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Nov 25, 2025
As the head of Pakistan's military broadens his authority, the threat of dictatorship looms. Indeed, the country's history has seen a string of army takeovers. Why is it so hard to break the cycle?
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Nov 25, 2025
A series of negotiations involving Russia, Ukraine, the US, and European powers have brought Russia and Ukraine closer, but peace remains elusive.
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Nov 25, 2025
In addition to providing food, the sites have created opportunities for locals across the generational spectrum to interact with one another.
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Nov 24, 2025
President Trump's Gaza peace plan requires Hamas to lay down its arms. The militant Islamic group is refusing to do so. Can the peace process survive?
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Nov 24, 2025
While Europe has made progress on ending its dependence on Russian energy, the bloc is still impeded by gas needs and foot-dragging member states.
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Nov 24, 2025
From Nepal to Peru and from Madagascar to Morocco, Generation Z-led protests have rocked governments. The revolution has brushstrokes of youth, from the use of a gaming platform to organize it to a ubiquitous symbol - a Jolly Roger flag. Perhaps most extraordinary about the Gen Z protests: their interconnection. A global generation has spawned a global movement.
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Nov 22, 2025
U.S. comments about taking out Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro are kicking up complicated memories of a decades-old, U.S.-backed coup in Chile.
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Nov 21, 2025
Tens of thousands fled the Sudanese city of El Fasher after it fell to a paramilitary group, leaving many families hungry and separated.
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Nov 20, 2025
Donald Trump is moving to reshuffle U.S. Middle East alliances, giving pride of place to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, not Israel.
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Nov 20, 2025
The winds of reunification are blowing more strongly in Northern Ireland. Traditionally unionist Protestants are starting to look toward the republic, too.
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Nov 20, 2025
The cause of a unified Ireland has more political oomph in the Irish Republic than its had in years. But how realistic is reunification practically?
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Nov 19, 2025
The Trump administration helped stem fighting between Thailand and Cambodia, in part by making trade negotiations contingent on peace. Now the ceasefire is falling apart - and possibly pushing Bangkok closer to China.
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Nov 19, 2025
The U.S. war on drugs has always entailed a degree of pressure. The Trump administration's strikes on suspected drug-smuggling boats charts a new course of noncooperation.
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Nov 19, 2025
Hundreds of athletes from lower-income families in the Washington area are becoming part of competitive, no-fee teams, thanks to Open Goal Project.
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Nov 19, 2025
Hundreds of athletes from lower-income families in the Washington area are becoming part of competitive, no-fee teams, thanks to Open Goal Project.
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Nov 18, 2025
Despite Israel's war in Gaza, its economy grew, due mostly to its strong tech sector. But calls to boycott Israel over the conduct of the war appear to have hit some exports. Will that rage subside if the ceasefire holds?
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Nov 18, 2025
Views on whether girls should marry before age 18 have radically shifted in Bolivia. But the cultural norms and attitudes that drive the practice remain.
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Nov 18, 2025
Views on whether girls should marry before age 18 have radically shifted in Bolivia. But the cultural norms and attitudes that drive the practice remain.
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Nov 17, 2025
Japan and China are facing off in an angry spat over the status of Taiwan - part of China for Beijing, an independent and friendly state for Tokyo.
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Nov 17, 2025
Gazan music teacher Ahmed Abu Amsha uses melodies both to help his students forget the war around them, and to memorialize the conflict.
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Nov 16, 2025
The presence of the USS Gerald R. Ford on Sunday raises questions about what the new influx of troops and weaponry could signal next.
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Nov 15, 2025
Agents were seen making arrests on Saturday. Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin says the move aims to ensure public safety, while local officials say they cause unnecessary fear.
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Nov 14, 2025
The ouster last year of President Bashar al-Assad raised hopes of a diplomatic reset with Israel, whom many on Syria's Golan Heights saw as a pragmatic neighbor. Instead, they've faced mysterious Israeli detentions and expanded occupation.
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Nov 14, 2025
Worries about crime, blamed on immigrants, are likely to put a far-right candidate ahead of his rivals in Chile's presidential elections Sunday.
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Nov 13, 2025
While President Trump decries climate change as a "con," China's Xi Jinping is going all-in on green tech. The latter approach is providing some hope as the COP30 climate conference gathers in Brazil.
