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Trump to Xi: ‘Hold our Beer’ – EVs majority of Chinese New Car Sales, as Exports rocket 74%
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Trump to Xi: ‘Hold our Beer’ – EVs majority of Chinese New Car Sales, as Exports rocket 74%

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Car News China reports that in the first half of 2025, consumers in that country bought 10,891,000 passenger vehicles. But […]

Scientists prove Extensive Viking Silver Trade with Abbasid Empire from British Silver Hoard

Scientists prove Extensive Viking Silver Trade with Abbasid Empire from British Silver Hoard

08/13/2025 By Juan Cole

Saudi Arabia: Executions Surge in bid to Crush Dissent (HRW)

Saudi Arabia: Executions Surge in bid to Crush Dissent (HRW)

08/13/2025 By Human Rights Watch

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Elon Musk says in Talks with Saudis on Taking Tesla Private

Elon Musk says in Talks with Saudis on Taking Tesla Private

By Rob Lever | – Washington (AFP) – Tesla chief executive Elon Musk disclosed Monday that he was in talks with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth […]

AFP

United Kingdom
UK Labour's Corbyn Refutes Netanyahu's Smears, Calls out Policy of Shooting Gaza Kids

UK Labour’s Corbyn Refutes Netanyahu’s Smears, Calls out Policy of Shooting Gaza Kids

London (Middle East Monitor) – Israel’s nation-state law discriminates against the country’s Palestinian minority, British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said Monday, Anadolu reports. Corbyn […]

Middle East Monitor

Iran
Iran’s Khamenei Pledges No War with US, but Rejects Talks under Sanctions Shadow

Iran’s Khamenei Pledges No War with US, but Rejects Talks under Sanctions Shadow

Tehran (AFP) – Iran’s supreme leader said Monday there would be neither war nor negotiations with the United States, and that the country’s problems were […]

Eric Randolph

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Multi-Cultural Crowd Rallies in Tel Aviv against Likud Apartheid Law

Multi-Cultural Crowd Rallies in Tel Aviv against Likud Apartheid Law

“The most excluded and oppressed group in Israel, and the one most seriously harmed by the nation-state law, proudly made its voice heard in the city square”

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Farmers in War-Torn Afghanistan Hit by Worst Drought in Decades

Farmers in War-Torn Afghanistan Hit by Worst Drought in Decades

With Emal Haidary | – Mazar-i-Sharif (Afghanistan) (AFP) – After his wheat crop failed and wells dried up, Ghulam Abbas sold his animals and joined […]

AFP

Pollution
France to set Penalties on Plastic Waste, Ban Straws

France to set Penalties on Plastic Waste, Ban Straws

Paris (AFP) – France plans to introduce a penalty system next year that would increase the costs of consumer goods with packaging made of non-recycled […]

Julien Dury

Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia's Arrest of Women's Rights Activists puts it on Wrong Side of History

Saudi Arabia’s Arrest of Women’s Rights Activists puts it on Wrong Side of History

From Indonesia to Saudi Arabia, Muslim women’s movements for equality are increasingly interconnected – and unstoppable

Zainah Anwar

Native Americans
Sharice Davids, Native American and Gay, Aiming for US Congress

Sharice Davids, Native American and Gay, Aiming for US Congress

In a political arena dominated by White, mostly straight men, Davids – a former Mixed Martial Arts fighter – is aiming high. Sharice Davids, who […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Palestinian-Israelis and Jewish-Israelis Stage Huge Protest against Apartheid Law

Palestinian-Israelis and Jewish-Israelis Stage Huge Protest against Apartheid Law

By Majeda El-Batsh Tel Aviv (AFP) – Tens of thousands of Arab Israelis and their supporters chanted against “apartheid” and for “equality” on Saturday in […]

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