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What Do We Know About Sudan's Shifting Battlefield?
What Do We Know About Sudan's Shifting Battlefield?

The war in Sudan has reached a critical phase that threatens to permanently fracture a country already devastated by displacement, famine, and disease. What began more than two years ago as a power struggle between the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has escalated into a brutal fight for territorial control, with the ...

Politico: White House Orders Agencies to Ready Mass Firings in Looming Shutdown
Politico: White House Orders Agencies to Ready Mass Firings in Looming Shutdown

The White House has told US federal agencies to prepare for more mass firings during a possible government shutdown next week, according to a memo first published by US news outlet Politico. The memo by the Office of Management and Budget indicated that President Donald Trump's administration would go beyond the usual practice of temporary ...

The Whistling Voices of the High Atlas
VideosThe Whistling Voices of the High Atlas

In Morocco's High Atlas Mountains, shepherds Hammou Amraoui and his son hardly need words to speak. Across peaks, they whistle at each other in a century-old language, now jeopardized by rural flight. "The whistle language is our telephone," joked Hammou, 59, the elder of a family known for the tradition in Imzerri, a hamlet in the ...

Seoul Warns North Korea Holds Enough Uranium for Dozens of Nuclear Bombs
Seoul Warns North Korea Holds Enough Uranium for Dozens of Nuclear Bombs

North Korea is believed to possess up to two tonnes of highly enriched uranium, South Korea's unification minister said Thursday. The North has long been known to hold a "significant" amount of highly enriched uranium, the key material used to produce nuclear warheads, according to South Korea's defense ministry. But in a rare public ...

Netanyahu Rejects Palestinian Statehood as He Heads to UN and Trump Meeting
Netanyahu Rejects Palestinian Statehood as He Heads to UN and Trump Meeting

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced leaders who had recognized a Palestinian state, as he headed to the United States on Thursday for White House talks and an address to the UN General Assembly. His remarks came three days after France led a special summit on the sidelines of the General Assembly, which saw a slew of Western ...

Colostrum: The Newborn’s Most Precious First Milk
ExplainerColostrum: The Newborn’s Most Precious First Milk

Colostrum, a word that carries a trace of mystery, evokes a long-forgotten legacy. It is the very first maternal milk, secreted in the days immediately following birth, before mature milk takes over. Produced in small quantities, this golden fluid is rich in antibodies, enzymes, growth factors, and essential nutrients. Despite its biological ...

French Navy Seizes Nearly 10 Tonnes of Cocaine Worth $600 Million off West Africa
French Navy Seizes Nearly 10 Tonnes of Cocaine Worth $600 Million off West Africa

The French navy has seized nearly 10 tonnes of cocaine worth more than $600 million from a fishing vessel off the coast of West Africa, French authorities said on Thursday. The seizure by two navy ships on Monday followed a tip-off by anti-drug and maritime intelligence authorities and British police, authorities in France's northwestern Atlantic ...

Aalborg Airport Shut for Hours After Drone Sightings Across Denmark
Aalborg Airport Shut for Hours After Drone Sightings Across Denmark

Drones flew over multiple airports across Denmark and caused one of them to close for hours, police said Thursday after a similar incident this week prompted Copenhagen airport to shut. The latest incidents in Danish skies follow similar events in Poland and Romania and the violation by Russian fighter jets of Estonia's airspace, which have ...

The United Nations: A Global Stage Without Teeth
Op-edThe United Nations: A Global Stage Without Teeth

When Donald Trump addressed the UN General Assembly yesterday, his words reignited an old debate: Is the United Nations an effective institution for peace and security, or merely a costly theater where leaders posture? Trump called the UN “obsolete,” echoing his long-standing skepticism about multilateral organizations. But behind the bluster ...

Washington Lifts Broad Sanctions on Syria but Maintains Pressure on Assad Allies
Washington Lifts Broad Sanctions on Syria but Maintains Pressure on Assad Allies

The US Department of the Treasury has announced a sweeping overhaul of its sanctions' regime targeting Syria. In a statement released Wednesday, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced the publication of a final rule amending the regulations on sanctions related to Syria. This update, which implements two presidential executive ...

Venezuela: Caracas Rocked by 6.3-Magnitude Quake Felt Over 600 km Away
Venezuela: Caracas Rocked by 6.3-Magnitude Quake Felt Over 600 km Away

A 6.3-magnitude quake shook northwestern Venezuela late Wednesday, following a slightly smaller tremor in the area, the US Geological Survey reported. The epicenter of the quake was at a depth of 14 kilometers (8.7 miles), 27 kilometers from Mene Grande, an oil town in a sparsely populated area of the state of Zulia. The most recent earthquake ...

The UN: Paralyzed and Powerless
EditorialThe UN: Paralyzed and Powerless

This week, heads of state are taking the stage at the United Nations General Assembly. The routine is familiar: solemn speeches, pledges for peace, calls for multilateralism. Yet behind the diplomatic pomp and cameras focused on New York, everyone knows the real negotiations are happening elsewhere – in hushed corridors and behind closed ...