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The UN refugee agency is under pressure to impose stricter controls amid rising local backlash against Rohingya., The UN refugee agency is under pressure to impose stricter controls amid rising local backlash against Rohingya. Malaysia’s foreign minister says the country should reconsider whether to allow the United Nations refugee agencyContinue Reading

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Palestinians face hours-long waits at Israeli military checkpoints, forcing women to give birth outside hospitals., On Friday evening, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a “wide-scale military operation” across the occupied West Bank following a settler attack in the village of Tal that morning, Palestinian ambulance driver Yousef Diriya,Continue Reading

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As US ties fray, Netanyahu’s claim to unrivalled influence in Washington is under growing scrutiny., Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long presented his closeness to the United States – both politically and personally – as evidence of his indispensability to Israel. Arriving with a camera-ready American accent after spending aContinue Reading

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Russia’s strikes on cargo ships have now shut down an iron ore giant. Pivdennyi Mining and Processing Plant (Pivdennyi GZK) has announced it has begun suspending mining and temporarily curtailing operations due to ongoing Russian attacks on civilian merchant ships bound for Ukraine’s Black Sea ports. The plant cannot mineContinue Reading

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Iran is threatening to hit back after Ukraine struck its ships. Meanwhile, Ukrainian monitoring channels that help the Ukrainians track Russian drones and missiles carried information that soon Iran might attack Ukraine with ballistic missiles. The threat is real, but a ballistic strike on Ukraine is not confirmed. It followsContinue Reading

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For generations, the United States has been a global advocate for freedom, democracy, and the rule of law. Today, however, the world is calling on the United States to uphold those same principles at home.  Last month, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), representing over 200 million workers through 340 nationalContinue Reading

us.-media:-maybe-iran-didn’t-want-nukes,-after-all

The following story is co-published with Matt Bivens’ Substack newsletter,  The 100 Days. Over his decades as Iran’s religious and government leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had consistently rejected nuclear weapons. Khamenei ruled that these ridiculously violent explosives, with their promise of indiscriminate killing and environmental poisoning, were simply incompatibleContinue Reading