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The irony of OpenAI crying foul over spying

The irony of OpenAI crying foul over spying

Americans can rest easy – for the moment, at least. The fine folks at the Federal Bureau of Investigation have thwarted a major national security...

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Belén Fernández

India’s mass voter purge is hollowing out democracy

India’s mass voter purge is hollowing out democracy

Over the weekend, thousands of protesters demanding the resignation of India’s chief election commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, faced mass detentions and...

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Tanweer Fazal

Malaysia’s welcome for Min Aung Hlaing undermines its stand on justice

Malaysia’s welcome for Min Aung Hlaing undermines its stand on justice

On October 8, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim received Myanmar’s President Min Aung Hlaing in Putrajaya with a guard of honour and an...

yesterday 50

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Aizat Shamsuddin

Restoring nature is key to a more resilient future

Restoring nature is key to a more resilient future

Nature is humanity’s life-support system, but it is being depleted at an alarming rate, leaving our world increasingly vulnerable. From deadly...

previous day 60

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Kirsten Schuijt

Sudan cannot afford to dismiss a chance for dialogue

Sudan cannot afford to dismiss a chance for dialogue

More than three years into the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Sudan is desperately in need of a...

wednesday 70

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Munzoul A M Assal

Two scenarios for the Yemen war

Two scenarios for the Yemen war

The attacks by the Iran-backed Houthis on Saudi Arabia have pushed the war in Yemen to a new level. The targeting of civilian infrastructure,...

wednesday 70

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Abdulsamad Elfgeeh

The ICJ’s Rohingya ruling will test the OIC’s promises

The ICJ’s Rohingya ruling will test the OIC’s promises

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has made Muslim solidarity central to how it presents itself. Nine years ago, Myanmar’s military...

13.10.2026 90

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Kyaw Win

The escalation in Yemen is a turning point

The escalation in Yemen is a turning point

Yemen is witnessing a major military escalation that has once again brought the western coast and the area around the Bab al-Mandeb strait to the...

13.10.2026 70

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Ateq Garallah

Will Ukraine survive the winter?

Will Ukraine survive the winter?

As winter approaches, Russia has lifted its ban on exports of diesel and is preparing to sell hundreds of thousands of tonnes to the United States and...

12.10.2026 60

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Dmitri Trenin

How the ICC can be saved

How the ICC can be saved

The sanctions the United States has imposed on the International Criminal Court threaten to degrade its capacity to function, leaving it to die a slow...

11.10.2026 80

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Sergey Vasiliev

Modi is in trouble

Modi is in trouble

It is said that if you pluck a chicken one feather at a time, nobody notices. That is how some people deceive themselves into believing that small...

11.10.2026 150

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Vidya Krishnan

A year after the ‘ceasefire’, Gaza’s healthcare is still collapsing

A year after the ‘ceasefire’, Gaza’s healthcare is still collapsing

When the “ceasefire” was announced on October 10 last year, we knew how much needed repairing. For the first time in a long while, we thought we...

10.10.2026 80

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Sally Saleh

With or without Hamas

With or without Hamas

As we begin the fourth year of a war that has brought the near-total destruction of Gaza, calls for Hamas to surrender administrative authority and...

10.10.2026 80

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Lorenzo Kamel

Bangladesh’s mango diplomacy with India has reached its limits

Bangladesh’s mango diplomacy with India has reached its limits

For two years, Dhaka has deployed a soft diplomatic arsenal of prized Haribhanga mangoes, hilsa fish, jamdani fabrics, and Tangail sarees to keep its...

09.10.2026 90

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Faisal Mahmud

Why Israel loves skunk water

Why Israel loves skunk water

In the eyes of Israeli authorities, Palestinians in Gaza have it “too good”. Three years into Israel’s genocide, the survivors have been pushed...

08.10.2026 90

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Somdeep Sen

Bosnia’s political future looks increasingly like its past

Bosnia’s political future looks increasingly like its past

The latest general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina, held on October 4, repeated a pattern familiar from most electoral contests over the past...

