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Galwan to Sindoor: Why India’s Defence Reset Is Overdue
Bharat Shakti
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July 17, 2025
It is intriguing how India has presumably slipped (if at all) from being the darling of the developed world and the leader of the Global South to being diplomatically cold-shouldered in the run-up to and post Operation Sindoor. Since his first...
Valur Ingimundarson: “Iceland’s potential EU membership remains a hotly contested domestic issue”
Ukrainian Week
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July 17, 2025
Valur Ingimundarson, Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Iceland and Chair of the EDDA Research Centre, specialises in international history, geopolitics, Arctic politics, and Iceland’s foreign, defence, and security...
Russia Accuses West of 'Robbery and Looting'
Newsweek
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July 18, 2025
By Shane Croucher is a Breaking News Editor based in London, UK. He has previously overseen the My Turn, Fact Check and News teams, and was a Senior Reporter before that, mostly covering U.S. news and politics. Shane joined Newsweek in February...
How are cruise ship itineraries planned? Inside the years-long process
AOL
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Holland America Line will visit a maiden port in 2026, stopping for the first time in Odda, Norway. Before the town was added to more than a dozen itineraries, Paul Grigsby, the cruise line’s vice president of deployment and itinerary planning,...
Can international organizations survive the rightwing, Nationalist onslaught?
Lake County Record Bee - California
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July 18, 2025
By Lawrence S. Wittner At a time when international cooperation provides the key to preventing a variety of global calamities―including nuclear war, climate catastrophe, and massive starvation―it’s tragic that major nations, ruled by nationalist,...
Infamous Events That Never Actually Happened
Grunge
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July 18, 2025
War, famine, pestilence, and death: The four horsemen of the apocalypse, or just another day in global news? With doomscrolling practically an Olympic sport, it's easy to fall into the pattern of thinking the end of the world is just around the...
Apple Inks $500M Deal With the Only US Rare Earth Miner Amid US-China Trade War
The New York Observer
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July 17, 2025
Apple CEO Tim Cook arrives at the Sun Valley lodge for the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 8, 2025 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Apple is teaming up with MP Materials, the only rare earth miner in the U.S., to...
Disabled Eimskip Vessel to be Towed to Port by Iceland’s Coast Guard
The Maritime Executive
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Icelandic shipping company Eimskip confirmed that one of its newest and largest containerships, Dettifoss (25,690 dwt), is currently disabled and drifting in the Atlantic. The Iceland Coast Guard vessel Freyja has been dispatched and is expected...
Why cruises take years to plan
USA Today - Virginia
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Holland America Line will visit a maiden port in 2026, stopping for the first time in Odda, Norway. Before the town was added to more than a dozen itineraries, Paul Grigsby, the cruise line’s vice president of deployment and itinerary planning,...
Trump tax bill sends new icebreaker fleet into…
USA Today - Virginia
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Climate change is opening up a new front in the ongoing cold war between the United States and China, and President Donald Trump is gearing up with new icebreakers to help patrol the Northwest Passage connecting Alaska to Greenland. Contained in...
Aussie rare earths juniors shine as US dollars flood Mountain Pass mine
The West Australian
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July 14, 2025
There are moments when policy collides with geology, and when it does, fortunes can shift overnight. Last week, the United States Department of Defence (DoD) took a blowtorch to global critical minerals strategy, inking a transformative agreement...
Our Movie Episode 9: Will Lee Je Ha and Lee Da Eum Make Their Relationship Public?
International Business Times Singapore
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July 11, 2025
Our Movie episode 9 will air on SBS TV on Friday (July 11) at 9:50 PM KST. It will focus on the various challenges faced by Boo Seung Won, Lee Je Ha, and Lee Da Eum. According to the production team, producer Boo Seung Won could take drastic...
Today Tuvalu; Tomorrow the world
Shelburne Free Press
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July 17, 2025
July 17, 2025 · 0 Comments By Gwynne Dyer Some big changes arrive with a bang, but usually they sort of sneak in and you barely notice them at first. Last week’s big change saw the creation of the world’s first climate-change visas. It’s a way of...
Ever wonder why that WWII bomber is suddenly roaring above your house?
Pelham Today
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July 17, 2025
The man at the controls is Fonthill’s own Leon Evans— and he’s living the dream bringing history back to life Newcomers to Pelham can be forgiven for being startled by the abrupt appearance—preceded by a distant roar that grows louder and louder...
We need a totally different Europe
LINKS
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July 16, 2025
First published at Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung. “The fear of war has really been gaining ground among young people.” Onno, vice president of the Workers’ Party of Belgium (PVDA/PTB) youth movement, is worried. “TikTok is overflowing with videos about...
Putin seen as ignoring Trump’s ultimatum, fighting on in pursuit of total victory
Washington Examiner
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July 17, 2025
‘UNFAZED,’ PUTIN PLANS TO SOLDIER ON: An analysis by Washington-based Institute for the Study of War has assessed that Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely to ignore President Donald Trump’s 50-day tariff threat, believing that Russia can...
Babak Jalali, Kamila Andini, Martin Koolhoven, Emily Atef & Yann Gonzalez Feature Projects Set For Venice Gap-Financing Market
Deadline
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July 10, 2025
Upcoming features by Babak Jalali, Kamila Andini, Martin Koolhoven, Emily Atef, Yann Gonzalez and Diego Lerman are among 67 projects selected for the 12th Venice Gap-Financing Market. The project incubator which is a component of the Venice Film...
Resources Top 5: West Coast Silver aglow with high-grade results and strong silver price
Stockhead
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July 16, 2025
West Coast Silver is glowing in the light of high-grade results from the Elizabeth Hill project. Pic: Getty Images West Coast Silver clocks 1m at 15,071g/t silver among results from first two diamond holes at Elizabeth Hill A 2000m diamond...
Satellite data reveals how climate change is accelerating glacier melt
E&T
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July 17, 2025
Glacier monitoring using satellites is helping scientists to track ice melt and launch early warning systems to prevent climate-related disasters. Formed from snow that has accumulated on land over centuries, glaciers store around 70% of the...
How the Danes See NATO, Trump and Ukraine
The Cipher Brief
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July 15, 2025
OPINION — “The most important part right now is that Europe would be able to buy military equipment here in the U.S. so we can donate these military systems directly to Ukraine. That is also discussion going on right now. I think [President] Trump...