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People in this city want the boats to stop. But they haven’t met Rishan
WAtoday
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August 24, 2025
Save Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Got it Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size Dover: The bus driver has a simple answer when asked what he thinks about the asylum seekers...
Solar, Swaps, & Startups: Africa’s Unique Path To Electric Transport
CleanTechnica
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August 15, 2025
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Africa’s transport landscape starts from a very different baseline than the regions leading the global electric vehicle transition. Vehicle ownership per capita is low in...
UAE: Moon For Rabi Al Awwal Not Spotted 3-Day Weekend For Prophet's Birthday?
MENAFN
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August 24, 2025
(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) The crescent for Rabi Al Awwal was not spotted in the UAE on Saturday, August 23, the UAE's astronomy centre announced on Sunday, August 24. This indicates that the new Islamic month will begin on Monday, August 25, as...
UN Experts: ISIS Extremists Exploit Instability in Africa and Syria
Asharq Al-Awsat
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August 21, 2025
ISIS extremists are exploiting instability in Africa and Syria and remain a significant threat in Afghanistan, Central Asia and Europe, UN counterterrorism experts said Wednesday. The militant group is now using advanced technologies, including...
250,000 Ethiopians migrate every year: what drives them and what needs to change
The Conversation
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August 24, 2025
Migration is increasingly replacing the traditional, education-focused life paths that shaped previous generations in Ethiopia. In the past, becoming a civil servant after completing secondary and tertiary education was seen as both socially...
Myanmar’s Civil War
The Nation
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August 23, 2025
Four years into Myanmar’s civil war, the numbers alone tell a devastating story: 82,000 lives lost, 3.2 million displaced, and a central government that controls perhaps a fifth of its territory. The rest of the country has fractured into enclaves...
Kudos to DSS, NSA for Capturing Key Ansaru Leaders, But…
The Will
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August 23, 2025
August 24, (THEWILL) — The recent capture of two senior leaders of the Ansaru terrorist group by Nigerian security forces marks a significant victory in the nation’s long-standing battle against terrorism. Announced on August 16 by the National...
Islamic State extremists exploit instability in Africa, Syria: UN experts
The Siasat Daily
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August 21, 2025
United Nations: Islamic State extremists are exploiting instability in Africa and Syria and remain a significant threat in Afghanistan, Central Asia and Europe, UN counterterrorism experts have said. The militant group is now using advanced...
The CIA, Mossad, and Epstein: Unraveling the Intelligence Ties of The Maxwell Family
MintPress News
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August 22, 2025
With speculation mounting that Trump could pardon her, MintPress profiles the family of convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. From her media baron father, who acted as a high-level spy for Israel, her sister, working to push Tel Aviv’s...
Wagner Out, Africa Corps In: Russia’s Golden Mask in Mali
McGill International Review
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August 23, 2025
Wagner may have left the stage, but Russia still runs the show. When the mercenary group withdrew from Mali on June 6, 2025, its exit was more cosmetic than strategic. Within days, Russia’s state-backed Africa Corps stepped in. What looked like a...
At 19 I had to flee my country, afraid for my life – without even saying goodbye to my family
The Guardian
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August 20, 2025
For three days, Mohanad had been lost at sea in an overcrowded wooden boat. Travelling across the Mediterranean from Libya to Europe, he and the other passengers had run out of food and water, were running out of fuel, and had mixed their...
Union House inscribed on registry of Arab architectural heritage sites
The National News
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The Union House has been inscribed on the registry of Arab architectural heritage sites, an initiative by the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organisation (Alecso). Built in 1965 and located on Jumeirah Street in Dubai, the...
China, Poland, and Germany remain Ukraine’s largest trading partners in 2025
The Odessa Journal
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The Experts Club Information and Analytical Center analyzed updated data on Ukraine’s foreign trade for the first half of 2025, based on official customs statistics covering 49 key trading partners worldwide. The study highlights trends that...
Africa Intelligence Brief Comprehensive News Roundup For August 22, 2025
MENAFN
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August 22, 2025
(MENAFN- The Rio Times) Today's Africa Intelligence Brief provides a comprehensive analysis of major developments across the African continent on August 22, 2025 roundup is organized by region (North Africa, East Africa, West Africa, Central...
2,200-year-old, extremely rare Egyptian gold coin found in Jerusalem, depicts queen
Interesting Engineering - New York
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August 23, 2025
During excavations of Givati Parking Lot, the Israel Antiquities Authority discovered a tiny and special gold coin in the soil that belonged to Queen Berenice II, the wife of Egyptian king Ptolemy III. It’s the first gold coin to be found outside...
Voices: ‘Short-term fix to a bigger crisis’: Readers react to Epping asylum hotel ruling
The Independent
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August 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...
The 9 weirdest (and most secretive) futuristic weapons
Science Focus
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August 10, 2025
Hate to break it to you, but warfare’s about to go all Black Mirror. You see, nations aren’t just stockpiling missiles anymore – they’re instead investing in invisible beams, terrifying mind machines and guns that scream. So, forget about boots on...
Blocked By Trump’s Travel Ban, One Iranian Student Wonders If She Will Ever Make It to Harvard
The Harvard Crimson - Massachusetts
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Rozhan Rasti speaks five languages, plays the violin and the santoor, and fills her free time with painting and photography. Like those of the 1,653 other students who chose to join Harvard College’s Class of 2029, her resumé shines — she ranked...
Is public trust in the UN falling? A look at global survey data
Vision of Humanity
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August 20, 2025
Why Has Trust in the UN Fallen? Even if the overall decrease in support for the UN has been relatively small, it still begs the question of why trust has fallen in the past few years. While definitively answering this question would require more...
Leveraging Nuclear Energy Through Small Modular Reactors
Observer Research Foundation
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Civilian nuclear energy carries the potential to deliver on the two critical national pursuits of energy security and economic prosperity. This is premised on two sets of considerations: first, the impact an effective deployment of nuclear energy...