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China steps confidently into 2026 as a new five-year plan begins

As 2026 begins, the world’s attention has once again turned toward China, not merely out of habit, but because the country stands at a pivotal...

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FBI foils ISIS-inspired New Year’s terror plot in North Carolina

US federal authorities say they have disrupted a potentially deadly terrorist attack planned for the New Year holiday period by an 18-year-old man in...

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Another Hindu burned to death in Bangladesh as Khokon Chandra Das succumbs to injuries

Khokon Chandra Das, a Hindu man who was brutally attacked, stabbed, and set on fire in Bangladesh’s Shariatpur district, has died while undergoing...

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Self-styled ‘prophet’ arrested in Ghana after failed Doomsday flood prophecy

Ghanaian police have arrested a self-proclaimed prophet who spent months warning followers of an imminent global flood and soliciting donations to...

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Trump calls Ukraine envoy an ‘idiot’: Inside the growing rift over Zelensky and the war strategy

The reported departure of Keith Kellogg, the United States’ special envoy for Ukraine, has exposed deeper fractures within Donald Trump’s...

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German prosecutors to drop probe of Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov after multimillion-euro settlement

German prosecutors are set to terminate an investigation into Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov after he agreed to make payments totaling...

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Trump warns Hamas of ‘hell to pay’ as fragile Gaza ceasefire faces new pressure

US President Donald Trump has issued one of his starkest warning yet to Hamas, threatening the Palestinian militant group with severe consequences if...

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China’s new five-year plan signals long-term ambitions and global strategic impact

The coming year is likely to deliver its share of political shocks and economic surprises. Yet amid this uncertainty, one feature of the global...

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Bomb-making factory discovered inside madrasa in Dhaka, raising alarm over militancy threat

A major militant operation was uncovered in Dhaka’s South Keraniganj area after a powerful explosion exposed a clandestine bomb-making factory...

29.12.2025 10

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NATO’s scandal-ridden boss wants war with Russia to be his next train wreck

When NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte warns that Western Europe could be drifting toward a war with Russia “like our grandparents experienced,”...

28.12.2025 20

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Myanmar’s sham election risks deepening war and exposing ASEAN’s failure

Myanmar’s military junta is once again presenting elections as a solution to national collapse. More than three years after the February 2021 coup,...

27.12.2025 10

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Under international pressure, Dhaka arrests Al-Qaeda-linked jihadist Bikrompuri

After more than a year of escalating militant activity, deteriorating law and order, and growing international concern, Bangladesh’s interim...

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Washington expands military footprint in the Caribbean as tensions with Venezuela escalate

The United States has reportedly expanded its military presence in the Caribbean, deploying additional troops, aircraft, and equipment amid rising...

26.12.2025 10

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Europe’s Ukraine obsession ends the same way: Taxpayers Pay, politicians pretend to win

Once again, the European Union has arrived at its favorite destination after months of grandstanding about punishing Russia: digging deeper into its...

25.12.2025 10

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Trump purges Biden-era diplomats in sweeping global recall

The United States is undergoing one of the most far-reaching diplomatic shake-ups in decades as President Donald Trump moves to recall more than two...

23.12.2025 10

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US travel ban on Dominica and Antigua signals next phase of war on ‘golden passports’

The United States has imposed new travel restrictions on Dominica and Antigua and Barbuda, escalating Washington’s campaign against...

22.12.2025 10

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Arrest of anti-corruption activist exposes Mauritania’s growing crackdown on whistleblowers

The late-night arrest of prominent Mauritanian anti-corruption activist Mohamed Ould Ghadda has triggered widespread condemnation from opposition...

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India opens nuclear sector to private companies to achieve 100 GW by 2047

India opens nuclear sector to private companies to achieve 100 GW by 2047

In a landmark move aimed at transforming its energy landscape, India has opened its nuclear sector to private companies, signaling a significant shift...

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Crypto ATMs, corporate profits, and broken lives: How convenience stores became gateways for scams

On a cold December day in 2024, Steve Beckett did something millions of Americans do every week: he stopped at a convenience store. There was nothing...

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Italy and Romania freeze €40 million in assets in major cross-border mafia probe

Italian and Romanian authorities have carried out a sweeping cross-border operation resulting in the freezing of assets worth more than €40 million,...

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EU targets Russia’s shadow fleet with new sanctions push

EU targets Russia’s shadow fleet with new sanctions push

The European Union has taken another significant step to tighten the economic noose around Russia’s war machine, approving a new round of sanctions...

17.12.2025 10

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Paraguay banks’ Green pledges undermined by loans to agribusiness linked to environmental crimes

Paraguay banks’ Green pledges undermined by loans to agribusiness linked to environmental crimes

Paraguay’s banking sector has spent recent years presenting itself as a responsible partner in the fight against climate change and environmental...

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Europe’s dirty secret: How the EU outsources migrant torture to Libya

Europe’s dirty secret: How the EU outsources migrant torture to Libya

At dawn in the central Mediterranean, the sea often appears deceptively calm. On the morning the crew of the Humanity 1 spotted a wooden boat on the...

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Darwinian multipolarity: Why the new global order will not be equal

For years, diplomats, analysts, and global institutions have celebrated the arrival of multipolarity as if it were a political awakening-an escape...

