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Contexts and Questions Around the UK’s New Protect Duty

  • October 30, 2024

On 12 September 2024, the UK’s new Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill was introduced in the House of Commons, with the second reading following on 14th October. A committee stage now follows, followed by a third reading, with the same stages repeated in the Lords, before the bill receives royal...

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Observing Kashmir’s first Post-Autonomy Elections

  • October 30, 2024

India-administered Kashmir is the most northern portion of the Indian subcontinent. “Kashmir” derives etymologically from the Sanskrit Kashmira i.e. land desiccated from water. There are alternative derivations in which Kashmir either means kashyapa-mir (Kashyapa’s Lake) or kashyapa-meru (Kashyapa’s Mountain). It is scarcely surprising that this etymological confusion belies a much...

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Small Farmers Reap Growing Benefits From Solar Energy in Chile

  • October 30, 2024

Residents pose behind the sprinkler that irrigates an alfalfa field thanks to the energy generated by a photovoltaic panel installed on Fanny Lastra’s property in Mirador de Bío Bío, Chile. Credit: Courtesy of Fresia Lastra by Orlando Milesi (santiago) Tuesday, October 29, 2024 Inter Press Service SANTIAGO, Oct 29 (IPS) –...

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Israel’s New Military and Security Strategy: Could it Work?

  • October 29, 2024

EXPERT INTERVIEW — The Israel-Iran conflict has intensified in unprecedented ways over the past year, since Hamas — one of Iran’s anti-Israel proxy militias — breached Israel’s southern border and massacred 1,200 people. The tensions have culminated in a series of aerial attacks (also unprecedented) by each country’s military against the other,...

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