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Nov 13, 2025
Former soccer player Hidaa Ahmad Ghaddar is fighting gang violence in her hometown, Kano, Nigeria, by getting boys off the streets and onto the pitch.
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Nov 12, 2025
Russia has been conspicuously bringing new types of missiles, torpedoes, and submarines online. Experts say the fanfare is all about Donald Trump's "Golden Dome."
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Nov 12, 2025
Ukraine has kept Russia at bay through more than 3 1/2 years of war. But stepped-up Russian strikes against cities and relentless advances in battle are proving a challenge for exhausted civilians and soldiers alike.
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Nov 12, 2025
Since mid-2024, urban young people across India have been connecting tribal Bakarwal kids to training in digital animation, coding, and web design.
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Nov 10, 2025
Donald Trump frames militant insurgencies in Nigeria as targeted campaigns against the country's Christians. The true situation is more complex.
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Nov 09, 2025
When noncitizen veterans make bad choices after their time in the military, they serve prison sentences and then face deportation. Is that fair?
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Nov 07, 2025
As Hamas maneuvers in advance of post-war governance arrangements in Gaza, the Islamist group is seeking common ground with former rivals.
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Nov 07, 2025
The Indianapolis Colts play the Atlanta Falcons Sunday in Berlin. Fans have flown in from as far away as Brazil, showing how big U.S. football is now.
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Nov 07, 2025
Thirty years after it scrapped racial segregation, South Africa seeks to recover a founding story that inspired ideas of liberation and freedom.
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Nov 06, 2025
"The strong do as they can, and the weak suffer what they must." Ancient Athens' foreign policy dictum finds an echo in President Trump's behavior.
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Nov 05, 2025
Deep in rural China, a Monitor writer learns to cook authentic handmade noodles, gaining a new understanding of country life in the process.
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Nov 05, 2025
The fall of El Fasher in western Sudan to a paramilitary force underscores the difficulties of ending the country's devastating civil war.
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Nov 05, 2025
Community radio stations in northern Mali are threatened by both jihadis and government censorship. But local journalists fight to keep them alive.
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Nov 04, 2025
Ukraine's prewar "Defending Ukraine" course featured marching and wooden guns. The new curriculum includes hands-on work with first aid, radios, and drones.
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Nov 03, 2025
Israel has long prided itself on "going it alone" in a region largely hostile to its existence. But as nations seek an international force to preserve the fragile Gaza ceasefire, Israelis are grappling with the notion of trusting their security to others.
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Nov 03, 2025
Rising sea levels are eroding Senegal's shorelines, leaving communities and the country's government scrambling to cope with the implications.
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Nov 03, 2025
Sara Almabruk is strategizing how to save Mediterranean angel sharks, "custodians of the seafloor" whose robust presence can indicate a healthy ecosystem.
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Oct 31, 2025
For many years, women's advocates in France have been frustrated by the absence of consideration of consent within the country's rape and sexual assault laws. That's finally changed, thanks in large part to Gisèle Pelicot.
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Oct 31, 2025
COP30 kicks off in Belém, Brazil, Nov. 10 amid calls for an overhaul of an annual climate conference full of contradictions.
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Oct 30, 2025
This World Series holds extra meaning for Toronto, after nearly a year of U.S.-Canadian diplomatic loggerheads. But it's also just a game.
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Oct 30, 2025
The Trump administration's pursuit of "a new economic Monroe Doctrine," in which the United States extends a hand to the president's ideological soulmates, as was the case in Argentina, is stirring historical suspicions of U.S. motives.
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Oct 30, 2025
President Trump's war on boats in the Caribbean allegedly carrying drugs recalls earlier U.S. regional campaigns, including the Spanish-American War.
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Oct 30, 2025
President Trump's war on boats in the Caribbean allegedly carrying drugs recalls earlier U.S. regional campaigns, including the Spanish-American War.
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Oct 30, 2025
China hopes that its refusal to bow to U.S. trade pressure will persuade Mr. Trump to seek a more conciliatory relationship with his country's main rival.
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Oct 29, 2025
Violations of Gaza's ceasefire highlight challenges facing Hamas until a new Palestinian administration is formed and a security force is deployed.
