Christa Pike's survival has exposed a contradiction that capital punishment normally conceals. The state can declare a life forfeit, but when its machinery of death fails, it suddenly becomes responsible for keeping
Germany and four other European Union member states are negotiating with Rwanda over the establishment of centres for rejected asylum seekers, as European governments seek new ways to implement deportations outside the
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Recently on Canadian Prepper, Nate and I discussed the dangers in Putin’s patience with an ever-widening war and the puzzle that Putin prefers the risk of these dangers to quickly winning the
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Trump offered to scale down the Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise (carried out annually by the US Forces in Korea (USFK) and Republic of Korea (ROK) military). In Trumpian style, the decision was
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US prosecutors have charged a woman with allegedly plotting to bomb the New York State Capitol, kill lawmakers and then leave the country to join Islamic State, in a case that authorities
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Japan is preparing to give its military and police new powers to counter cyberattacks at their source, marking a significant expansion of the country’s security posture and raising questions about the limits
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The death of Ecuador’s intelligence chief in a helicopter crash in Kenya has raised questions about the circumstances surrounding his final journey, particularly because Michele Sensi-Contugi was travelling with five American citizens
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There is a certain comfort in the stories that empires tell about themselves. In these stories, capitalism appears as the natural flowering of European ingenuity – the product of reason, scientific discovery,
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For Yemen, the danger is not simply a return to fighting. The country has yet to recover from the devastating conflict of 2015-2022, which killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, contributed to
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At least 57 former members of the Nazi Party sat in the seventh German Bundestag in 1976. Among them were early Nazi supporters, politicians who had joined as teenagers and figures who
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by Durga Velayudham In Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, the traces of Hui Ka Yan’s extraordinary rise and fall can be found in the unfinished buildings, abandoned construction sites and apartment
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Russia’s decision to summon the Japanese ambassador has brought a 150-year-old territorial dispute back into sharp focus, underscoring the strategic importance of the Kuril Islands and the increasingly difficult relationship between Moscow
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Assessing Balochistan almost entirely through security incidents tends to warp the real picture. It can make it feel like one of Pakistan’s most important provinces is only about danger and reaction, when
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Pakistan is in a state of poly-crises and is hardly managing them, or rather, crushing and diverting attention by playing survival geopolitics with slim substance. On the economic and security fronts, Pakistan
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Pakistan’s textile and garment industry is entering a period in which competitiveness will depend on more than low production costs and manufacturing capacity. As international buyers place greater emphasis on labour rights,
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As Donald Trump continued his attacks on Iran earlier this month, a potentially transformative security agreement was quietly taking shape in Saudi Arabia. On 7 August, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey signed
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