Occupied Kashmir will never be 'integral part of India': Islamabad slams New Delhi for 'misleading' UNSC

Pakistan and India again traded barbs at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) — this time on occupied Kashmir — with Islamabad slamming the other side for “misleading” the council.

Speaking during the presentation of the UNSC’s Annual Report to the General Assembly on Friday, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad called for the resolution of the…

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Venezuela: Digitel se alía con SimpleTV y empieza a comercializar SimplePlus
En un evento de prensa realizado este 28 de mayo, las compañías venezolanas de telecomunicaciones Digitel y SimpleTV (Scale Capital) anunciaron una alianza. El primero, que hasta aquí no brindaba servicio alguno de TV Paga o de streaming, podrá ofrecerle a sus clientes SimplePlus, plataforma de Simple TV que actuará como prestación de TV Paga […] La entrada

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Israel plan to seize more of Gaza means 'more children will suffer': UN

The United Nations warned on Friday that an Israeli plan to take control of 70 per cent of Gaza will increase suffering among children already hit by the impacts of severe overcrowding.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the military to take control of more territory in the Gaza Strip, flouting the terms of a fragile ceasefire that took effect in October.

He said the military…

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FBI Agents Show Up at Homes of Election Workers in Key Swing State

The FBI has sent agents to Milwaukee to interview former election officials about the 2020 presidential election.

Bureau agents have shown up at the officials’ homes after interviewing Wisconsin’s deputy elections director, and this week, they plan to interview police officers who escorted the elections official who escorted Milwaukee’s 2020 results to the county elections office.

It seems that…

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Brasil: Netflix lleva su sistema de medición de la atención de la audiencia al mercado brasileño
La división publicitaria de la plataforma de streaming Netflix, Netflix Ads, avanzó en Brasil hacia la mejora de la experiencia y de la eficiencia de los auspiciantes de su plan con comerciales. Lanzó su sistema de medición de la atención de la audiencia, el mismo que ya está activo en otros territorios, como por ejemplo […] La entrada

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  • Battery Array as Powerful as 12 Nuclear Plants Hits Major Milestone in California: "While Californians were getting ready for spring break in late March, the state quietly broke an energy grid record: For the first time, its battery fleet discharged more than 12,000 megawatts of power, roughly the output of 12 large nuclear plants." YAHOO NEWS
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Maple Leaf DOGE vs. the Canadian State

Instead of building a resilient economy to meet the challenges of the present economic “rupture,” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals are turbocharging austerity and gutting the capacity of Canada's federal public service.


If the Carney government stays the course, workers and the broader Canadian public may soon be facing cuts that rival the austerity measures of the…

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Trump Reveals Who’s Really Going to Pay for His Obscenely Large Arch

Donald Trump is asking for millions of taxpayer dollars for his proposed 250-foot-tall arch in Washington, D.C.

The White House is seeking $15 million from the National Endowment for the Arts to build the massive archway across from the Lincoln Memorial, NOTUS reports, citing a spending plan shared in the Office of Management and Budget database Tuesday. The plan contradicts Trump’s earlier…

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Yakov Rabkin, historiador experto en sionismo y judaísmo: “Ser sionista y de izquierdas es un oxímoron, una contradicción”

Profesor emérito en la Universidad de Montreal, autor de numerosos libros, judío antisionista, Rabkin advierte de que "Israel prefiere provocar más destrucción antes que abandonar el sionismo y aceptar un Estado con igualdad para todos"

Israel aprueba una ley para aplicar la pena de muerte a los palestinos

A sus ochenta y un años, el historiador canadiense Yakov Rabkin continúa ofreciendo…

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Choose Class War, Not Boomer Resentment

The generational warfare promoted by centrists and the Right, who have long been desperate to cut and privatize Social Security, is a fool’s solution to what ails the system. Taxing the rich is the answer.


“Total boomer luxury communism” is the Right’s latest attempt to convince younger Americans to slash their own future benefits under the guise of sticking it to older generations.…

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Dems Claim to Want a Hasan Piker — Then Try to Cancel Him

Democrats spent the last year asking where their Joe Rogan was. Hasan Piker is one of the few left-wing figures with the audience they covet — but the party is deeply hostile to the spontaneity and independence that make figures like him appealing.


YouTuber Hasan Piker is one of the very few left-wing media figures who actually has the kind of large, young, mostly male audience…

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Avi Lewis Is the New Leader of Canada’s NDP

Avi Lewis will lead an NDP in dire straits — but also one with a strategic opening to the left of the Liberals, whose posture against Donald Trump has reshaped the political terrain.


