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Conflict intensifies in Middle East
MENAFN
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July 15, 2025
(MENAFN) As conflict intensifies in the Middle East, concerns are mounting that Central Asia could become the next region to face serious instability. Analysts warn that if Iran undergoes significant political upheaval or descends into chaos, its...
Desperate Afghan Refugees Return To An Unfamiliar Home
Scoop
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Saturday, 12 July 2025, 4:04 pm Press Release: UN News The agency is calling for calm and cooperation to provide a dignified path forward for millions of displaced Afghans. More than 1.6 million Afghans have returned from both neighbouring...
US court briefly pauses Trump’s move to end protective status for Afghans
St. Kitts Gazette
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July 15, 2025
An appeals court has briefly extended temporary protected status (TPS) for nearly 12,000 Afghans in the United States, hours before it was to expire. Monday’s order came 60 days after the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under President...
Homeland Security is removing protections that kept some Afghans from deportation
KTSA - Texas
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July 14, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Temporary measures that allowed nearly 12,000 Afghans to work in the U.S. and be protected from deportation are expiring Monday as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to make more people eligible for removal from the...
With temporary protections for some Afghans set to expire, appeals court steps in
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Georgia
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CASA appealed the case Monday and won a stay keeping in place the temporary status for Afghans that was set to expire Monday. The appeals court gave no reason for its decision, but indicated it would be deciding what to do swiftly. The stay is in...
US appeals court temporarily upholds protected status for Afghans
WKZO - Michigan
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By Ismail Shakil and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court has blocked for now a bid by President Donald Trump’s administration to strip temporary protected status from thousands of Afghans in the United States, court documents...
UK Labour government defence review calls for schools to support “nation’s readiness for war”
World Socialist Web Site
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July 13, 2025
The UK Labour government’s Strategic Defence Review (SDR) “Making Britain Safer: secure at home, strong abroad” has broad implications for education. The SDR aims to create new pathways between youth and the armed forces and to develop existing...
Book Review: ‘The Mission’ reveals troubling political meddling in CIA after 9/11
Associated Press
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July 14, 2025
The meeting place of facts, ego, ignorance and politics typically is a messy arena as Tim Weiner illustrates over and over in this powerful account of the Central Intelligence Agency actions since the 9/11 attacks. The title, “The Mission: The CIA...
Australia Is Right Not To Commit To Hypothetical Taiwan Conflict
MENAFN
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July 15, 2025
Latest stories Was East Asian air cleanup behind recent global warming showtime? China accelerates its maglev train to catch up with Japan Hegseth's drone dominance policy needs offshore production help This spans not just tariffs , but also...
‘Lives controlled by crime’: Explosive allegations hit South Africa police
Al Jazeera
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July 15, 2025
Cape Town, South Africa – When Patricia Blows heard a senior police official’s explosive allegations against South Africa’s political and law enforcement elite last week, her thoughts went straight to the stalled investigation into her son’s...
“The ‘T’ is there for a reason”
World - North Carolina
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UPDATE: Late Monday, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the Department of Homeland Security from ending temporary protected status for immigrants from Afghanistan. The status was set to expire at midnight. The court said its order will...
Why Russia Recognized the Taliban
The National Interest - Washington D.C.
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July 14, 2025
Earlier this month, in a move that surprised some, Russia formally recognized the Taliban government in Afghanistan. The decision reflected a calculated geopolitical strategy rather than an ideological endorsement. By engaging with the Taliban,...
Modi’s Pakistan policy: From amity to enmity
Frontline - The Hindu
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July 14, 2025
When after the Pahalgam terrorist attack, Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered Operation Sindoor against Pakistan’s terror camps, the nation stood behind his decision. Later, Modi invited the opposition parties to join the government to convey...
At Ukraine Recovery Conference this year, partners pledged billions but war risks still loom
The Kyiv Independent
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July 15, 2025
Ukraine’s businesses were well represented at the Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC) in Rome last week, and while they are generating interest among global investors, there’s still one issue holding up the cash flow: risks. This year, the URC...
Jillian Segal’s appointment raises concerns over free speech on Gaza
Independent Australia
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July 14, 2025
The Albanese Government's choice of Jillian Segal as antisemitism envoy has sparked warnings over academic independence and growing limits on criticism of Israel, writes Mark Beeson. NOT CONTENT with trying to silence critics and sources of...
Sugar price set at Rs165/kg after free-for-all surge
The Express Tribune
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July 15, 2025
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: The government and sugar industry have reached an agreement, setting the ex-mill price of sugar at Rs165 per kilogramme, announced the Ministry of National Food Security and Research on Monday. "All provincial governments will...
Global gold at the crossroads of crisis
Pakistan Today
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July 14, 2025
By: Amir Reza Etasi Introduction: The Current State of the Gold Market Over the past five decades, gold has proven to be a sensitive indicator of global crisis—rising in response to geopolitical conflict, economic upheaval, and shifting monetary...
Afghan family wins visa battle against German government freeze
Daily Times
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July 8, 2025
A German court has ruled that an Afghan family at risk must be issued visas, despite the government freezing its humanitarian admissions programme. The family, currently in Pakistan, was previously accepted under the programme meant for vulnerable...
Afghan taxi drivers beat the heat with handmade air coolers
BBC
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In a sweltering city in Afghanistan, taxis have been spotted with scrubby barrels and exhaust tubes mounted to their roofs. These are the hand-made air coolers that taxi drivers have cobbled together in their desperate efforts to beat the heat....
Australia’s multiculturalism lives mostly on the surface. Inclusion without voice is tokenism | Shadi Khan Saif
The Guardian
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July 14, 2025
The first thing that hit me when I landed in Melbourne from Kabul wasn’t the city’s famously unpredictable weather but the incredible diversity on the streets and in the food. It was nothing like the Australia I had imagined growing up: a...