08.10.2026 70

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Fuad Kovačević

The mass killing does not mean Israel’s winning

The mass killing does not mean Israel’s winning

Three years have passed since Hamas’s attack shook Israel and triggered the ongoing genocidal war. The image of the Israeli army as an invincible...

07.10.2026 80

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Refaat Ibrahim

The UK Greens are wrong – Zionism is not racism

The UK Greens are wrong – Zionism is not racism

No notion has been so cynically exploited and distorted by both its supporters and its detractors as Zionism. Just when you think you have seen enough...

07.10.2026 90

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Yossi Mekelberg

Yes, Zionism is racism

Yes, Zionism is racism

On Sunday, at its annual conference in Brighton, the British Green Party voted to recognise Zionism as racism. The motion, which describes Zionism as...

07.10.2026 80

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Yara Hawari

What would it take for the Yemen offensive to succeed?

What would it take for the Yemen offensive to succeed?

Two days after the announced counter-offensive by the internationally recognised Yemeni government, the operation named Dawn of Yemen has already made...

06.10.2026 200

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Abdulla Banndar Al-Etaibi

India’s ‘million mutinies’ are puncturing Modi’s aura of invincibility

India’s ‘million mutinies’ are puncturing Modi’s aura of invincibility

This October, India is a country where a million mutinies are gathering force. India’s “cockroaches” — supporters of the Cockroach Janta Party...

06.10.2026 90

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Vidya Krishnan

In Gaza, we cannot even begin to recover from trauma

In Gaza, we cannot even begin to recover from trauma

It has been three years of the genocidal horror in Gaza. Three years of death, destruction, despair and doom. More than 74,000 people have been...

06.10.2026 100

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Said Alsaloul

The Republican consensus on Israel is starting to fracture

The Republican Party’s powerful alliance with Israel — repeatedly reaffirmed during President Donald Trump’s second term — is rooted in...

05.10.2026 100

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Said Arikat

WMA members must call for release of detained Palestinian medics

More than 1,700 healthcare workers have been killed during the genocide in Gaza. Israel has detained hundreds more without charges. Doctors, nurses...

05.10.2026 200

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Javid Abdelmoneim

Russia’s nuclear plants are ageing. Who will pay to dismantle them?

The world often discusses the nuclear threat posed by Russia, but far less attention is paid to the nuclear risks within Russia itself, particularly...

04.10.2026 100

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Arshak Makichyan

‘Did he know?’: Why Israel is rejecting an October 7 reckoning

As Israel prepares to mark three years since the October 7 attacks and with less than a month to go to parliamentary elections, one topic is...

04.10.2026 90

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Yoav Litvin

The double standards of a failed execution

Let’s pretend that the Islamic Republic of Iran had undertaken to execute a 50-year-old woman for a crime committed when she was an 18-year-old....

03.10.2026 100

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Belén Fernández

To reclaim its sovereignty, Senegal must approach debt differently

Earlier this month, the International Monetary Fund and Senegal announced a new loan programme worth $2.2bn. This came after a previous deal was...

03.10.2026 250

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Yassine Fall

Washington’s diplomacy in Sudan has backfired

After more than three years, Washington continues to fumble its way through a response to Sudan’s heart-wrenching war. This past week, it may have...

02.10.2026 100

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Cameron Hudson

How can Jordan respond to Israel’s escalation across the West Bank?

It is increasingly difficult to regard what is happening in the West Bank as merely a series of measures that the Israeli government justifies on...

02.10.2026 100

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Samir Habashneh

Will Democrats move beyond rhetoric on Israel’s illegal settlements?

A shift is taking place in Washington. Senate Democrats are moving to sanction individuals and entities involved in Israel’s E1 settlement project,...

01.10.2026 100

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Said Arikat

Botswana at 60 challenges the story of postcolonial African failure

This week, Botswana is marking 60 years of independence from Britain with Diamond Jubilee celebrations across the country. The anniversary underscores...