The scale of the challenge that new NDP leader Avi Lewis faces in rebuilding the party is considerable. (Dominik Magdziak Photography / WireImage)

Over the weekend, Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP)…

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1984 in 2026: Deliberately Misreading Orwell, in Russia and America

Last month, it emerged that high schools in Siberia were teaching students an unexpected text as part of “anti-terrorism awareness” lessons— _1984_ by George Orwell. Most Western readers automatically assume the novel’s main protagonist, Winston Smith, is something of a hero for doing his best to resist the totalitarian regime depicted within the book’s pages. In Putin’s Russia, though, Smith is…

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You can get Samsung Buds 3 Pro for £1 with incredible EE deal, but only for a VERY limited time

You can upgrade to a new pair of earbuds for only £1. Yes, _really._

When you buy any recently released Samsung Galaxy S26 handset from mobile service provider EE, you'll be treated to the Samsung Buds 3 Pro in silver for only £1.

These Android handsets, which supersede the Galaxy S25, S25+, and Galaxy S25 Ultra announced in January last year, arrive with a speedy Exynos system-on-a-chip,…

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US Congress panel demands full public hearing on Iran war as concerns mount

WASHINGTON: Democrats on the United States House Armed Services Committee have called for an immediate public hearing on President Donald Trump’s war against Iran, pressing the Pentagon to testify publicly as concerns mount over strategy, transparency, and the mounting human and economic costs of the conflict.

In a letter led by Ranking Member Adam Smith and signed by every Democratic member of…

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Reform Is Not the Party of Workers


Nigel Farage has declared Reform UK to be ‘the party of workers’. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

When Nigel Farage insists that Reform UK is ‘the party of workers’, this is more than just a rhetorical flourish. It is a conscious attempt to present the far right as the only political outlet for the working class, at a time when they are drastically under-represented in parliament. This…

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GIMP 3.2 released

After a year's worth of development since GIMP 3.0 was released, the team behind the open-source image editor has released GIMP 3.2. It comes as part of the plan to release GIMP more frequently, rather than wait six or seven years between releases. The release comes with lots of new features (as can be seen in more detail in the release notes), including 20 new brushes for the MyPaint Brush tool,…

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Iran war puts Trump’s Gaza disarmament plan on hold

JERUSALEM: Talks to advance President Donald Trump’s plan to end the Gaza war have been on hold since last week, when the US and Israel jointly attacked Iran, sparking a broader Middle East war, three sources with direct knowledge of the negotiations said.

The pause threatens to stall implementation of Trump’s flagship Middle East peace initiative, which he has cast as a major foreign policy…

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Zohran Mamdani Wants to Build Housing. He Should Build Green.

After his White House meeting last week, Zohran Mamdani has a tentative plan to build 12,000 units of affordable housing in Queens. It’s a chance to tackle the climate and affordability crises simultaneously by building green.


As the Zohran Mamdani administration turns toward ambitious new construction proposals, it has an opportunity to advance green industrial policies as it…

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Zohran Mamdani Is Trying a Fresh Tactic With Trump

Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani met for a second time on Thursday. The meeting was conciliatory, with Mamdani having apparently hypnotized Trump with charisma and overt flattery. It’s both a savvy and potentially perilous strategy.


Governing entails cooperation and compromise, even with a noxious authoritarian president. Zohran Mamdani is trying to thread the needle of obtaining…

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Leading Colorado governor candidates spar over best affordable housing approach

At a Denver forum, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and Attorney General Phil Weiser agreed Colorado must accelerate housing construction, but clashed on how to deliver results. Both backed faster permitting and more starter homes, while debating renter protections and local compliance.

Dar to visit New York for UNSC briefing on Palestine: FO

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar will visit New York on February 18 to participate in a high-level United Nations Security Council (UNSC) briefing on the situation in Palestine, the Foreign Office (FO) said on Tuesday.

In a statement, the FO said that the meeting will be chaired by the United Kingdom’s foreign secretary as president of the UNSC.

The statement said that…

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Board of Peace members have committed ‘thousands of personnel’ to Gaza force: Trump

United States President Donald Trump on Sunday said that member states of the Board of Peace have “committed thousands of personnel” to join the International Stabilisation Force expected to deploy in the Gaza Strip.

In a post on Truth Social, the US president said he would announce this development when the Board meets in Washington on February 19 at the Donald J Trump Institute of Peace.

“We…

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Tarar holds PTI responsible for terror resurgence; party slams minister for ‘hateful rhyme’

Information Minister Attaullah Tarar on Saturday held the PTI responsible for the resurgence in terrorism in the country, while the party slammed the minister for choosing to do so with a “hateful rhyme”.

The minister made the remarks while addressing a press conference alongside religious scholars in Lahore to show solidarity and unity after the suicide attack at an imambargah in Islamabad on…

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