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Sukhoi Su-35's Radar is Powerless and Engine out of Radar - Is Putting Trying To Sell Scrap To India?
india possesses French-made Rafale fighter jets and Russian-made Sukhoi aircraft. The indian air Force uses both fighter aircraft. russia now wants to sell india both the 4.5-generation Su-35 and the fifth-generation Su-57 combat aircraft....

Settler Colonialism in Light of F. Fanon: Algeria yesterday, Kanaky today... (Part 1)
A depiction of the 1836 Battle of Constantine in Algeria. As settler-colonial violence escalates from Kanaky to Palestine, Fanon’s century-old warnings are critical today—capitalism’s genocidal expansion demands revolution. Originally published in...

Trump issues new tariff notices as E.U. trade deal nears
REUTERS/BART BIESEMANS A drone view shows containers stacked at the port of Rotterdam in Rotterdam, Netherlands, today. WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS >> President Donald Trump issued final tariff notices to seven minor trading partners today as his...

Jobs Boost As The United Kingdom (UK) And Kenya Bolster Economic And Security Partnership
(MENAFN- APO Group) Trade and investment deals agreed during the visit will contribute over £1bn to the UK economy and create UK jobs in engineering, defence industries, technical and advisory services, and financial services The UK and Kenya will...

Trump issues new tariff notices as EU pushes for US trade deal
WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS: US President Donald Trump issued final tariff notices to seven minor trading partners on Wednesday as his administration inched closer to a deal with its biggest trading partner, the European Union. Trump said in posts on his...
The Unfinished Business of Nation Building in Ethiopia and the Conflicted Roles of Its Intellectuals and Scholars
Aklog Birara (Dr) February 4. 2022 “In broadening the debate about a country’s trajectory beyond the usual group of elite decision makers, national dialogues offer the potential for meaningful conversation about the underlying drivers of conflict...

The Nuclear Club Might Soon Double
Updated at 10:37 a.m. ET on July 12, 2025 Keiko Ogura was just 8 years old when the atoms in the Hiroshima bomb started splitting. When we met in January, some 300 feet from where the bomb struck, Ogura was 87. She stands about five feet tall in...

Samsung Unpacked preview: What to expect amid AI push and rising competition
Samsung is expected to unveil its new foldable smartphones at its Unpacked event, as it seeks to regain leadership in a market it once dominated and expand its AI ambitions across lines of its mobile devices. The South Korean company is widely...

Sahel militants turn civilian drones into deadly weapons
Terror groups are increasingly using new tactics, notably armed suicide or kamikaze drones, according to a government statement released following several attacks on cities in western Mali on 1 July. The use of commercially available small...
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India is not an enemy: A rebuttal to Tom Sharpe’s misinformed critique
In a recent opinion piece titled “India is an enemy, not a friend or a neutral,” published in The Telegraph on July 1, 2025, former Royal Navy officer Tom Sharpe launched a scathing and provocative attack on India, accusing it of duplicity in its...

AGOCO restarting JJ1-65 well in Masala field after hiatus of more than five decades
Libya’s eastern based Arabian Gulf Oil Company (AGOCO) announced last Monday (23 June) that it has begun the process of restarting JJ1-65 well in Masala field after a hiatus of more than five decades (1971). It said this comes as part of its...

100 Muslim scholars declare Trump, Netanyahu enemies of God
A group of 100 Muslim scholars and intellectuals from across the world have issued a statement declaring US President Donald Trump and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as enemies waging war against God and corruptors on earth. They also...

The US Bombing of Iran—How Nonprofits and Civil Society Must Respond
Credit: Jay Galvin on Peace Science Digest The ceasefire that President Donald Trump imposed on June 22 ended—so far—12 days of Israeli assaults against Iran, Iran’s retaliatory strikes, and a US attack that dropped fourteen 30,000-pound “bunker...

Uganda might have to go through a 2007-08 Kenya to rebuild
Kenyan protestors mocking Uganda Writing on boastfulness around torture recently, comrade Dr Busingye Kabumba noted that one cannot miss the arrogance of our security and political leadership when they chest-thump and ask, “what will you do?” This...

Sustaining Africa’s economic resilience hinges on intra-trade, local investments, new partnerships – Kale, MD/Group Chief Economist, Afreximbank
A key takeaway from Afreximbank’s 2025 Annual Meetings, held Last week in Abuja, is the growing recognition of Africa’s resilience amid global shocks. However, Yemi Kale, Afreximbank’s Managing Director (Research & International Cooperation) and...

Tributes paid to ‘humanitarian legend’ Mike McDonagh
Glowing tributes have been paid to an Ennis “humanitarian giant” who previously broke the blockade on the besieged city of Malanje in the Angolan central highlands during this phase of the war. The sudden death of Mike McDonagh on June 21, 2025,...

Southern cooperation, myth and redemption
Between October 12, 1492, and the end of the second millennium, Western expansionism had a major influence on the global community. European empires, which originated in countries poor in raw materials, developed a system for finding natural...

After strikes, Israel and US diverge on how to further pressure Iran
REUTERS — When they met on Monday, US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu basked in the glow of their triumph over Iran. But the show of unity masked a divergence over their endgames in Iran, Gaza and the wider Middle...

This is not the Iranian regime change you are looking for
Urbanite Iranians are wary of regime change, not only due to the experiences of Libya and Syria, but also because they are aware of Iran’s ethnic divisions Back when I used to be able to visit Iran, I remember always being surprised by the...

Weekly News Roundup: Friday, June 20, 2025
Libya's Foreign Ministry protests Greek bid round for hydrocarbon exploration south of Crete http://lyo.ly/5r70 Mufti: Berlin Conference is a deception by Libya's enemies http://lyo.ly/5r6u UN envoy: Hate speech threatens Libya’s unity and...