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Hopelessness in Rohingya Refugee Camps Pushes Youth Towards Armed Insurgency
With the prospect of a return to Myanmar still a remote prospect, boys and young men are being pressed to join militant groups and criminal networks.
Published on: August 26, 2025 | Source:
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The Mediterranean: where the EU’s duty to rescue ends
Rescue ships in the Mediterranean are forced into needless detours by Italy’s Piantedosi decree, stripping the sea of lifelines while Brussels stays silent. When even the Ocean Viking comes under fire, Europe’s complicity is laid bare.
Published on: August 26, 2025 | Source:N Korea’s expanding nuclear reach testing China and Russia
A newly exposed North Korean missile base near the Chinese border underscores the former’s expanding nuclear reach and the uneasy fault lines in its ties with Russia, China, and the US. This month, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) released a report confirming the existence of North Korea’s undeclared Sinpung-dong Missile Operating Base, […] The post N Korea’s expanding nuclear reach testing...
Published on: August 26, 2025 | Source:Ships, planes, billions in investment pledges: South Korea's Lee charms Trump with deals
A $150 billion investment pledge from South Korean companies, an order of 103 airplanes from Boeing, as well as a purchase of South Korean ships was announced
Published on: August 26, 2025 | Source:I’m a woman approaching middle age, do I need to get my hormones checked?
Here’s what hormonal changes you might be experiencing as you approach menopause –and what blood tests can and can’t tell you.
Published on: August 26, 2025 | Source:We’re still not measuring our reliance on nature as we rush to boost productivity
A healthy economy relies on healthy natural systems. But at the economic roundtable, this fact was all but absent.
Published on: August 26, 2025 | Source:EU-backed Libyan patrol boat fires hundreds of rounds onto rescue vessel, says NGO
An EU-backed Libyan Coast Guard boat fired hundreds of rounds at a charity vessel damaging onboard rescue speed boats and putting bullet holes in windows on the bridge, says an NGO.
Published on: August 26, 2025 | Source:Diamond-rich Botswana declares national public health emergency
The country is facing a shortage of medical equipment and medicines, President Duma Boko says.
Published on: August 26, 2025 | Source:Australia expels Iranian ambassador over evidence Iran directed antisemitic attacks – video
Prime minister Anthony Albanese tells reporters in Canberra that Iran's ambassador is being expelled from Australia and the country's intelligence agency has evidence that the Iranian government directed at least two antisemitic attacks in the community since 7 October 2023. 'They were attempts to undermine social cohesion and sow discord in our community,' Albanese says. 'It is totally unacceptable, and the Australian...
Published on: August 26, 2025 | Source:Here’s what pausing the National Construction Code means for builders and home buyers
The aim of the pause is to give builders a stable rulebook, so more homes can be approved and built faster.
Published on: August 26, 2025 | Source:Myanmar: Situation Update with Paul Greening
The junta plans its election while turmoil engulfs Thai politics.
Published on: August 26, 2025 | Source:Cambodian Lawmakers Approve Legal Changes Allowing Revocation of Citizenship
Civil society groups say that the change "will have a disastrously chilling effect on the freedom of speech of all Cambodian citizens.”
Published on: August 26, 2025 | Source:Australia says Iran was behind two antisemitic attacks; Iranian ambassador expelled
The government will also legislate to list Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation.
Published on: August 26, 2025 | Source:New Tool Maps the Health Impacts of Toxic Air Pollutants Released With Methane in Super-Emitter Events
On a breezy late summer day in the small Colorado town of Fort Lupton, a massive plume of methane escaped from a hydrocarbon storage tank about 200 feet from an RV park. The leak, the second over four days in September 2023, released enough of the potent climate-warming gas per hour to fit the Environmental […]
Published on: August 26, 2025 | Source:Gaza: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes
Click to expand Image U.S. President Donald Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a joint news conference at the White House in Washington, DC, February 15, 2017. 2017 Reuters (Washington, DC) – US military personnel could face legal liability for assisting Israeli forces who commit war crimes in Gaza, Human Rights Watch said today.Direct participation by US forces in military operations in Gaza...
Published on: August 26, 2025 | Source:Nissan shares fall over 6% as Mercedes-Benz plans to shed its stake in Japanese automaker
Nissan Motor shares tumbled on Tuesday after Mercedes-Benz announced plans to offload its 3.8% holding in the Japanese automaker.
Published on: August 26, 2025 | Source:'They have to give us magnets': Trump warns of 200% tariff on China if exports are curbed
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened 200% tariffs on China if Beijing does not give magnets to the U.S. amid an extended trade truce.
Published on: August 26, 2025 | Source:South Korea's charm offensive and other takeaways from Trump meeting
Ahead of Lee's White House visit, anxieties were bubbling in Seoul that the meeting could turn bitter.
Published on: August 26, 2025 | Source:Where do you stand on development in your neighbourhood? | Fiona Katauskas
There’s more than just two positionsSee more of Fiona Katauskas’s cartoons here Continue reading...
