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Flock is just the latest example of using surveillance to stalk women
  • North America

Flock is just the latest example of using surveillance to stalk women

  • Steve
  • August 17, 2026
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This story was originally reported by Jasmine Mithani of The 19th. Meet Jasmine and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. Flock […]

Hormuz Traffic Grinds To Near Halt Again As Talks Stall
  • Europe

Hormuz Traffic Grinds To Near Halt Again As Talks Stall

  • Steve
  • August 17, 2026
  • 0

As the conflict in the Persian Gulf continues to impact and shape the region, journalists from RFE/RL’s Central Newsroom and Iranian service, Radio Farda, deliver […]

Syria and Cyprus sign deal for new 240km subsea cable
  • Europe

Syria and Cyprus sign deal for new 240km subsea cable

  • Jasdip Sensi
  • August 17, 2026
  • 0

UNIFI Communications, the Syrian Telecommunications Establishment (STE) and the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CYTA) have partnered to build UGARIT 2, a 240-kilometre submarine cable linking Pentaskhinos […]

Brickbat: Running With a Rough Crowd
  • North America

Brickbat: Running With a Rough Crowd

  • Charles Oliver
  • August 17, 2026
  • 0

In England, former Merseyside police officer Daniel Hughes was sentenced to 12 months in prison, suspended for two years, after being convicted of eight counts of […]

Beware the Iran-Russia Axis of Aggression
  • Europe

Beware the Iran-Russia Axis of Aggression

  • Dr Matthew Godwin
  • August 17, 2026
  • 0

The truce declared this week between the US and the Islamic Republic after months of conflict appears likely to reopen the strait of Hormuz for […]

Pakistan has won the diplomacy, now comes the harder test
  • Asia

Pakistan has won the diplomacy, now comes the harder test

  • Mansoor Qaisar
  • August 17, 2026
  • 0

The Financial Times has run a striking assessment: Pakistan, it argues, has become an emerging “hinge power” – a state whose simultaneous ties to Washington, […]

China’s qualms with long Trumpism
  • Asia

China’s qualms with long Trumpism

  • Francesco Sisci
  • August 17, 2026
  • 0

Beijing may believe that Donald Trump’s 2016 election and his return to office eight years later are not accidents but part of a deeper American […]

Musk’s SpaceX booked a 17th-century palace to watch Spain’s eclipse
  • Europe

Musk’s SpaceX booked a 17th-century palace to watch Spain’s eclipse

  • Steve
  • August 16, 2026
  • 0

The aerospace company reserved a 17th-century palace hotel in northern Spain more than a year in advance, fuelling rumours that Musk would attend the eclipse […]

Trump’s Medicaid Rule Threatens Trans Youth Care. States Can Still Fight Back
  • North America

Trump’s Medicaid Rule Threatens Trans Youth Care. States Can Still Fight Back

  • S. Baum
  • August 16, 2026
  • 0

A critical deadline passed Wednesday in the federal fight to preserve transgender people’s access to health care. States and providers have sixty days to respond […]

Trump’s Head Start Overhaul Could Strip Away Key Protections for Kids
  • North America

Trump’s Head Start Overhaul Could Strip Away Key Protections for Kids

  • Chabeli Carrazana
  • August 16, 2026
  • 0

The Trump administration is pushing a total overhaul of Head Start that could fundamentally reshape the 60-year-old program that has provided childcare and key support […]

Resurrecting the Bund
  • North America

Resurrecting the Bund

  • Mark Erlich
  • August 16, 2026
  • 0

In Here Where We Live Is Our Country, Molly Crabapple elevates an important part of the democratic socialist tradition at a time when many are […]

Burnham exchanged messages with impersonator of top Trump aide
  • Europe

Burnham exchanged messages with impersonator of top Trump aide

  • Sam Blewett
  • August 16, 2026
  • 0

LONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham engaged with messages from somebody impersonating one of Donald Trump’s closest advisers, four officials have told POLITICO. The […]

‘Deliberate negligence’: Russian nuclear power company with EU operations accused of violating safety standards
  • Europe

‘Deliberate negligence’: Russian nuclear power company with EU operations accused of violating safety standards

  • Ben Makuch
  • August 16, 2026
  • 0

BRUSSELS — A Russian state-controlled corporation building a nuclear power plant in Hungary is facing allegations of safety, security and engineering failures at another project […]

Senegal hikes fuel prices amid surge in global oil markets
  • Africa

Senegal hikes fuel prices amid surge in global oil markets

  • Adrian Karatnycky
  • August 16, 2026
  • 0

Senegal has raised fuel prices in a move the government says is necessary because of the sharp rise in global oil costs…See More

The bush artisan saving craftmanship one stockwhip at a time
  • Australia

The bush artisan saving craftmanship one stockwhip at a time

  • Adrian Karatnycky
  • August 16, 2026
  • 0

RM Williams once told Bill Webb, “You make better belts than I do”, but few Australians know of the master leather worker or his quest […]

Trump’s “forever” tariffs are kicking in for the long haul – and US consumers are footing the bill
  • North America

Trump’s “forever” tariffs are kicking in for the long haul – and US consumers are footing the bill

  • Kent Jones
  • August 16, 2026
  • 0

President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements no longer cause the market gyrations that they did in 2025. But their sticker shock for American consumers is becoming […]

  • Europe

Hagitude author Sharon Blackie: ‘At 60 I wasn’t ready to give up, I was just starting’

  • Lisa Allardice
  • August 16, 2026
  • 0

The writer of cult hit If Women Rose Rooted is on a mission to bring folklore to modern readers. She talks about confronting her fears, […]

Trump Welcomes Saudi, Turkey, Pakistan Defense Pact
  • Europe

Trump Welcomes Saudi, Turkey, Pakistan Defense Pact

  • Steve
  • August 16, 2026
  • 0

As the conflict in the Persian Gulf continues to impact and shape the region, journalists from RFE/RL’s Central Newsroom and Iranian service, Radio Farda, deliver […]

More than 160,000 people to be kicked off NDIS as Labor overhauls eligibility
  • Australia

More than 160,000 people to be kicked off NDIS as Labor overhauls eligibility

  • Aaron Spitler
  • August 16, 2026
  • 0

Health Minister Mark Butler has unveiled the government’s plan to curb the ballooning growth of the NDIS and save the budget a projected $35 billion […]

$50/hour charge for older Australians to shower reversed by government after six months
  • Australia

$50/hour charge for older Australians to shower reversed by government after six months

  • Aaron Spitler
  • August 16, 2026
  • 0

The decision to scrap the plan to charge older Australians $50/hour for showers was made after months of sustained criticism, including warnings that people were […]

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