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One muggy summer night two years ago, I met with members of the Communist Party of Bangladesh at a cafe in Dhaka. The cramped space was roofed in corrugated steel panels and wedged in a narrow alley behind party headquarters. A chai wallah poured red tea while young men smokedContinue Reading

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TC Energy, the Calgary company behind the Coastal GasLink pipeline through Wet’suwet’en First Nation territories in B.C. and the failed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline to Texas, sees a major new growth opportunity for fossil fuels: artificial intelligence.   Tech firms like Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft are building out anContinue Reading

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This article originally appeared on  Inside Climate News  (hyperlink to the original story), a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter  here . For the last couple of years, a growing number of political leaders, lawyers and activists have warned thatContinue Reading

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The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon has refused the Israeli military’s request to vacate bases near the border., Video Duration 01 minutes 06 seconds NewsFeed The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon has refused a request from the Israeli military to vacate bases near the border. The area hasContinue Reading

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Chickasaw, located just outside Mobile, has also agreed to a moratorium on future prosecutions in such cases, which had so far disproportionately impacted women and minorities, according to a lawyer advocating for impacted residents. By Lee Hedgepeth CHICKASAW, Ala.—A small Alabama suburb has agreed to drop pending criminal charges againstContinue Reading