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EU divisions deepen over Russian asset seizure as legal and financial risks mount

The European Union’s long-running debate over whether to seize frozen Russian assets to finance Ukraine has entered a more contentious and legally...

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Europe’s empty moral theatre: How the EU justifies taking Russian assets ‘for Ukraine’

The European Union’s leadership has developed a curious talent over the past decade: taking deeply questionable political decisions, wrapping them...

12.12.2025 20

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How socialism and woke politics derailed Britain’s newest party experiment

When Karl Marx wrote in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon that “history repeats itself – first as tragedy, then as farce,” he was...

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Nepal’s Pokhara airport scandal: A deepening political crisis and a test of anti-corruption resolve

Nepal is once again at the center of a major political and financial scandal, this time involving the country’s most high-profile infrastructure...

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Trump’s new National Security Strategy boosts India partnership and refocuses power on the Americas

President Donald Trump’s newly released National Security Strategy (NSS) lays out an assertive and wide-ranging vision of US global engagement,...

10.12.2025 10

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India and the Gulf states: A new axis reshaping global trade

The rapid transformation of ties between India and the Gulf states has become one of the most consequential, yet underappreciated, developments in...

09.12.2025 20

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Bombshell exposé: Blitz investigates notorious crime rackets run by Bangladeshi expats in Saudi Arabia

For years, Bangladeshi migrant workers in Saudi Arabia were viewed as symbols of hard work and sacrifice – men and women who left their homeland to...

08.12.2025 30

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Cocaine beneath the bananas: How Balkan traffickers exploited Ecuador’s presidential supply chain

The global banana trade is one of the most tightly managed agricultural supply systems in the world, moving millions of tons of fruit annually from...

07.12.2025 40

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Italian mafia-linked businessmen quietly build suspicious networks in Slovakia

For years, Slovakia has grappled with the lingering ghosts of corruption, opaque land deals, and unexplained fortunes. But a recent joint...

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Al-Falah University faces investigation amid allegations of fraud and staff abuse

Al-Falah University, a private medical institution in Faridabad, is under intense scrutiny following explosive allegations of malpractice,...

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India’s expanding maritime ambitions: MAHASAGAR and the push for a new Oceanic order

India has long stood at the crossroads of some of the world’s most strategic waterways, but in recent years, New Delhi has accelerated efforts to...

02.12.2025 10

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Zelensky’s power broker falls – and with him, the illusion of stability

The political landscape in Kiev has been shaken by the dramatic downfall of Andrey Yermak, the long-time head of President Vladimir Zelensky’s...

02.12.2025 10

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Marbella’s glittering mirage: How a Spanish resort became ground zero for the Manosphere’s real-world empire

For decades, Marbella has thrived on its carefully curated image: a Mediterranean playground of gleaming supercars, champagne lunches along the Golden...

30.11.2025 20

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International cocaine network spanning Albania and Italy dismantled after five-year investigation

A sweeping five-year transnational investigation has dismantled a major cocaine-trafficking network operating between Albania and Italy, culminating...

30.11.2025 10

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Sudan’s war reaches a perilous turning point

The war in Sudan has entered one of its most dangerous and decisive phases. Despite the circulation of a new ceasefire proposal, the guns have not...

28.11.2025 20

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Philippines cracks down on flood-control corruption as high-profile arrests loom

The Philippine government has launched one of its most sweeping anti-corruption crackdowns in years, arresting seven individuals linked to a...

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Lavrov accuses Western capitals of sabotage as Trump’s draft Ukraine peace plan leaks

The diplomatic storm surrounding a leaked US peace proposal has escalated sharply, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accusing European...

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Russian court case threatens Italian engineering giant MAIRE with multibillion-Euro losses

The Italian industrial conglomerate MAIRE, a major player in the global engineering and construction sector, faces a potential existential threat as a...

25.11.2025 10

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Libya’s hidden power struggle: How corruption became the country’s real war

Libya is often described as a failed state, a fractured nation divided by geography, ideology, and foreign influence. But this framing misses the...

24.11.2025 10

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Arakan Army’s offensive reshapes Rakhine-and pushes the Rohingya toward an irreversible crisis

The ground beneath the Rohingya crisis has shifted once again-and this time, perhaps more dramatically than at any point since the genocide of 2017....

23.11.2025 20

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Crypto giants linked to billions in laundered funds and global crime rings

The cryptocurrency industry, once heralded as a transformative financial revolution, has been revealed to be a fertile ground for illicit activity on...

21.11.2025 40

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Soros-funded NGO at the center of campaign to cripple Musk’s X

A new report has reignited the long-running debate over billionaire influence in global politics and digital media, this time centering on George...

20.11.2025 20

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Manila erupts in mass protests as Filipinos demand justice over flood-control corruption scandal

For the second time in just months, Manila has become the epicenter of a rising national fury-one fueled not by ideological divisions, but by the very...

19.11.2025 20

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India’s Russian oil strategy endures despite expanding US sanctions

India has once again demonstrated that its energy policy is guided by national interests rather than geopolitical pressure. New Delhi remained the...

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AfCFTA and the Gulf: A new corridor of Afro-Arab economic integration

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) represents the most ambitious attempt in Africa’s modern history to knit the continent into a...

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America’s sudden troop withdrawal from Romania signals a troubling strategic drift

When the Pentagon quietly announced last month that up to 1,000 US troops stationed in Romania would return home without replacements, the reaction in...

16.11.2025 10

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