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US military in Shannon Airport: 'I realise the futility of it, but what else can I do?'
Irish Examiner
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September 6, 2025
“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake” — James Joyce, Ulysses.Martin Roper arrived in New York on September 10, 2001. A Fulbright scholar, he had left Dublin seven years earlier to study at the prestigious Iowa University in the...
CBI Donates $69m for Revitalisation of Al-Rasheed Street
Iraq Business News
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August 26, 2025
By John Lee. The Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) has announced details of its urban development initiatives for Baghdad's heritage areas, including a donation of more than 90 billion Iraqi dinars [$90 million] to revive Al-Rasheed Street, one of the...
Vets Rock
Fort Worth Weekly - Texas
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September 3, 2025
If he weren’t already well-known as one of Fort Worth’s best frontmen for his work with indie-rockers Cut Throat Finches, Sean Russell might have a high profile based on his compassionate activism. Lately, Russell has shown this with efforts to...
Australia's 'secret' deportation deal with Nauru to cost taxpayers $2.5billion
Daily Mail
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September 3, 2025
By AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: 11:05 EDT, 3 September 2025 | Updated: 11:05 EDT, 3 September 2025 Australian taxpayers will be slugged $2.5 billion over 30 years to deport hundreds of former immigration detainees to Nauru under a...
The Most Powerful Tank in the Middle East: Turkey Begins License Production of South Korean K2s
Military Watch
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September 6, 2025
Following several years of delays, the license serial production of South Korean K2 main battle tanks in Turkey, and specifically the heavily customised local Altay variant,officially commenced on September 5. Produced by the local automobile...
When a CIA agent recruited a Sufi mystic to spy
The Print
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September 3, 2025
Hunkered down at a freezing mountain outpost on a wind-blasted ridge in northeastern Iraq, Tom Sylvester had recruited a Sufi sheikh and his tribe of flesh-piercing mystics to help America spy on Saddam. For once, at long last, the CIA had...
NCCAL launches 8th Arab Children’s Theater Festival
Kuwait Times
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September 3, 2025
KUWAIT: The National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters (NCCAL) inaugurated the 8th Arab Children’s Theater Festival on Monday with a special opening show titled “Stop”, featuring glimpses of international tales and iconic stories that have...
Israel launches new brazen assault on Syria amid escalating attacks
5Pillars
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August 29, 2025
Israeli military violations against Syria intensified on Friday, with warplanes flying over Quneitra and Daraa provinces and ground forces advancing deeper into Syrian territory, fuelling widespread alarm over the shadowy “Greater Israel” agenda....
Syria Kurds say they thwarted escape bid from camp for IS families
Yahoo News
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Syrian Kurdish forces said Wednesday they thwarted an escape attempt by more than 50 inmates of Al-Hol camp, which holds people suspected of ties to the Islamic State (IS) group. Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria have run camps hosting...
HRC elections 2025: As civil society demands an effective and responsive Council, candidates share their pledges
International Service for Human Rights
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September 5, 2025
On 4 September, State candidates to the Human Rights Council (HRC) joined an online event during which they were asked to outline their commitments and plans, should they be elected. Of 14 candidates, 9 were represented at the event: Chile,...
Why The US Navy Shot Down A Passenger Jet
Grunge
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September 2, 2025
On July 3, 1988, during the waning days of the Iran-Iraq war, the U.S. Navy cruiser Vincennes was patrolling the Persian Gulf to protect shipping when it fired on an Iranian aircraft. As immediately became clear, the plane that the Vincennes had...
Gaza’s squandered opportunities
The Spectator Australia
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September 6, 2025
In 2005 the people of Gaza had a great opportunity for a new future filled with hope and potential. Israel, which had been occupying the strip for 38 years, withdrew, thereby allowing the people of Gaza to govern themselves. But they blew it. The...
Why Trump Wants US Department Of Defence Known As The ‘Department of War’ Again
News18
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September 6, 2025
Last Updated:September 06, 2025, 13:13 IST Arguing that ‘defence’ sounds weak, US President Donald Trump wants to bring back the title America used until 1947: the Department of War Donald Trump has signed an executive order rebranding the...
The US Is Looking to Merge Two Failed Wars in Latin America, the War on Drugs and the War on Terror
naked capitalism
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September 5, 2025
“All-out war in Venezuela cannot be ruled out”, warns Jeffrey Sachs. “Anything is possible because this is a long-standing operation.” In 2014, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) declared Latin America and the Caribbean a...
Romance in stone and song: Cave Café enchants Al-Sulaymaniyah
Shafaq News
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2025-09-03T18:29:54+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Al-Sulaymaniyah Across Al-Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, where rugged mountains cradle caves that carry centuries of memory, a new venture is turning this...
What we learned from Hurricane Katrina
Baptist News Global
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August 29, 2025
“We weren’t refugees. We were Americans. But to the world, we were treated like we didn’t belong.” — Ricky Fountain, Katrina survivor now living in Arkansas Twenty years ago today, Hurricane Katrina did more than flood a city; it revealed...
The United States’ Shift to a “Department of War”: Trump’s Bold Move and Its Global Implications
Alexa.ng
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Introduction: A Historic Rebranding of American Military Power On September 5, 2025, the United States witnessed a seismic shift in its military nomenclature and, potentially, its strategic posture, as President Donald Trump signed an executive...
The Rulers of Eswatini Are Donald Trump’s Eager Accomplices
Jacobin
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September 5, 2025
On July 16, the US Department of Homeland Security’s assistant secretary for public affairs, Tricia McLaughlin, announced that a third-country deportation flight had landed in Eswatini, a small kingdom in southern Africa. The flight contained five...
Led Zeppelin, philosophy and punked-up Hollywood at Dubai Fashion Week
The National News
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Blink and you would have missed it. That's how short the show by Lebanese designer Lama Jouni was at Dubai Fashion Week, which concludes this weekend. To the pounding guitar of Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love, Jouni sent out her models in pairs,...
Historic al Nuri mosque reopens eight years after it was destroyed by IS
Sky News
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September 1, 2025
The historic al Nuri mosque has been reopened in the heart of Mosul's Old City in Iraq, eight years after it was destroyed by Islamic State (IS) militants. The mosque was where then-IS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi declared the so-called "caliphate"...