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Handmade crafts are disappearing under mass production. What is lost when everything is made fast, cheap and at scale?, Handmade crafts are disappearing under mass production. What is lost when everything is made fast, cheap, and at scale? As globalisation reshapes how goods are made and consumed, traditional crafts are increasinglyContinue Reading

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Sometimes on the internet you encounter one of those pictures that needs no explanation. A brightly colored bird foregrounded on a lawn, say, while a housecat lurks behind it in the grass, flattening its body to the ground. You know what comes next: The cat will pounce, because that isContinue Reading

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Saddam Hussein loved his birthday, and he ensured everyone else in Iraq loved it too. Each April 28, he received an ornate birthday cake of ludicrous proportions, while the whole country held compulsory celebrations. The mere title of “The President’s Cake” — the gentle, imperfect period drama from Iraqi filmmakerContinue Reading

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OPINION — In China, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) “commands the gun”, and Chinese President Xi Jinping controls the one million members of the CCP. In October 2022, Mr. Xi was elected to an unprecedented third term as Secretary General of the CCP and President of the People’s Republic ofContinue Reading

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Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the indirect talks were “a good start”., Tehran, Iran – Iranian authorities have described the latest talks with the United States as “positive”, but the mediated negotiations in Oman offered no roadmap to alleviate growing fears of a US attack. Iran’s team in MuscatContinue Reading

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Even with an order to expedite the process, federal cannabis reform faces long delays and legal hurdles Published February 6, 2026 10:30AM (EST) (Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Win McNamee / Justin Sullivan / National Archives) In December, President Traitor 47 directed the Department of Justice toContinue Reading

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The United States and Russia have agreed to reestablish high-level military-to-military dialogue, according to a statement from US European Command on 5 February. This was agreed during meetings in Abu Dhabi, where US-mediated trilateral negotiations between Ukraine, Russia, and the US aimed at finding a path to ending Russia’s warContinue Reading