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Bp South Africa Enhances Fuel Distribution Through Retail Site Upgrades
MENAFN
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July 4, 2025
(MENAFN- African Press Organization) CAPE TOWN, South Africa, July 4, 2025/APO Group/ -- bp South Africa – a subsidiary of global energy major bp – is undergoing a strategic transformation to modernize its services, infrastructure and customer...
Netanyahu’s War
The New York Review of Books
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July 3, 2025
For many years Israeli human rights activists in the occupied Palestinian territories have been saying, as vociferously as we could, that the intricately intermeshed system of the occupation—settlers, soldiers, police, military courts, the media,...
10 countries where people are the happiest in 2025
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 4, 2025
If happiness were a passport, these countries would be first-class destinations. According to the newly released World Happiness Report 2025, Finland is still holding tight to its crown as the happiest country in the world. This marks the eighth...
Trump's 'unconstitutional' new travel ban goes into effect
KHQ - Washington State
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Alameda, CA (Prism) The travel restrictions on mostly African and Middle Eastern countries began Monday, after mass anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles People from 12 primarily African and Middle Eastern countries, including family members of...
B-2 Bomber: America’s Trump Card Against Adversaries
Bharat Shakti
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June 19, 2025
The U.S. 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...
Voices: What’s the point of the UK talking to Tehran? More than you might think…
The Independent
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June 20, 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...
Vijay Prashad: NATO Is the United States
Consortium News
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June 19, 2025
As NATO’s secretary general urges member nations to “shift to a wartime mindset,” now more than ever it is clear that this aggressive alliance poses a threat to peace on a global scale. Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, Untitled,...
Explained: What can US B-2 bombers and bunker-busters do?
Daily Star
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June 19, 2025
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 defenses and delivering precision strikes against hardened targets such as Iran's buried...
‘Every Gun Was Taken’: Syria Could Fuel Arms Trafficking Crisis
Inkstick Media
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July 1, 2025
In the chaos following the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December 2024, looting on a massive scale hit Syria’s armories. Tens of thousands of small arms and light weapons flowed into the hands of civilians, criminals, and armed groups in...
Understanding Yemen 1/2: The Revolution
Al Mayadeen
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June 30, 2025
In the first of his two-part series, Tim Anderson dismantles Western myths about Yemen by tracing the roots, values, and political success of the Ansar Allah-led revolution, the Arab Spring’s only true victory. Yemen, the most independent Arab...
Swinging clubs in the nuclear age: Why Israel’s war path should alarm us all
Daily Trust
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June 19, 2025
There are many reasons why the conflict in the Middle East should not be happening. The reality, however, is that it is. Despite our great advances in knowledge, technology, and diplomacy, we are still in a world where might is right and right is...
Simon Calder answers your air travel safety questions – from Boeing worries to the truth about budget airlines
The Independent
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June 20, 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...
'Why not an Islamic bomb?': How Israel planned and failed to stop Pakistan going nuclear
Middle East Eye
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June 25, 2025
Former CIA Director George Tenet thought him “at least as dangerous as Osama bin Laden” and former Mossad Chief Shabtai Shavit regretted not killing him. But to almost 250 million Pakistanis, Abdul Qadeer Khan - the godfather of Pakistan’s nuclear...
Russia Just Recognized the Taliban
The National Interest - Washington D.C.
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July 3, 2025
On Thursday, Russia became the first country in the world to recognize the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan. The move came after the Kremlin accepted the credentials of a new ambassador, Gul Hassan Hassan, on Monday. The Russian...
Trump’s Bombing Iran and Its Nuclear Sites: The Continued Constitutional Fallout
Washington Monthly
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July 3, 2025
Last month’s U.S. armed forces attack on Iranian nuclear sites ordered by President Donald Trump illustrates a truth about the contemporary exercise of American military power perfectly stated by Saikrishna Prakash, the University of Virginia...
Can Starmer afford to join Trump in an open-ended war?
The Independent (U.S.)
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June 19, 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...
Turkey labeled high risk in global torture index
Stockholm Center for Freedom
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July 3, 2025
Turkey has been classified as a high-risk country for torture and ill-treatment in the first edition of a new international index, Turkish Minute reported. The Global Torture Index 2025, released by the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) on...
A Battle for Humane Consciousness in a War Against Truth: Exposing the Dark Arts of War
Dissident Voice
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June 30, 2025
The total liberation and unification of Africa under an All-African Socialist Government must be the primary objective of all Black revolutionaries throughout the world. It is an objective which, when achieved, will bring about the fulfillment of...
Voices: Can Starmer afford to join Trump in an open-ended war?
The Independent
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June 19, 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...
Who could lead Iran if Ayatollah Khamenei is deposed?
The Independent
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June 19, 2025
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