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In the early months of 2025, Iran finds itself gripped by a convergence of deepening crises that are affecting every layer of society. From water shortages in rural areas and widespread electricity blackouts to skyrocketing prices of food and medicine in cities, the country is showing alarming signs of systemic
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The United States is being asked to explain why it appears to be deporting migrants from as far away as Vietnam and Cuba to South Sudan, a chaotic country that’s once again in danger of collapsing into civil war. A US judge ordered Trump administration officials to appear at
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Paris, France – On Saturday, May 17, 2025, an influential international conference convened in Paris, uniting parliamentarians and prominent political figures from a wide array of countries including the United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, Malta, Switzerland, Romania, Portugal, and the Netherlands. The central theme of the gathering was the urgent need for
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Joe Biden’s diagnosis with an aggressive form of prostate cancer has spurred some prominent conservatives to accuse the former president of a cover-up, but oncologists told AFP that screening limitations could very well have left his condition undetected until now. The 82-year-old received the diagnosis last week after he
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Britain is poised to agree the most significant reset of ties with the European Union since Brexit on Monday, seeking closer collaboration on trade and defense to help grow the economy and boost security on the continent. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who backed remaining in the EU, has made a
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Joseph Kariaga and his friends once lived the “gangster life” in Nairobi’s Mathare slum, snatching phones, mugging people and battling police. But when Kariaga's brother was shot dead by police, the young men took stock. “We said, 'We cannot live like this. We are going to
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They arrive at the US border from around the world: Eritrea, Guatemala, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Ghana, Uzbekistan and so many other countries. They come for asylum, insisting they face persecution for their religion, or sexuality or for supporting the wrong politicians. For generations, they had been given the chance to make
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A landmark signal of support for the Iranian people’s long struggle for freedom and democracy, the United States House of Representatives, with a commanding bipartisan majority, has passed H.Res. 166, a resolution that not only expresses support “for the Iranian people’s desires for a democratic, secular, and
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Crouching over a small wood-scrap fire in Sudan’s war-battered Darfur region, Aziza Ismail Idris stirs a pot of watery porridge — the only food her family have had for days. “No organization has come. No water, no food — not even a biscuit for the children,” Idris told AFP, her voice
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Some 52 million people in West and Central Africa will struggle to meet their basic food and nutrition needs in the upcoming lean season, driven by conflict, extreme weather and economic deterioration, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. In the lean season — a period between harvests when food
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The massive power outage that hit the Iberian peninsula on April 28 has reignited a debate in Spain over the country’s plan to phase out its nuclear reactors as it generates more power with renewable energy. As people wait for answers about what caused the historic power cut, which
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Global temperatures were stuck at near-record highs in April, the EU’s climate monitor said on Thursday, extending an unprecedented heat streak and raising questions about how quickly the world might be warming. The extraordinary heat spell was expected to subside as warmer El Niño conditions faded last year, but
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Despite an intense climate of censorship, repression, and restricted access to communication tools, reports from inside Iran indicate that at least 244 protest actions took place across the country in April 2025. These figures, compiled by activists and monitoring groups, reflect only part of a much larger and potentially underreported
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15 Operations Carried Out by Defiant Youth in Tehran and 13 Other Cities in Response to the Horrific Crime in Bandar Abbas In protest against the horrific crime committed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Bandar Abbas—and despite the regime’s heightened security measures—defiant youth carried
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Umm Al-Kheir Bakheit was 13 when she first came to Zamzam Camp in the early 2000s, fleeing the janjaweed, the infamous Arab militias terrorizing Sudan’s Darfur region. She grew up, married and had three children in the camp. Now 31, Bakheit fled Zamzam as the janjaweed’s descendants — a
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The Lebanese army has dismantled “over 90 percent” of Hezbollah’s infrastructure near the border with Israel since a November ceasefire, a security official said Wednesday. “We have dismantled over 90 percent of the infrastructure in the area south of the Litani,” the official, who requested anonymity as the matter