Eight months ago, if you said that the second coming of MAGA would, in broad daylight, wheel the Confederacy back in, you would have been called an alarmist. It would have seemed like overblown anxieties typical of the antiracist wingnuts or the…
Category: 3. Middle East
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Emotional Algerian UN envoy reads Mariam Abu Daqqa’s letter to her son | Gaza
Algeria’s UN ambassador Amar Bendjama delivered an emotional address as he read a farewell letter by Palestinian journalist Mariam Abu Daqqa to her son Gaith. Mariam wrote the letter before she was killed along with four other journalists in an…
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Furious Ostapenka lashes out at Townsend on court after US Open loss | Tennis News
Ostapenko unleashed a verbal volley at her American opponent for being disrespectful during their second-round match.
Published On 28 Aug 2025
Jelena Ostapenko accused Taylor Townsend of lacking “class” during a furious on-court…
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Several killed, dozens wounded in Russian attack on Ukrainian capital | Russia-Ukraine war News
Published On 28 Aug 2025
Russia has launched a drone and missile attack on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, including a rare hit on the city centre, killing at least eight people and wounding dozens of others, authorities said.
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Official Lebanese source: ‘We are holding talks with Hezbollah about Day After, and all concerns are being addressed’
BEIRUT: An official Lebanese source has confirmed to Arab News that the government is in direct talks with Hezbollah about the disarmament of non-state armed groups and the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Lebanese territory.
The source said…
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Israel says in talks ‘right now’ on south Syria demilitarization
GAZA CITY: Israel on Friday said its military had recovered the bodies of two hostages, including an Israeli man who was killed in the Oct. 7 attack that sparked the war.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office…Continue Reading
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Extremist minister Smotrich calls for Israel to annex Gaza
Macron backs Lebanese sovereignty after Israeli drone strike kills 2 soldiers in south
DUBAI: French President Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed France’s support for Lebanese…Continue Reading
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Once Africa’s breadbasket, Sudan faces a hunger crisis ‘unprecedented in scale and severity’
LONDON: When German authorities arrested Libyan war crimes suspect Khaled Mohamed Ali Al-Hishri at Berlin Brandenburg Airport, the operation was widely praised as a breakthrough for the International Criminal…Continue Reading
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India-Pakistan missile race heats up, but China in crosshairs, too | India-Pakistan Tensions News
Islamabad, Pakistan – India on August 20 announced that it had successfully test-fired Agni-V, its intermediate-range ballistic missile, from a test range in Odisha on its eastern Bay of Bengal coast.
The Agni-V, meaning “fire” in Sanskrit,…
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What is famine, and how is it determined?
Famine doesn’t happen naturally. It’s political. Gaza joins the short list of places where conflict starves people.
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