Wed 13 May 2026: Columnist says there was ‘no evidence that Israeli leaders order rapes,’ but argued Israeli authorities had built ‘security apparatus where sexual violence has become,’ citing UN report, one of Israel’s ‘standard operating procedures’ A New York Times opinion columnist has alleged that Palestinian detainees have been subjected to widespread sexual violence […]
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Tue 12 May 2026: When my husband and I purchased a new home last year, the house we ultimately bought was one we had at first ruled out. While the house had many positives, including being affordable, it also had several negatives, so we’d kept looking. A few months later, we thought we’d found the […]
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Mon 11 May 2026: “As I was going up the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there. He wasn’t there again today. I wish, I wish he’d go away.” Scholars David Tyrer and Salman Sayyid open their 2012 essay on race and Islamophobia with this nursery rhyme about a haunting. Reading the British media […]
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Mon 11 May 2026: Imagine never again forgetting where you parked your car, or that last item you had on your grocery list, or why you walked into this room anyway. If you trust media stories about research currently under way at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to build an implantable device to restore memory, you might not […]
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Mon 11 May 2026: The combined market value of the world’s 10 largest firms jumped 16.69%, adding $4.18T to reach $29.24T since late February, when hostilities between Iran, the US, and Israel began. The gain comes after values had been volatile ahead of the joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran on Feb. 28. As of the […]
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Mon 11 May 2026: ‘We refuse to be silenced and censored,’ journalist and presenter Ramita Navai says while accepting the award. The makers of the documentary Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, which was dropped by the BBC, have won the Bafta TV Awards in the current affairs category. The makers of the film slammed the BBC […]
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Mon 11 May 2026: Rising cancer cases are linked to toxic waste left behind during oil exploration in the 1980s. A group of 298 petitioners from remote villages of Marsabit County in northern Kenya is suing BP and the Kenyan government over oil exploration waste from the 1980s that it says is causing a cancer […]
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Sun 10 May 2026: A senior Iraqi security official denied Sunday media reports claiming Israel had established a secret military base in Iraq’s desert to support airstrikes against Iran, Anadolu reports. The official, speaking to Anadolu on condition of anonymity, said the reports about Israel currently operating a secret military site in Iraq’s western desert are “false.” […]
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Sun 10 May 2026: An educational platform used by thousands of schools and universities has been partially restored following an international cyberattack that caused major chaos as students prepare for end-of-year exams. ShinyHunters, a hacking group, claimed responsibility for crashing the web-based educational platform Canvas, created by tech firm Instructure. The group said it had […]
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Sat 09 May 2026: A study published Friday by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) finds that socioeconomic inequality sharply raises the risk of dying from extreme temperatures across Europe. The study analyzed more than 161 million deaths recorded between 2000 and 2019 across 32 European countries and quantified for the first time how […]
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