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A recent analysis highlighted by MIT Technology Review puts the energy cost of generative AI into stark perspective. Generating a simple text response from Llama 3.1-405B—a model with 405 billion parameters, the adjustable “knobs” that enable prediction—requires on average 3,353...

AI, AI computations, CodeCarbon

Uniejewski Campaign Launches Second Digital Ad in 6th District State Senate race Nick Uniejewski campaign highlights Tribune endorsement and sharp contrast in 6th District State Senate race. Releases new digital campaign ad Chicago, IL – Democratic State Senate candidate Nick...

Election, News, Politics

By: David Scott Mathieson - - - - Have the partial elections in Myanmar, which concluded in late January, sparked a change in approach to the war-torn country by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations? Since April 2021, following the...

Bushra Amiwala Calls Out Dark Money, ICE Unaccountability in FOX Televised Debate CHICAGO, IL — Congressional candidate Bushra Amiwala participated in the FOX 32 Chicago 9th Congressional District debate on Wednesday evening alongside other leading candidates. She used the platform...

Election, News, Politics

As US carriers steam toward Iran, China’s CM-302 missile offer could turn a faltering energy-rich partner into a sharper spear in a widening great-power contest over power, data and energy. Reuters recently reported that Iran is close to finalizing a...

Military, Block 2, China Missiles

“We don’t need another war in this region. We already have a lot,” the European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas recently said of Iran. “It is true that Iran is at its weakest point that they have...

Human Rights, European Union, Iran

Ramadan has finally arrived. Muslims from around the world will abstain from food and, yes, even water, from sunrise to sunset for an entire month. For many, it is also a time of reflection, offering Muslims the chance to contemplate...

Yalla! Let’s Eat

Polls opened Thursday in a crunch vote for Britain's ruling Labour party that is expected to highlight growing support for the hard-right and leftists , particularly in England, where the traditional two-party system is fracturing. Defeat for the...

MENA

Dr Busingye Kabumba is a law professor at Makerere University. He said there is a misconception about sexual violence against men. Credit: Wambi Michael/IPS By Wambi Michael KAMPALA, Feb 26 2026 (IPS) When people ordinarily think about sexual violence, it’s of...

Africa, Featured, Gender Violence

“Drink hot water” has become an unlikely life philosophy on TikTok, as countless users track their journey towards “being” or “becoming Chinese.” All of this is part of a broader social media trend dubbed “Chinamaxxing.” Out of context it may...

Technology, China Diaspora, Chinamaxxing

Palestinian-American mediator Bishara Bahbah is preparing a paper to present to Hamas proposing its gradual disarmament, he revealed in an interview with the Saudi-owned Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper on Wednesday. He also said that there was a proposal to...

MENA

Hundreds of Iranian activists and academics have signed a petition, published on Thursday, announcing their rejection of any military attack on Iran . The petition comes in response to foreign-based Iranian opposition leaders who have urged the US administration...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) Israeli occupation forces continue to violate the fragile ceasefire in Gaza, carrying out air, ground and naval attacks on Rafah, eastern Gaza City, al-Bureij camp and Khan Yunis, targeting buildings and displacement centers. Local sources reported that two Palestinians were...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli ceasefire violations

Several countries have begun withdrawing dependents of diplomatic personnel and non-essential staff from some locations in the Middle East, or advising citizens to avoid travel to Iran, amid rising tensions between Washington and Tehran. This includes several...

MENA

Iran has presented its proposals ahead of the third round of indirect talks with the US , seeking a compromise from Washington on uranium enrichment levels and its wider nuclear programme. The Omani-mediated discussions began in Geneva on Thursday, involving...

MENA

RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Palestinian Asra Media Office (AMO) said on Wednesday that around 70 Palestinian women detainees are spending Ramadan in Israel’s Damon prison under harsh conditions and without basic human rights protections. In a statement, the group said the women, 24...

News, Detained women, Israeli prisons

Iraq could nearly double its output from the West Qurna 2 oilfield to 800,000 barrels per day (bpd) as Chevron enters exclusive talks to take over operations from Russia's Lukoil, Iraq's oil minister said on Wednesday....

