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UN warns hunger crisis affecting almost quarter of Lebanon’s population could escalate without ‘urgent action’., UN warns hunger crisis affecting almost quarter of Lebanon’s population could escalate without ‘urgent action’. Nearly a quarter of Lebanon’s population, or more than one million people, is facing acute food shortages due to twoContinue Reading

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The former Bangladeshi PM says she is planning to go back, despite a death sentence., Inside Story The former Bangladeshi PM says she is planning to go back, despite a death sentence. She faces being hanged. Yet, Sheikh Hasina says she will return to Bangladesh and would rather die inContinue Reading

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The following article was originally published on Z Network. I pace my small apartment for almost an hour after interviewing a fellow journalist in Mexico who was kidnapped by organized crime groups. Another day, a source has been arrested, another dies in a suspicious car accident. Others tell compelling storiesContinue Reading

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Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., announced Tuesday that they would not back Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., in his effort to become majority leader next year. The duo — leading voices on the center and left of the Democratic Party — took pains to avoid discussing specific policyContinue Reading

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The following story is co-published with Nolan Higdon’s Substack. “Nvidia opens investigation after CEO Jensen Huang’s affair with alleged Chinese spy,” screamed a Nov. 8, 2026, NBC News headline. The story noted that, after U.S. intelligence agencies determined that Alice Huang, a businesswoman whose company was buying Nvidia’s advanced chips, wasContinue Reading

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Ukraine’s soldiers shop for their own drones online, and they have ordered more than 1.5 million of them. Since the DOT-Chain Defence marketplace opened in July 2025, combat units have procured over 1.5 million drones through it, worth more than $2 billion, the Defense Ministry said. DOT-Chain Defence operates likeContinue Reading

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Russia is burning down Ukraine’s power grid by hitting the parts no one managed to shield. Only a third of the main transformers at substations of the state-owned electricity transmission operator Ukrenergo are housed in reinforced-concrete sarcophagi. Now, drones go after the unprotected rest, Serhii Nahorniak, a lawmaker on parliament’sContinue Reading