Migrant crisis pushes Italy to restore border checks with Spain, testing Europe’s open-border system
Italy temporarily restored border controls on travelers arriving from Spain Friday as the mass migrant crossing into Ceuta, Spain, escalated...
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Philippines pitches GBA gateway as Polymarket Taiwan invasion odds slip to 14.5%
At the GBA-Asean Summit 2026 in Hong Kong, Philippine trade secretary Cristina Aldeguer-Roque said Manila aims to be a gateway...
Daughter of 2028 Olympics Chair Dreams of Competing in LA — for Israel
Casey Wasserman, the entertainment super-agent, has attracted his fair share of controversy as the head of the 2028 Los Angeles...
Anthropic Says We Must Stop Authoritarian AI. But What About Its Authoritarian Investors?
Anthropic’s high-profile spat with the Pentagon gave it a killer marketing advantage, burnishing its public image as a principled AI...
These Middle Eastern News Sites Are Actually U.S. Government Propaganda Operations
Al-Fassel and Pishtaz News look like typical news websites. They have neatly designed homepages and active social media accounts, where...
Putting Fuel on a Ceasefire: Israel Tries to Kill U.S.–Iran Talks
Vice President JD Vance is set to lead renewed negotiations with Iran this weekend to bring an end to the...
Iran threatens to end ceasefire over Hezbollah’s exclusion from truce deal
The lack of a two-week pause in the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah appears to be a dealbreaker for Iran’s...
Protesting the Smash-and-Grab Presidency With Nikhil Pal Singh
Donald Trump’s second term has been broadly defined by an overwhelming sense of chaos. Every week the U.S. finds itself...
“Liberate Their Bodies From Their Souls”: The Lies That Sell the Iran War
From the White House to Iran’s former crown prince, proponents of the U.S.–Israel war on Iran sell it to the...
Protests and Power Plays: From Tehran to the Arctic Circle
The people of Iran are in the midst of one of the country’s biggest uprisings — and harshest government crackdowns...
Did Qatari Money Drive Trump’s Push for Gaza Ceasefire?
The notion that President Donald Trump’s recent push toward a ceasefire in Gaza may have been motivated, in large part,...
Reporter’s Notebook: Israeli hostage families plead, peace falters, and war grinds on in Gaza
I’ve been reporting from the Mideast for some 25 years now. And that hackneyed cliche still works: "The more things...
Trump’s strike on cartel vessel off Venezuela sends warning to Maduro: No sanctuary
The unprecedented strikes by U.S. Marines on a cartel-operated vessel off of Venezuela this week signaled that the Trump administration...
Pentagon Document: U.S. Wants to “Suppress Dissenting Arguments” Using AI Propaganda
The United States hopes to use machine learning to create and distribute propaganda overseas in a bid to “influence foreign...
‘Squad’ members ‘decide to lie and twist facts’ about Israel’s history, says prominent Arab activist
Members of the "Squad" are undermining coexistence between Arabs and Jews in the Middle East, Israeli-Arab activist Yoseph Haddad told Fox News...
