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Russia Increases Fertilizers and Agricultural Exports to Africa
The News Chronicle
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July 6, 2025
With geopolitical developments shaping the world, Africa is expectedly changing with the times. It has gone far, particularly with Russia, opened new directions in bilateral economic cooperation after their joint historic summits. It is also time...
The magic of travel: Three Ukrainian women writers of the 1930s
Global Voices
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July 6, 2025
Portrait of Daria Vikonska. Screenshot of YouTube Channel Запорожская ОУНБ. Fair use. By Julia Stakhivska This story is part of a series of essays written by Ukrainian artists entitled “Regained Culture: Ukrainian voices curate Ukrainian culture.”...
Trump administration could deport immigrants to 58 other countries after Supreme Court opened door for swift removals
The Independent
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June 25, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Michael Mazza On Taiwan: Bombing Iran was good for Asia
Taipei Times
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July 6, 2025
As things heated up in the Middle East in early June, some in the Pentagon resisted American involvement in the Israel-Iran war because it would divert American attention and resources from the real challenge: China. This was exactly wrong....
Trump can send deportees to South Sudan and other third-party countries, Supreme Court says
The Independent
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June 23, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
It’s Time For SCOTUS To Hold Rogue Judges Accountable
The Federalist
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June 24, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling last week in United States v. Skrmetti not only upheld the constitutionality of a Tennessee law that blocks the mutilation of children through the garbage science of “gender-affirming care,” it sent a clear message...
Surviving Unrepaired Tetralogy of Fallot to 43 Years in a Low-Resource Setting: The Oldest Reported Case from Somalia
Dove Medical Press
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July 4, 2025
Introduction Tetralogy of Fallot (ToF) is a congenital cyanotic heart defect, first described in detail by Étienne-Louis Fallot in 1888. It is characterized by a combination of four distinct anatomical abnormalities: right ventricular (RV)...
Iran Launches Ballistic Missile Revenge Strike On Al Udeid Air Base In Qatar (Updated)
The Drive
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June 23, 2025
The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. Iran has begun attacking U.S. interests in the Middle East in retaliation for Saturday’s Operation Midnight Hammer...
China Is Not Ready for Global Leadership
Foreign Policy
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U.S. President Donald Trump’s profound changes to Washington’s foreign policy during the past few months have unleashed a debate about the extent to which the self-destruction of U.S. global leadership is empowering China. The idea that U.S....
The State Department reportedly pressured African countries to adopt Elon Musk’s Starlink
The Verge
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May 16, 2025
After The Washington Post earlier this month revealed that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had instructed the State Department to help Starlink expand in order to fend off Chinese technological influence, an extensive ProPublica article published...
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, May 2025
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
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July 3, 2025
Explanatory Notes Goods (Census basis) Data for goods on a Census basis are compiled from the documents collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and reflect the movement of goods between foreign countries and the 50 states, the...
A rhythmic heartbeat is pulsing through Earth beneath Africa
Science Focus
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July 5, 2025
A heartbeat-like pulse has been discovered beating deep beneath East Africa – and it's ripping the continent apart. The strange thumping is caused by a rhythmic surge of molten mantle rock rising and falling under the Earth’s surface, according to...
Trump DOJ: Our Own Suggested Remedy For Illegally Renditioning Men To South Sudan Is Now Too Burdensome
Techdirt
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May 28, 2025
from the department-of-hubris-and-shamelessness dept The Trump administration has managed to achieve a remarkable legal double standard: ask a court for a specific remedy to address your own violations of an injunction, get exactly what you asked...
Seven Things Tom Cotton Needs to Learn About China
Dissident Voice
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July 4, 2025
US Senator Tom Cotton recently published a book titled Seven Things You Can’t Say About China. I decided to put myself through the aggravated torture of reading it, just to see what he had to say, and now mourn hours of life that I’ll never get...
Egypt is diversifying its military partners away from the US
The Reporter Ethiopia
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July 5, 2025
Between 19 April and 4 May 2025, China and Egypt conducted their first-ever joint air exercises, “Civilization Eagle 2025,” at Egypt’s Wadi Abu Rish Air Base. This marks a significant step in China’s military diplomacy in North Africa. China’s...
A Port, A Pipeline, and a Future Rewritten: How Ethiopia’s Hidden Rivers Can Transform the Horn of Africa
Zehabesha
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July 3, 2025
A Port, A Pipeline, and a Future Rewritten: How Ethiopia’s Hidden Rivers Can Transform the Horn of Africa In the rugged embrace of Ethiopia’s eastern highlands, rivers like the Genale-Dawa surge relentlessly to nowhere — vanishing into dry...
Shanxi to expand decades-long medical aid in Africa
China Daily
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Zhang Bo Shanxi province is expanding its overseas medical aid efforts as it promotes a Sino-African health community while continuing to advance high-quality development in its own health sector, according to Zhang Bo, director of the provincial...
Between Liberalization and Geopolitics: Ethiopia’s Quest for Economic Stability, Sea Access
The Reporter Ethiopia
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June 21, 2025
Tsegaye Degineh (PhD) is a prominent economist, management expert, and public diplomacy researcher whose life journey has spanned continents and careers. Born in Addis Ababa, he left Ethiopia for East Germany in 1988 at the age of 20, driven by a...
China’s Military Diplomacy in the New Era
The Diplomat
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July 4, 2025
As the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has modernized into a more capable global force, it has significantly expanded its international military engagement in support of China’s foreign policy objectives. Drawing on a new National Defense...
Capt. Cathy Eyrich Takes Command of NAVFAC Southwest
DVIDS - Georgia
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June 20, 2025
SAN DIEGO - Capt. Cathy Eyrich relieved Capt. Laurie Scott as Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Southwest commanding officer during a change of command ceremony held June 13 aboard the USS Midway Museum in San Diego. “As we...