Energy

Human-driven climate change intensified torrential downpours that killed dozens and forced thousands of people from their homes across Morocco , Spain , and Portugal earlier this year, a network of climate scientists said Thursday. Precipitation during the region's wettest...

MENA

Farmer Mahmoud al-Attar stood at the edge of a dirt road east of the Shujaiya neighbourhood in eastern Gaza City , just dozens of meters from land his feet have not touched since Israel's genocidal war on the...

MENA

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Groups of Jewish settlers stormed the courtyards of Aqsa Mosque on Thursday morning, the ninth day of Ramadan, under the protection of Israeli forces. Dozens of settlers entered the compound through the Magaribeh Gate and performed public, collective Talmudic...

News, Aqsa Mosque, Israeli violations

La Penisola della Crimea rimane al centro dello scontro geopolitico nella regione del Mar Nero. Qui verrà analizzato il suo particolare percorso storico ed il ruolo che ricopre nel più ampio panorama strategico del conflitto tra Russia e NATO. Segue...

Italiano, Crimea, Geopolitics

Myanmar’s information war is now as decisive as the ground war. The generals fight it with a 64‑year‑old propaganda machine, Russian and Chinese “cognitive warfare,” Western lobbyists dangling access to natural resources and a growing ecosystem of enablers, while the...

Opinion, Dickens & Madison, McKeon Group

US and Iranian negotiators are in Geneva for a third round of indirect negotiations over Iran's nuclear programme as the US continues making claims about Iran's military capabilities. JD Vance claimed on Wednesday that Iran is trying...

MENA

US and Iranian negotiators are in Geneva for a third round of indirect negotiations over Iran's nuclear programme as the US continues making claims about Iran's military capabilities. JD Vance claimed on Wednesday that Iran is trying...

MENA

If you look at the chart, you will discover that in the 4th quarter of 2019 German GDP was at about the same level as in the 4th quarter 2025 – and in that quarter the GDP had made one...

Economics, Finance, DeStatis

Contradictions in Washington Demand a Clear Response from Europe US defence policy is characterised by contradictions that are on display once again in the Trump administration’s latest strategy documents. The reasons for this go far beyond the president’s erratic behaviour. At...

SWP Comment

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out a series of raids and incursions across multiple areas in the West Bank and Jerusalem overnight and into early Thursday, arresting at least 16 Palestinians, including a young woman and several...

News, Arrests, Occupied Jerusalem

Indonesia’s naval posture is on the cusp of a significant upgrade. As of February 2026, it is increasingly certain that Jakarta has accepted Italy’s offer to transfer the light aircraft carrier ITS Giuseppe Garibaldi as a strategic grant. Named after...

Southeast Asia, Block 3, Fincantieri

A newly released book titled Mossad: The War of Minds , by Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal, published by Yedioth Ahronoth , details previously undisclosed Mossad operations, including the pager bomb attacks in Lebanon and the assassinations of...

MENA

Iraq's ruling Shia Coordination Framework will decide next week who it will nominate for prime minister, according to a lawmaker close to current premier Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani. Meanwhile, Washington has again opposed former premier Nouri Al-Maliki 's...

MENA

Just as fragile investor confidence was beginning to return to Bangladesh after months of political upheaval, the abrupt ouster of central bank governor Ahsan Mansur has injected fresh uncertainty into the country’s economic trajectory. In the high-stakes world of emerging...

South Asia, Ahsan Mansur, Bangladesh

GAZA, (PIC) UN Secretary-General spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric warned that more than 18,500 patients and injured people in the Gaza Strip, including around 4,000 children, are still in urgent need of immediate medical evacuation to receive treatment outside the territory, amid the...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli genocide

GAZA, (PIC) A Palestinian man was killed on Wednesday evening by Israeli forces in central Gaza amid continued ceasefire violations. A local source reported that the victim was killed in a strike carried out by an Israeli drone east of Deir al-Balah...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli aggression

The General Assembly adopted a resolution in 2012 granting Palestine the status of non-member observer State in the United Nations. Credit: UN Photo/Rick Bajornas By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Feb 26 2026 (IPS) The 193-member General Assembly, the highest-ranking policy-making body...

Civil Society, Featured, Global
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