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Manipuri Scribe Abducted, Released after Voices Raised by Many including PEC

Geneva: Expressing serious concern over the abduction of a senior journalist in Manipur of northeast India by some militants early morning of 11 February 2025, Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) demanded his unconditional release. The global media safety and rights body…

Clean Energy Costs Expected to Drop 2-11% in 2025, Report Says

According to a new report from BloombergNEF, global clean power costs could fall between 2% and 11% this year, despite tariffs. By Paige Bennett Even with potential trade barriers, the “Levelized Cost of Electricity” report estimated that clean energy costs…

Is Freedom the Supreme Value?

Exodus 13 :17 – 17:16. Beshalah. This Torah portion concludes the epic of liberation from slavery. The triumphant splitting of the sea is followed by an explosion of joy reflected in the Song at the Sea (shirat ha-yam). However, Rabbinic Judaism…

The Future of Sea Level Rise with Professor Peter Wadhams

“All of these changes, we can plot them and if we look exponentially, we see really catastrophic effects in the next few years, certainly in the next decade or two the world will be completely different… I think we’re at…

Bangladesh’s Right to Ganges Water: Navigating the Renewal of the Ganges Treaty in 2026

The Ganges River holds immense importance for both Bangladesh and India, providing water for agriculture, livelihoods, and ecosystems across their shared basin. In 1996, the two nations signed the historic Ganges Water Sharing Treaty, aimed at ensuring an equitable distribution…

Why Did Trump Threaten To Modify Or Rescind India’s Sanctions Waiver For Iran’s Chabahar Port?

Threatening the viability of the North-South Transport Corridor pressures Iran, India, and Russia in one fell swoop in a diplomatic-economic masterstroke. Trump 2.0 is considered to be Indophilic in large part due to his team’s understanding of how India can…

Russian objectors: Two remarkable court rulings in Germany raise hope

A few days ago, the Berlin Administrative Court issued two rulings granting subsidiary protection to Russian conscripts. By doing so, the Administrative Court challenged a landmark decision issued by the OVG Berlin-Brandenburg in November. “This is a truly remarkable development.…

Forcing The Palestinians Out Of Gaza Is A Recipe For Unimaginable Disaster

Even after Trump declared that he wanted to take back the Panama Canal, acquire Greenland by force, if necessary, and rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, I could not, like many others, imagine that his madness…

2°C Climate Warming Target Is ‘Dead,’ Pioneering Climate Scientist Says

In a new analysis, acclaimed climate scientist Professor James Hansen and colleagues said that scientists had greatly underestimated the rate of global heating, and that the international target of two degrees Celsius is “dead.” By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes The analysis concluded that the…

Renaming The Gulf of Mexico Isn’t A Laughing Matter But Part of a U.S. Imperialist Power Grab

Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America” isn’t just another absurd stunt or another example of his outlandish behavior. It signals a much deeper, more troubling agenda that seeks to erase historical identity and…

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