On 20 August, during the 23rd edition of the Council of the Americas in Buenos Aires, Javier Milei concluded his speech to the business elite by blaming the ‘little green scarves’ and voluntary termination of pregnancy (VTP) for the declining birth rate, the slowdown
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There is very little information on CIA Director Ratcliffe’s visit to Moscow.
Francis Fukuyama remains one of the most influential political theorists of the
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The United States is preparing to widen its sanctions campaign against Iran, targeting not only Tehran but the commercial networks that have allowed Iranian oil to keep reaching international markets despite years of restrictions. Yet the more Washington tries to close those channels, the
Five-year-old Hind Rajab Hamada was killed in Gaza on 29 January 2024
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President Donald Trump’s decision to order the Department of Defense to reduce
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Andy Burnham’s political honeymoon is approaching its first serious test. After winning public support and helping the Labour Party recover in the polls since becoming prime minister in mid-July, Burnham is now approaching the autumn political and parliamentary session with a far more difficult
Around 3.7 million children in Afghanistan are suffering from acute malnutrition, with
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, have formally dissolved as an
The United States has temporarily paused visa applications from foreign nationals worldwide
On 20 August, during the 23rd edition of the Council of the Americas in Buenos Aires, Javier Milei concluded his speech to the business elite by blaming the ‘little green scarves’ and
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More There is very little information on CIA Director Ratcliffe’s visit to Moscow. Even so, there is enough information to make some observations. One reason for Ratcliffe’s visit was to warn Moscow about
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Iran and Oman have restarted discussions aimed at managing traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, as Tehran faces heightened economic pressure from US President Donald Trump and diplomatic efforts to end the
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Accounting firm Deloitte will pay $21.5 million to settle a US Department of Justice probe into its diversity, equity and inclusion practices, resolving an investigation conducted under a federal initiative established during
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has warned of the growing social risks posed by artificial intelligence, arguing that governments and policymakers still lack a concrete plan for containing the technology’s potential dangers. In a blog post, Gates called for strict conditions on how AI is
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The company says it has temporarily paused some advanced reinforcement-learning training as
Australia has confirmed its first case of H5N1 bird flu in a mammal, after the highly pathogenic virus was detected in a long-nosed fur seal in South Australia, authorities said on Sunday.
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by Eric Chris A. Rutkowski’s Canada’s UFO Secrets: Disclosing Government Files on What Is Happening in Our Skies is most interesting when it stops behaving like a UFO book. Its real subject
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by Durga Mahvash Sabet’s Open Wide the Doors: A Memoir of Faith, Hope and Freedom in Iran is ostensibly a prison memoir, but its real subject is larger and more dangerous: what
by Luxman Laura K. Field’s Furious Minds is an ambitious and often unsettling attempt to explain not merely what the MAGA New Right believes, but how a movement once dismissed as a
