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Malaysia quietly flying Turkish drones over South China Sea
Asia Times
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June 27, 2025
In June 2025, Malaysia took a decisive yet understated step in fortifying its maritime domain awareness by confirming the deployment of three Turkish-made Anka‑S unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). These medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) drones...
Top 5 African countries with the most active drilling rigs in May 2025
Business Insider Africa
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June 27, 2025
Generally speaking, a large rig count denotes robust economic activity in the oil sector. It denotes the entire functioning of exploration and production (E&P) activities, which draw in capital, create jobs, and boost revenue. In many African...
UN Drug Office Warns that Global Drug Crisis Will Intensify
Inter Press Service
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June 27, 2025
Crime & Justice, Economy & Trade, Education, Environment, Global, Headlines, Health, Humanitarian Emergencies, TerraViva United Nations Ghada Waly, the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime addresses the high-level...
Regime Change, Migration, and Money on the Move: The Two-Way...
Modern Ghana
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It’s one of those overlooked things in global politics—how when a regime falls or shifts in South Asia or Africa, people start moving. Not always in a straight line, and not always just fleeing. Some leave, yes, but some arrive too. And the same...
Education Revolution: Namibian President declares free university tuition
Sunday Independent
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June 27, 2025
Tswelopele Makoe|Published 6 minutes ago 6min “WE have heard your cries, the fees have fallen,” announced Namibian President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah. A mere month into her presidency, the first female president of the sub-Saharan nation made waves...
OPINION: Rising Lion was diplomacy by other means
The Jewish News
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June 27, 2025
Israel’s ‘12-day war’ with Iran may well go down as one of the most successful military operations in modern history. In a short period of time, Israel took control of Iran’s airspace, eviscerated its military and strategic command, defanged much...
John Fetterman Breaks With Democrats To Back Trump’s Bombing Of Iran
Independent Journal Review
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June 27, 2025
The Senate voted largely along party lines Friday evening to block a resolution seeking to prevent President Donald Trump from launching military strikes on Iran absent congressional authorization. Senators voted 47 to 53 against discharging the...
Trump bombs Iran, NYC election shocker, Bezos wedding & casual-dining favorites | Ep. 25
Denison Forum - Texas
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June 26, 2025
On this episode of Culture Brief, we break down the intense 12-day showdown between Israel and Iran—and the U.S. jumping in with surprise bombings with Operation Midnight Hammer (awesome name btw). Plus details on how the ceasefire came together,...
Nuclear Weapons and the Israel-Iran Conflict
American University - Washington D.C.
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Earlier this month, a quickly escalating armed conflict between Israel and Iran deepened. The latest conflict started when Israel launched an attack on Iran’s nuclear and military sites in the early hours of June 13. In response, Iran shot back...
World Bank: Conflict, instability driving extreme poverty in Nigeria and 38 other economies
Nairametrics
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June 27, 2025
The World Bank has raised alarm over the growing impact of conflict and instability on 39 developing economies, including Nigeria, warning that these states are being left behind on key development indicators, with extreme poverty, hunger, and...
Transitioning from autocracy to democracy: The four challenges for Bangladesh
Daily Star
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June 27, 2025
Bangladesh is in a transition phase—from autocracy to democracy. After almost 16 years of a personalistic autocracy, a popular uprising succeeded in deposing the regime in August 2024. The popular hope, in brief, is to establish a democratic...
Israel-US air power forced Iran to choose regime survival over war
The Print
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June 26, 2025
There have been momentous strategic developments in 48 hours beginning at 04:10 am IST, 22 June, in the Israel-Iran war. They began with the US jumping into the fray with a stunning display of its strategic air power, targeting three nuclear...
How a fake astronaut fooled the world, broke women's hearts, and landed in jail
Space.com
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June 27, 2025
On a chill January evening in 1989, members of the Experimental Aircraft Association of Boston gathered for a special event. At 7 p.m., the group's president introduced a guest speaker as a "master of the skies and space." The mystery man marched...
NATO Summit 2025: Major Takeaways, and What Comes Next for the EU
To Vima
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June 26, 2025
Following a landmark NATO summit in The Hague, where member states reached a historic agreement to increase defense spending to 5% of GDP, European Union leaders have gathered in Brussels for a pivotal EU Council meeting expected to define the...
Fiona Hill: The world is going nuclear
Unherd
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June 27, 2025
And just like that, the Iran-Israel war seems to be over. The ceasefire, anticipated by Donald Trump on Tuesday, has held. The financial markets have surged to an all-time high, and oil has settled back down. The world breathes a sigh of relief....
NATO’s 5 percent spending pledge is a threat to people and the planet
Al Jazeera
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June 26, 2025
NATO’s leaders agreed this week to invest 5 percent of their countries’ gross domestic product (GDP) on “core defence requirements as well as defence and security-related spending by 2035”. NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte called it a “quantum...
If Iranian regime collapses or is toppled, 'what's next?'
Responsible Statecraft - Washington D.C.
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June 26, 2025
In a startling turn of events in the Israel-Iran war, six hours after Iran attacked the Al Udeid Air Base— the largest U.S. combat airfield outside of the U.S., and home of the CENTCOM Forward Headquarters — President Donald Trump announced a...
Egypt, South African varsities beat Nigeria at global QS rankings
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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June 26, 2025
For the third year in a row, no Nigerian university has made it to the top 1,000 of the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings, once again excluding all 297 Nigerian universities from the global elite list. Only three institutions,...
Iran n-bomb? More likely
Oman Observer
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June 26, 2025
Israel and the United States have dealt punishing blows to Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. “Operation Rising Lion” and “Operation Midnight Hammer” have been portrayed as precision strikes that will stop the Islamic Republic’s nuclear programme in...
The Legacy of Chavismo’s Ties to Iran
Caracas Chronicles
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June 27, 2025
When el comandante died in 2013, then Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed that Hugo Chávez would one-day return to Earth alongside Jesus Christ and the Hidden Imam (a sacred prophet of Shia Islam) to spread peace, justice and perfection...