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Previously, Zelensky acknowledged that there are no simple solutions to the crisis. On Wednesday, the Norwegian government announced that it will provide 5 billion Norwegian kroner (US$495 million) of military support to Ukraine. RELATED: Putin-Witkoff Meeting Ends With No Compromise Plan For Ukraine The new military support packages, under the “Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List” initiative, […]

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China’s average life expectancy hit a record 79 years in 2024, edging closer to developed-nation levels as the country grapples with a deepening demographic crisis and scrambles to improve aged-care resources. In discussing the all-time high, which broke the 2023 record of 78.6 years, National Health Commission (NHC) head Lei Haichao reiterated on Monday that the country’s newborns should be expected to live an average of 80 years by 2030 – a key metric in President Xi Jinping’s “Healthy China”...

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Defend our Juries have been crunching the numbers on the Lift The Ban November wave of Action. They say it will go down in history as the most widespread act of civil disobedience of our time. Here’s a bit of a breakdown from them: 650+ arrests In November, we have seen more than 650 arrests […]

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Green party joint deputy leader Mothin Ali will visit the ‘Filton 24’ hunger-striking political prisoners today. Amu Gib and Qesser Zuhrah have been held in Bronzefield prison for more than a year without trial after being accused of direct anti-genocide action against privately-owned spy planes at RAF Brize Norton last year. Ali will visit Zuhrah […]

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Sham Murad I first read Paulo Freire’s ‘Pedagogy of the Oppressed’ long before I ever consciously entered the Islamic intellectual tradition, at a time when I was still trying to make sense of the world as an Iraqi asylum seeker growing up in the UK, navigating classrooms, languages, and the quiet dislocations that come with […]

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Genocide denial is needed for continuing to appropriate billions of dollars in weapons to Israel, as most legislators have kept doing. #WorldBEYONDWar

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Diplomat Lin says U.S. actions violate the United Nations Charter. On Wednesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said Beijing “opposes any action that violates the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter or undermines the sovereignty and security of other countries.” RELATED: Russia and China to Block ‘Criminal Regimes’ From Reemerging in Europe […]

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China has carried out extensive upgrades to its surveillance and electronic warfare systems across its Spratly Islands outposts to improve its intelligence gathering in the South China Sea, according to an American think tank. The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative under the Washington-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) said in a report on Tuesday that satellite images revealed new and upgraded radar sites, antenna fields and other reinforced electronic warfare...

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In a new sign of the widening circle of international isolation facing Israel, Hebrew Channel 12 revealed that Guinness World Records has decided to stop accepting any Israeli applications and to freeze all dealings with Israel. The channel reported that an Israeli association working in the field of organ donation had submitted an application to […]

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Nicholas Buccola is a historian of the United States who will still be read 30-40-50 years from now.  I regret that I will not be here to see where he takes us.  In 2019 he published The Fire is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate Over Race in America.  This […]

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American social media have revealed that scores of former Israeli soldiers work for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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