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The Rulers of the Nuclear Powers are Slow Learners
Although 81 years have passed since the atomic bombing of Japan in August 1945, the rulers of major nations continue their reckless march toward a nuclear holocaust. By Lawrence S. Wittner The nine nuclear powers (the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France, Israel, India, Pakistan, and North Korea), possessing some 12,100 nuclear warheads, are all…
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The blind spot: Peri, meno and postmenopause adrift in Quebec
How half of the adult population goes through half of their lives —from the age of forty— within a process that their own physicians were not trained to see. Let us remember the obvious: more than half of adults are women. All women. By Claudia Aranda, Montréal, Quebec It started with a cream. What I…
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Després de Ceuta: pels drets de les persones migrants, contra totes les formes de racisme i per la protecció de la democràcia davant la manipulació dels fets per part dels governs
LDH (França), ARCI (Itàlia) i NOVACT (Espanya) publiquen aquest comunicat conjunt arran dels esdeveniments de Ceuta per defensar els drets de les persones migrants, denunciar la manipulació dels fets amb finalitats polítiques i alertar sobre els riscos que això representa per al debat democràtic i l’estat de dret. Demà, els ministres de l’Interior dels…
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Fuel and Coarse Rice Push Up Inflation
By Asif Showkat Kallol (Dhaka Bureau) Bangladesh’s inflationary pressure remained elevated in the final quarter of fiscal year 2025-26 (April-June), with average headline inflation rising to 9.21%, up from around 8.8% in the previous quarter, driven mainly by higher fuel prices, rising vegetable costs and increased spending on transport and communication services. According to Bangladesh…
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Tanvir A. Mishuk Signals Return to Help Rebuild Bangladesh’s Fintech Sector
Image created with the support of ai By Asif Showkat Kallol (Dhaka Bureau) Tanvir A. Mishuk, founder and former Managing Director of Nagad- one of Bangladesh’s most prominent and debated Mobile Financial Service (MFS) providers- has expressed his intent to return to Bangladesh after two years abroad. In a social media statement, Mishuk announced that…
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30th Anniversary of the ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Illegality of Nuclear Weapons under International Law: Appeal to the German Government and the Parliament: Nuclear Disarmament Must Not Remain an Empty Promise!
Appeal and Press release Exactly thirty years ago – on 8 July 1996 – the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a landmark advisory opinion. Its key finding: the threat or use of nuclear weapons generally violates the rules of international humanitarian law. ‘The destructive power of nuclear weapons cannot be contained in either space…
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New Dreams at the Asian Games: How Realistic is Bangladesh’s Target in 26 Disciplines?
By Maksuda Lisa (Dhaka Bureau) The Asian Games is the largest sporting event on the continent. Organized every four years by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), it is often dubbed the ‘Asian Olympics.’ Serving as a grand gathering for elite athletes from the world’s largest continent, almost all Asian nations participate. Beyond the Olympic…
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France’s Planned Deportation Of A Russian-Friendly Pundit Is Purely Political
Critical views about French policy towards the Ukrainian Conflict have been de facto criminalized. France ordered the deportation of Xenia Fedorova, the former head of RT France who’s lived in the country for nearly a decade and regularly shares Russian-friendly viewpoints on French media platforms, on the alleged grounds that her opinions are actually disinformation…
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China’s Sun: Between Record and Reality
China has just completed the largest superconducting magnet ever built for a fusion reactor and is preparing a machine that will attempt to generate electricity by 2030. But it has not ignited a star, it does not yet have an unlimited energy power plant, and not all the records announced measure the same thing. This…
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Esequibo II – Part I: The Territory That Returned to the Center of the Geopolitical Chessboard
“Oil, empires, and the border that no longer fits on a map, and turned a forgotten frontier into the planet’s new energy chessboard.” “When a border begins to produce oil, it ceases to be a legal line and becomes a test of strength. The Esequibo no longer belongs only to the colonial past. It belongs…