteran convicted of a mass…
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Relations between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy have recently worsened, marked by mutual criticism. Trump has been critical of US involvement in Ukraine since he took office in…
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North Cyprus is one of the Mediterranean’s most distinctive destinations, yet much of its tourism potential remains untapped. Girne’s (Kyrenia) historic harbour, the coastline where the Girne Mountains meet the sea, its…
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Sometimes it takes a bold thesis to get closer to the truth: The U.S. is actually drawing closer to Russia in order to still have a foothold in the Middle East, which it will soon lose. Europe is left behind and will…
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Afghanistan’s Qosh Tepa Canal is forcing Central Asia to confront a dangerous question: when a river crosses borders, who gets to decide who drinks first? Firing a missile is not a prerequisite for disturbing a country’s…
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Good news from the Persian Gulf: the war is going so well that the sea itself has joined the fight. While Washington’s experts debate missile counts and the price of oil (around $115 for Brent on Friday, in case anyone…
By: Pham Phan Long The controversy over how dangerous artificial intelligence may be – and how soon the danger might arrive – is fascinating, not simply because experts reach very different conclusions, but because they…
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Kim Aris tells the Guardian chance to speak with detained Nobel laureate was ‘public relations’ move from military leaders Myanmar’s former democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi appears to be in good physical and mental…
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The proposal to construct a railway and cargo tunnel beneath the Bering Strait, connecting Russia’s Chukotka region with Alaska, recovers an old ambition to physically unite Eurasia and North America. In October 2025…
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The Jewish Voice for Liberation group (JVL) has condemned the government’s nakedly pro-Israel ‘report’ on supposed antisemitism in schools – as a misleading vehicle for Zionist propaganda. Unfit and biased root and…
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Iran’s Army has revealed a new drone that carries a warhead twice the weight of the previous generation, as Tehran threatens a war without limits in retaliation for US-Israeli military operations – MintPress News’ Robert…
Screenshot of the online advertisement from the campaign of Vivek Ramaswamy The GOP nominee for Governor in Ohio, Vivek Ramaswamy, provoked widespread condemnation this week as a result of an online campaign ad starring…
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French president Emmanuel Macron’s attempts to quell the outraged protest of the French people is failing. Hundreds of thousands have turned out in defiance of Macron’s protest ban , which he has combined with an effort…
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Two years ago, every argument about AI was about quality. The machines hallucinated court cases, absorbed biases from their training data, misspelled words in their own images, drew hands with six fingers, and couldn’t…
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Chinese think tanks and strategic and intelligence circles, such as the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), view the upcoming 26th Israeli…
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We, the undersigned civil society organizations and independent media outlets from around the world, join together to condemn the unprecedented attack on press freedom in Egypt following the referral of Egyptian…
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Professor Jason Arday , the Cambridge academic hounded to death by UK ‘mainstream’ media after allegations by white supremacist Nathan Cofnas , has been cleared of plagiarism. Again. Racist Israel-supporter Cofnas, whose…
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The Israel lobby is at it again. The Israel-supporting council in Barnet, long an epicentre of the antisemitism scam, has approved a motion declaring anti-Zionism to be antisemitism. The motion targets the Green party’s…
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Innovators and business leaders are driving progress across the continent-wide, but the ‘visibility gap’ prevents the rest of the world from truly seeing it Thirty years ago, shortly after South Africa emerged from…
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Ruwais Refinery Good news, everyone. The war is over, at least in the United Arab Emirates. That is the only conclusion you could draw from this month’s headlines. On October 14, Bloomberg reported the International…