Published on: August 26, 2025 | Source:China: Surgeons conduct pig-to-human lung transplant
The genetically modified pig lung remained functional for nine days inside a brain-dead human patient. Scientists believe xenotransplantation – cross-species transplants – could alleviate the organ shortage crisis.
Published on: August 26, 2025 | Source:From fear to fluency: what our students learned when they used AI across an entire course
As AI becomes part of everyday life, students showed how we can partner with the technology, rather than worry about it taking over jobs.
Published on: August 26, 2025 | Source:Some victim-survivors take their own lives. We need to better understand how suicide and family violence are linked
New research points to ways systems could be improved so we have a better idea of how domestic violence is affecting suicides. It may help prevent women’s deaths.
Published on: August 26, 2025 | Source:US, Indonesia Kick Off ‘Largest Ever’ Super Garuda Shield Exercise
This year's drills will involve more than 6,000 military personnel from the U.S., Indonesia and 12 other nations.
Published on: August 26, 2025 | Source:How the JPYC Stablecoin Could Lead Japan’s Digital Finance Comeback
The country has historically taken a conservative approach to financial innovations such as cryptocurrencies.
Published on: August 26, 2025 | Source:Trump’s Central Asia gambit risks backfiring
As the world slides deeper into multi-polarity, Central Asia – long on the periphery of US foreign policy – is becoming a pivotal arena of geopolitical competition. Landlocked, resource-rich, and geopolitically sandwiched between Russia, China, Iran and South Asia, the region is a crossroads for energy flows, rare earth exports and emerging trade corridors. Amid […] The post Trump’s Central Asia gambit risks backfiring...
Published on: August 26, 2025 | Source:US needs to take Ukrainian and Russian drone operations seriously
Drones have changed warfare on the battlefield and beyond. At present there are more drones than practical countermeasures, although that could possibly change in future. The preponderance of battlefield drones removes the shooter from the battlefield, preserving manpower, enhances target accuracy well beyond almost any other tool and subjects traditional hardware, especially armor, to effective […] The post US needs...
Published on: August 26, 2025 | Source:Asia-Pacific markets set to open lower after Wall Street declines
Investors will be keeping a close watch on South Korean stocks following a meeting between U.S. and South Korean presidents over a trade deal.
Published on: August 26, 2025 | Source:Australia’s youngest senator, Charlotte Walker, gives first speech to parliament – video
Labor’s Charlotte Walker, a South Australian who turned 21 on election night, has said she will advocate for issues affecting young people such as housing affordability and the climate crisis. During her first speech to parliament, Australia’s youngest senator also spoke of her battle with depression, saying, 'I often wondered if I wanted to go on – if there was any point in me being here.' Walker added that...
Published on: August 25, 2025 | Source:Bolton calls Trump's Ukraine strategy 'incoherent' in postraid op-ed
Former national security adviser John Bolton called President Trump's Ukraine strategy “incoherent” in an opinion piece published Monday. “President Donald Trump’s Ukraine policy is no more coherent today than it was last Friday when his administration executed search warrants against my home and office,” Bolton said in the opinion piece for the Washington Examiner, titled...
Published on: August 25, 2025 | Source:Founder of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel 'El Mayo' enters guilty plea
Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada was arrested in July 2024, and is due to be sentenced in the coming months.
Published on: August 25, 2025 | Source:Nationals MP takes vanilla slice support to new level with tattoo
Member for Mildura Jade Benham has had the image of a vanilla slice tattooed on her hip, in support of a local event and small business.
Published on: August 25, 2025 | Source:Diosdado Cabello Calls Trinidad and Tobago’s Statement Shameful
The First Vice President of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, called a statement by Trinidad and Tobago in support of the United States’ decision to deploy military resources in the Caribbean, near the South American country’s territorial waters, shameful. In a press conference broadcast on the state-run Venezolana de Televisión channel, […]
Published on: August 25, 2025 | Source:Al-Hayat Al-Jadida correspondent killed in Israeli shelling in southern Gaza
Israeli shelling on Monday evening killed Al-Hayat Al-Jadida correspondent Hasan Dohan in Khan Younes in the southern Gaza Strip. Israeli bombing targeted a tent sheltering displaced people in the city, killing Dohan. Earlier, Israeli warplanes struck the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, leaving 19 people, including five journalists and media personnel, and wounding dozens […]
Published on: August 25, 2025 | Source:Council sounds alarm on 'tidal wave' of data centre water applications
A council in Melbourne's outer north has voted for more scrutiny over applications for resource-intensive data centres, with its deputy mayor warning the significant volumes of water they require could jeopardise new housing and population growth.
Published on: August 25, 2025 | Source:US ducks question on report it could sanction EU officials over tech law
State Department said it is greatly concerned about "increasing censorship" in Europe.
Published on: August 25, 2025 | Source: