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What If Religion Was The Hero In Today’s Headlines?
Patheos
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June 30, 2025
Muhammad Elgazzar, a “savior surgeon,” trained some of the famed White Helmets in Syria on how to perform emergency first-aid. White Helmets of the Syrian Civil Defense in Kafrowaid, a village south of Idlib, on March 21, 2017. Qasioun News...
Finovate Global Africa: Investments, Acquisitions, and Partnerships
Finovate
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June 27, 2025
This week’s edition of Finovate Global looks at recent fintech headlines from Nigeria and South Africa. BAS Group acquired a majority stake in Nigeria’s Zuvy Nigeria-based diversified financial services group BAS Group announced this week that it...
This satellite scans entire Earth every 20 mins, reports wildfires
The Indian Express
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July 1, 2025
Just over three months after US-based aerospace start-up Muon Space launched its FireSat Protoflight satellite, the end-to-end space systems provider has shared the first images taken by the spacecraft. This spacecraft, launched on SpaceX’s...
When the Crowds Go Home
Africa is a country
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This newspaper—what we’re calling a “special issue”—is on the long decade of mass protest that gripped the world following the 2008 global financial crisis. This fifteen-year period, roughly from 2009 to 2024, saw convulsions and mobilizations...
'I earned my professorship' – Professor Edward Dua Agyeman fires back at GTEC
GhanaWeb
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June 28, 2025
The former Board Chairman of the Ghana Audit Service, Edward Dua Agyeman, has formally responded to the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) following the Commission’s directive for him to cease using the title "Professor" or face potential...
Türkiye’s industrial renaissance: The path to a global powerhouse
Sabah
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June 26, 2025
With exports exceeding $8 billion (TL 318.22 billion), the Turkish defense industry has risen to 10th place among global giants. As a model emulated by other countries and renowned for its products on a global scale, the sector has transformed...
A Communist Wins the Left Primary in Chile and Prepares to Battle the Right in the Presidential Election in November
News Americas Now
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July 1, 2025
By Vijay Prashad and Taroa Zúñiga Silva News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Tues. July 1, 2025: Jeanette Jara, born 1974, prevailed in the Chilean presidential primary of the four major left political forces held on 29 June 2025. With 60% of the vote,...
The NATO Summit
Vision
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Five Ideas to Escape the Five-Percent Syndrome A Vision article by Francesco Grillo. Five percent. That is likely the specter that will haunt European governments in the years to come. The communiqué with which NATO Secretary General recently...
NATO has a Mediterranean blind spot—and it puts the Alliance’s security at risk
Atlantic Council
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June 30, 2025
New Atlanticist June 30, 2025 • 1:54 pm ET Print this page By Gabriele Natalizia and Alissa Pavia When NATO leaders and partners of the Alliance met in The Hague last week, countries from two important regions were notably absent: Neither North...
The Failed Dream of Regime Change in Iran: A Strategic Miscalculation by Israel and the US
The Nation
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June 30, 2025
After twelve days of intense hostilities, a ceasefire has finally been reached between Iran and Israel. However, this conflict was not just a border skirmish—it was a calculated, global strategic move. And yes, the war was real. But the reality is...
Aaron Hennessy appointed as Sustainability Ambassador for CIOB Oman Hub Committee
The Arabian Stories
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July 1, 2025
Muscat– Douglas OHI is pleased to announce that Aaron Hennessy, Group Managing Director of Douglas OHI and Group COO of the OHI Group of Companies, has been appointed as the Sustainability Ambassador for the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB)...
OMCT Global Torture Index: Alarming Patterns of Police Violence and Systemic Impunity Worldwide
OMCT
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Geneva, 25 June 2025: On the eve of the United Nations Day for Victims of Torture, the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) launches the Global Torture Index—the first-of-its-kind tool designed to make the risk of torture visible and...
The Wretched History of Regime
CounterPunch
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June 30, 2025
Photograph Source: موسسه مطالعات و پژوهش های سیاسی – Public Domain “If we have to use force, it is because we are America; we are the indispensable nation. We stand tall and we see further than other countries into the future, and we see the...
Mixed progress for African universities
Business Ghana
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QS Quacquarelli Symonds, global higher education analysts, have today released the QS World University Rankings 2026 *, evaluating over 1,500 universities across 106 countries. This year, Africa sees a blend of progress and stagnation, with North...
Nuclear Truths and Selective Justice: The Treaty and the West’s Dance With ‘Hypocrity’ (2), By Hassan Gimba
News Diary Online
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July 1, 2025
Of course, one must ask that question because everyone, especially those accusing Iran of inching towards acquiring the nuclear bomb, knew it was not so. After all, the country spent a whole year implementing the JCPOA agreement, even after Trump...
Sheikh Mansour’s Double Life: From Football Royalty to Orchestrator of Proxy Wars
Watan
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June 30, 2025
In April 2023, just weeks before the Sudanese civil war erupted, Sheikh Mansour, one of the richest men in the Middle East and the UAE’s Vice President, hosted notorious Sudanese commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (a.k.a. Hemeti) in his lavish...
Trump slams Fed Chair Powell in handwritten note
Daily Mail
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June 30, 2025
President Donald Trump is finding novel ways to try to pressure Fed chair Jerome Powell to lower interest rates – this time releasing an angry hand-written note online that casts the US central bank as behind the curve. Trump posted a chart of...
What Israel and the US didn't achieve
GEO TV
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July 1, 2025
The 12-day war of aggression waged principally by Israel against Iran has been fascinating for its starkness on multiple fronts. Much like Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians, on open display yet unstoppable, the falsehood and illegality of both...
Rep. Bryan Steil echoes Trump talking points about Iran despite evidence to the contrary
Racine County Eye - Wisconsin
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June 25, 2025
During a 45-minute telephone town hall on June 20, U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil (R-Janesville) addressed questions from constituents about national security, border policy, presidential travel, ICE enforcement, trade, and social safety net reforms. He...
What the Israel-Iran ceasefire means to Palestine and West Asia
Frontline - The Hindu
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June 30, 2025
The developments of the past few days have rocked the world. Apart from the open Israeli aggression towards Iran, the continuing attacks on civilians and the murders of tens of thousands of civilians in Palestine are there for the world to see. In...