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Israel-Iran ceasefire: How Qatar has emerged as a master negotiator in West Asia
Firstpost
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June 24, 2025
The ceasefire deal between Israel and Iran left many people shocked and relieved. The deal was announced by US President Donald Trump on social media as a “complete and total ceasefire”. “On the assumption that everything works as it should, which...
Egypt, 19 other regional countries reject Israeli aggression on Iran, call for Nuclear-Free Middle East without exception
Egypt Today
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June 16, 2025
Egypt, 19 other regional countries reject Israeli military aggression on Iran, call for Middle East Zone Free of nuclear weapons with no exception CAIRO – 16 June 2025: Egypt, along with 19 regional countries, issued on Monday evening a joint...
ESA’s umbrella-shaped biomass satellite captures first images of earth’s forests from space
Design Boom
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June 24, 2025
Forest Images photographed by ESA’s Biomass satellite The umbrella-shaped Biomass satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA) photographs the first aerial images of the Earth’s forests and topography. The spacecraft, which is being used to study...
Chad’s detained opposition leader ends hunger strike
African Insider
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July 1, 2025
N’Djamena – Chad opposition leader and former prime minister Succès Masra, who has been in custody for more than a month, has ended his nearly week-long hunger strike, his lawyers said Monday. “President Masra, physically weakened but morally...
'Nothing short of spectacular': ESA's Biomass satellite releases 1st views of Earth from orbit (photos)
Space.com
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June 23, 2025
VIENNA, AUSTRIA — An exclamation of awe, excitement and cheers erupted today at ESA's Living Planet Symposium as a striking new window into Earth's forests, deserts and glaciers opened with the release of the first images from ESA's Biomass...
Kenyan Weapons Linked to Sudan’s Civil War
Bellingcat
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June 15, 2025
Bellingcat and our partners at Kenya’s Daily Nation have identified Kenyan-labelled crates of ammunition inside an alleged RSF depot close to the recently recaptured Sudanese capital Khartoum. Although we couldn’t independently verify the contents...
First-of-its-Kind Satellite Sees Through Forest Canopies to Measure Earth’s Biomass
PetaPixel - California
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June 23, 2025
Bolivian forest and landscape captured by Biomass | Credit: European Space Agency It’s a day of firsts for incredible new scientific missions. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) new Biomass mission, launched into orbit just two months ago, has...
Thanksgiving Challenge
Dissident Voice
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June 23, 2025
Sooner or later, all of us will have to face this question from a young child over Thanksgiving dinner: “Dad, Mom, Grandpa, Grandma – why did we have all those fights with other countries back then?” VIETNAM? “We fought them there so that we...
Commentary | Living with the Long Emergency by Tim Stevenson: Eco-Fascism: The climate crisis and the rise of populist nationalism
Brattleboro Reformer - Vermont
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June 23, 2025
Eco-fascism: “the weaponization of climate change by far-right populist political parties and white supremacist groups.” — European Commission It is no coincidence that at the same time we are entering the advanced stages of a rapidly unfolding...
Story Applications Biomass satellite returns striking first images of forests … 23/06/2025 31474 views 121 likes Read
ESA
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Applications 23/06/2025 31465 views 121 likes Today, at the Living Planet Symposium, ESA revealed the first stunning images from its groundbreaking Biomass satellite mission – marking a major leap forward in our ability to understand how Earth’s...
POTENTIAL HOT SPOTS: Central African Republic Crisis
Strategy Page
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June 22, 2025: The Central African Republic/CAR is suffering an unprecedented outbreak of fighting between nomadic herders and farmers who have long tilled the land and produced the food that feeds CAR and some people in neighboring nations. The...
Violence And Herding In The Central African Republic: Time To Act
The Nigerian Voice
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What’s new? Ten years of crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR) have fostered new dynamics in the livestock sector, exacerbating conflict between nomadic herders and sedentary farmers. The government, which has treated transhumance primarily...
How a boy's bicycle accident led to a free neighborhood soccer camp in Lincoln
Lincoln Journal Star - Nebraska
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June 22, 2025
Coach Hasan Khalil and participants in his soccer camp, including Alhadi Mahamat, back left, put their hands in the center of the huddle to end practice at Clinton Elementary School earlier this month. A bike accident led Khalil to a friendship...
WHO Warns Cholera Outbreak in Sudan Threatens Chad Refugee Camps
To Vima
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June 20, 2025
The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a stark warning about the worsening cholera outbreak in Sudan, cautioning that the disease could soon spread to neighboring Chad, where hundreds of thousands of Sudanese refugees are living in...
Discourse on French Colonialism in the 21st Century
Africa is a country
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Martinican author Aimé Césaire—long revered as one of the early founders of France’s Négritude movement, cultivating Black consciousness alongside Léopold Senghor and the Nardal sisters—has long been canonized in historical memory as one of the...
Jimmie Johnson Reveals the Biggest Reason Behind His Success At Hendrick Motorsports
Yardbarker
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June 22, 2025
700 races, seven Cup Series championships, and 83 Victory Lane visits in 22 years. Jimmie Johnson’s journey with Hendrick Motorsports is the type of legend that little children go to sleep hearing with a wondrous glint in their eyes. But it ought...
GASBAG: The Lovable Loudmouth Making Noise at Dances With Films
Film Daily
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June 21, 2025
“He’s a beautiful mess, and I love getting to live in that.” — Chad Kessler Meet George Nordstrom: a recently out, irrepressibly chatty, 42-year-old late bloomer stumbling into self-acceptance in Queens. GASBAG, the whip-smart comedy brainchild of...
World Refugee Day: 12m+ Sudanese face desperate conditions
Dabanga Radio
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June 20, 2025
As the world observes World Refugee Day* today, designated by the United Nations Refugee Agency under the theme “Solidarity with Refugees”, Sudan faces the largest displacement crisis globally. Since the war began in April 2023, over 12.3 million...
Glen Powell's Legacy Action Sequel With 75% on Rotten Tomatoes Lands on Amazon's Top 10 1 Year Later
Comic Book Resources (CBR)
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June 21, 2025
Almost exactly a year after its theatrical release, Twisters, the sequel to 1996’s classic Twister, is gaining momentum on Amazon Prime Video’s Top 10. Per FlixPatrol, Twisters, starring Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones, is in the No. 10 spot on...
At least 17 killed in clashes in southwestern Chad
News.Az
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At least 17 people died in clashes in southwestern Chad, local authorities have announced. The clashes took place Thursday evening in Oregomel village located in Mayo-Kebbi West province (southwest) of the country, News.Az reports, citing foreign...