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Child Health Advocate Pitches for Age-Appropriate Toys this Christmas
Parents urged to think P.L.A.Y. for developmentally-suited toys. 7 December 2025, Quezon City. Amid the Christmas rush, the EcoWaste Coalition echoed a child health advocate’s timely reminder to parents and godparents to pick non-toxic, age-appropriate toys, as well as to consider experiences as gifts. Speaking at CURA, Dr. Angel Belle Dy, a child development specialist,…
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Putin launches RT India broadcasting
In New Delhi, President Vladimir Putin, alongside Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today, Margarita Simonyan, took part in the launch ceremony of the RT India TV channel. The TV channel will operate from a new studio complex in New Delhi, marking a new dimension in the bilateral media sphere. By Kester Kenn Klomegah Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today,…
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Gen Z and the bankruptcy of “Company-Store Democracy”*: From nitrate tokens to a generational verdict
Across the arid pampas of Tarapacá and Antofagasta, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Chilean nitrate mining camps erected a system of total domination that went far beyond ordinary labor exploitation. Thousands of workers—Chileans, Bolivians, Peruvians, Croatians, Italians—lived in isolated company settlements, surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards, where the English or…
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The Assault on UNRWA: A Dagger to the Heart of the United Nations
In the shadowed streets of Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, Israeli police stormed the UNRWA headquarters on December 8, 2025, lowered the blue United Nations flag, and hoisted the Israeli one—seizing property and cutting off communications. This was no mere raid: it was a symbolic affront to the collective inviolability of 193 nations, a searing reminder…
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What Could The Contours Of A NATO-Russian Non-Aggression Pact Look Like?
Awareness of the threats that NATO poses along these three fronts and the division of labor between the top five states therein – Finland, Sweden, Poland, Romania, and Turkiye – enables Russia to devise the most effective countermeasures and propose the best means for managing future tensions. It was earlier assessed that a NATO-Russian Non-Aggression…
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If Trump Is Serious About Peace, Marco Rubio Has to Go
Donald Trump campaigned on ending endless wars and now boasts that he has resolved eight wars. In reality, this claim is delusional, and his foreign policy is a disaster. The United States remains mired in ongoing wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, and now Trump is careening blindly into new wars in Latin America. The dangerous…
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Message to Washington. India and Russia – Geopolitical Partners
India and Russia have opened a new chapter in their bilateral relations in December 2025, with an official visit of President Vladimir to New Delhi, India. Series of meetings held were create new business opportunities, expand prospects for strengthening economic cooperation. In fact, one of the most significant interaction was President Vladimir Putin and Prime…
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SIPRI and Red Cross convene roundtable on humanitarian action
SIPRI, the Swedish Red Cross Society and the Ukrainian Red Cross Society held a roundtable to discuss the future of principled humanitarian action in an increasingly contested operating environment.
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54 Years after Independence, Birangonas of ’71 are Struggling in Brothels
By Rita Bhowmick (Dhaka Bureau): Many Birangonas (female war heroes/victims) who were subjected to brutal torture by the Pakistani occupying forces and their collaborators (Razakars) during the Great Liberation War could not return to their families. Due to negative societal reactions, their relatives did not accept them normally. Moreover, many tortured women voluntarily hid themselves…
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NATO Bases and the Armed Forces, Except When Serving as UN Blue Helmets, Endanger Our Security
The Casalecchio di Reno Massacre Exactly 35 years ago, on 6 December 1990, an out-of-control Italian Air Force Aermacchi MB-326 crashed into the Salvemini Institute in Casalecchio di Reno (Bologna), killing 12 young people and injuring 88 others, including students and school staff. The aircraft had suffered a failure. After about ten minutes of flight,…