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Oct 29, 2025
The popular Netflix film "KPop Demon Hunters" is the latest K-pop rage. South Korea has been relying on this cultural export to shore up soft power.
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Oct 28, 2025
Iran quietly voiced support for the Trump ceasefire plan in Gaza, based on its ally Hamas' acceptance of the deal. Analysts say Tehran is trying to change the narrative about its regional posture, painting Israel as the real threat.
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Oct 28, 2025
Every country debates how students should fund higher education. Russia's new plan is to try a Soviet solution: require graduates to do national service.
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Oct 28, 2025
A garbage-dump-turned-park in Lagos is providing room for children to roam free and play.
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Oct 27, 2025
Chinese President Xi Jinping is purging top military and political leaders in a campaign aimed at curbing corruption and removing potential rivals.
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Oct 27, 2025
Chinese President Xi Jinping is purging top military and political leaders in a campaign aimed at curbing corruption and removing potential rivals.
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Oct 27, 2025
Syria's new school year, the first since the fall of the Assad regime, has a revised look at history and increased emphasis on religion. As one teacher notes, a curriculum is more than lessons; it shows how a nation understands itself.
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Oct 27, 2025
Syria's new school year, the first since the fall of the Assad regime, has a revised look at history and increased emphasis on religion. As one teacher notes, a curriculum is more than lessons; it shows how a nation understands itself.
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Oct 27, 2025
As China and Russia try to weaken NATO nations through cyberattacks, the alliance is responding with plans for better coordination - including for counterattack.
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Oct 26, 2025
Prosecutors have taken two suspects into custody a week after a heist at the world's most visited museum shocked Paris.
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Oct 25, 2025
President Nicolás Maduro claims Washington is starting a "new eternal war" as aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford moves closer to Venezuela.
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Oct 24, 2025
Argentina votes Sunday in midterm legislative elections that serve as a report card for President Javier Milei's economic policies. He tamed inflation, but now the economy is stalled, many are worse off, and corruption is an issue.
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Oct 23, 2025
As Ivory Coast's Oct. 25 presidential election approaches, many young people here say they are cynical about the possibility of political change.
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Oct 23, 2025
The daylight robbery of jewelry from the Louvre has shocked residents and tourists in Paris. But it has stirred up their imaginations as well.
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Oct 23, 2025
U.S. sanctions on Russia's largest oil companies place new pressure on President Vladimir Putin. But, evidenced by President Donald Trump's frequently shifting positions, it's still unclear where he will land on how to end the war in Ukraine.
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Oct 22, 2025
Many Venezuelans support U.S. military strikes against drug trafficking, hoping they could topple President Nicolás Maduro.
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Oct 22, 2025
The world's second-largest economy is deciding its economic strategy for the next five years, a decision with high global stakes.
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Oct 22, 2025
Pakistan says the Taliban should stop a militant group that is attacking from Afghanistan. The tension erupted into conflict, now eased by a ceasefire.
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Oct 22, 2025
Pakistan says the Taliban should stop a militant group that is attacking from Afghanistan. The tension erupted into conflict, now eased by a ceasefire.
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Oct 21, 2025
Individual Israelis and professional organizations are feeling increasingly isolated globally as the world focuses on Palestinian suffering in Gaza. But do boycotts of academic and artistic institutions further the cause of peace?
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Oct 21, 2025
When Donald Trump hiked the cost of H-1B visas, Indian professionals looked to be the hardest hit. But India may also be the beneficiary of the new pool of job seekers.
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Oct 20, 2025
Ukraine is facing a third winter at war, and Russia is targeting energy infrastructure like never before - an apparent bid to weaken morale. But war has taught the Ukrainians how to keep the lights on under almost any circumstance.
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Oct 20, 2025
As immigrants from Muslim nations go north, Denmark and Sweden wrestle with how, or whether, to be a haven for those who are war-weary and vulnerable.
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Oct 19, 2025
Israel has launched a new wave of strikes into Gaza and said that aid to the territory will be halted following an alleged Hamas ceasefire violation. Hamas denied responsibility.
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Oct 19, 2025
With tourists already inside, police say thieves entered a museum window, smashed display cases, and fled with nine pieces from Napoleon's jewel collection, all in seven minutes.
