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The Sudanese refugee population in Chad has reached 1.4 million. Some have lived there for multiple generations, with no path to return to Sudan, to build a stable life where they are, or to go anywhere else reut.rs/3WNiLg0
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Interview with @AP: apnews.com/article/iran-mood… – at Islamic Republic of Iran

Iranians fear a possible return to all-out war as US and Israeli elections approach

Many Iranians are bracing for a return to all-out war as elections in Israel and the United States heighten uncertainty.

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“You know the one thing I never expected in middle age was to become a professional defender of Muslims.” My dinner with Tucker Carlson in this week’s FT Weekend Magazine. @FT @ftweekend ft.com/content/98417e57-fe7e…

Tucker Carlson: ‘I so overstated my power it was embarrassing’

Does Trump’s loudest critic still have his finger on America’s pulse?

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Read my exclusive interview with Gadi Eisenkot, the man best positioned to dislodge Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel's Oct. 27 election. “I feel like it’s a historic mission—to save the state of Israel,” he says. time.com/article/2026/10/25/…

Exclusive: The Former General Who Could End the Netanyahu Era

Gadi Eisenkot lost his son in Gaza. Now he’s running to lead Israel beyond the trauma of Oct. 7

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Exclusive: In December 2025, the US-sanctioned tanker Reef arrived in Myanmar waters with some 113,000 barrels of fuel backed by sham paperwork. In reality, Reef carried jet fuel from Iran to Myanmar. Details of how Myanmar disguised purchases of Iranian jet fuel, as well as the entities involved in the transactions, are reported here for the first time reut.rs/4eyLTxJ

EXCLUSIVE: How purchases of sanctioned Iranian jet fuel were disguised by Myanmar

In December 2025, the US-sanctioned tanker Reef arrived in Myanmar waters with some 113,000 barrels of fuel backed by sham paperwork.

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For months, @AP photographer @OhadZwigenberg has documented the lives of ultra-Orthodox students at one of Israel’s most prominent yeshivas as Israel’s draft dispute looms over the upcoming Oct. 27 election apnews.com/photo-essay/israe…

PHOTO ESSAY: Inside an elite ultra-Orthodox school as Israel's draft dispute looms over election

BNEI BRAK, Israel (AP) — In Israel’s recent years of war, the ultra-Orthodox Jewish population has become a central point of friction.

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Ghost journalists, fake think-tanks, video games, record labels... Russia's information war in Africa has the lot. Thank you @Code4Africa for the analysis that informed my piece in @TheEconomist economist.com/middle-east-an…

Russia’s escalating information war in Africa 

The Kremlin is betting it can sway public opinion on the continent

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"The Defector" - a 5,500-word espionage tale in today's WSJ that I can guarantee is worth your time. I spent months speaking to one of the deadliest saboteurs in recent military history, a Russian officer who helped Kyiv kill hundreds of his fellow troops wsj.com/world/russian-defect…

The Defector: A Russian Officer Turned Against His Country and Helped Ukraine Kill Hundreds

One of the deadliest saboteurs in recent military history, Lt. Lev Stupnikov fed troop locations and battle plans to the enemy before making a daring escape.

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For the first time this year, data centers have become targets for bombardment in global conflicts. Our analysis shows at least 27 such attacks in 2026. Experts worry the targeting of data centers opens a Pandora's box that cannot be closed. nbcnews.com/tech/security/da…
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#Tunisians stage biggest protest in years against President Saied reuters.com/business/media-t…

Tunisians stage biggest protest in years against President Saied

Thousands of Tunisians joined the largest protest against President Kais Saied in years in the capital on Saturday, accusing ​him of undermining democracy and mishandling the economy in a growing...

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Excellent assessment of the current state of Iran’s solid-propellant missile manufacturing capacity by the team at FPRI. fpri.org/article/2026/10/ira…

Iranian Missile Production Infrastructure after Epic Fury - Foreign Policy Research Institute

Since the imagery hold over Iran for commercial providers like Planet Labs PBC was lifted a few months ago, an update on the state of Iranian ballistic

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Israeli rights groups report a surge of Palestinian inmates being shot with rubber bullets

Two of Israel’s leading human rights groups are sounding the alarm about a surge of mostly Palestinian inmates being shot by guards with rubber bullets at close range.

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New 📢 from CAR: Houthi Ballistic Missile Manufacturing Read CAR's latest Field Dispatch from its Yemen investigations: conflictarm.org/Houthi_missi…
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Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels are attempting to build a new advanced medium-range ballistic missile system with the help of Chinese parts. apnews.com/article/yemen-hou…

Yemen's Houthis look to build ballistic missiles with more Chinese supplies, report says

Experts say that Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels are working on a new medium-range ballistic missile system using Chinese parts.

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2 months after Spain's worst border crisis, migrants at a Ceuta tent camp weigh their choices

Migrants in Ceuta face a humanitarian crisis, with some alleging abuse by Spanish soldiers. A 27-year-old Moroccan artisan claims soldiers beat him and tied his face to a tree.

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Spain's royals paid respects to the >140 migrants who died trying to reach Ceuta at a Muslim cemetery in the Spanish exclave. As many here (incl. many bots) have said, Morocco's King Mohammed VI has not directly addressed the deaths nor offered condolences over the tragedy.
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U.S. soldiers wounded in an Iranian drone strike tell the AP the military's medical system failed them: “I was just kind of on my own, at least it felt like that.” apnews.com/article/iran-war-…

Soldiers seriously wounded in Iranian drone strike tell AP the military's medical system failed them

Some U.S. soldiers gravely wounded in the deadliest Iran strike on American troops say the military medical system failed them.

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More than seven months after a deadly Iranian attack on U.S. troops, families of soldiers struggle to cope – and several say they are angry as questions remain unanswered. apnews.com/article/iran-war-…

'He's not coming back': Months after deadly Iranian attack, families of soldiers struggle to cope

Families of American soldiers killed and wounded in the deadliest attack on U.S. forces during the war with Iran are still grappling with grief and lifelong injuries more than seven months later.

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A U.S. charity in Gaza is worried that teachers at its schools might stray from a curriculum it says promotes peace and tolerance, so it plans to record classroom conversations and use artificial intelligence to flag speech deemed “hateful” or “inciting.” apnews.com/article/gaza-chil…

A US charity plans to use AI to monitor its Gaza classrooms for 'hateful' speech

A U.S. charity in Gaza is worried that teachers at its schools might stray from a curriculum it says promotes peace and tolerance.

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