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October 19, 2026

Israel’s Ben-Gvir uses fines against mosques in election campaigning

Extremist Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Monday used penalties imposed on mosques to promote his election campaign, boasting about a fine issued to a mosque in the...

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October 19, 2026

UN food agency cuts Gaza assistance by one-third amid funding shortages

The UN World Food Program (WFP) announced Monday that funding shortages have forced it to cut food assistance in the Gaza Strip by around one-third, leaving half a million...

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October 19, 2026

Trump can strike Iran again. He cannot bomb Hormuz open

A navy can control water. It can’t make a merchant captain sail through it. Warships stop missiles, sure, but no admiral can promise a shipping company that its crew,...

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October 19, 2026

When diplomacy arrived in Jakarta and justice did not

The paradox has acquired a second dimension, and it is written in the ruins of Gaza. Indonesia, a nation that presents itself to the world as a rising democratic...

Article
October 19, 2026

From TAPI to CASA-1000: How can Afghanistan benefit from energy corridors?

In Herat, construction on the TAPI pipeline is advancing, raising questions about when local businesses and households might receive its gas. TOLOnews, citing Afghanistan’s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum,...

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October 19, 2026

Resisting Erasure: Libraries in Palestine and Palestine in Libraries

In the foreword to Resisting Erasure: Libraries in Palestine and Palestine in Libraries (Litwin Books, 2026), Emily Drabinksy writes about the difficulties encountered while indexing articles about settler colonialism...

Reviews
October 19, 2026

The very stable genius, nine years later

In January 2018, after a book questioned his mental fitness, the president of the United States sat down and wrote his own diagnosis. “My two greatest assets have been...

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October 19, 2026

Trump, Epstein, and the Netanyahu endorsement: The strange standards of Western shame

There is something magnificently obscene about a civilization that treats association with a sex trafficker as a moral scandal but endorsement of a leader accused of genocide as statesmanship....

Article
October 19, 2026

What a Somali-British MP reveals about Europe’s hijab obsession

What would George Orwell make of today’s debates over identity, integration, and the Muslim veil in Europe? It is an impossible question, of course. Orwell has been dead for...

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October 19, 2026

Overland lifelines under pressure: Iran’s trade with its neighbours

Iran is turning to its land borders for ways to keep trade moving as the U.S. naval blockade constrains shipping. But these routes are best seen as a buffer,...

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