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Oct 17, 2025
For the first time since Bolivia elected an Indigenous leader to office in 2005, the party he founded did not make it to the ballot. But in many ways, it shows how far Indigenous rights have come in 20 years.
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Oct 17, 2025
The new French government has survived two parliamentary votes of no confidence, but the battle for approval of next year's budget has only just begun.
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Oct 16, 2025
After two years underground, Hamas is demonstrating its control over Gaza by cracking down on rival militias and gangs.
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Oct 16, 2025
President Donald Trump appears to have drawn a lesson from the Hamas-Israel ceasefire: Peace requires leaning heavily on the combatants. Now, he's applying that to Ukraine.
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Oct 16, 2025
The next stage of the Trump peace plan for Gaza requires Hamas to pass security responsibility to an international force. Will Turkey take the role?
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Oct 16, 2025
The next stage of the Trump peace plan for Gaza requires Hamas to pass security responsibility to an international force. Will Turkey take the role?
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Oct 16, 2025
Because of the work of Jayshree Vencatesan, the Pallikaranai marsh is quietly reclaiming its place in Chennai's ecological life.
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Oct 15, 2025
The United States and Canada's pact to build out tungsten mining in Yukon might prove influential in mending the two country's rocky relationship.
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Oct 14, 2025
Knowing the threat Russia poses, all of Estonian society contributes to national defense - including the women who join its volunteer reservist forces.
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Oct 14, 2025
Having barred her major rivals from the polls, Tanzania's current president will run virtually unopposed in the Oct. 29 general election.
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Oct 13, 2025
The long-awaited day that saw the return of surviving Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners gave an early indication of the tough challenges awaiting Donald Trump's Gaza plan. On a whirlwind trip to Israel, the U.S. president said the time for peace is now.
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Oct 13, 2025
Israelis celebrated the return of the last surviving hostages from Gaza - a defining exchange in the fragile ceasefire that has paused two years of war between Israel and Hamas. Palestinian prisoners were released by Israel as part of the ceasefire deal as well.
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Oct 13, 2025
Israelis celebrated the return of the last surviving hostages from Gaza — a defining exchange in the fragile ceasefire that has paused two years of war between Israel and Hamas. Palestinian prisoners were released by Israel as part of the ceasefire deal as well.
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Oct 12, 2025
An opposition lawmaker said Madagascar's president had fled the country after warning of an attempt to "seize power illegally."
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Oct 12, 2025
After soldiers joined youth-led protests, Madagascar's president warned of an attempt to "seize power illegally."
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Oct 10, 2025
European welfare states are finding it increasingly hard to maintain high social spending in the face of pressure to boost their defense readiness.
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Oct 10, 2025
Peru's Congress voted early Oct. 10 to remove deeply unpopular President Dina Boluarte from office. This was their ninth attempt at removing her since 2022.
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Oct 09, 2025
As Israel and Hamas finalize the first phase of the Gaza peace plan, many in the region are focused on what can go wrong. Even so, joy is enveloping many Israelis and Palestinians eager for emotional and physical relief.
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Oct 09, 2025
Women have just become head of the Church of England and Japan's next prime minister. Partisan battles over feminism will not change the direction of travel.
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Oct 09, 2025
Agreement by the two warring parties in Gaza after months of tense negotiations and near-deals brought widespread relief, raising hopes that a war that was sparked by Hamas' deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack will finally be brought to a close.
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Oct 08, 2025
Despite Ukraine being outgunned and out-resourced by a far larger enemy, the increasing dependence on drones by both sides has largely leveled the battlefield. As Russian forces press forward, Ukraine's drone operators are exacting a high price.
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Oct 08, 2025
In a first, China has set an absolute target for cutting emissions. Its pledge also covers greenhouse gas emissions and economic sectors.
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Oct 07, 2025
In Gaza, which experienced tremendous loss from the war, and in the West Bank, facing settler violence and military restrictions, distrust of Israel and the U.S. runs deep. Many Palestinians say the Trump plan will not bring peace.
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Oct 07, 2025
Thomas House fulfills a pressing need for human connection as South Korean society ages and increasingly faces an isolation crisis.
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