01.10.2026 100

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Tafi Mhaka

Why Israel is interfering in Palestinian education

The school year started in occupied East Jerusalem with the news that 45,000 Palestinian children are now studying a curriculum put together by the...

30.09.2026 100

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Ehab Jabareen

Can Tajikistan’s economic boom survive its debt gamble?

Tajikistan’s gross domestic product grew by 8.2 percent year on year in the first half of 2026, while fixed-capital investment rose by 18.4 percent....

29.09.2026 70

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Ali Abu Issam

Hormuz and Yemen: Iran offers de-escalation at a price others will pay

It was hardly surprising that Tehran chose the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York as the platform for its latest offer. After nearly...

29.09.2026 50

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Suleiman Al-Aqili

Ireland lost to Israel

For the past few months, Irish Sport for Palestine (ISFP), which I am part of, has been campaigning for Ireland to boycott its football matches...

29.09.2026 100

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Rebecca O’keeffe

Trump made the right decision to reject Iran’s offer

The Strait of Hormuz remains the most perilous choke point on the global map as Iran continues to disrupt traffic by attacking vessels. A recent...

28.09.2026 60

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Adolfo Franco

We need to talk about Bandung

In a world torn apart by geopolitical bullying and geoeconomic warfare, great-power conflict and inequality that concentrates wealth and statecraft in...

28.09.2026 50

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Nabil Ahmed

The longevity boom is getting ahead of the science

Basal human desires never change: to be positively unique, sexually desired, to live in luxury, to be popular, to hold power, and finally, to achieve...

27.09.2026 90

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Omar Shabana

For Libya, the Hormuz crisis can be a trap or an opportunity

Amid the worsening global energy crisis triggered by the US-Israel war on Iran, European countries, desperate for alternative energy supplies, trade...

27.09.2026 50

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Mohamed Eljarh

Ethiopia’s new rebel alliance faces an old problem

The formation of a new armed alliance seeking to remove Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed follows a pattern that has plagued Ethiopia – an empire of many...

26.09.2026 100

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Mohamed Kheir Omer

The intelligence war is turning against the Houthis

The collapse of Yemen’s western front was not primarily the result of sheer Houthi numbers. It resulted from a fused Russian-Iranian command system...

26.09.2026 150

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Nawaf Obaid

One year on, the UK’s recognition of Palestinian statehood is bearing fruit

This week marks one year since the United Kingdom, along with nine other Western countries, recognised the State of Palestine. What shifted was...

26.09.2026 100

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Husam S Zomlot

The Trump-Xi summit exposes a US disadvantage in the Global South

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the United States came with all the choreography: a B-2 flyover, pandas, a Nixon-era toast. But for...

25.09.2026 60

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Wenran Jiang

Switzerland’s neutrality vote is asking the wrong question

On September 27, Switzerland votes on whether to lock a stricter definition of neutrality into its constitution. The initiative would bar Switzerland...

25.09.2026 100

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Abdulla Ibrahim

Liberia is squandering the moral authority it claims at the UN

For the past nine months, Liberia has used its experiences of prolonged armed conflict to serve as a principled voice in United Nations debates about...

24.09.2026 100

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Robtel Neajai Pailey

To the victor belong Venezuela’s spoils: Delcy Rodriguez’s UNGA about-face

Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez took to the stage yesterday at the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York City to deliver...

24.09.2026 100

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Belén Fernández

How and why the UN General Assembly is gaining prominence

As world leaders attend the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week, there is a chorus of criticisms about the...

23.09.2026 90

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Alanna O’malley

Europe’s centrists are finally paying the price of their extremism

Friedrich Merz has been German chancellor for less than a year and half, and his approval ratings are at record lows. His centre-right Christian...

23.09.2026 150

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Yanis Varoufakis

Can the US win the AI cold war with China?

The success of China’s cheap AI technology has clearly worried American AI companies. Industry leaders have openly called on the US government to...

22.09.2026 100

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Yang Xiaotong