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How the UAE’s Foreign Policy Backfired in Syria and Sudan
The National Interest - Washington D.C.
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July 4, 2025
The foreign policy of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has faced numerous challenges in recent years. From the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, after Abu Dhabi had invested immense political capital to normalize relations with his regime, to the...
Trump can send deportees to South Sudan and other third-party countries, Supreme Court says
The Independent
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June 23, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
The cost of victory: Israel overpowered its foes but deepened its isolation
The Straits Times
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July 5, 2025
LONDON – It’s Israel’s Middle East now. After three-quarters of a century fighting hostile neighbours, the tiny Jewish country, about the size of New Jersey, has all but vanquished its enemies – Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in the Gaza Strip,...
Voices: This is a good moment for Israel to be magnanimous and stop the war with Iran
The Independent
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June 23, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Perilous sky of the middle east
The Rising Nepal
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Shradha Arjyal Joshi As it is said, “The sky is the limit”, in the 21st century, countries no longer need frontiers to declare war which is proved by the war between Israel and Iran when the former launched airstrikes on 13th June 2025 to ravage...
OPEC+ to boost crude oil production in August
United Press International (UPI)
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A gas flame is seen in the desert at Khurais oil field, about 100 miles from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. File photo by Ali Haider/EPA July 5 (UPI) -- Eight OPEC+ nations on Saturday agreed to increase their crude oil production by 548,000 barrels per...
Are Caucasians Back in Vogue?
Arizona Daily Independent
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July 5, 2025
Are Caucasians back in vogue? KVOA News in Tucson apparently thinks so. It recently ran a news story about a report from the Pima County Health Department on the number of overdose deaths in the county in 2023. The story said that 532 county...
Is it safe to travel to Egypt? Your rights as Middle East conflict escalates with US strikes on Iran
The Independent (U.S.)
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June 23, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
New Face of the Middle East in the Offing
Khabarhub
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June 23, 2025
War is all about surprise, speed, precision, firepower, and technology. On Saturday night, the U.S. launched a surprise attack on three key Iranian nuclear sites: Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. President Trump declared it a “spectacular military...
I Remember It, Well….
Dissident Voice
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July 5, 2025
Fame is fleeting. We may be a Facebook celebrity today with ‘likes’ in the six digits, only to find as time goes by that the balance is shifting daily as we fade into the oblivion from which we emerged. Pretty much the same phenomenon is...
Israel-Iran conflict: B-2 bombers, bunker-busters; what to know about US' most advanced weapons
Khaleej Times
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The US Air Force's B-2 Spirit stealth bomber represents one of America's most advanced strategic weapons platforms, capable of entering sophisticated air defences and delivering precision strikes against hardened targets such as Iran's buried...
Will Trump's travel bans, student visa crackdowns hit home in Brevard?
Florida Today
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New restrictions on student visas and an expanded travel ban are impacting international students' ability to study in the U.S. Florida Tech is working to support its international students by advising them to keep their paperwork accessible and...
Nigerians can no longer breathe, Mr President
Daily Trust
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July 5, 2025
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s fiscal and monetary policies in the last two years have drained resources from ordinary Nigerians. But the political elite have become heavily empowered by the funds taken from the masses. The two brutal measures –...
What would happen if Iran were to acquire the bomb?
The National News
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The recent attacks on Iran and its nuclear facilities shocked the global community. While the world watches closely for further developments and hopes for a diplomatic resolution to this crisis, the attacks on Iran and its next steps will have a...
The spy, private equity baron and ghost of a Trump donor: The revolving door behind a Gaza mercenary firm
Middle East Eye
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July 5, 2025
The US mercenary firm overseeing a controversial Gaza aid programme is the creation of a bespectacled Chicago private equity baron and a CIA spy with old ties to a Donald Trump ally who participated in one of the Middle East's nastiest diplomatic...
Diplomacy in the 21st century: a Pan-Africanist analysis of the legitimacy crisis and the path to a just global order
Windhoek Observer
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PAUL T. SHIPALE (with inputs by Folito Nghitongovali Diawara Gaspar) Abstract As President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah marks 100 days in Office and is expected to announce a new round of ambassadorial and high commission appointments, with envoys...
Keep your America, Mr Trump, and we’ll keep our Africa
Al Jazeera
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July 4, 2025
On June 16, The New York Times disclosed that United States President Donald Trump is considering broadening his travel ban list to include as many as 36 additional countries, most of them African – including my country, Zimbabwe. Twelve days...
B-2 stealth bombers took off from Missouri on mission to strike Iran
USA Today - Virginia
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The B-2s, valued at roughly $2 billion a piece, are known not only for their stealth technology, but for their ability to fly long range. Its design and materials limit its ability to be detected by enemy radar. A group of elite B-2 Spirit stealth...
Military force may have delayed Iran’s nuclear ambitions – but history shows that diplomacy is the more effective nonproliferation strategy
The Conversation
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July 3, 2025
While the U.S. military’s strikes on Iran on June 21, 2025, is believed to have damaged the country’s critical nuclear infrastructure, no evidence has yet emerged showing the program to have been completely destroyed. In fact, an early U.S....
Now more than ever, the prime minister must refrain from following Donald Trump’s lead
The Independent (U.S.)
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June 22, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...