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Callan Park’s crumbling buildings slated for demolition
Brisbane Times
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July 18, 2025
Crumbling buildings at Callan Park in Sydney’s inner west will be demolished to make way for more green space, amid community concerns about a proposed legal tweak that would allow commercial activities on the parklands. The NSW government will...
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...
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...
Resistance 2.0: A rising tide of struggle – Report to the CPUSA National Committee
People's World
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July 17, 2025
Members of the Communist Party USA and the Young Communist League march on May Day in New York City. | Photo via CPUSA The following is the text of the keynote address given by Joe Sims, Co-Chair of the Communist Party USA, at the organization’s...
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...
Europe’s Appeasement Dilemma: The Price of Standing Against Putin
Social Europe
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July 18, 2025
While the West rightly resists Russian aggression, European leaders risk self-respect and global standing by appeasing Donald Trump. Since Russia launched its full-scale war against Ukraine, political leaders, experts, journalists, and a renewed...
Black Bear Launches U.S. Theatrical Distribution Division Headed By Longtime CAA Media Finance Agent Benjamin Kramer
Deadline
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July 18, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Some big news spanning independent film distribution and the Los Angeles agency scene: Teddy Schwarzman’s indie studio Black Bear is expanding into U.S. distribution and has hired longtime CAA Media Finance co-head Benjamin Kramer to...
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...
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...
Amaroq starts trading on US OTC market
ShareCast
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Amaroq Minerals announced the start of trading of its shares on the OTCQX Best Market in the United States on Tuesday, under the ticker ‘AMRQF’, providing what it described as greater access and transparency for US investors. The AIM-traded,....
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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,...
Jason Statham's 71% Action Film Was the Biggest Sleeper Hit of 2024 (& It's Blowing Up on Streaming 1 Year Later)
Comic Book Resources (CBR)
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July 2, 2025
Streaming audiences cannot get enough of Jason Statham, who has emerged as one of the greatest action actors of this century. This is evident by the fact that the actor's 2024 action flick The Beekeeper has once again become a major streaming hit....
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...
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...